Posts by kdsjsdj

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Transfers of Seti pending (Message 47454) Posted 22 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: But I love it when you spank me, big boy.
2) Message boards : GPUs : Enable/Disable Specific Gpus within Boinc Manager, (Message 47452) Posted 22 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: On the fly means different things to different people. Probably you ain't gonna get what you want from the BOINC devs. Or you can look through the Configuring the Client page at the official BOINC wiki and see the options for disabling GPUs. Then you can make a cc_config.xml that disables whatever you want disabled and do some script magic to make it all work in a way that some people would say is "on the fly". Details on request.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Transfers of Seti pending (Message 47451) Posted 22 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: Well maybe, but do you know that or are you just guessing. No guessing I know it. Stories of helicopters and the avarice of men be damned... you taking the bet or not? Either way, 2 years from now SETI will have found NOTHING. 20 years from now SETI will have found NOTHING... 0.... NADAfriggin'DA, 100 years from now same thing.... NOTHING..... and you will way to yourself "Hmmm, pretty smart guy that kdsjsdj guy" and you will STILL be wrong because it doesn't take a smart guy to see it. It is just so blatantly patently stupid ANY fool can see it. Any fool except the fools at SETI.
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Make BOINC faster by compiling programs (Message 47450) Posted 22 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: For the most part it's a bad idea. Compilers can be kind of finicky things and for most people it's best if it doesn't happen on their computer. Yes, it would be hidden under the cover of BOINC but since there would be little to gain why bother creating more potential troubles BTW, cygwin is not a compiler. It is a free Linux emulator that runs on Windows. You might be thinking of minGW which is a free Windows port of the free GNU compiler. Don't hurry; we're in a rush.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Transfers of Seti pending (Message 47433) Posted 21 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: Max, your post started out in a different thread where it didn't make much sense. My initial reply was based on that. Then the moderator moved your post here to this thread and now it makes more sense if you're talking about SETI downloads and uploads. My advice: SETI is a waste of time. Finding an LGM/ET is a very romantic idea but it's never gonna happen and I will bet you $2000 it won't happen in the next year and $10,000 it won't happen in the next 2 years. On top of that the SETI servers crash every other day because they're FUBAR and that's why your uploads and downloads go for yonks. Why trouble yourself working on an unattainable goal??? Hmmm? Detach from SETI and find something useful for your computer to do, most any of the other projects in the Add Project wizard are good research. SETI is just a bad waste of expensive electricity.
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : Transfers of Seti pending (Message 47432) Posted 21 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: This is the BOINC software website. Other than forum posts, you don't upload anything to the server that serves this website and the server doesn't download anything to you. It sounds like one of the many projects that uses the BOINC platform is sending you data. Nobody here has any control over that. If you have an issue with what a project does you are better off asking at their project rather than here.
7) Message boards : BOINC client : My Wish List (Message 47419) Posted 20 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: creating chunks is not so big deal i believe Wrong. Some types of computations/algorithms do not lend themselves to parallelization. Some you can't break into chunks or parallel threads. Anyway, it would not be BOINC's job to do that. It is the job of each project to create multithread applications if they can and if they want to.
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : Task exited with zero status but no 'finished' file... (almost) all of them (Message 47418) Posted 20 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: If that's true, I think one solution would be to put BOINC's data directory on a hard drive of its own and not let anything but BOINC touch that drive. Isolating BOINC on its own disk or partition won't necessarily allow you to run BOINC during virus scans and defrags. The reason is those programs can preempt BOINC for extended periods of time in spite of the fact they aren't touching anything on BOINC's drive. When BOINC is preempted it can't communicate with the science apps and that lack of comms is what causes the "exited with no finished file". I say those programs "can preempt BOINC" but that doesn't mean yours surely will. Different virus scanners work in different ways. Also, I would think that on an 8 core system the defragger is going to preempt BOINC a lot less than on say a single core or dual core. IMHO if you can't tell the virus scanner to leave c:\program data\boinc alone have that work then it isn't going to leave d: alone either. With the defragger it's different, it will defrag on C: and leave d: alone. To me the simplest and safest solution is just use a script to shutdown and restart BOINC for periodic defrag and scan.
9) Message boards : Questions and problems : Task exited with zero status but no 'finished' file... (almost) all of them (Message 47417) Posted 20 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: Turns out the hard disk my OS and BOINC was on was dying, dying, dead as of yesterday. Guess we can really close the case on this one. "no finished file"... indeed :rolleyes: lol! too funny btw, that's a reason to not defrag every week... it wears out the head movement in the disk. Modern filesystems like HPFS don't fragment the way FAT used to. Unless you're creating and deleting a ton of files every day you probably don't need a weekly defrag or even a monthly defrag.
10) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 7.0.40-42 and new app_config.xml (Message 47413) Posted 20 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: I agree with David for once. The goal is to get the projects to paramaterize their GPU apps correctly and that is a sound goal from every perspective. If too many easy workarounds are provided then the projects won't paramaterize correctly. Then you have users wandering around looking for the right way to implement the workaround. Nope. The admins can RTFM too and do their jobs instead of expecting us to always pick up after their laziness. (Doesn't apply to all admins but does apply to many, give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile).
11) Message boards : Teams : Link teams to BOINC-wide team and members not showing. (Message 47401) Posted 19 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: Try http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Teams. At the bottom of the page there is a link you might find helpful.
12) Message boards : Teams : I am interested in joining a team that uses green energy. (Message 47400) Posted 19 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: Try AUGENREIZ.
13) Message boards : Questions and problems : HPC cluster question (Message 47393) Posted 18 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: I wouldn't know where to begin using such a powerful beast but my first reaction is that if you don't have admin privileges then you likely will not be able to install the required BOINC software and without that I doubt you will get far. I could be wrong so be sure to return to get follow up opinions/advice. You might be able to get better/faster advice by asking at one or more of the projects whose admins are familiar to some extent with using a cluster. One such project that springs to mind is Einstein@home and there are probably others. I have a hunch they would bend over backwards to be able to use that cluster. In the end I believe you'll have to get the system admin to install BOINC or something and that's where you'll hit the brick wall. Most admins see BOINC as a security risk (it isn't so bad, really) and they don't want to risk security and/or create more work for themselves on "their" system unless they get paid for it. Approach the people who own the system and ask them to tell the admin to install BOINC and deal with it.
14) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problems with BOINC under Linux / Ubuntu 12.04 (BOINC 7.0.27 / 42) (Message 47389) Posted 18 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: I've tried it and it doesn't work. It might solve the problem of GPU detection, but not idle detection problem. I found a solution (from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BOINC ) to solve idle detection problem now. It's about permission of X connection. Run: xhost local:boinc this will disable access control so that BOINC can do idle detection. I wasn't suggesting the solution for GPU would work for mouse and keyboard detection. I meant the same type of solution should work. Thanks! If I can confirm that I'll add it to the wiki.
15) Message boards : Questions and problems : Domain controller recommended BOINC version? (Message 47386) Posted 18 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: The warning about Domain Controllers is at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes#BOINC_7_incompatible_with_Domain_Controllers. Was not asking for a warning, asked for a simple addition to the all download page. I had to read your missive 6 times before it was clear to me what you wanted. Maybe try plain English instead of that put on jet fighter pilot talk? No, you did not ask for an addition. You asked if an addition is possible and the obvious answer is "yes, it's only HTML, it can be revised by most anyone with the password". If you want an addition/revision then why not ask the people who have the password. You know who they are and you know they don't hang out here.
16) Message boards : Questions and problems : Task exited with zero status but no 'finished' file... (almost) all of them (Message 47376) Posted 18 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: Lol! Well don't let that stop you, it doesn't stop the BOINC devs ;-)
17) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problems with BOINC under Linux / Ubuntu 12.04 (BOINC 7.0.27 / 42) (Message 47375) Posted 18 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: Maybe adding user boinc to some group will work, and I'm trying. I am pretty sure that will work because adding user boinc to the video group (plus other steps depending on distro) is what allows boinc access to GPU so GPU tasks can be crunched. I experimented with a few groups months ago and gave up. Hope you have better luck.
18) Message boards : Questions and problems : Task exited with zero status but no 'finished' file... (almost) all of them (Message 47368) Posted 18 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: so I do want some expert input on prioritizing which Chinese herbal treatments to try next, yeah. ;) (just kidding) Oh, don't offend the Chinese! Eastern style meditation helps :-) It's your rig, you're the boss, sorry for getting on your case but I would try the simple things first, that's all. Setting the processor load threshold back to 25% for now. Why not 35%? Or 50%? Or 80%? The 25 and 0 aren't the only allowable numbers, 25 just happens to be the default and the 0 is the ignore flag. Try other values and see what works for YOU. Also consider the "exclusive app" mechanism... it works like a hot damn for people in your situation. If you think there's a bug in the code then dig out the code, pore through it and probe and tickle with what you learn from the code in mind. It seems there is a bug, maybe, but banging away at it without knowing what's in the code is pointless, IMHO. But it's your rig, your life, do with it as you will. If these errors keep up (but they don't seem to be impacting production what with the mix of tasks I have running atm Been there done that, it's a familiar story. Tomorrow you'll have a different mix of tasks and the problems will return. We've all been through that one and we don't want to deprive you of the pleasure so carry on carrying on :-)
19) Message boards : Questions and problems : Task exited with zero status but no 'finished' file... (almost) all of them (Message 47365) Posted 18 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: What I saw was that the "time elapsed" for running apps froze up, although BOINC Manager itself continued to function. My hunch is that BOINC.EXE, but not boincmgr.exe, was being starved of CPU cycles for some reason.[ You are probably correct. The manager does not track elapsed time directly, that is the client's (boinc.exe's) job. The manager simply gets the numbers from the client and displays them in the gui. What happens when you let BOINC run without your music player running (sorry, I forget the name)? Does the problem happen than too? One other significant thing I haven't tried yet is the suggestion to pause BOINC depending on "non-BOINC" processor load. Awhile back I found BOINC see-sawing between running and pausing every 10 seconds or so with a 25% non-BOINC load threshold for suspending, and setting it to 0 (no restriction) didn't seem to impact system performance at the time, so that's where I've set it. Am I way off base here? Why do you torture yourself? YOU have it running there, not US. Try different settings, (10, 20, 30...99). Just do it and never mind asking us for permission or recommendation or whatever it is you seem to think you need. It won't blow up and destroy your house, kill your children or anything else bad. At worst it will not crunch, not a big deal. Too much thinking/talking beating around the bush; too little doing, testing and verifying.
20) Message boards : Questions and problems : Task exited with zero status but no 'finished' file... (almost) all of them (Message 47364) Posted 18 Jan 2013 by kdsjsdj Post: @kdsjsdj: Are you Dagorath familiar from other sites?: http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/show_user.php?userid=2247 Noooo. Are you sure ;) Aha! Now we know who actually reads what I write. Or at least isn't afraid to speak what is on his/her mind. Yes, I made the edit but I am not Dagorath. I know because I see her every day and I am quite certain that I am not her. She lives/works down the hall. I asked for her wiki password and she gave it to me, muttered something about not needing it anymore. We both live/work at BAT.

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