Posts by Toby Broom

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21) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working
Message 113183
Posted 27 Nov 2023 by Toby Broom
Down again
22) Message boards : Questions and problems : best projects for an aged 32bit Linux machine
Message 113173
Posted 26 Nov 2023 by Toby Broom
They have the minimium specs for the projects here:


https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/topic.s?shortName=minimumreq

You should be OK for all of them.

You can check on there website if you were assigned some task and if there was error what the errors were.
23) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working
Message 113153
Posted 21 Nov 2023 by Toby Broom
Back up
24) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working
Message 113060
Posted 10 Nov 2023 by Toby Broom
It was up for a while, I think the admins have sort of moved on, when they have a little time they can reboot the server etc.

Its down again at the moment.
25) Message boards : Questions and problems : (k)ubuntu 23.10 upgrade causes 'invalid client RPC password. Try re-installing boinc manger' error message
Message 112992
Posted 25 Oct 2023 by Toby Broom
It could be this also:
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/3355

I had directed edited the systemd file, so they were overwritten, other had pointed out the better way is to create an override file then it won't get overwritten.

Working fine after this
26) Message boards : GPUs : Intel iGPU (Gen7) on Ubuntu/Pop OS 22.04 (beignet-opencl-icd not available)
Message 112989
Posted 24 Oct 2023 by Toby Broom
I just got the packages from the Intel github repo:

https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases

These are the new rutimes

https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/show_host_detail.php?hostid=10831474

I don't have such an old GPU though so I'm not sure if it will work
27) Message boards : Questions and problems : Recommended installation method on Ubuntu to use a version > 7.20.5
Message 112987
Posted 23 Oct 2023 by Toby Broom
I tried to use the repo as well but it is not fully deployed yet so Dave's is the best, once they are ready to use the repo they will let us know the Dev's said.
28) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 112451
Posted 4 Aug 2023 by Toby Broom
Radioactive@Home is down at the moment.
29) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 111848
Posted 19 May 2023 by Toby Broom
I don't think its possiable, I was getting "Tasks are committed to other platforms" which seems to be related to that my computer asked for too much work.

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/HomogeneousRedundancy
30) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working
Message 111770
Posted 9 May 2023 by Toby Broom
Back now
31) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 7.20 Change Log
Message 109010
Posted 6 Jul 2022 by Toby Broom
OK, just curious, I installed 7.20.1 on a computer and it seems quite stable, I was inspired but ubuntu 22.04 where there is a development version included.
32) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 7.20 Change Log
Message 108954
Posted 5 Jul 2022 by Toby Broom
Is there an ETA for the 7.20 to be the recommended?
33) Message boards : Questions and problems : PSA: 12th Gen low CPU usage
Message 107351
Posted 12 Mar 2022 by Toby Broom
Hi,

I was only getting about 40% CPU usage on my 12900K, adjusting the processor scheduling to prefer background apps fixed it.

Regards
34) Message boards : Questions and problems : rpc changes
Message 101039
Posted 10 Oct 2020 by Toby Broom
OK, thanks I take this as a will not implement.
35) Message boards : Questions and problems : rpc changes
Message 100912
Posted 1 Oct 2020 by Toby Broom
Sorry,

You have the

gui_rpc_auth.cfg which is enforced now.

remote_hosts.cfg which is white list of host, this is sort of redundant now as you need the key from gui_rpc_auth to make a connection, so kind of white list on client vs server.
36) Message boards : Questions and problems : rpc changes
Message 100704
Posted 11 Sep 2020 by Toby Broom
Hi,

I'm all for the security improvements, but it seems redundant to provide 2 different mechanisms to secure communications between boinc clients?

Could it be considered to use a single mechanism?

Thanks for consideration
37) Message boards : Questions and problems : Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates
Message 98909
Posted 30 May 2020 by Toby Broom
Seems like the windows version of BOINC should do something like that, so the same thing doesn't happen next time certs expire?
38) Message boards : Questions and problems : Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates
Message 98903
Posted 30 May 2020 by Toby Broom
I made the updated file for anyone that "trusts" me.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsVDg7OAm7-whqEqBXKHuOie0UoBKA?e=VHwBAP

I can also confirm it works
39) Message boards : Questions and problems : Editing RAM usage for project
Message 92809
Posted 15 Sep 2019 by Toby Broom
I think I found the problem another config file was limiting the max number of tasks.
40) Message boards : Questions and problems : Editing RAM usage for project
Message 92808
Posted 15 Sep 2019 by Toby Broom
Hi,

For my LHC@Home project the project team do not calculate the amount of RAM usage correctly so I would like to fix it client side.

I am able to edit the rsc_memory_bound & working_set_size_smoothed to the correct values but the scheduler doesn't seems to see that the memory load is reduced.

How does the calculation of the free memory work?
75			09/15/19 15:20:54	[mem_usage] enforce: available RAM 128359.19MB swap 75217.38MB	
76	LHC@home	09/15/19 15:20:57	[mem_usage]  (not running)Theory_2417912_1568071912.492574_0: WS 84.60MB, smoothed 5120.00MB, swap 103.84MB, 0.00 page faults/sec, user CPU 16.063, kernel CPU 1923.344	
77	LHC@home	09/15/19 15:20:57	[mem_usage]  (not running)Theory_2475718_1568080319.011424_0: WS 85.05MB, smoothed 5120.00MB, swap 103.87MB, 0.00 page faults/sec, user CPU 22.547, kernel CPU 3868.422	
78	LHC@home	09/15/19 15:20:57	[mem_usage]  (not running)Theory_2505470_1568084822.594092_0: WS 85.52MB, smoothed 5120.00MB, swap 100.29MB, 0.00 page faults/sec, user CPU 19.781, kernel CPU 3618.375	
79	Radioactive@Home	09/15/19 15:20:57	[mem_usage] sample_10775727_0: WS 4.75MB, smoothed 4.75MB, swap 6.39MB, 0.00 page faults/sec, user CPU 0.000, kernel CPU 0.063	
80	LHC@home	09/15/19 15:20:57	[mem_usage]  (not running)Theory_2471900_1568079718.688719_0: WS 84.43MB, smoothed 5120.00MB, swap 94.43MB, 0.00 page faults/sec, user CPU 3.313, kernel CPU 44.984	
81	LHC@home	09/15/19 15:20:57	[mem_usage] Theory_2386456_1568067408.805761_0: WS 86.16MB, smoothed 5120.00MB, swap 96.68MB, 0.00 page faults/sec, user CPU 7.016, kernel CPU 188.047	
82	LHC@home	09/15/19 15:20:57	[mem_usage] Theory_2513686_1568086023.457098_0: WS 89.50MB, smoothed 5120.00MB, swap 101.08MB, 0.00 page faults/sec, user CPU 6.484, kernel CPU 176.688	
83	LHC@home	09/15/19 15:20:57	[mem_usage] Theory_2520971_1568087224.201573_0: WS 89.66MB, smoothed 5120.00MB, swap 101.04MB, 0.00 page faults/sec, user CPU 5.813, kernel CPU 137.344	
84			09/15/19 15:20:57	[mem_usage] BOINC totals: WS 609.68MB, smoothed 35844.75MB, swap 707.62MB, 0.00 page faults/sec	
85			09/15/19 15:20:57	[mem_usage] All others: WS 3381.68MB, swap 3284.45MB, user 6516.125s, kernel 6734.047s	
86			09/15/19 15:20:57	[mem_usage] non-BOINC CPU usage: 0.00%	

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