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Slim Send message Joined: 14 Oct 00 Posts: 55 Credit: 72,370 RAC: 0 |
I has a thread going earlier in the year with issues about 'Bionic' Boinc and seti@home taking up 'all' the CPU time to the point of even timing out my DSL internet line. I had to quit using it after quite a few years of using Seti classic as my screen saver in Windows. I had no joy the last time I posted and had to drop it again. I just got a new monitor and video card and found a bad ram chip so figured I would try again. No joy, it still won't unlatch my CPU and slows the computer down to nothing. I have to go in and hit the suspend button or reboot. I have it set so I manually have to turn on the client and manager right now because I don't wan't I am trying the version 5.10.08 on Ubuntu Linux with 503M ram, 502 swap, Pentium III (Coppermine) 733 mhz and tons of disk space. Hey I like it that the graphics button finally works and would love to try and tag that as a screen saver, but.... I was not alone, tons of others posted about having the same trouble and likely just gave up like me also. Is there any fix yet? |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
As the symthoms you have written, and from the symthoms from your previous post, I am still think that there is a hardware problem. Have you tried to let a complete hardware test suite running and verfied that your system is OK ? |
Toby Send message Joined: 26 Oct 00 Posts: 1005 Credit: 6,366,949 RAC: 0 |
Well the benchmarks used to run at "normal" priority so they could theoretically cause problems. But they only run the first time you start up BOINC and then once every 2 weeks or so. They also only last for a couple of seconds, maybe a minute or two on an older P3. However this behavior has changed in the past few months. The benchmarks should now run at idle priority - just like the science apps so CPU time should be yielded as soon as anything else needs it. Have you tried running the Prime95 torture test for a while and does it cause the same behavior? Also, since version 5.6 you can give BOINC a maximum % of CPU time it is allowed to use. Setting this to anything under 100% will force BOINC to pause and give up CPU time even if nothing else needs it. This setting is under the "Computing preferences" section in your account. A member of The Knights Who Say NI! For rankings, history graphs and more, check out: My BOINC stats site |
Slim Send message Joined: 14 Oct 00 Posts: 55 Credit: 72,370 RAC: 0 |
Yes, I had video card and USB mouse issues, both were changed again yesterday plus more RAM was added. I let linux mem program go at the now 1G ram with no errors. I changed my preferences to have Seti only use 50% of the CPU both here and in my PC, reset the projects and updated the preferences. The Seti program will not unlatch and will not use less than the whole processor. |
Toby Send message Joined: 26 Oct 00 Posts: 1005 Credit: 6,366,949 RAC: 0 |
How do you know it is seti not letting go of the CPU instead of the computer just locking up? Also, is it an immediate thing or does it take a few minutes before things break? I would still suggest running the Prime95 torture test for a while. It will generate the same type of load on the CPU as seti. A member of The Knights Who Say NI! For rankings, history graphs and more, check out: My BOINC stats site |
Slim Send message Joined: 14 Oct 00 Posts: 55 Credit: 72,370 RAC: 0 |
How do you know it is seti not letting go of the CPU instead of the computer just locking up? Also, is it an immediate thing or does it take a few minutes before things break? Will that program also 'supposedly' unlatch the CPU when the computer is in use? Otherwise.... A load test is a load test. That prime site has been too tied up to get the cruncher by the by and their mirror is gone. OK, just a few minutes ago I was on a webpage trying to reload the page and it was hanging and hanging, so I went to boinc and suspended the seti and instantly the CPU monitor went to low and the web page refreshed, instantly! This happens every time something is hanging. The boinc or seti program is still trying to use 100% of my CPU and I have it turned to 50% both online and at home, let alone it won't let go when my PC is in use. I can post a 'top' screen shot to show you if you would like. I took one when it jammed up the last time as mentioned above. |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
This is excatly the point we try to find out.
Yes please, one top with running SETI and one in idle. Also the output of a "vmstat 5" with a running system and a idle system would be nice. Btw. have you turned of the power management on your system which can cause that the CPU would be clocked down - some Linuxes has a daemon for this. |
Slim Send message Joined: 14 Oct 00 Posts: 55 Credit: 72,370 RAC: 0 |
No I haven't looked at the power yet. (edit) Looked, the cpu is/was set to never power down, only the monitor powers down. I run Ubuntu Linux. I now have 1.5G Ram and here are the top and vmstat and free screen grabs before and after. For some reason, the way I post these figures in columns isn't showing up in the finished product? 'TOP' running with no Seti or Boinc: top - 14:11:58 up 7 min, 2 users, load average: 0.50, 0.84, 0.52 Tasks: 91 total, 1 running, 90 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 12.0%us, 4.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 84.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1555796k total, 352716k used, 1203080k free, 13044k buffers Swap: 514072k total, 0k used, 514072k free, 203424k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4747 root 15 0 39700 24m 7492 S 7.0 1.6 0:14.30 Xorg 5291 mike 15 0 43296 17m 11m S 4.3 1.1 0:04.11 gnome-panel 5498 mike 15 0 58668 16m 10m S 1.7 1.1 0:01.54 gnome-terminal 5293 mike 15 0 81664 19m 13m S 1.0 1.3 0:02.13 nautilus 5356 mike 15 0 16456 2700 1756 S 1.0 0.2 0:02.34 gnome-screensav 5289 mike 15 0 18028 10m 7580 S 0.7 0.7 0:03.19 metacity 5518 mike 15 0 2364 1140 876 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.60 top 1 root 18 0 2948 1852 532 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.08 init 2 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 4 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 7 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khelper 26 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kblockd/0 27 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 28 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify TOP running with Seti and Boinc running 'and' me doing this with my mouse and keyboard: top - 14:28:58 up 24 min, 2 users, load average: 1.45, 0.84, 0.54 Tasks: 97 total, 2 running, 95 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 4.3%us, 0.7%sy, 94.4%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1555796k total, 414040k used, 1141756k free, 14728k buffers Swap: 514072k total, 0k used, 514072k free, 219300k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5665 mike 39 19 37076 33m 8 R 95.0 2.2 3:35.32 setiathome-5.27 4747 root 15 0 42464 25m 8144 S 2.0 1.7 0:52.09 Xorg 5660 mike 15 0 45780 16m 12m S 1.7 1.1 0:06.61 boincmgr 5647 mike 15 0 4232 2104 1556 S 0.3 0.1 0:00.24 boinc 1 root 16 0 2948 1852 532 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.08 init 2 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 4 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 events/0 7 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khelper 26 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kblockd/0 27 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 28 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify 94 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod 111 root 16 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 112 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush Now VMSTAT with no Boinc: mike@mike:~$ vmstat 5 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 0 1201972 13740 203660 0 0 281 33 189 456 12 4 78 6 0 0 0 1201964 13748 203660 0 0 0 11 96 60 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201964 13756 203660 0 0 0 2 94 50 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201856 13764 203652 0 0 0 2 92 48 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13764 203656 0 0 0 0 96 59 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13776 203656 0 0 0 26 94 53 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13784 203656 0 0 0 10 97 54 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13792 203656 0 0 0 138 113 96 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13800 203656 0 0 0 2 94 50 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13808 203648 0 0 0 2 93 47 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13808 203656 0 0 0 0 94 58 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13816 203656 0 0 0 2 93 52 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13824 203656 0 0 0 2 95 55 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13832 203656 0 0 0 2 92 57 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13840 203656 0 0 0 3 94 50 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13848 203648 0 0 0 2 92 48 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13848 203656 0 0 0 0 95 59 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13856 203656 0 0 0 2 92 46 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13864 203656 0 0 0 2 95 52 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 1201832 13872 203656 0 0 0 2 121 204 1 0 99 0 0 0 0 1201832 13880 203656 0 0 0 2 167 412 0 0 100 0 The 'FREE' command: mike@mike:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1555796 353948 1201848 0 13928 203652 -/+ buffers/cache: 136368 1419428 Swap: 514072 0 514072 mike@mike:~$ The below 'with' Seti and Boinc running 'and' me doing all this so it shouldn't be running: mike@mike:~$ vmstat 5 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 1 0 0 1143080 14428 219236 0 0 218 31 192 451 15 3 77 5 1 0 0 1142940 14444 219272 0 0 1 15 324 91 98 1 0 0 1 0 0 1142908 14452 219280 0 0 0 54 328 112 99 1 0 0 1 0 0 1142940 14464 219280 0 0 0 213 349 132 98 2 0 0 1 0 0 1142940 14464 219280 0 0 0 0 322 93 99 1 0 0 1 0 0 1142940 14472 219280 0 0 0 2 322 99 98 2 0 0 1 0 0 1142940 14480 219280 0 0 0 2 323 87 99 1 0 0 1 0 0 1142940 14488 219280 0 0 0 2 321 84 98 2 0 0 1 0 0 1142940 14496 219280 0 0 0 2 322 96 99 1 0 0 1 0 0 1142832 14504 219272 0 0 0 2 321 83 98 2 0 0 1 0 0 1142816 14504 219280 0 0 0 30 328 93 99 1 0 0 1 0 0 1142816 14512 219280 0 0 0 2 321 94 98 2 0 0 1 0 0 1142816 14520 219280 0 0 0 2 322 86 99 1 0 0 1 0 0 1142692 14536 219272 0 0 0 10 345 1225 92 8 0 0 1 0 0 1142552 14544 219280 0 0 0 55 363 321 95 5 0 0 mike@mike:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1555796 412972 1142824 0 14576 219284 -/+ buffers/cache: 179112 1376684 Swap: 514072 0 514072 mike@mike:~$ The program just will not unlatch the CPU. Mike |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for the output. I think it looks OK on the first view. What excatly do you mean with "The program just will not unlatch the CPU." ? Is the system permanently unusable if BOINC and SETI is running or is it only permanently ? What behavior do you have, if you are running prime95 ? Could you please excatly describe the slowdown. What actions are slowed down. - Eventualy a output series from the "vmstat 5" of such a slowdown would be helpfull. With powermanagement, I meaned the Ubuntu specific. Ubuntu has a daemon which adjusts the clock, if no processes are running and clocks down your CPU. But I read here a posting, that it could happens, that ubuntu did not detect BOINC as running process and clocks down the CPU. But, I have not found this posting again. So I hope that one of the Ubuntu/Linux guys have an idea. Anyway, the output from "cat /proc/cpuinfo" would also be nice. |
Slim Send message Joined: 14 Oct 00 Posts: 55 Credit: 72,370 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for the output. I think it looks OK on the first view. The Seti program combined with the boincmgr want 100% of my CPU power. They will not relinquish control when 'I' want to use the computer, like right now. This causes my other programs, like Firefox to literally hang with the 'waiting for connection' icon revolving. When I go into boincmgr and suspend the project, the CPU gets let loose and Forefox 'instantly' finishes loading the page. This happens both with Firefox and my Usenet program Thunderbird. I have a smaller window for boincmgr so can see the underneath program start working and finish instantly after I suspend boinc's project. Sorry, but this just isn't acceptable behavior.
Umm see above, the computer works proper with boinc in suspend mode or just not turned on, otherwise it messes up fairly soon.
I have not been able to get prime95, their links are down.
That is the second vmstat 5 copy in my last post, but I didn't have Firefox and Thunderbird running.
Ok, here is a vmstat 5 with everything running followed by the cpuinfo: mike@mike:~$ vmstat 5 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 2 0 0 1015232 19544 276048 0 0 80 36 253 268 53 3 43 2 1 0 0 1015100 19552 276048 0 0 0 94 359 283 98 2 0 0 1 0 0 1015100 19560 276048 0 0 0 7 339 175 98 2 0 0 1 0 0 1015092 19572 276044 0 0 0 115 414 470 98 2 0 0 1 0 0 1014968 19580 276036 0 0 0 64 339 137 98 2 0 0 1 0 0 1014968 19580 276044 0 0 0 0 323 75 98 2 0 0 1 0 0 1014968 19588 276044 0 0 0 2 323 81 99 1 0 0 1 0 0 1014968 19596 276044 0 0 0 2 324 88 99 1 0 0 1 0 0 1014968 19612 276044 0 0 0 17 323 76 98 2 0 0 1 0 0 1014976 19620 276044 0 0 0 13 358 325 98 2 0 0 mike@mike:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 731.512 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse up bogomips : 1480.03 clflush size : 32 Thanks for your time. I also was hit back with the first generations of Boinc and my Windows 98 with the same issues and had to stop using it in Windows. I used Classic for a lot of years under a couple email names. I was really hoping the bug was 'actually' fixed when I got an email implying it last year because I am now using Linux. |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
What excatly do you mean with "The program just will not unlatch the CPU." ? This shows your problem a little bit in a other view. Is the slowdown only on network access like you have bescribed, or is is also if you start and using other programms and working with the GUI ?
As I have explained you in my previos postings in the other threads : it is ok that SETI uses 100 % CPU, the process is running with the lowest prio so your other processes like FF, TB,.. should get the CPU if it need it. The slowown is not normal and we must search for the cause. But your previous problem describtion was very unprecise. We have look closer to the problem and analyse it and search for the cause. [ This is not what I have meaned. I meaned if you running BOINC, did this behavior occurs permanently or only tempoarly ?
Which bug excactly do you mean ? Whas this the same hardware like on the Linux system with the problem ? - If yes, I think that you have a hardware problem. Edit: I had no problem to download prime95. Alternativ... google shows about 74000 results for prime95, the first 20 was alternative download mirrors. |
Slim Send message Joined: 14 Oct 00 Posts: 55 Credit: 72,370 RAC: 0 |
I don't work with the GUI often, I just use those two programs mostly and it hits the network connection. I am a Usenet user from 'way' back and barely use the WWW so when my 'text only' Usenet groups and their reader program hangs in space because of some piece of GUI software that isn't even 'supposed' to be running, it just well isn't acceptable. Netscape Communicator got locked up as well as Thunderbird now.
It is 'supposed' to 'shut' down, not maybe 'give me space' to work!
I don't know really. I get mad at it and don't bother to wait until it resolves, because the first few times gave me a DSL timeout, so I just go and suspend it.
The first generations of Boinc had a bug that wouldn't allow the CPU use settings in the preferences to work. I got an email back in early 07 I think it was implying the bug was fixed.
Only the same ASUS CUV4X motherboard, all the add ons and memory chips are new, including a new power supply.
I only used the link provided earlier the other day, haven't tried since, have been busy setting up hardware. I will try again and see if that program will unlatch the CPU. |
Slim Send message Joined: 14 Oct 00 Posts: 55 Credit: 72,370 RAC: 0 |
I only used the link provided earlier the other day, haven't tried since, have been busy setting up hardware. I will try again and see if that program will unlatch the CPU.[/quote] Ok, all the links my Google shows for a Linux download lead to the same page and it is down. Yup, 'tons ' of links that all point the same place.... I just spent a half hour trying, that's enough. |
Bryn Send message Joined: 2 Jun 01 Posts: 85 Credit: 925,923 RAC: 26 |
There seems to be something wrong as I write this. I just tried grabbing both mprime2414.tar.gz and sprime2414.tar.gz from http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm but in each case the Firefox downloads window showed 'waiting' for a few minutes and then 'completed' - but nothing had actually been downloaded. The Russian mirror site mentioned at the above site fails to resolve - it seems to no longer exist. As to your main problem - I do find it a little suspicious that this is the same motherboard which gave similar 'heavy load' problems with BOINC when it was running under Windows. I'm inclined to agree with Dotsch that there's a fundamental hardware problem lurking at the back of all this. For what it's worth, I have BOINC running perfectly well on an ancient Intel 440BX-based motherboard with 1GB RAM and a PIII CPU. Actually, it's a card adapter carrying the PIII since this motherboard only has a Pentium II slot. I did say it was ancient! :) I also use this machine as an alternate "browsing base", plus a few other things, yet it's never shown anything like the sort of performance hit you describe. It's left running BOINC 24/7. The OS is a fairly old SUSE 9.3 release. Well, it ain't broke so I ain't fixing it... If left to its own devices, BOINC will always try to obtain 100% CPU usage (really, like almost any other application would typically want to do) but bear in mind that when using things like 'top' to display loadings, you're only getting a tiny snapshot every second or so. All the time, running processes are given access to resources (and have them taken away) very quickly so what appears to be a constant high load isn't necessarily so. Also, the resource management of Linux is such that as other tasks require more CPU time or other resources, access is granted very efficiently and in a very controlled/controllable way. It's probably only because of this good behaviour that I'm able to run BOINC on this venerable box - when running Windows98 (on another dusty old partition) and not doing very much at all, it's horribly sluggish. Just my $0.2, and I hope that whatever's going wrong is quickly nailed. To err is human; to moo, bovine. |
Slim Send message Joined: 14 Oct 00 Posts: 55 Credit: 72,370 RAC: 0 |
I will try again maybe later.
But 'there' is the main trouble, Boinc will not unlatch the CPU like it is instructed to do in the preferences or 'only' actually 'use' the 50% max of the CPU the preferences are set at! Load stress is something all together different and I would have 'no' load issues, perceived or real if the program would behave as it is supposed to do and just shut off when 'I' want to use 'my' computer.
It is 'not' being left to it's own devices, I am insisting it use only 50% of my CPU and insisting it shuts down when I am using the computer via the preferences both here and in my PC.
Thanks |
Bryn Send message Joined: 2 Jun 01 Posts: 85 Credit: 925,923 RAC: 26 |
Hmm, but there's the odd thing: I'm running the same version as you on the same CPU and in less RAM - yet because mine is behaving fine, I really don't think it's BOINC which has the problem. A few posts back you gave this 'top' output (edited) when running BOINC/seti: top - 14:28:58 up 24 min, 2 users, load average: 1.45, 0.84, 0.54 Tasks: 97 total, 2 running, 95 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 4.3%us, 0.7%sy, 94.4%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1555796k total, 414040k used, 1141756k free, 14728k buffers Swap: 514072k total, 0k used, 514072k free, 219300k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5665 mike 39 19 37076 33m 8 R 95.0 2.2 3:35.32 setiathome-5.27 4747 root 15 0 42464 25m 8144 S 2.0 1.7 0:52.09 Xorg 5660 mike 15 0 45780 16m 12m S 1.7 1.1 0:06.61 boincmgr 5647 mike 15 0 4232 2104 1556 S 0.3 0.1 0:00.24 boinc 1 root 16 0 2948 1852 532 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.08 init 2 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 (...) Here's mine (through 'top -b -n1' and edited for brevity): top - 22:59:41 up 1 day, 10:21, 5 users, load average: 1.03, 1.03, 1.03 Tasks: 95 total, 2 running, 93 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.3% us, 0.2% sy, 98.9% ni, 0.2% id, 0.1% wa, 0.4% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 776060k total, 644032k used, 132028k free, 214844k buffers Swap: 1052216k total, 0k used, 1052216k free, 177648k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 9148 brian 39 19 39272 34m 8 R 90.8 4.6 333:25.84 setiathome-5.27 5980 root 15 0 56328 19m 3608 S 7.3 2.6 4:27.36 X 9678 brian 15 0 2052 868 656 R 3.6 0.1 0:00.02 top 1 root 16 0 680 248 216 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.67 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 (...) 6639 brian 15 0 11484 6136 5168 S 0.0 0.8 0:43.23 boincmgr 6640 brian 15 0 3904 2124 1448 S 0.0 0.3 0:05.69 boinc (...) 9146 brian 34 19 39272 34m 8 S 0.0 4.6 0:00.12 setiathome-5.27 9147 brian 34 19 39272 34m 8 S 0.0 4.6 0:00.00 setiathome-5.27 9149 brian 34 19 39272 34m 8 S 0.0 4.6 0:00.01 setiathome-5.27 This is running under KDE and is started manually from a desktop icon with just 'run_manager' as the command component, from within the BOINC installation directory off my home directory. I just installed it with the default GUI stuff as-is, and made no other tweaks to the installation. The machine is generally left running so I've not bothered with any auto-start scripting. There's also no unusual or heavy network use as a result of running BOINC/seti - only what I might be getting up to (nothing else, apart from a few shell windows waiting for input at the time of this 'top' output).
Sorry, that was my loose description. I just meant the sort of 'grind to a halt' thing you've described when running BOINC/seti. Odd... <scratches head> To err is human; to moo, bovine. |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
[quote] Could you please try it out. It is very important to know what excatly is slowed down when BOINC and SETI is active ! |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
But 'there' is the main trouble, Boinc will not unlatch the CPU like it is instructed to do in the preferences or 'only' actually 'use' the 50% max of the CPU the preferences are set at! Where excatly do you have setup your prefs ? - On the prefs over the BOINC manager or over the website ? Could you please change to the BOINC directory and issue and post the output from the command : "grep cpu_usage_limit global_prefs_override.xml". Edit : Could you please post the ouput from "ifconfig -a" and "netstat -in". |
Slim Send message Joined: 14 Oct 00 Posts: 55 Credit: 72,370 RAC: 0 |
Yours also appears to be broken 'if' you also have it set to shut off when 'you' are using the machine. It isn't unlatching your CPU either.
Sorry, that was my loose description. I just meant the sort of 'grind to a halt' thing you've described when running BOINC/seti. Odd... <scratches head> [/quote] I could 'very' well be that my hardware has issues with the sharing, but it wouldn't have any issues if the program would follow it's 'preferences' and shut off! |
Slim Send message Joined: 14 Oct 00 Posts: 55 Credit: 72,370 RAC: 0 |
But 'there' is the main trouble, Boinc will not unlatch the CPU like it is instructed to do in the preferences or 'only' actually 'use' the 50% max of the CPU the preferences are set at! I use the links provided in the Boinc manager under Projects for my online preferences and account setup and the pull down box at the top of Boinc Manager under 'advanced' and 'preferences' for my local settings.
mike@mike:~$ cd Desktop mike@mike:~/Desktop$ cd BOINC mike@mike:~/Desktop/BOINC$ grep cpu_usage_limit global_prefs_override.xml <cpu_usage_limit>100.000000</cpu_usage_limit> mike@mike:~/Desktop/BOINC$
mike@mike:~$ ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:10:AE:D8 inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:29ff:fe10:aed8/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:10315 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:9993 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:6468087 (6.1 MB) TX bytes:2040066 (1.9 MB) Interrupt:3 Base address:0xe000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2252 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2252 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1584702 (1.5 MB) TX bytes:1584702 (1.5 MB) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:76.66.132.196 P-t-P:64.230.197.222 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1 RX packets:9222 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:9440 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:6307193 (6.0 MB) TX bytes:1815454 (1.7 MB) mike@mike:~$ mike@mike:~$ netstat -in Kernel Interface table Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg eth0 1500 0 10320 0 0 0 9997 0 0 0 BMRU lo 16436 0 2558 0 0 0 2558 0 0 0 LRU ppp0 1492 0 9224 0 0 0 9442 0 0 0 MOPRU mike@mike:~$ Here you go. |
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