I jut enabled all 4 CPUs on my new Quad after upgrading from a Dual Core. How do I get the BOINC to use the additional two CPUs?

jphelan

trying to attach to http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ too, but the same error message

Sounds like everything is getting screwed up because of Vista.

I don't know. Vista drives me just as nuts as the next person.

But is sandboxing such a bad idea? The Mac version does it. You can install the Linux version to its own account.

For all who want to read up on the Client Setup Logic for BOINC 6.0, please go read ClientSetupLogicWinSix in the BOINC Wiki.

It sure doesn't look like there's any other option to start BOINC than through a service. One that has its own user name and password as well.

Comments?

Now, whether or not it will be adjusted is another thing. The next major version of BOINC only comes as a service install, if I understood it correctly.

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Looks awful, doesn't it? If at least the font would be smoother...

Heh...

Wish mine looked that good. But I can't blame BOINC. I still need to figure out how to get Ubuntu to display for the monitor's native resolution.

System (from top-bar)
Preferences (from drop-down)
Screen Resolution (from drop-down)

Does that give the options you need?

I had found that menu. But my screen resolution isn't on there. It's a widescreen that's 1280 x 800. Best option is 1024 x 768.

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Looks awful, doesn't it? If at least the font would be smoother...

Heh...

Wish mine looked that good. But I can't blame BOINC. I still need to figure out how to get Ubuntu to display for the monitor's native resolution.

This may seem strange, but I would like a client feature to NOT download new work when attaching to a project. A feature in cc_config.xml would be idea. Perhaps this should be a command line switch on the boinc client itself too.

1) I would like this feature because I have needed to detach/re-attach to a project in an effort to restore it to a working state.
2) Downloading the project files would be OK, just no work units.
3) It would prevent a computer id from being generated and work being assigned to the computer.

If there is already this feature, please tell me!

The last parameter in the config file isn't parsing. Don't know how to make it happy. <work_request_factor>1</work_request_factor>
I'm real interested in that one obviously.

Ty

The installation partition (my /home directory) is 49.7 GB and in BOINC manager, tabulator "Disc" it also says:

free disc space: 49.69 GB
used by BOINC: 993.61 MB
used by other programs: 26.11 GB

Yes all my 4 projects (SETI@home, climateprediction, Rosetta@home, World community grid) are live and crunch (even though since today, Rosetta isn't doing anything anymore after my first work unit finished with a client error yesterday (the task tabulator just shows WUs of the other 3 projects).

YEs, the client runs (text mode in shell). BUt I want to see progress and infos in the manager. So I went back to 5.8.17.

One of my machines is a lo-spec machine running BOINC ver = 5.10.7, CPU = skt A Athlon 2400+, WIn 2K SP4, 768MB real memory, 1150MB swap file, participating in Rosetta & Seti.

Rosetta appears to be ignoring the maximum memory limits that I have set, and sometimes does not unload suspended projects. Current memory limits are 25% of real memory (in use and idle) and 5% of the swap file.
PROBLEM 1 - even though I have set the max swap file use to 5% of 1150MB = 57.5MB, Rosetta repeatedly uses way too much VM - currently a single instance of Rosetta is using 246MB of VM (as reported by Taks Manager).

I have been on the Rosetta forum and was told that memory allocation is done by BOINC, see
Rosetta Forum Thread

PROBLEM 2 = Projects have not always unloaded when suspended - this recently left 3 instances of Rosetta in memory once while Seti was running, each instance of Rosetta was using over 150MB of VM, so approx 500MB of VM was being used when I would have expected no more than 57.5MB to be used.

Can anyone help?

after installation, the above file is not in the boinc directory. i cant start windows client.

I downloaded the 64 Bit Version boinc_5.10.8_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh and tried to run it on Ubuntu 7.04 64 Bit:

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> ./run_manager
./boincmgr: error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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I checked the installed packages with Synaptic and libtiff is installed on my system! What's the problem here?

BOINC never made a client_state.bak file.

It's BOINCDV (Debt Viewer) that makes the backup file (.bak) when you clear the debts.

have a look in the client_state.xml file for the below values:

<time_stats>
<on_frac>0.987646</on_frac>
<connected_frac>1.000000</connected_frac>
<active_frac>0.990978</active_frac>
<cpu_efficiency>0.969042</cpu_efficiency>

If the fractions are like 0.000999 or smaller, you had an event.

Also find the projects "Duration Correction Factors". If they are like large say greater than the project due dates u wont get work either. Not important for CPDN as the due date is years, but Einstein I believe is quite short. Project resets normally put the 1.000000 value in there.

Assume your activity menu is set to process according preferences or always.

You can always delete the client_state.xml and restart.... rather radical.

Only 5.8.17 at the moment. I emailed the site admins and i got the answer they cant suport multiple versions of the same program yet as their software only supports whatever the latest version is and they dont want to have testing software up instead of stable. They are looking into it in the future and pointed out to me how to go about creating it and making it available if i wanted to.
So i have a few days off comming up and im going to learn how to make .deb's which i will post on my website for now and will try to find somewhere to get them hosted with more bandwidth later.
If it works out and i can continue to find the time i should have the latest version of BOINC in both a 32bit .deb and a 64bit .deb from a week from today. Also i was told that once they fix their bvranching issues they would be interested in having the testing versions on site as well.

Mainly because its a one click and done. Even sets it to start on bootup (before you login) etc with out you needing to know the slightest thing about Linux.