Posts by Frank Bicknell

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Ubuntu > 12.10 indicator changes (Message 58306)
Posted 29 Nov 2014 by Profile Frank Bicknell
Post:
For those not wanting to wait for this change, there is this workaround available. I just tried it on 14.04 and it is working. Time will tell if it continues to work over time.

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/05/how-to-get-systray-whitelist-back-in.html
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Ubuntu > 12.10 indicator changes (Message 58303)
Posted 29 Nov 2014 by Profile Frank Bicknell
Post:
Per: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/974480 the old way of using the notification area (indicators) is obsolete. Apparently, it has been deprecated for some time and from somewhere about 12.10 and certainly in 13.* and 14.*, the indicators don't work.

Can someone have a look at the code for Boinc Manager and abide by the new standard please?

I'll file a bug if desired.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Pause doesn't stop BOINC (Message 47486)
Posted 24 Jan 2013 by Profile Frank Bicknell
Post:
Well, all of it anyway. See attached for proof: note that the manager thinks it's paused, but one of the threads is still running. This continues indefinitely unless I stop the client service.

http://bit.ly/Wi0e4r
bick-ubtu3:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS"
bick-ubtu3:~$ aptitude show boinc-client
Package: boinc-client                    
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 7.0.44+dfsg-0~989~precise1

4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc always suspended when computer not in use (Message 46292)
Posted 15 Nov 2012 by Profile Frank Bicknell
Post:
Ok, so tried this:

moved global_prefs and global_prefs_override aside (renamed .xml to .sav)
bounced boinc-client
bounced boinc-manager
set preferences to .5 min and 0%

That last step created a new _override file (now I know what that is) and its contents:

bick-ubtu3:~$ cat /var/lib/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml
<global_preferences>
   <run_on_batteries>0</run_on_batteries>
   <run_if_user_active>0</run_if_user_active>
   <run_gpu_if_user_active>0</run_gpu_if_user_active>
   <idle_time_to_run>0.500000</idle_time_to_run>
   <suspend_cpu_usage>0.000000</suspend_cpu_usage>
   <start_hour>0.000000</start_hour>
   <end_hour>0.000000</end_hour>
   <net_start_hour>0.000000</net_start_hour>
   <net_end_hour>0.000000</net_end_hour>
   <leave_apps_in_memory>0</leave_apps_in_memory>
   <confirm_before_connecting>1</confirm_before_connecting>
   <hangup_if_dialed>0</hangup_if_dialed>
   <dont_verify_images>0</dont_verify_images>
   <work_buf_min_days>0.100000</work_buf_min_days>
   <work_buf_additional_days>0.500000</work_buf_additional_days>
   <max_ncpus_pct>0.000000</max_ncpus_pct>
   <cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>60.000000</cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>
   <disk_interval>60.000000</disk_interval>
   <disk_max_used_gb>10.000000</disk_max_used_gb>
   <disk_max_used_pct>50.000000</disk_max_used_pct>
   <disk_min_free_gb>0.100000</disk_min_free_gb>
   <vm_max_used_pct>75.000000</vm_max_used_pct>
   <ram_max_used_busy_pct>50.000000</ram_max_used_busy_pct>
   <ram_max_used_idle_pct>90.000000</ram_max_used_idle_pct>
   <max_bytes_sec_up>0.000000</max_bytes_sec_up>
   <max_bytes_sec_down>0.000000</max_bytes_sec_down>
   <cpu_usage_limit>100.000000</cpu_usage_limit>
   <daily_xfer_limit_mb>0.000000</daily_xfer_limit_mb>
   <daily_xfer_period_days>0</daily_xfer_period_days>
</global_preferences>
bick-ubtu3:~$


no global_prefs.xml exists

Still misbehavin'
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc always suspended when computer not in use (Message 46291)
Posted 15 Nov 2012 by Profile Frank Bicknell
Post:
Hm. Well, I thought I had moved it aside, finding it at /etc/boinc-client, but apparently there's a couple of others:

bick-ubtu3:~$ sudo find / -mount -name global_pref\*.xml
/var/lib/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml
/var/lib/boinc-client/global_prefs.xml

I'll try moving that one aside (not sure what _override is for) and trying again.

To directly answer your question, though:
bick-ubtu3:~$ cat /var/lib/boinc-client/global_prefs.xml
<global_preferences>

<source_project>http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/</source_project>
    <source_scheduler>https://grid.worldcommunitygrid.org/boinc/wcg_cgi/fcgi</source_scheduler>
    <mod_time>1</mod_time>
    <cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>120</cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>
    <disk_interval>60.0</disk_interval>
    <disk_max_used_gb>10.0</disk_max_used_gb>
    <disk_max_used_pct>50.0</disk_max_used_pct>
    <disk_min_free_gb>0.5</disk_min_free_gb>
    <end_hour>0</end_hour>
    <idle_time_to_run>3.0</idle_time_to_run>
    <leave_apps_in_memory/>
    <max_bytes_sec_down>0.0</max_bytes_sec_down>
    <max_bytes_sec_up>0.0</max_bytes_sec_up>
    <daily_xfer_period_days>0</daily_xfer_period_days>
    <daily_xfer_limit_mb>0.0</daily_xfer_limit_mb>
    <max_cpus>16</max_cpus>
    <max_ncpus_pct>100.0</max_ncpus_pct>
    <suspend_cpu_usage>50.0</suspend_cpu_usage>
    <net_end_hour>0</net_end_hour>
    <net_start_hour>0</net_start_hour>
    <run_if_user_active/>
    <start_hour>0</start_hour>
    <cpu_usage_limit>60.0</cpu_usage_limit>
    <ram_max_used_busy_pct>50.0</ram_max_used_busy_pct>
    <ram_max_used_idle_pct>75.0</ram_max_used_idle_pct>
    <vm_max_used_pct>50.0</vm_max_used_pct>
    <work_buf_min_days>0.2</work_buf_min_days>
    <work_buf_additional_days>0.3</work_buf_additional_days>
</global_preferences>


Let me give that a try.
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc always suspended when computer not in use (Message 46277)
Posted 14 Nov 2012 by Profile Frank Bicknell
Post:
Thanks for the suggestion. It was set for 50%, but I set it to 0 (disabled) and tried again. Still suspended after 1 minute.

Other suggestions?
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc always suspended when computer not in use (Message 46273)
Posted 14 Nov 2012 by Profile Frank Bicknell
Post:
Hello,

First things first:

Package: boinc-client
Version: 7.0.39+dfsg-0~964~precise1

Architecture: amd64

Package: boinc-manager
Version: 7.0.39+dfsg-0~964~precise1

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS"

So Boinc runs normally if I don't tell it to suspend when the computer is in use. But if I do, it never runs.

I did a little searching and found some old (old!) posts about previous versions and the global_prefs_override.xml file... removed that and set my preferences again; same result.

I'm setting the "Only after the computer has been idle for --- minutes" to various short values: 0.5, 1.0 or so. Observe after hands off for that amount of time and it stays suspended.

Also tried hitting the 'clear' button on preferences.

Any clues as to what to check or change?

Thanks in advance.
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : Ubuntu 12.04 - Boinc 7.0.28 - computation errors (Message 44724)
Posted 4 Jul 2012 by Profile Frank Bicknell
Post:
My problem is somewhat similar to:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=7687

but Seti appears to be working ok. However I have two computation errors in Milkyway. Not all are resulting in errors.

Grepping around in /var/lib/boinc-client, I find lots of 'error' hits, but none that also match 'computation'.

Any ideas what might be going on here? How do I dig deeper into the two that failed?

Here's the first few lines of stdoutdae.txt:

03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.0.28 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU       Q 720  @ 1.60GHz [Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5]
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] Processor: 6.00 MB cache
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts a
cpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperf
mperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm ida dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriori
ty ept vpid
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] OS: Linux: 3.2.0-26-generic
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] Memory: 3.80 GB physical, 0 bytes virtual
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] Disk: 22.11 GB total, 14.45 GB free
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] Local time is UTC -4 hours
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] VirtualBox version: 4.1.12_Ubuntur77245
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] NVIDIA GPU 0: Quadro FX 880M (driver version unknown, CUDA version 4.20, compute capability 1.2, 13421465
6MB, 134214632MB available, 174 GFLOPS peak)
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: Quadro FX 880M (driver version 295.40, device version OpenCL 1.0 CUDA, 1024MB, 1342
14632MB available)
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] Config: GUI RPC allowed from:
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [Milkyway@Home] URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 452833; resource share 200
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [SETI@home] URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6705621; resource share 200
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [Einstein@Home] URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 5450788; resource share 100
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [World Community Grid] URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 2066575; resource share 100
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [World Community Grid] General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 31-Dec-1969 19:00:01)
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [World Community Grid] Host location: none
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [World Community Grid] General prefs: using your defaults
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---] Preferences:
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---]    max memory usage when active: 1943.13MB
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---]    max memory usage when idle: 2914.69MB
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---]    max disk usage: 10.00GB
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---]    don't use GPU while active
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---]    suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 50 %
03-Jul-2012 07:29:37 [---]    (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manage



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