Posts by ksnash

1) Message boards : BOINC client : Linux intall (Message 1255) Posted 28 Nov 2005 by ksnash Post: I can't install on my RedHat 9, what is wrong ? This is what I get: sh boinc_5.2.8_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers incomplete literal tree gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Red hat 9 is starting to be a little old. The latest open version is Fedora core 4. The farther away from current distribution the more likely an error might occur. First thing is to download again. I haven't looked to see if they have impemented MD5 checking. If the MD5 number is there check it to see if your download came correctly.
2) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC on Campus computers (Message 1253) Posted 28 Nov 2005 by ksnash Post: While I was getting a new hard drive to replace the one that died and before the power supply went. I was running an earlier version of boinc using Knoppix off a windows share. I don't remember seeing a signifigant difference from normal time. The whole program gets put into memory and it usually writes to file every two minutes. I was running just CPDN and setiathome at the time.
3) Message boards : BOINC client : Resource share not regarded when requesting new work? (Message 1252) Posted 28 Nov 2005 by ksnash Post: I don't know how the scheduer decides how much in cache is enough. There is no way to control it. I would like to have at least 3 days in cache with CPDN, Einstein and Setiathome and having resource share of 10, 10, 4, which is approxiamtely 1 wu per day, which should be: one CPDN, 3 einstein and 3 setiathome. What I get is einstein will download 15. Setiathome will download 17. Recently I only have the one CPDN like I am supposed to. I get the impression the the scheduler is trying to inch forward until it fails. The computer is fast enough that it can handle that much work and I didn't have to use it until recently.
4) Message boards : API : Right forum (Message 1088) Posted 25 Nov 2005 by ksnash Post: I started to try and translate the c api into Java API. Somethings like fft8g were easy to translate. Others with a global swi variable are going to be a pain.
5) Message boards : BOINC client : Ranting about SETi Classic-> SETI/BOINC transfer (Message 1087) Posted 25 Nov 2005 by ksnash Post: Hi, [mode ranting on] It seems that SETI Classic users have received a email telling them to migrate to SETI/BOINC So these users go to the SETI/BOINC home page and click on the "transfer" link, enter their email adress and receive an account key. Then, they download BOINC and when they find how to attach (where is the big red button telling "attach to project") they enter their email adress and account key in the password box. It doesn't work, of course, because BOINC 5.2.8 doesn't accept account keys. So they come to the forum and ask how all this stuff is working and we have to tell them again and again that with the account key they have to create a password, and then attach to the SETI project with email and password. @Dev team: Why things are so complex for newbies: migrate, receive a account key, create a password with the account key, attach when they find the attach function in "project", etc (often they have the following message when they try to attach with email and password: Fetching config info from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php Missing account key [mode ranting off] I respect all the good work done by all the developpers but sometimes I wonder if they think about newbies (remember that the BOINC-Wiki is only in english) and although the translation of BOINC and tutorials in French, a lot of users are coming to our forum and say "I don't understand nothing in BOINC. SETI classic was so simple, SETI/BOINC is so complex...HELP" Remember that the http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_email_form.php is not translated in other languages. All in english. Newbies that don't speak/read english are completly lost. And you can read : "To access this account, fill out the following form. You'll receive an email containing an 'account key' (a long random string). When you run BOINC, it will ask you for this account key. Copy and paste it from the email." What a nice joke..... Stop sending account keys to newbies if BOINC doesn't accept them And don't tell me that BOINC accept account keys in the password box, because it's not true. BOINC refuses systematically the account key, in SETI or in other projects like CPDN or the test site for translator (I've tested yesterday evening for the 3 projects): I have the message: "account not found" for the 3 projects. A lot of other users have the same problem. Regards, Arnaud There were two forms you could go to. one went to old style Boinc attachment and a new one that is supposed to work with passwords.
6) Message boards : BOINC client : Doing it the hard way (Message 1086) Posted 25 Nov 2005 by ksnash Post: I am trying to translate the C code into Java code. I have mostly been doing Java work recently. I thought it might be a way to see how everything interacts and just to try it. If it ever gets close to working, Is there a place to put the new Java Api? A couple of the files have been easy to translate and compile with no problems. The fun part will be putting in the global variables. Right now I have to find a swi instance. Since it is probably slower I wonder if Java would give 40 credits/wu?
7) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Improvement (Message 1023) Posted 23 Nov 2005 by ksnash Post: Can the downloaded exe files be ran without any other native code loaded from where they are?
8) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Improvement (Message 991) Posted 22 Nov 2005 by ksnash Post: EDF is not an error state. deleted text.... I know the round robin scheduler will not go away. There are too many participants without the patience to see that BOINC would get to project X after it has done work for projects A thru W. SCheduler is not running in normal mode letting projects run. It says it has downloaded too much. It has noticed it created an error condition. It has too fix the situation that caused an error, too many work units. Therefore the scheduler is operating in an error mode. If scheduler was properly scheduling workunits, it should have proper amount of download for the time given and rarely have to fix itself. A proper setting should nopt cause error mode. It is a visible bad looking design. With a usefull setting, and a usefull setting missing, it is in a software error mode. At the minimum what would make me happy is the ability to turn off the deadline withing two connect rates. It would look like it was working properly.
9) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Improvement (Message 990) Posted 22 Nov 2005 by ksnash Post: EDF is not an error state. deleted text.... I know the round robin scheduler will not go away. There are too many participants without the patience to see that BOINC would get to project X after it has done work for projects A thru W. SCheduler is not running in normal mode letting projects run. It says it has downloaded too much. It has noticed it created an error condition. It has too fix the situation that caused an error, too many work units. Therefore the scheduler is operating in an error mode. If scheduler was properly scheduling workunits, it should have proper amount of download for the time given and rarely have to fix itself. A proper setting should nopt cause error mode. It is a visible bad looking design. With a usefull setting, and a usefull setting missing, it is in a software error mode.
10) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Improvement (Message 973) Posted 19 Nov 2005 by ksnash Post: Can we please put a switch in to turn off the default scheduler. I like round robin better. To facilitate the ease of management for experienced users, Have a scheduling page that has a per project cache setting and project time to run. The time to run can be broken into two types run full length round robin or timed round robin. full length round robin would run the full time given per day for project. timed round robin could run project share * quanta. I do not like the scheduler constantly running in an error state. I do not like when the scheduler prevents the running of a project or exclusively running one project for weeks. It would stop a majority of the questions that are mentioned on board. Why can't I run xxxx right now. or Why is xxxx the only thing running.

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