Posts by mobrien118

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Massive negative contribution? (Message 98206)
Posted 30 Apr 2020 by mobrien118
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Hello,

I have not been actively installing BOINC on my computers in some years now, but my desktop has been quietly churning away on projects for over a decade. I have upgraded the hardware, over time, but it is still the same Ubuntu machine that started out on version 8.04, and I just upgraded to 18.04.

That's what I'm writing about. I upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04 and, as sometimes happens, the package manager removed BOINC to try to resolve a dependency conflict, and I, not paying attention, let it do it.

So, no big deal, I reinstall BOINC, point the working directory to the custom location I have it at (files still intact) and restart the service. I open up BOINCMgr and, to my surprise, no projects are installed... OK.

So, I figure, oh well, maybe I lost a couple of workloads, lets just re-add the projects and we'll be good.

I also, on the same day, added a 16 core Xeon server that I'm not really doing anything else with - it's running on 75% cores right now, and I went out to BOINCStats to see what this is doing...

I open up the stats to reveal that my efforts have yielded -1,342,559 yesterday, dropping me from global rank 140,864 to 333,607, and decreasing my overall contribution from 1,720,471 to a meager 377,872.

What gives?

I mean, I'm not really doing this for the glory, but it is cool to see those #s go up - and I figure, with this server, I could reach 2M in a few months.

Any ideas on what happened?
Is it because I had to reinstall the software on the server?
Is it because I updated the email address on a bunch of my accounts (including the BOINCStats account)?
Because I changed the working directory (and squashed something)?

Any advice on how to get my stats back would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

--mobrien118
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can't resolve hostname - bug (Message 28930)
Posted 23 Nov 2009 by mobrien118
Post:
Hi there,

I THINK I may have discovered a bug in BOINC. It seems to be new, but may not be.

When I create my "remote_hosts.cfg" file on a Windows Vista host, I add my hostname, which is "mobrien24-1". However, I get the message "Can't resolve hostname mobrien24-1 in remote_hosts.cfg" when I try to access it from this machine. However, if I add the machine's IP address, it works just fine. I wonder if it has a problem with the "minus sign"/"dash" in the hostname.

Any other host listed in the file works fine. It would be nice to not have to update this file every time my RPC client's IP changes. (Fortunately, my router tends to assign the same one to this machine, so it is rare that it changes). Also, this issue doesn't seem to occur on Linux BOINC hosts, 32 or 64 bit. They can parse this machine name just fine.

Please let me know if I can be of any more help, or if I'm on the wrong track or forgetting something.

--mobrien118



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