1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC has taken over my PC! (Message 1760) Posted 10 Dec 2005 by Johnny Andrews Post: The task usage shows so high with BOINC running because BOINC is using cycles that aren't being used by other processes in your computer. But as far as I can tell, there has been no interference with any application that I am currently using. My applications appear to work just as fast as they always have. This is on a Mac, but presumably BOINC is operating in the same way on a PC.

2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC needs some major fixing (Message 1758) Posted 10 Dec 2005 by Johnny Andrews Post: I am posting this here in the hopes that someone in the BOINC project will see it, since I have not been able to find an email address to send suggestions or comments to. I have been running seti for years, and so I made the switch to BOINC when I found out about it recently. So far, BOINC has been nothing except one big pain. At first, I could not attach to the seti project, because BOINC could not resolve the url. This was fixed when I threw BOINC away and redownloaded it. I got a newer version of the BOINC Manager (currently 5.2.13 for the Mac). I managed to attach to seti, and got a work unit to work with. But seti seems to be having serious problems. I finished the first work unit, and after a number of retries, downloaded a second unit to work on. But I still haven't managed to upload the results from the first work unit. And right now, I cannot upload the results from the first work unit or the second work unit, and can't get a thiird work unit to download. I noticed in a message on this board that seti's problems were known, and presumably they will be fixed eventually. Since seti is temporarily unavailable, I decided to attach to another project to have something else to work on in the meantime. So I attached to einstein and downloaded a work unit from them. But this has demonstrated another management problem which apparently I cannot resolve. The BOINC manager has allocated 50% of its time to seti, and 50% of its time to einstein. And it won't change this allocation until it can connect to the seti server and review the seti preferences. The capability of modifying time allocations between projects should be stored on the client computer, not dependent on access to a host. There are several reasons for this, the most important illustrated by my current problems. I do not have a continuous internet connection. I have a dial-up modem. I learned long ago with seti that connections to the Berkeley computer could be very slow on weekdays. So I used seti's "connect now" feature to upload results and download new work units in the late evening or on weekends. I started up my internet connection before telling seti to connect. The BOINC Manager does not appear to have any control over connection attempts. It does not try to coerce a connection through my modem. But it does (from the messages panel) attemp to continuously connect to seti every time it switches to seti as the current project unit, since it has only the two completed work units for seti. And since, obviously, with no modem connection, it cannot resolve to seti, it sits there until the connection attempt times out before switching back to einstein. Which means that nothing is getting done. The BOINC Manager should not be attempting to connect to a project host unless a modem connection is detected! And, in the current circumstances, if the time allocation preference was stored in my (client) computer, I could tell BOINC to work continuously on the einstein project until seti gets its problems fixed and becomes accessible.

3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINCManager crashes (Message 1402) Posted 1 Dec 2005 by Johnny Andrews Post: This time it worked. I now have BOINC installed and seti attached. I discovered more on the crash. The readme says you can move BOINC to any folder, but that is not true. I tried moving BOINCManager to a BOINCƒ folder in Applications, along with the readme and several other files with info on connecting, etc. When I tried to start BOINCManager from within the folder, it crashed. Moved it back out of the folder into Applications, and it started up again. Still haven't figured out how to get my already accumulated stats from seti to BOINC. A question. Now that I have BOINC installed with seti, how can I complete and upload my current seti project from the old seti, without downloading a new set of data to the old project?

4) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINCManager crashes (Message 1391) Posted 1 Dec 2005 by Johnny Andrews Post: I went to seti and registered. This time I got an email. I had tried to do this before the first time I downloaded BOINC. Tried three times and never got an email. So now I have an account key, and have downloaded BOINC again, 5.2.13. Now will try throwing all the old stuff away and reinstalling. Thanks for the prompt reply.

5) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINCManager crashes (Message 1387) Posted 1 Dec 2005 by Johnny Andrews Post: I am having a problem with the BOINCManager. I am running OS X 10.3.9 on a Yosemite G3. I cannot get the BOINCManager to run. I have encountered the same problem with versions 5.2.5 and 5.2.8. When I first install the package the Manager starts up, but it will not access Seti@Home, and it will not start up after the first run. It crashes every time I try to start it. The first time, under 5.2.5, I threw away all the files and downloaded the BOINC download again. That is how I got from 5.2.5 to 5.2.8. When I tried the install the second time, I paid a little more attention, enough to see that it rejected the link to Seti with a message that there was an "account key missing". There is no where where I am asked to insert an account key. And on the second attempt, I supposedly created a new account. I have been using Seti for years, and I would like to continue doing so. But BOINC doesn't appear to work.

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