Posts by Darrell

1) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 81457) Posted 19 Sep 2017 by Darrell Post: If you build a Super Crunching Rig remember to watch your temps or this might happen: https://www.facebook.com/EKWaterBlocks/photos/a.204208322966540.61821.182927101761329/1464178556969504/?type=3&theater
2) Message boards : The Lounge : BOINC Politics thread (Message 80809) Posted 5 Sep 2017 by Darrell Post: How about these reasons for eliminating DACA: http://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2017/09/05/14-things-msm-wont-tell-daca/
3) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 80803) Posted 5 Sep 2017 by Darrell Post: Well, they can take their time and get things right. No hurry, my GPU got a Genifer 22 task from PrimeGrid this morning. It's going to be occupied for the next 80 hours.
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc screensaver & Creators Update (Microsoft, Win10) (Message 79920) Posted 1 Aug 2017 by Darrell Post: Warning for everyone running Windows 10 and the screen saver. The next upgrade of windows 10 will do away with the screen savers. The Fall Creators Update will have screen saver functionality removed in themes in this release, deprecated in Group Policy, Control Panel and Sysprep but functional for the time being. So when your screen save stops working in a near future, this ISN'T the fault of BOINC, but due to Microsoft stopping support for a screen saver by default. You will probably have to download a program or something from their store to have screen saver functionality then. Just another reason to stay with Windows 7.
5) Message boards : BOINC client : The old scheduling problem strikes again (Message 79605) Posted 15 Jul 2017 by Darrell Post: ? Yes, and was that 99.99% a checkpoint event? I've seen 7 seconds turn into hours and hours, and since those 'estimated' TTCs are notorious inexact , the client just goes and applies the swap app logic if it was another project's turn. There's a tag for app_config to at least get a better real-time remaining time estimation with <fraction_done_exact/> for sciences that don't necessarily evolve linearly. I would have no problem if the cpu_scheduler was following the switch between tasks every 60 minutes setting, but with the PrimeGrid gpu tasks that run for more than an hour it isn't. Here is the log from a current PrimeGrid task that ran for 1:47:42 and was 99.917% complete with 14 seconds remaining: 7/14/2017 9:47:38 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [task] result genefer19_10979043_0 checkpointed 7/14/2017 9:47:49 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0; 1.000000 pending for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:47:49 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0: confirming 1.000000 instance for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:48:49 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0; 1.000000 pending for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:48:49 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0: confirming 1.000000 instance for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:49:49 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0; 1.000000 pending for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:49:49 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0: confirming 1.000000 instance for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:50:38 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [task] result genefer19_10979043_0 checkpointed 7/14/2017 9:50:50 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0; 1.000000 pending for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:50:50 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0: confirming 1.000000 instance for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:51:20 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0; 1.000000 pending for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:51:20 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0: confirming 1.000000 instance for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:51:26 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0; 1.000000 pending for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:51:26 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0: confirming 1.000000 instance for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:52:27 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0; 1.000000 pending for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:52:27 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0: confirming 1.000000 instance for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:53:27 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0; 1.000000 pending for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:53:27 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0: confirming 1.000000 instance for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:53:38 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [task] result genefer19_10979043_0 checkpointed 7/14/2017 9:54:28 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0; 1.000000 pending for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:54:28 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [coproc] ATI instance 0: confirming 1.000000 instance for genefer19_10979043_0 7/14/2017 9:54:51 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [cpu_sched] Preempting genefer19_10979043_0 (removed from memory) 7/14/2017 9:54:51 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [task] task_state=QUIT_PENDING for genefer19_10979043_0 from request_exit() 7/14/2017 9:54:51 PM \| \| request_exit(): PID 7148 has 0 descendants 7/14/2017 9:54:52 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [task] Process for genefer19_10979043_0 exited, exit code 0, task state 8 7/14/2017 9:54:52 PM \| PrimeGrid \| [task] task_state=UNINITIALIZED for genefer19_10979043_0 from handle_exited_app And why is it removing the task from memory in violation of the leave suspended tasks in memory setting, is it to clear the gpu's memory? The problem of letting the tasks run for hours and then suspending them just before they complete is that it is usually hours before the task is restarted to finish that final few seconds which could result in being just a checker for finding a prime instead of the the computer that found the prime.
6) Message boards : BOINC client : The old scheduling problem strikes again (Message 78066) Posted 20 May 2017 by Darrell Post: Running a PrimeGrid task on the GPU that was expected to take 20 hours, but new GPU finishes them in about 8. Task gets to 99.990% complete, estimated time left is 7 secs, the task ran for 8hrs 13mins and 16secs straight, and then the client decides to suspend it and go on to other projects. Arrg. Have to figure out where to put an if statement in the code: if (estimated_time_left < 60) //keep running task
7) Message boards : GPUs : Where is the work really being done? (Message 53743) Posted 21 Apr 2014 by Darrell Post: Having gotten my windows7 pc out of storage and back up and running, have had to add some more exclusions to the cc_config.xml for all the new open-cl apps, I missed one from Einstein and it completed. Process Explorer showed that it was using only 2% - 4% of the CPU and 37% - 47% of the GPU. The GPU that it ran and completed on is an integrated AMD HD3000. The task should have failed, but didn't.
8) Message boards : GPUs : How to utilize my HD4250 and HD5670 (Message 47599) Posted 1 Feb 2013 by Darrell Post: My windows7 64bit system uses a HD5550 and an integrated HD3000. They run the latest amd drivers. The driver for the HD3000 is a modded driver from the good folks off the guru3d forum. This gives me two gpus that are CAL capable which is perfect Collatz and one gpu that will run opencl for the other projects. The opencl projects are excluded from using the HD3000 and the Collatz project is excluded from using the HD5550. Switching projects every hour is disabled, and I use just the boinc screensaver which is set to show just the default screensaver only and none of the project screensavers. For the most part this works, but a couple of times each day the exclusions fail and boinc tries to run opencl apps on the HD3000 which causes them to fail. The problem is that boinc is not designed to control gpus with different capabilities and to do so will require a rewrite of major sections of the code. The developers are currently focusing on getting boinc to run on the android platforms, thus it will be a long time before they can get to adding the require changes.
9) Message boards : BOINC Manager : need wxwidgets (for boincmgr build) walkthru (Message 22307) Posted 6 Jan 2009 by Darrell Post: Builds fine, but the current work fetch code doesn't quite run right, give Dr. Anderson a few more days.
10) Message boards : Questions and problems : 6.2.14 problems (Message 19010) Posted 1 Aug 2008 by Darrell Post: When I shut down the program, by right clicking on the icon in the lower right corner and saying close, I can still see that it is running in my task manager, Under version 6.2, the Boinc Manager no longer shuts down the Boinc service upon exiting as you are trying to do. You now have two options to shutdown the Boinc service, either by clicking on the Advanced Tab in the Boinc Manager and selecting "Shutdown connected client" or go to the Windows Services control screen and shutdown the Boinc service from there.
11) Message boards : BOINC client : Will the option for projects to use https mean........ (Message 701) Posted 15 Oct 2005 by Darrell Post: The Japanese projects use a special version of the Boinc version two server and client software. The only way to connect to them would be to compile your own boinc version of the current software but change the version number to two. However, this would would prevent you from running any other projects as most of them require a minimum version four client.

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