As for the malariacontrol message, look at the date. That was five years ago on a long-gone dual p3. This computer is a single processor and is watching for orbit@home work but running einstein@home. One task at a time. BOINC's disk usage is set to 10GB with 58.49GB of the 80GB /home drive free.

Who's being defensive now? As if it could possibly NOT be anything to do with what I said. The setting up of the disk usage preferences hasn't changed in all these years, so the date doesn't matter. It also doesn't directly matter what CPU you have.

What will matter is what all the preference settings are, for memory and disk use. As then it does coincide with your old "This left no space on the partition for malariacontrol to save data."

And if that doesn't help, then you best ask at the project what could cause the error, as it's their science application throwing it. They will know how much real and virtual memory their application takes up, and thus what's best for the preference settings on those, especially the percentages.

It's very possible that a simple reboot helps out there. I see three tasks threw a signal 8 error with a stack fault, the other threw a signal 11. It all indicates something wrong with (virtual) memory or stuck in (virtual) memory.

Will someone Please fix the Linux client benchmark!

You could install the new 5.7.5 (alpha) Linux manager.
Benchmarking has been improved and is almost equal to a Win host.

Besides from that... it also looks much better.

;-)

I'm not sure what the discussions are but know that WCG and Dr. A. agreed, that the next formal release i.e. 5.8 would have a fixed Linux benchmark to bring the result on par with the Windows benchmark.

In quorum 3 situations like WCG one needs 3 Linux machines to have reasonable claims to arrive at a median, which is awarded to all in the quorum. "Outliers"....those overclaiming get normalised or penalised. A single machine having been 'optimized' in a quorum is thus chucked for median calculation purposes.

A quorum is never a mix of multiple OS results and they give slightly different output.

Oh, and the benchmark for Windows version is the one suspected of having been inflated in the past....Linux benchmark is the one actually close to reality!

This gets irritating if you run several different computers/OS's. If I set preferences to get enough files to keep the Linux machines running (twice the buffer it would require if the client would calculate the estimated time correctly), my windows machines get buried in tasks. I know I can "work around this" by declaring different locations and preferences for the Windows and Linux machines, but the question is-
Why should I have to??????? It seems that everyone knows that the Linux benchmark is about 1/2 of the real operating speed, is it that hard to fix?

I've been working on a Firefox extension that displays a user's stats for BOINC and the individual projects in the status bar. While working on this and while testing the BOINC User Totals function I noticed a problem on my personal stats at http://boinc.netsoft-online.com/ . I'm not sure if the problem is with XtremLab or or boinc-netsoft-online. The problem is an error message on the ExtremLab and Total Credit JpGraphs. The error message reads Unknown color: grey5. Could someone look into this?

Ok, fixed the typo.

Hello !

It would be nice if it would possible to limit the usage of the available cpus per project. For example I have a host with 2 cpus (only virtual, but never mind), and per default BOIC runs two workunits at once.

That's not a problem with most projects, but f.e. the new seasonal climate models need a lot of memory and I want to prevent BOINC to run 2 of such WUs at the same time, because this is stressing my virtual memory and the other applications slows down.

Ok, I could use the preferences to limit the general cpu usage to one, but that wastes cpu cycles if other projects (like predicotr@home) with little memory requirements are running.

I hope, I explaned all well.
Regards, Frank

I can solve that for you. In linux a series of environment variables are stored that relate to certain default attributes like HOSTNAME or LOCALE. One of these environment variables is called BROWSER and often it is not set by default.

You need to be root to do this.

edit the file /etc/profile with a convenient app like vi or nano and add this to the end,

BROWSER="<path/to/your/browser"

save and you're done. The simplest way for this to be read by BOINC is simply to reboot but you could try maybe export $BROWSER from the command line and just restart BOINC.

By way of example, I use mozilla and the mozilla binary's full path is /opt/mozilla/bin/mozilla so my extra line is

BROWSER="/opt/mozilla/bin/mozilla"

You can find the exact path using the whereis command,

whereis mozilla

You will also find the acroread package useful. In ArchLinux this is as simple as,

pacman -Sy acroread

but I'm sure SuSe/RH/FC/Debian have something similar
enjoy.