Posts by Keith Myers

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21) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 115707
Posted 29 Mar 2025 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Free-DC stats is down. https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/stats.free-dc.org.html
22) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 115557
Posted 6 Mar 2025 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Asteroids has gone missing again. First couldn't upload or download. Now site entirely missing. Same ole, same old. Rinse and repeat.
23) Message boards : Questions and problems : Screensaver
Message 115440
Posted 14 Feb 2025 by ProfileKeith Myers 		That works too and is probably simpler to accomplish. Good job!
24) Message boards : Questions and problems : Screensaver
Message 115427
Posted 13 Feb 2025 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Delete the screensaver executable or mark non-executable. Or disable the screensaver in the OS.
25) Message boards : GPUs : Failed to initialize OpenCL on Fedora 41 with AMD RX 6950 XT
Message 115302
Posted 30 Jan 2025 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Fedora 41 is equivalent to Ubuntu 24.10 so an interim release, not a LTS release. ROCm tends to only support LTS releases.

I'd try the Fedora 40 release and see if the card gets picked up.
26) Message boards : GPUs : Failed to initialize OpenCL on Fedora 41 with AMD RX 6950 XT
Message 115300
Posted 30 Jan 2025 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Believe your Fedora 41 is too new for official support for Radeon ROCm yet.
Did you already do:
sudo dnf install rocm-opencl


sudo dnf install rocm-clinfo
   rocm-clinfo
27) Message boards : Questions and problems : RasPi 5 using Ubuntu 24.10
Message 115229
Posted 19 Jan 2025 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Problem with rpc and/or port availability. Check that the password in gui_rpc_auth.cfg is good. Check that port 31416 is open in your firewall and that no other program is already using that port. Try starting the client directly in the Boinc directory via the terminal to see all the messages the client prints out before the error message.
28) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 115119
Posted 1 Jan 2025 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Working for me just now. Getting and reporting work just fine.
29) Message boards : Questions and problems : Not getting new tasks
Message 115109
Posted 30 Dec 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		If the Science United client doesn't try a different project, he won't get any tasks. AFAIK, the user has no control over SU client. Only can select different interests. That may be the only way he can shift his client away from the deprecated Universeathome project.

Why, in my opinion, Science United shouldn't exist. Just go with the stock and working BOINC installation and select your own projects to crunch for.
30) Message boards : GPUs : Apple Silicon GPU cores - supported projects
Message 115072
Posted 26 Dec 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Only one I know of offhand, is Einstein.
https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php
31) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC Mgr on M4 Pro Mac mini
Message 115067
Posted 26 Dec 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Look in the BOINC data directory and see if you actually have a global_prefs_override.xml file.

If it is not there, that explains your issue. Should be in ~/Library/Application Support/BOINC

If it is there, then have you re-read config files in the Manager recently?
32) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 114984
Posted 12 Dec 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		https://numberfields.asu.edu is down.
33) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 114839
Posted 11 Nov 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Notice from the last remaining maintenance person on Universe@home project officially posting the project is finished.
https://universeathome.pl/universe/forum_thread.php?id=754
34) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace.
Message 114832
Posted 11 Nov 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobbie Allison dies at 86
35) Message boards : Projects : Milkyway@home unavailable with expired SSL certificate
Message 114768
Posted 1 Nov 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Milkyway's certs expired today on Halloween. Project unavailable. Uploads piling up.
36) Message boards : Questions and problems : Memory Management
Message 114767
Posted 31 Oct 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		OK, uncheck any value in the Manager settings for storage allocation. Leave the host to be unlimited. I've seen the issue be solved this way also. The client doesn't/can't/gets confused sometimes interpreting which host allocation resource value is limiting a task and just reports one or the other values that can constrain a task from running.
37) Message boards : Questions and problems : Memory Management
Message 114758
Posted 30 Oct 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Replied in your thread at Rosetta. Increase your pagefile size to 65GB.
38) Message boards : Questions and problems : Computer UI really slow.
Message 114646
Posted 7 Oct 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		I'd guess you are running out of RAM and swapping to disk quite a lot. The current Rosetta tasks are taking 1.5GB of RAM per task. Asteroids uses heavy AVX2 calculations which will put the cpu in thermal distress and probably causes thermal throttling of the clocks. yoyo also uses heavy AVX2 and also considerable RAM usage if you are running the ecm P2 tasks. Your cpu and system is overburdened likely. Reducing the workload suggestion is a good recommendation.

Check your RAM usage with the provided tools in Ubuntu with the System Monitor.
39) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 114591
Posted 28 Sep 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers
And I tried doing an einstein@home task, but it stopped at 49,500%

You shouldn't have done that. What you saw with progress stopped at 49.5% is NORMAL. The task will stop at 99.5% also. You should just let the computation finish in the time required.

Please read the thread detailing the application design on the Einstein forums with respect the O3AS work.
The two progress stoppages are the point where computation shifts from the gpu onto the cpu for a spell before returning to the gpu to finish up with one final computation back on the cpu at the 99.5 % completion point.
40) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 8.0.2 on MacBook (Sonoma 14.5) running only on Battery
Message 114412
Posted 7 Aug 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		AFAIK Boinc has no native capability of stopping computation when battery levels get low. Though there probably is a way to script something that polls the battery percentage and when it falls below a set threshold, the script then executes a stop and kill command to stop the client. Don't know anything about Macs to offer a specific application.

For example any good UPS controlling software is configured to stop all processes after hitting a set battery level threshold. It sends out a network warning to the users that the UPS will shut down in 3 minutes and for users to exit their programs and logins. Then the control software shuts down the server in safe and controlled fashion.

Something similar is probably available for laptop users.
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