Posts by Ford Prefect

1) Message boards : BOINC client : Status suspended, benchmarks (Message 12264) Posted 31 Aug 2007 by Ford Prefect Post: I've been running Bionic,(primarily Rosseta) for over 2 years and have never seen this message before. The job stopped runninng and under statues is shown suspended - benchmarks. I really don't care if runs benchmarks, but it's using 100% of my CPU's capacity and everything has slowed markedly. How long do I have to put up with this? Would it be best to just close the program and start it back up at night when I'm not needing to use the computer? thanks, F. Prefect
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : One more minor problem (Message 7335) Posted 8 Jan 2007 by Ford Prefect Post: At first the WU must have a 100,000% progress status, then you can report back to the project server, you can click the reset project button too. What I'm needing to delete are several jobs that have not even been started. I know I could detach from the project but at some time in the future I may very well use it again. I other words, I have 15 or 20 jobs for a project that I don't entend to use over the next several weeks and would just like to have them "out of the way" so to speak. Right now they are just listed as aborted my user, and if I wait until they eventually reach the "top of the list" so to speak, they will be removed by simply connecting to the project. I suppose I need a way to move them to the top of the list at which time they can be deleted. F. Prefect
3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : One more minor problem (Message 7328) Posted 8 Jan 2007 by Ford Prefect Post: For reasons I won't bore you with, I need to delete and or remove several jobs that I will not be able to complete. I tried the abort button but the jobs remained stedfastely in place now showing aborted by user. I need to completely remove these jobs and get them out of the way permanently. I tried connecting to the project after aborting the jobs but they just won't seem to budge. Where in the heck is the delete button? Thanks, F. Prefect
4) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Re-attaching projects (Message 7280) Posted 6 Jan 2007 by Ford Prefect Post: When BOINC came into existance, I began by running 2 projects, Rosetta and Einstein. About 2 years ago I decided just to run Einstein@home and detached Rosetta. When Einstein began having rather lengthy downtimes recently, I decided to put Rosetta back on 3 or 4 machines in case I ran out of work from Einstein. I was able to re-attach to Rosetta on machines running XP with no problem and D/L the necessary files, but on 2 win98 machines I received the message that I had attached to Rosetta and showed 1 file as being downloaded although no data was moving. I seem to recall that there were a couple of files that needed to be removed before Rosetta would actually begin to install. I did a search for the word rosetta on drive C and discovered there were 25-30 files in other than the BOINC folder that contain "rosetta". I started just to delete all of them but thought there might be some file sharing and thought better of it. Does anyone have any idea how I can get the files needed to run rosetta downloaded? It says I'm attached and even shows 1 file being downloaded, but as a said above, no data is moving. Thanks in advance. F. Prefect ford42@inter-linc.net
5) Message boards : Server programs : Einstein@Home (Message 7274) Posted 5 Jan 2007 by Ford Prefect Post: Is this project down, again? F. Prefect
6) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Albert (Message 6619) Posted 24 Nov 2006 by Ford Prefect Post: The problem is with the file system, not hardware, as David Hammer tried mounting the disks in the backup server. That didn't work. So he's trying to figure out what to do next. I hope he gets paid triple for it. :-) Of course, these things always happen in a weekend or on a holiday. The whole crew was at home for Thanksgiving. In the mean time you (who read this) don't need to do anything. And please, do not abort your work units trying to upload. If you only run Einstein, put BOINC's network availability to Suspended. Aborting the uploads will abort the whole work unit. Thanks Jord, I was certain the problem was with their server when none of the six machines I have running Einstein@home would connect to any of their URLs. I was trying in a round about way to get some information on how long it might be down. I still have 4 machines with work and have set my network availability to suspended. Guess all those turkeys are extracting a bit of revenge. Thanks for the update. F. Prefect
7) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Albert (Message 6611) Posted 24 Nov 2006 by Ford Prefect Post: I've been gone for a couple of days over the Thanksgiving Holiday and Einstein seems to have lapsed into a coma. Anyone else have problems with this particular project or should I begin to look for a problem on my end? F. Prefect
8) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Einstein@Home (Message 4630) Posted 2 Jun 2006 by Ford Prefect Post: They are back up, but it's slow going. May 31, 2006 We are making good progress in restarting the project. Now that the web pages are up, we will first enable file uploads and then enable the scheduler. It may be some hours before we are again handing out new work and everything is functioning normally. We'll post further reports here when we have more news. May 31, 2006 Einstein@Home is back up and running. Because of the backlog of work that has been completed by YOUR computers in the past few days, our systems may be somewhat slow at uploading this completed work and handing out new work. So please be patient if it takes a bit of time before your computers are busy crunching away! Note: experience shows that recovery from this type of 'hard' failure can take some time; there may be new problems that appear, which may require rapid shut-down and additional corrective action at our end. But we will try hard to avoid this if possible. I hope I'm in error, but I believe the project has just gone down again. I can't connect to any sites via browser or BOINC Manager. F. Prefect
9) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Einstein@Home (Message 4593) Posted 31 May 2006 by Ford Prefect Post: Just curious, but has the Einstein@Home project been completed? I haven't been able to send or receive anything or communicate with them via their message board for several days. I did heard some rumor about an air conditioner failure but have no idea as to the voracity of said rumor. If they do plan to continue, has anyone heard anything definitive as to when it will be running again? Ford
10) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Einstein@Home (Message 4581) Posted 30 May 2006 by Ford Prefect Post: Always keep 4-7 days of worth of work downloaded, for just such an event. Before I'm going to accumulate large numbers of completed jobs that I will have to upload , as well as possible download new data, when the server is back up and running, I'm going to first get a look at what kind of a log jam there is going be. It it's anything like SETI used to be several years ago, I could have a line tied up for several hours attempting to upload my finished work. I hope I'm going to be wrong, but I would rather wait and be certain I can send my completed work within a reasonable time period, rather than end up having to delete some work in order to free up my one land line. Yes, there are some of us who still use 56K dialup connections. F. Prefect
11) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Einstein@Home (Message 4545) Posted 29 May 2006 by Ford Prefect Post: Does anyone know if there is a problem with the Einstein@Home project, and if so when it might be back online. For some reason I am not only unable to upload data, but it appears all URLs connected with the project are also down. F. Prefect Einstein website has been down since yesterday. You know as much as I do. Thanks for the help. Since it appeared everything was down, I assumed their forum would be as well. If it's only going to be 2 or 3 days, I should have plenty of worked on all 5 of my machines. F. Prefect
12) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Einstein@Home (Message 4541) Posted 29 May 2006 by Ford Prefect Post: Does anyone know if there is a problem with the Einstein@Home project, and if so when it might be back online. For some reason I am not only unable to upload data, but it appears all URLs connected with the project are also down. F. Prefect
13) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Communication Deferred 24hours (Message 3666) Posted 27 Mar 2006 by Ford Prefect Post: I installed BOINC on one PC, attached to SETI and Rosetta and it's working fine on the Rosetta units. I then installed BOINC on a second PC, attached to Rosetta (SETI is down at the moment) with the same account but it keeps saying "Communication Deferred" with a 24-hour countdown. I hit Update, and it tries again in like 5 minutes, but then defers for 24 hours again. Tons of work units are available-- what gives? Jallen. Einstein@Home isn't working all that bloody well either. I was able to upload data a couple of hours ago, but now unable. F. Prefect
14) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Average Credit?? (Message 3204) Posted 22 Feb 2006 by Ford Prefect Post: This is not of any Earthshaking importance, but for the past couple of months I've been watching my Ave. credit number and as of yet have not been able to figure out exactly what it is. I can find no reference to it in help. I first began watching it when it was approx. 550 and for the past several weeks has been fluctuating between 750 and 800. Now my question. At times when I report results, particularly in the morning, it can take a substantial drop. At other times I can send in 1 very short job and it will move up 15 points. What the heck is it and why would it fall when I upload 5 or 6 results? F. Prefect

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