I am trying to determine whether crunchers like myself who run windows tasks under WINE from Linux are exempt from whatever is causing a large number of crashes on latest batch of CPDN work.

Computers affected seem to crash all of the batch at the same point, between three and seven minutes depending on CPU speed. A randomish sample of the hard fails has so far not produced any pattern.

Do the details reported ( Microsoft Windows 10 Ultimate N x64 Edition, (10.00.17134.00) specifically the number in italics perfectly mimic the numbers reported by a real Windows machine or not?"

Microsoft Windows 10 Professional x64 Edition, (10.00.15063.00)

Seti is still down.

And Einstein has crashed under the strain. Going to be a fun day all round.

Now that the Lattice Project is closed, the highest demanding projects are typically those that run virtualbox applications. However, as SekeRob stated, look at WUProp's home page and click on Results. You can filter the projects in many ways and see what memory usage is being reported for various platforms.

https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/results.py

Thanks BobCat, that's a link I didn't know about.

However, it doesn't look like --detach_console will complete the Initialization process on the client before returning control, so running a control command like

boinccmd --project_attach URL WeakKey

...immediately after starting the client will almost certainly cause the control command to be executed before the client is initialized, resulting in an error.

If --detach_console is to work, there will have to be a subsequent command to wait until the client is started.

All of that said, I think the --attach_project command (on the client itself) will work just fine.

Thanks for the help!

TIMEOUT [/T] timeout [/NOBREAK]

Description:
    This utility accepts a timeout parameter to wait for the specified
    time period (in seconds) or until any key is pressed. It also
    accepts a parameter to ignore the key press.

Parameter List:
    /T        timeout       Specifies the number of seconds to wait.
                            Valid range is -1 to 99999 seconds.

    /NOBREAK                Ignore key presses and wait specified time.

    /?                      Displays this help message.

NOTE: A timeout value of -1 means to wait indefinitely for a key press.

Examples:
    TIMEOUT /?
    TIMEOUT /T 10
    TIMEOUT /T 300 /NOBREAK
    TIMEOUT /T -1

Might we ask if you are involved in the 2017 WOW project?? I have my rigs working away on two separate teams for it. What are you doing?

He's looking for a 6 slice toaster to boost his crunching :-)

A couple of days ago my BOINC Manager 7.6.33 keeps exiting on start up.
I have installed it on a WinXP system (not as a service) for more than a year now crunching SETI, WCG, CPDN, Rosetta, Cosmology, Enigma and Milkyway without any problems.
I reinstalled the Manager a couple of time but the problem remains. I went to the event log but nothing appears!!
Any ideas on that?

This seems to be an old problem
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=8601

I don't believe the explanation that it's a windows function. Windows doesn't close programs by itself but sends a message. BOINC manager isn't handling it correctly.

reasonable not programmers top scope to go in that direction . programmer and user interest differ a little in home use . i can only say , boinc has a chance to run on every desktop if it causes no costs . but programmings effort has to see a valuable benefit in calculations done , i understand . ok , thank you

Automatically adding projects can be done again in multiple ways. If you don't want to use a static list you could use an account manager or if you have a static list you can provide an initialization file.

HAL9000: with this process you should also run into the one host-CPID for all cloned hosts issue as the host-CPID is generated at first startup and is based on the first available MAC. If you clone the VM after this was set all clones will use the same host-CPID. The Client can generate a new host-CPID if it detects a clash but that will only work if the first available MAC on the cloned VM changed after cloning from the original VM.

FritzBox360: I'll send you a PM with my skype username.

boinc --detach
timeout 30
boinccmd --project_attach http://project1 auth
boinccmd --project_attach http://project2 auth
boinccmd --project_attach http://project3 auth

I updated my Win10x64 to the Creator's edition and BOINC was throwing the GPU unavailable error message.

A manual install of the latest driver fixed the problem. 381.65

In the BOINC code it still is server_status.php: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/blob/master/html/user/server_status.php
It even says in the documentation:

BOINC-based projects offer the following XML export at <code>URL/server_status.php</code>

But Seti being Seti, they always do things differently.

@Gary, the HTML page was officially deprecated in favor of the PHP page. It's still being updated (and cached), but it's not the official page.
The HTML page was deprecated because the new bootstrap code couldn't handle the page being HTML. Remember that when you were on the HTML page that you didn't see that you were logged in (on the right), and didn't have a link to your account from Project? That's why it is now no longer used, and instead we have the PHP page.

**Edit: Aarrgghhh, extra white lines.

Yup, they've changed the page name again. It used to be server_status.php, and is now show_server_status.php
So if you have a bookmark, like good old me, then it points to the old page, which in turn goes to the old HTML link when the project is down. And because the old HTML link is no longer used, it's the colourless B&W page.