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Message 192778 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 0:10:43 UTC

If you feel in need of running an optimized BOINC 5.2.x
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You can chose between an
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Message 192793 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 0:23:32 UTC - in response to Message 192778.  

If you feel in need of running an optimized BOINC 5.2.x
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Crunch3r, just wondering will an optimized windows be created that will work with new 5.2.8 BOINC Recommended version that was released yesterday?
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Message 192807 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 0:32:30 UTC - in response to Message 192793.  

If you feel in need of running an optimized BOINC 5.2.x
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You can chose between an
optimized windows or linux boinc version



Crunch3r, just wondering will an optimized windows be created that will work with new 5.2.8 BOINC Recommended version that was released yesterday?


I could build one. :-)

What's the difference betwen 5.2.7 and 5.2.8 ?




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Message 192812 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 0:36:37 UTC - in response to Message 192807.  

If you feel in need of running an optimized BOINC 5.2.x
you should take a look at my page.

You can chose between an
optimized windows or linux boinc version



Crunch3r, just wondering will an optimized windows be created that will work with new 5.2.8 BOINC Recommended version that was released yesterday?


I could build one. :-)

What's the difference betwen 5.2.7 and 5.2.8 ?



Changes since 5.2.7

* Localization updates.
* Resolve many connection issues regarding passwords.
* Mac: Fix a screensaver stutter while scrolling text.

that is all i could find that changed. Wish i knew more.
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Message 192821 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 0:43:15 UTC - in response to Message 192812.  


Changes since 5.2.7

* Localization updates.
* Resolve many connection issues regarding passwords.
* Mac: Fix a screensaver stutter while scrolling text.

that is all i could find that changed. Wish i knew more.


Would be interesting to know if that only affects the boinc manager (i think it does).

Well i guess the 5.2.8 is just a fix for the boic manager/boinc_cmd this should have no affect to the boinc core client.





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Message 192824 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 0:46:06 UTC - in response to Message 192821.  


Changes since 5.2.7

* Localization updates.
* Resolve many connection issues regarding passwords.
* Mac: Fix a screensaver stutter while scrolling text.

that is all i could find that changed. Wish i knew more.


Would be interesting to know if that only affects the boinc manager (i think it does).

Well i guess the 5.2.8 is just a fix for the boic manager/boinc_cmd this should have no affect to the boinc core client.




I guess I'll give it a try, and see what happens, Thanks for the Optimized BOINC

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Message 193136 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 8:14:34 UTC
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Congrats Crunch3r! I got better results here than from the others!
I can see the optimized client competition is getting fierce. :)

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Message 193139 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 8:19:51 UTC

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Message 193140 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 8:21:44 UTC - in response to Message 193139.  
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What do you use to open a rar file?

You can use winrar or the latest winzip.
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Message 193247 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 12:13:49 UTC - in response to Message 192821.  

Well i guess the 5.2.8 is just a fix for the boic manager/boinc_cmd this should have no affect to the boinc core client.


v5.2.8 should also hopefully finally have fixed aborting of results, and this is in the core client.
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Message 193348 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 14:42:40 UTC - in response to Message 193247.  

Well i guess the 5.2.8 is just a fix for the boic manager/boinc_cmd this should have no affect to the boinc core client.


v5.2.8 should also hopefully finally have fixed aborting of results, and this is in the core client.


I've built optimized 5.2.8 for Linux. You can get it on my page.

Those squeeze it completely guys will have to wait for Crunch3r to build his ultra-optimized clients.
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Message 193534 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 18:07:48 UTC - in response to Message 193348.  
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Well i guess the 5.2.8 is just a fix for the boic manager/boinc_cmd this should have no affect to the boinc core client.


v5.2.8 should also hopefully finally have fixed aborting of results, and this is in the core client.


I've built optimized 5.2.8 for Linux. You can get it on my page.

Those squeeze it completely guys will have to wait for Crunch3r to build his ultra-optimized clients.


The optimized boinc 5.2.8 clients for linux are now available for download at
my page.



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Message 193761 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 21:59:57 UTC - in response to Message 193534.  
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The optimized boinc 5.2.8 clients for linux are now available for download at
my page.


Well I tried your 5.2.7 p3 sse and got
SIGILL: illegal instructionStack trace (2 frames):
./boinc_5.2.7_i686-pc-linux-gnu.crunch3r[0x8097dcf]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x40040cf8]

Methods generic seems to work fine but is a tad lower on the benchmarks
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Message 193764 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 22:04:32 UTC - in response to Message 193761.  


The optimized boinc 5.2.8 clients for linux are now available for download at
my page.


Well I tried your 5.2.7 p3 sse and got
SIGILL: illegal instructionStack trace (2 frames):
./boinc_5.2.7_i686-pc-linux-gnu.crunch3r[0x8097dcf]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x40040cf8]

Methods generic seems to work fine but is a tad lower on the benchmarks


Wich kernel are you running and what version of glibc have installed ?
Does the same happen with 5.2.8 ?

Could you please post the output of "ldd boinc_5.2.7_i686-pc-linux-gnu.crunch3r" ?

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Message 193774 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 22:22:54 UTC
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I also tried the 5.2.7 p3 SSE BOINC client on my 1.3 GHz Celeron, 640 MB RAM, SuSE 10.0 and never got past the benchmark. The benchmark runs fine and gives me about what a Windows machine would have (double), but as soon as it tried to do something, it crashes. Sometimes it waited until a network access to crash. I'm sorry that I don't have the error files. I have been "optimizing" the system :-)

The P4 SSE2 BOINC version runs great on my 3.0 GHz P4, 512MB RAM, SuSE 10.0 machine. The Windows BOINC version also seems to be running great on my 3.4 GHz P4, 1GB RAM, WinXP.

Since I'm a newbie to Linux I have assumed my problems were an operator-head-space problem, but maybe there's a problem with this configuration running on a Celeron?

Anyway, thanks a bunch for the BOINC clients. They level the playing field for Linux vs Windows.

Edit: I just tried the 5.2.8 version with the same results.The stderr file shows:

2005-11-24 17:34:01 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.2.8 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
2005-11-24 17:34:01 [---] libcurl/7.15.0 OpenSSL/0.9.7e zlib/1.2.3
2005-11-24 17:34:01 [---] Data directory: /home/rick
2005-11-24 17:34:01 [SETI@home] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
2005-11-24 17:34:01 [---] Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1300MHz
2005-11-24 17:34:01 [---] Memory: 630.70 MB physical, 1.00 GB virtual
2005-11-24 17:34:01 [---] Disk: 11.73 GB total, 10.93 GB free
2005-11-24 17:34:01 [---] Version change detected (5.2.7 -> 5.2.8); running CPU benchmarks
2005-11-24 17:34:01 [Einstein@Home] Computer ID: 434387; location: home; project prefs: default
2005-11-24 17:34:01 [Predictor @ Home] Computer ID: 170903; location: home; project prefs: default
2005-11-24 17:34:01 [SETI@home] Computer ID: 1601549; location: home; project prefs: default
2005-11-24 17:34:01 [rosetta@home] Computer ID: 51161; location: home; project prefs: default
2005-11-24 17:34:01 [---] General prefs: from rosetta@home (last modified 2005-11-09 18:50:12)
2005-11-24 17:34:01 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2005-11-24 17:34:01 [---] Remote control allowed
2005-11-24 17:34:03 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
2005-11-24 17:35:02 [---] Benchmark results:
2005-11-24 17:35:02 [---] Number of CPUs: 1
2005-11-24 17:35:02 [---] 1349 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2005-11-24 17:35:02 [---] 2432 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2005-11-24 17:35:02 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks
2005-11-24 17:35:03 [Einstein@Home] Deferring computation for result w1_1174.0__1174.2_0.1_T12_S4hC_2
2005-11-24 17:35:03 [rosetta@home] Resuming computation for result 1di2__abrelax_rand_len10_jit02_omega_sim_19011_0 using rosetta version 479
2005-11-24 17:35:03 [SETI@home] Deferring computation for result 24ja04aa.11699.17040.497156.116_2
2005-11-24 17:35:03 [---] Resuming computation and network activity
2005-11-24 17:35:03 [---] request_reschedule_cpus: Resuming activities
2005-11-24 17:35:03 [Einstein@Home] Restarting result w1_1174.0__1174.2_0.1_T12_S4hC_2 using einstein version 481
2005-11-24 17:35:03 [rosetta@home] Pausing result 1di2__abrelax_rand_len10_jit02_omega_sim_19011_0 (left in memory)
2005-11-24 17:35:08 [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request to http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi
2005-11-24 17:35:08 [rosetta@home] Reason: To fetch work
2005-11-24 17:35:08 [rosetta@home] Requesting 3191 seconds of new work
SIGILL: illegal instructionStack trace (3 frames):
/home/rick/BOINC/boinc_client[0x8180243]
[0xffffe420]
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Message 193779 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 22:28:36 UTC - in response to Message 193764.  


Wich kernel are you running and what version of glibc have installed ?
Does the same happen with 5.2.8 ?

Could you please post the output of "ldd boinc_5.2.7_i686-pc-linux-gnu.crunch3r" ?


kernel=2.4.30

ldd boinc_5.2.8_i686-pc-linux-gnu.crunch3r
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40016000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4001a000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40144000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40165000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
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Message 193783 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 22:39:35 UTC - in response to Message 193779.  
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Wich kernel are you running and what version of glibc have installed ?
Does the same happen with 5.2.8 ?

Could you please post the output of "ldd boinc_5.2.7_i686-pc-linux-gnu.crunch3r" ?


kernel=2.4.30

ldd boinc_5.2.8_i686-pc-linux-gnu.crunch3r
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40016000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4001a000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40144000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40165000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)


All needed libraries seem to be in place.

I've tested the SSE version on a Celeron 1 GHz running gentoo (kernel 2.6.11).

The only thing left i can think of is the kernel you're running.

Is your kernel SSE enabled ?


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Message 193792 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 22:51:20 UTC - in response to Message 193783.  

All needed libraries seem to be in place.

I've tested the SSE version on a Celeron 1 GHz running gentoo (kernel 2.6.11).

The only thing left i can think of is the kernel you're running.

Is your kernel SSE enabled ?


Well it seems to run for a bit but then after I either update or retry a transfer it dies. Anyway how do I tell if my kernel is sse enabled?
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Message 193799 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 22:56:51 UTC - in response to Message 193792.  

All needed libraries seem to be in place.

I've tested the SSE version on a Celeron 1 GHz running gentoo (kernel 2.6.11).

The only thing left i can think of is the kernel you're running.

Is your kernel SSE enabled ?


Well it seems to run for a bit but then after I either update or retry a transfer it dies. Anyway how do I tell if my kernel is sse enabled?


Did you compile the kernel yourself or did it came from your distribution (wich one?)

Second thing would be to try an upgrade to a kernel 2.6.X

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Message 193802 - Posted: 24 Nov 2005, 23:00:17 UTC - in response to Message 193799.  


Did you compile the kernel yourself or did it came from your distribution (wich one?)

Second thing would be to try an upgrade to a kernel 2.6.X


It came with the distribution here
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