Sounds OK for both. Ideally achieve as low as possible without extraordinary measures. For every degree of temp reduced, the life expectancy increases exponentially for modern electronic circuits. Mechanical parts like fans will fail first.

Dear All,

I'm using BoincTasks to control my remote computers.
Fred has some explanations on the webpage, but not for all columns.

I find that under projects tab, task column, Einstein shows 1/104, LHC shows 53/0, WUProp shows 0/0/1.

I'm just wondering that what does these mean.
Where can I found more explanations about these columns?

Cheers

those values are useful in the gadget when computers are selected, not too useful in tasks column

Einstein@Home	Gridcoin	545,767,226.8	340,509.08	44,941,130.8	66,055.55	100 (9.99%)	0 / 5	- / 04:10:24 (1)		movieserver	school	JStateson	

0/5 => no cpu tasks / 5 gpu tasks
-/04:10:24 => not applicable / 4 hours 10 minutes 24 secs estimated remaining time gpu
(1) => not sure about that guessing 1 einstein is executing or 1 gpu exists

send fred a donation and get your name in the about credits

Hi
I installed Boinc 7.3.12 on my mobile and crunching SETI@homte v7

At the beginning everything is fine, 0.1% around 3.5 mins, I left the phone with charger connected and 100% charged.

But when I returned I found the app only keep timing without really crunching, the percentage is low , but the time is 17 hours already.

I suspended the crunching, and resumed, the elapsed time going back to 3 hours, and the app continued to crunching. But a few hours later, the same issues happened again, and I have to suspend and resume again.

I'm not crunching other project, so I've no idea it's the app issue or SETI's issue.

Can anyone help?

Best regards

It's a Seti problem, but very device specific, some devices are fine, other devices either error their tasks or stall, reason is undetermined at the moment,
the way to check if the app has stalled is to either use CPU-Z to check for CPU load, or check Boinc's log, and check that the task has checkpointed recently,
ie within a minute, if it hasn't checkpointed within 5 minutes or so, then suspend Boinc, then resume, that'll get the app to exit memory, and resume.

What is the mobile?

Claggy

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7034
Date: 26/09/2008
Time: 6:37:52 PM
User: N/A
Computer: UNI-3A11753EFB6
Description:
The BOINC service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 2 time(s).

You also get this error when you kill the service by killing boinc.exe in Task Manager. Are you sure that didn't happen?

You can go to the services applet (start->run->services.msc->OK), find BOINC, right click it, properties, Recovery. On first, second and following errors, set it to restart the service. OK out.

The other two messages are informational and benign.

I only run one task each project, why BOINC still need to wait?

You're not the only person on the project. You're not the only person using BOINC.
It's in the software for all to use, while people can still choke the database if everyone with only one task try to report that one task at the same time.

And what if because some reason, no Internet available after uploading result until deadline passed, no credit would be given?

Any task that is over the deadline will be sent out again to another computer.
If you manage to get your task reported before the new computer crunches, uploads and reports it, you'll still get credit.

so when BOINC report the server the task was finished?

BOINC will report automatically in 24 hours, but if you can't wait that long, open BOINC Manager, Advanced view, Projects tab, select the project the task is from and press the Update button. That reports the tasks that are ready to report immediately.

For BOINC 5.8 and above: Completed work is reported at the first of:

1) 24 hours after completion (was Connect every X after completion).
2) 24 hours before report is due.
3) Connect every X before report is due.
4) On a trickle up message (CPDN only so far).
5) On a request for more work.
6) On a manual update.

And why BOINC separate this two steps, not report complete when upload result?

Uploading is just that, BOINC uploads the result file to a disk on the server.
Reporting uses the database. Reporting multiple tasks at once takes the same amount of overhead as reporting a single task does, so it's preferred to report as many tasks at the same time as possible, to minimize the impact on the database.

What's the password on the BOINC service? Can I change by myself?

From the FAQ:

Passwords
Q. Can I change the password on the boinc_master and boinc_project accounts?
A. Yes you can.
You will need to need to go to the service control manager and update the password to start the service (boinc_master). (BOINC->Properties->Logon)
Next you need to use a base64 encoder to rehash the password (*) and fill this in in the client_auth.xml file in your BOINC data directory. You can use a base64 encoder online, such as this one.

Do know that the passwords on the accounts are set to never expire.

(*) I did find elsewhere that it's a rehash of the password and username, but I will have to ask about that. The above I got directly from the developer.

I don't (know) what happened when it did disk check, I didn't watch it.
...

That's what Ageless meant for you to look up ;-)

That depends. Did it fix anything that you know of?
What does it say in Event Viewer (Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Event Viewer)?

There's the output of chkdsk too!

Gruß,
Gundolf

Sounds like you or something else changed the password on the BOINC service. Did you try to change the password on the BOINC service?

I think your best bet is to uninstall BOINC and reinstall it. That should fix the password problem and allow the service to start again at logon.

I'm run XP Pro, I did a disk check before the booting today, does this matter?

That depends. Did it fix anything that you know of?
What does it say in Event Viewer (Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Event Viewer)?

Usually you get an Error 5: Access is Denied when you're trying to connect to a remote computer without a password or you do not have permission to log on to a remote computer. Is this BOINC on the local computer or a remote computer?

Milkyway, Malaria, some of the really short ones at Seti run for a couple of hours on a 7 day deadline.