Posts by Aegis Maelstrom

1) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 67556)
Posted 6 Feb 2016 by Aegis Maelstrom
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WUProp@Home is down - SQL server seems to have crashed.
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC Manager connection and work issues (Message 66726)
Posted 9 Jan 2016 by Aegis Maelstrom
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Hi there,

I have been crunching BOINC for years and I have installed it on a new, Win 10 64bit system - version 7.6.9 with Virtual Machine. Unfortunately, a number of issues occur.

The major one are problems with the connection of BOINC client with projects. Sometimes it takes long and has hiccups. And today after the system wake I noticed that the tasks are not moving forward (the timecount is not growing) despite of their status "running". I checked the physical files in projects' directories - they have not been updated, and there were almost no new entires in the log, with an exception for a new task of WUProp, info about a possible update and a warning:
New system time (1452329131) < old system time (1452415526); clearing timeouts

This was the last message in the log. I haven't been changing the system time, it seems to be O.K. - however in past something was chenging my date, pushing it 1 day forward.

I tried to restart only the client but nothing was changed. After closing both client and the projects and a restart, the BOINC manager could not connect with the projects and it all seemed to be halted. CPU was barely used all the time, despite of settings to use all cores. After a forced closure of the manager, it returned to life but all the tasks firstly got 0% status (but with hours elapsed kept intact) and then they got an error.

What was surprising, it happened only to the CPU Universe@home tasks. Rosetta, WUProp and a GPU task for PrimeGrid kept on going.

On top of that, BOINC on that machine got some other issues as well. E.g. it did not restart work after a temporary work halt in the proferences settings and the whole machine hardfroze (it was working but it was completely unresponsive). I saw it twice.

Additionally, PrimeGrid GFN tasks crash after 1 sec and BOINC does not recognize Intel GPU on the Intel i7.
All of these may be unrelated or show some issues with the PC or the BOINC client.



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