Posts by l008com

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1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Never Ending SSL Problems?
Message 118000
Posted 8 Jan 2026 by l008com 		Well the main project i'm crunching right now is Asteroids. I've had this problem on upgrading BOINC on a wide variety of versions of macOS, I think the newest one is Ventura, which is only a few years old. Those systems, and all of my other systems, all have all available updates run, but still every time I've gone ti 8.2.8, I've lost contact with asteroids and had to manually install some cert from somewhere (i forget the exact details)
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Never Ending SSL Problems?
Message 117992
Posted 7 Jan 2026 by l008com 		Why is it that I have to manually install SSL certs on every single machine that runs BOINC? Why can't they include it in the installer, or download them remotely within the application? Even on newer machines running newer OSes, as soon as I upgrade to 8.2.8, no more work units.

Also I forget what I did to fix this a few months ago. I don't remember if the post was here or on the asteroids forum or maybe on reddit? Anyone have the directions for downloading and installing the cert (on mac)?
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : List All Projects I've Participated In?
Message 116571
Posted 7 Aug 2025 by l008com 		Update:
Nope, unable to sign up to the forum. Maybe I'll just go down the full list of all boinc projects and see if i can log in to each.
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : List All Projects I've Participated In?
Message 116570
Posted 7 Aug 2025 by l008com 		Update update: Ok no longer getting 4o4 when I try to visit the forum. So this may work now.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : List All Projects I've Participated In?
Message 116569
Posted 7 Aug 2025 by l008com 		Update:

Ok best I can figure, to see your own stats you need an account on that site's forum. And the URL for their forum doesn't exist. So i don't think that's happening.

Any other ideas?
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : List All Projects I've Participated In?
Message 116568
Posted 7 Aug 2025 by l008com 		So I have my CPID and I'm on that free-DC site but .... how do I search? I'm not seeing a way to do a search. Am I missing something?
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : List All Projects I've Participated In?
Message 116561
Posted 6 Aug 2025 by l008com 		Is there a way I can get a list of every project I've ever participated in? I need to change my email address so I might as well do every project, even ones I haven't actually crunched in many years.

Someone suggested BAM/boinstats but that website seems like its more ad than content these days and the page that looks like it would list every project I'm doing, listed nothing at all.
Is there another way?
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : World Community Grid Resource Share
Message 113531
Posted 2 Feb 2024 by l008com 		Figures, seconds after posting my question, I find it. It is hidden in a very nonstandard use of radio buttons.

For others:

Go to Device Profiles

Then click on Default

Then in the screen where you pick your settings, click on "Custom Profile" and before you hit save, suddenly the page full of options shows up for you to customize.

Down near the bottom, "Project Weight" is IT.
9) Message boards : Questions and problems : World Community Grid Resource Share
Message 113530
Posted 2 Feb 2024 by l008com 		I don't know why WCG has to use their own proprietary site where everything is hidden in odd places.

But does anyone know where you go to find this setting? I've set it to 0 but now I want to put it back up to 100 but I cannot find it anywhere. I found another post asking the same question from 2016 but it seems like theyve changed the site so those directions no longer work. it's gotta be in here somewhere though, right?
10) Message boards : BOINC client : Downloading Extra Work
Message 113429
Posted 23 Jan 2024 by l008com 		I have multiple machines and they all have different settings as far as how many days worth of work they should download and queue up. But for a long time now, they never do. They always download the exact amount of work they can run and no more.

Is this a setting each project can set on their end? To override preferred 'days of work' settings for connecting clients and only give them as much as they need right now, and no more?

I ask because I do 4 main projects but having just added a 5th, suddenly that one for the first time in forever is downloading extra work for me. I'm just wondering what the deal is with that?
11) Message boards : Questions and problems : Apple ARM Support?
Message 112685
Posted 14 Sep 2023 by l008com 		I'm wondering if any projects have native support in their applications for "Apple Silicon" CPU/GPUs? Processor WUs or GPU WUs?
12) Message boards : Questions and problems : All Milkyway@Home GPU WU"s get Computation error
Message 106167
Posted 22 Nov 2021 by l008com 		Here is a sample failed work unit:
https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/result.php?resultid=425929132
13) Message boards : Questions and problems : All Milkyway@Home GPU WU"s get Computation error
Message 106166
Posted 22 Nov 2021 by l008com 		I'm trying to get some GPU work going on my Mac Pro. It is running 10.13.6 and has a GeForce GT120. Not the best card in the world but it's all there is. I have the latest nVidia drivers installed and this card should be supported by the driver, opencl, and the project.

And the project does indeed download work units. But almost instantly, these work units give a Computation Error. Every one. Over and over.

What might be going on here? I'm not sure where to look to even try to troubleshoot this problem.
14) Message boards : BOINC Manager : 7.16.19 Mac Invalid Package
Message 105303
Posted 2 Sep 2021 by l008com 		I'm trying to update my client to 7.16.19 but I get an error each time.
It says the digital signature is invalid. It suggest re-downloading which of course I've done.
Seems like theres a problem with the posted file itself.

15) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinccmd values not matching up with GUI
Message 100934
Posted 3 Oct 2020 by l008com
Actually, looking at the output from --get_tasks, I think it's been done already.

...For a running task,
name: wu_sf7_DS-16x8_Grp266373of655360_0
WU name: wu_sf7_DS-16x8_Grp266373of655360
project URL: http://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/
received: Sat Oct 03 05:47:08 2020
report deadline: Fri Oct 09 05:46:57 2020
ready to report: no
state: downloaded
scheduler state: scheduled
active_task_state: EXECUTING
app version num: 300
resources: 1 CPU
estimated CPU time remaining: 3131.496614
elapsed task time: 294.285412
slot: 2
PID: 2192
CPU time at last checkpoint: 247.464400
current CPU time: 282.315000
fraction done: 0.178543
swap size: 291 MB
working set size: 9 MB


I don't have an "elapsed task time" row in the result of --get_tasks. There is estimated CPU time and there is slot, with nothing in-between for me.
I'm on 7.6.11. Any idea why I'm missing this information? 


10) -----------
   name: 172425_Hs_T116268-ITGAV_wu-12_1601185078389_2
   WU name: 172425_Hs_T116268-ITGAV_wu-12_1601185078389
   project URL: http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/
   received: Sat Oct  3 07:48:43 2020
   report deadline: Fri Oct  9 07:48:42 2020
   ready to report: no
   state: downloaded
   scheduler state: scheduled
   active_task_state: EXECUTING
   app version num: 110
   resources: 1 CPU
   estimated CPU time remaining: 13120.401551
   slot: 0
   PID: 11892
   CPU time at last checkpoint: 10628.880000
   current CPU time: 10633.100000
   fraction done: 0.478333
   swap size: 4303 MB
   working set size: 145 MB
16) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinccmd values not matching up with GUI
Message 100929
Posted 3 Oct 2020 by l008com 		So how do I get the runtime?
17) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinccmd values not matching up with GUI
Message 100926
Posted 3 Oct 2020 by l008com 		I'm ultimately trying to run the 
boinccmd --get_tasks
command and parse that output into an sql table. It's going well except for one problem....

In the `boinccmd` results, the value for "Estimated CPU time remaining" corresponds exactly with the GUI's task column for "Remaining (estimated)". As you'd expect.

However the `boinccmd` value for "current CPU time" does not correspond to the GUI's task column for "Elapsed".
it is roughly about 75% smaller than that. What is the deal here? How can I get the elapsed time a work unit has been running via `boinccmd`?
18) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support?
Message 99744
Posted 8 Jul 2020 by l008com
How does the RPC work, is it just HTTP requests? Making my own handler to directly talk to that should be pretty easy. Any documentation for how to access that?
I gave you that link in my first answer, but here it is again:

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/GuiRpcProtocol


I don't see on that page how you actually send and receive those commands?
19) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support?
Message 99720
Posted 8 Jul 2020 by l008com
That's up to you.

either you ask boinccmd to get information, which will provide human-readable answers in a fairly sparse, predictable format - some people are able to parse that output with scripting tools.

or you write your own RPC handler, and work at the XML level.

boinccmd may use XML RPCs internally, but it is not designed to output the raw XML to the user.


How does the RPC work, is it just HTTP requests? Making my own handler to directly talk to that should be pretty easy. Any documentation for how to access that?
20) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support?
Message 99689
Posted 7 Jul 2020 by l008com
The boinccmd utility contains the library routines for converting between XML and human formats as required.

Well thats good, so how do you DO that? I can't find any mention in any of the online docs?
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