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| 21) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support?
Message 99683 Posted 7 Jul 2020 by l008com |
boinccmd still exists, and is documented here. Now that boinccmd is working, I'm confused by the difference here. Does boinccmd not use the RPC? If no, then how do I do RPC commands? The RPC page you linked to shows results coming back in XML yet boinccmd's results are all coming back as one long multi-line string. |
| 22) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support?
Message 99681 Posted 7 Jul 2020 by l008com |
If you can't find it any other way, it's certainly in the "(Unix command-line version)" on the download_all page. Yup apparently you have to download it as a separate piece on macos. |
| 23) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support?
Message 99680 Posted 7 Jul 2020 by l008com |
$ boinccmd -bash: boinccmd: command not found |
| 24) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support?
Message 99650 Posted 6 Jul 2020 by l008com |
The manager application goes right into /Applications as an app bundle. I don't see anything like boinccmd inside the app bundle anywhere. It's also not in the /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data folder. I don't know where else it would possibly be. I'm thinking the Mac client might not come with boinccmd? |
| 25) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support?
Message 99627 Posted 5 Jul 2020 by l008com |
Well if it's still around then where is it? Or where do I download it? I can't find it anywhere. |
| 26) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support?
Message 99588 Posted 2 Jul 2020 by l008com |
I'm making a web based dashboard showing me info on all of my crypto wallets and distributed computing apps. The basic way this works is that timed scripts run and gather information from the apps, load it into an SQL database, and then the website pulls that info and shows it in a nice, neat, organized way. I had fairly good luck starting this, getting lots of info out of all of the crypto wallets very easily. Their RPC system is, while not very well documented, very easy to use. But I haven't had as much luck with BOINC. Lots of 10+ year old forum threads. Lots of conflicting, undated information. Pages about using boinccmd which doesn't appear to even exist any more? Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Whether its done via HTTP requests or by direct cli commands, either way as fine as long as I can use it to get info on all of the currently running work units. It seems that the BOINC Manager itself uses some form of RPC to communicate to the actual underlying BOINC processes so there must be some way to do it, no? |
| 27) Message boards : Questions and problems : "Waiting for shared memory" on MacOS.
Message 95821 Posted 12 Feb 2020 by l008com |
You need to change and increase the amount of memory BOINC can use overall. Read and follow instructions from link below. I'm already using 90%. And even with that setting, very little of my system's memory is being used. So that's definitely not it.[/quote] |
| 28) Message boards : Questions and problems : "Waiting for shared memory" on MacOS.
Message 95820 Posted 12 Feb 2020 by l008com |
It could be you need to configure more shared memory. Some years ago, when CPDN still worked on Macs, I came across a link to this page, which may help: Unfortunately that web page is written for Mac OS 10.3, circa 2005. The entire memory management system in current MacOS is completely different. Also the sysctl stuff is changed too. So that link doesn't really help. I found a bunch of links like that while searching for this problem, but they were all horribly outdated. Also that page still doesn't make it clear what the actual issue is. Why are yoyo@home work units running in to this problem but no other projects do? That said, I wonder if enabling performance mode will help this problem. I'll enable it and check back. Update: Turns out performance server mode doesn't exist on high sierra. But the sysctl.conf file does still work. SO the 2005 solution worked and now I have 12 yoyo work units running at once. I still don't understand what exactly this means, or why only this one project is affected by it. The only change I made was to the shared memory segments, going from 8 to 32 or something like that. |
| 29) Message boards : Questions and problems : "Waiting for shared memory" on MacOS.
Message 95815 Posted 12 Feb 2020 by l008com |
Well, for what it's worth, this machine appears to have 256KB of L2 cache per core, and 12 MB of total L3 cache. |
| 30) Message boards : Questions and problems : "Waiting for shared memory" on MacOS.
Message 95813 Posted 12 Feb 2020 by l008com |
I'm running a 12 virtual core Mac Pro running macOS High Sierra 10.13 I've been running BOINC for many years and never had this particular problem. But just recently, I started running yoyo@home. And with that project, I only seem to be able to run 8 yoyo work units at a time, with all other work units showing the "Waiting for shared memory" message. What does this mean? My system has 7 GB of RAM, which isn't a TON for sure, but also the memory pressure is green on this system and really low. Show maybe around 25%, which is very low. BOINC client itself is configured to use 90% of my RAM. So what exactly is going on here? It seems weird. I've been running projects like LHD, Einstein, Rosetta etc 12 at a time for years. What is it about yoyo@home that seems to limit it to 8 at a time. My suspicion is it's either some kind of bug, or some kind of unintentionally misleading error message, as there seems to be plenty of RAM available on this system. |
| 31) Message boards : BOINC client : Edit Resource Share per Computer?
Message 89148 Posted 9 Dec 2018 by l008com |
I see that the way you set Resource Share is not in the BOINC client but on each project's web site. But that means the settings are global. But say I have one computer I want to give high priority to Project A and low to Project B, so B essentially runs when there's no A work. But on a different computer I want to do normal use of Project B? Is this something you can do easily? |
| 32) Message boards : GPUs : No GPU Units, Did I Turn Them Off?
Message 83919 Posted 17 Dec 2017 by l008com |
Update: The event log was showing NO gpus! That makes no sense. I downloaded the latest AMD driver. Then I ran it. I ran that horrible, ridiculous, embarrassing excuse for an installer. I don't know if I upgraded or downgraded the drivers, I honestly couldn't tell. It was not clear at all. BUT whatever I did, BOINC immediately started getting GPU units again! So problem solved! One more related question. Is there an 'easy' way to turn of the GPU for all projects, at once? Rather than disabling it project by project? |
| 33) Message boards : GPUs : No GPU Units, Did I Turn Them Off?
Message 83918 Posted 17 Dec 2017 by l008com |
I am unable to get any GPU units and I cannot figure out why. Some background: I'm running a Mac Pro but booted natively on windows 7. It has a very low power nVidia 7300GT card, and then a very powerful AMD card. I forget the exact model, but it is a high end, 4 year old model. I run many projects at once. I used to get GPU units. Collatz and Seti would send them, plus at least one other project I run. I'm not sure which one but I'm thinking Milkyway? Here's a full list of all projects I'm running:
Einstein Seti Asteroids Climateprediction(disabled) Milyway NFS pogs LHC Cosmology Rosetta
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| 34) Message boards : GPUs : GPUs Working?
Message 60980 Posted 15 Mar 2015 by l008com |
Turns out it wasn't VNC that was crashing the machine, it was BOINC. It can only run for a few minutes, maybe half hour at most with BOINC running before it freezes solid. Without BOINC running, its perfectly stable. :-/ |
| 35) Message boards : GPUs : GPUs Working?
Message 60943 Posted 14 Mar 2015 by l008com |
What a pain in the ass this is turning into. So the VNC server worked when it worked, but it kept freezing up the machine solid. So then I switched back to MS remote desktop, uninstalled the VNC server. No more system freezes and I can connect better. But now I'm getting on GPU work. When I disconnect from remote desktop, the machine never starts doing any GPU work. I can tell this because I have the box on a watt meter and I can clearly see when it's doing work just on the CPU, on CPU and one GPU and on CPU and both GPUs. It stays not doing any GPU work with MS remote desktop just enabled. I really want to find aliens but I guess it's not going to happen. |
| 36) Message boards : GPUs : GPUs Working?
Message 60914 Posted 13 Mar 2015 by l008com |
So my tight vnc server isn't working so well. I lose contact after a few minutes. So just to be clear, if I connect with windows remote desktop... as soon as I disconnect from that screen sharing, the computer will automatically switch back over to the "accelerated" graphics drivers, and BOINC will automatically start doing GPU work again? So I'll never be able to SEE it doing GPU work, but it will be any time I'm not looking? Windows remote desktop was very reliable, this VNC stuff is torture on this particular machine. |
| 37) Message boards : GPUs : GPUs Working?
Message 60867 Posted 12 Mar 2015 by l008com |
Success! Connected via VNC, and I turned off remote desktop in some system setting for good measure, and now I have GPU work units running! |
| 38) Message boards : GPUs : GPUs Working?
Message 60866 Posted 12 Mar 2015 by l008com |
I do use windows remote desktop. This is a headless former-coin miner. I'll see if I can get VNC going. Would I have to do anything to 'disable' the windows remote desktop, and activate the normal GPU drivers? Once I get VNC going, that is? |
| 39) Message boards : GPUs : GPUs Working?
Message 60861 Posted 11 Mar 2015 by l008com |
3/11/2015 5:01:49 PM | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults Two AMD R9 270s with 2GB of DDR5 each The latest drivers which I believe are 14.2, downloaded from AMD's site BOINC is installed as a regular GUI application. The projects are up and do have work. I have GPU tasks downoaded and ready to go, but they all give the "GPU missing" message in the Tasks tab, under status. In preferences, I have it set to use GPU all the time without limitations. |
| 40) Message boards : GPUs : GPUs Working?
Message 60839 Posted 11 Mar 2015 by l008com |
Updating to the newest AMD drivers had no effect. |
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