Posts by mmciastro

41) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Attaching to project (Message 3882) Posted 14 Apr 2006 by mmciastro Post: hmmm, you've input the URL for the new project, selected "use existing account" (instead of create account), input your registered email addy, and the associated password, and still can't attach?
42) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Attaching to project (Message 3880) Posted 14 Apr 2006 by mmciastro Post: Have you set up a password at each of the other projects? go to "your account" at each of those projects and "create a password" if not
43) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Mysterious error 500 still with me (Message 3874) Posted 13 Apr 2006 by mmciastro Post: Just wondering...Did they change the connection port after between 4.x and 5.x? Short answer is yes, detailed answer is port was really changed between 5.2.15 and 5.3.something. What did change between 4 and 5 was the use of libcurl proxy authentification.
44) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Bonic Screen Saver (Message 3853) Posted 11 Apr 2006 by mmciastro Post: If you're a windows user, make sure boinc.scr is listed under "internet access" of your firewall. It needs comms to work. When I install a new version of boinc, i'm prompted twice by mcafee, once for boinc.mgr, and once for boinc.exe. Then I have to go to "start" "control panel", then "display", then click on the "screensaver" tab. Once I click screensaver, then mcafee prompts me for boinc.scr access. tony
45) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Corrupt File (Message 3849) Posted 10 Apr 2006 by mmciastro Post: I like the easy problems. congrats on fixing it, also norton disk doctor can fix these crash related corruption of the clientstate.xml files.
46) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Work Unit Download Problems with SETI and Einstien (Message 3765) Posted 4 Apr 2006 by mmciastro Post: The work cache setting is "total" work, not per project. The work scheduler decides what to run and when based upon a formula using your resource share and connect to setting. Before you leave set it to 8 days and update. It's pretty simple after you learn to relax and trust that the work scheduler will balance you project per your requested amounts, and you don't have to babysit it. right now you seem nervous about whether it will work and are watching it closely. we all did that. relax, kick back, grab a cold one. It works. enjoy tony
47) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Can't connect to Predictor@home (Message 3763) Posted 4 Apr 2006 by mmciastro Post: I've created a thread called "Connecting from Italy" and posted this: I have a user at the Boinc message board. His username is "darkpella" and here is a link to that thread. He can't attach to PPAH, or even get here with a browser. Can someone help him? tony over at ppah, There is a link to this thread. {edit} this was the first post to their boards in 3 days, so I wouldn't expect an immediate response. LOL
48) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Can't connect to Predictor@home (Message 3761) Posted 4 Apr 2006 by mmciastro Post: Thought I had an idea, but I was wrong
49) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Error message: Boinc Manager is not able to connect to... (Message 3746) Posted 2 Apr 2006 by mmciastro Post: I, too, have had this problem since the end of the previous month; however, no amount of rebooting allows boinc manager to connect to local host. No work has been done since. (I am away most of the week as a truck driver and that is the reason I signed up for this silly prject.) Jay, if you're a windows user click here and try this version of boinc. may the coops always be closed for you, driver. tony
50) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Network preferences won't stick v4.49 (Message 3735) Posted 1 Apr 2006 by mmciastro Post: % of time BOINC client is running 99.0415% While BOINC running, % of time work is allowed 99.7311% Average CPU efficiency 0.999976 Result duration correction factor 5.824106 <---- ??? Have fun, as they say. Ah, but the problem is the processing speed. When you first connected the DCF was set to 1.000000 since it hadn't had any work to learn from. The duration correction factor is adjusted AFTER work has been done. Each time you turn a wu in it compares the cpu time to the "estimated cpu time". If the cpu time of a recently computed wu is less than estimated, it will take off something like 10% of the difference. When it's over, the estimate is immediately increased to that value. Evidently you returned a wu that took 90 hours. What processor is this? PII 400???, my P3-500 did them in 20 hours. I notice your 128 M ram and that makes a difference as well. You tell me the estimate is 90 hours and the DCF is 5.82406, if I divide 90 by 5.82410 I come up with 15.45 hours or so. This 15.45 hours is what it thought it should take originally when it issued work to you. you say you got 11 wus (11 wu * 15.45hours= 169.95 hours (or 7 days worth of work). What is your "connect to" (cache) setting set for? After it did a wu it sees it really takes 90 and yes it has too much work. I would abort the ones that can't be done in time. The newly corrected DCF will limit your downloaded work for the next time (depending on your requested cache setting). Don't worry, be happy tony
51) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Can't connect to Predictor@home (Message 3720) Posted 30 Mar 2006 by mmciastro Post: boinc@scripps.edu
52) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Can't connect to Predictor@home (Message 3716) Posted 30 Mar 2006 by mmciastro Post: I've just looked at the main page and message boards, and see no other reports of this. I don't know how to help you. Perhaps your backbone provider stopped peering with whomever predictor uses?? I don't know. tony
53) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Boinc Manager unable to upload (Message 3714) Posted 30 Mar 2006 by mmciastro Post: Ahh ok. Many thanx 4 this information. best regards no problem, wish I knew more.
54) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Boinc Manager unable to upload (Message 3712) Posted 30 Mar 2006 by mmciastro Post: morning, I might be able to. Uploads at Seti seems down at the moment. If you visit the Seti website, and go to the message boards (number crunching) you'll see many threads of users having difficulty with this. Right now you're posting to the "Boinc" message boards. Boinc is the multi project platform on which all other project run. you can find the seti message boards here at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_index.php.
55) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Can't connect to Predictor@home (Message 3711) Posted 30 Mar 2006 by mmciastro Post: I just tried www.scripps.edu and got through. The PAH website URL(for attachment) is http://predictor.scripps.edu, and I also can get through with that address. I don't know what to say. except to try the URL I'm providing. tony
56) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Not Enough Disk Space and Default ISP settings (Message 3706) Posted 30 Mar 2006 by mmciastro Post: If you go to "your account" then "general preferences" you see these preferences(these are a copy of mine): Disk and memory usage Use no more than 400 GB disk space Leave at least (Values smaller than 0.001 are ignored) .25 GB disk space free Use no more than 85% of total disk space Write to disk at most every 600 seconds Use no more than 100% of total virtual memory Boinc will use no more than it needs. These setting are really relics of a distant past when disk space was limited (I.E 2 gig drives, or mp3 servers LOL). I don't own a 400 GB drive, so basically the above setting says "use all you want, but leave me .25 GB free) you should check yours. After changing preferences on the web you'll need to contact that site with your client for changes to take effect. Click "projects" tab, then highlight the project where you just changed the settings, and then click "update" button on left side. hope this helps tony
57) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Network preferences won't stick v4.49 (Message 3704) Posted 30 Mar 2006 by mmciastro Post: If you go to the predictor website, log in, go to "your account", then "computers-view" then pick the particular computer your talking about. On that screen what values do you have under the following catagories (note the following is what is on my page and I've deleted things which can't help me figure out your issue): CPU type AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+ Number of CPUs 1 Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00) Memory 1023.48 MB Cache 976.56 KB Swap space 2462.1 MB Total disk space 19.53 GB Free Disk Space 1.29 GB Average turnaround time 3.15 days % of time BOINC client is running 99.4013 % While BOINC running, % of time work is allowed 99.9799 % Average CPU efficiency 0.982674 Result duration correction factor 0.397798 I'm especially interested in the bold parts. tony
58) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Work Unit Download Problems with SETI and Einstien (Message 3702) Posted 29 Mar 2006 by mmciastro Post: The work scheduler thinks it needs more seti to balance out your requested "resource share", so it's only requesting work from seti. Since seti isn't giving work, it just keeps requesting it, while finishing your existing cache of work. When you're actually out of work, it will get work from any attached project it can (so it'll keep busy). It always tries to balance the resource share, where that doesn't affect deadlines, of course. What you're seeing is normal activity. tony
59) Message boards : BOINC Manager : I got the software installed, recovered seti acct, so what (Message 3701) Posted 29 Mar 2006 by mmciastro Post: you can read about BB Code by clicking on this link. BB code is considered more secure than the older way of doing this, which was HTML code. tony
60) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Cannot attach to Project etc. (Message 3700) Posted 29 Mar 2006 by mmciastro Post: I believe the problem you are experiencing is that your port 1043 is in use by another program. ICANN has registered that port to Boinc, but MS has used it in a program they made. Boinc used 1043 as a "loopback" address so that the manager could communicate with the daemon across networks. Boinc has switched to port 31416 in the newer developmental clients. computers this apply to will say "disconnected" on the very bottom bar (right hand side) of the Boinc manager. it should read (in most instances) "connected to localhost". are you experiencing this issue? tony

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