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timo Send message Joined: 23 Aug 08 Posts: 8 Credit: 255,330 RAC: 0 |
One of my computers, a p3 600mhz with 512M ram, that is running OpenBSD 4.3 and boinc client 5.10.45 i386-unknown-openbsd + setiathome-5.27_i386-unknown-openbsd never seems to complete it's first task. Last contact with the project was 28 Aug and it has been computing 24/7 ever since. How long should it take to complete a task on a machine like this? Is there any way to see if it's working or not? Here is the output of boinc_cmd --get_state from two dates, 3 Sep and 14 Sep: 080903: ======== Projects ======== 1) ----------- name: SETI@home master URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ user_name: timo team_name: resource share: 100.000000 user_total_credit: 0.000000 user_expavg_credit: 0.000000 host_total_credit: 0.000000 host_expavg_credit: 0.000000 nrpc_failures: 0 master_fetch_failures: 0 master fetch pending: no scheduler RPC pending: no attached via Account Manager: no ended: no suspended via GUI: no don't request more work: no disk usage: 0.000000 last RPC: 0.000000 project files downloaded: 0.000000 GUI URL: name: Message boards description: Correspond with other users on the SETI@home message boards URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_index.php GUI URL: name: Help description: Ask questions and report problems URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_help_desk.php GUI URL: name: Your account description: View your account information and credit totals URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=8931553 GUI URL: name: Your preferences description: View and modify your SETI@home account profile and preferences URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/home.php GUI URL: name: Your results description: View your last week (or more) of computational results and work URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?userid=8931553 GUI URL: name: Your computers description: View a listing of all the computers on which you are running SETI@Home URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php?userid=8931553 GUI URL: name: Donate description: Donate to SETI@home URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_donate.php ======== Applications ======== 1) ----------- name: setiathome_enhanced Project: SETI@home ======== Application versions ======== 1) ----------- application: setiathome_enhanced version: 5.27 project: SETI@home ======== Workunits ======== 1) ----------- name: 11mr08ad.17879.10706.12.8.21 FP estimate: 84866790984966.593750 FP bound: 848667909849666.000000 memory bound: 33554432.000000 disk bound: 33554432.000000 ======== Results ======== 1) ----------- name: 11mr08ad.17879.10706.12.8.21_0 WU name: 11mr08ad.17879.10706.12.8.21 project URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ report deadline: Mon Sep 22 00:51:29 2008 ready to report: no got server ack: no final CPU time: 0.000000 state: 2 scheduler state: 2 exit_status: 0 signal: 0 suspended via GUI: no active_task_state: 1 stderr_out: app version num: 527 checkpoint CPU time: 0.000000 current CPU time: 17.421875 fraction done: 0.000000 swap size: 0.000000 working set size: 0.000000 estimated CPU time remaining: 285320.307311 supports graphics: no 080914: ======== Projects ======== 1) ----------- name: SETI@home master URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ user_name: timo team_name: resource share: 100.000000 user_total_credit: 0.000000 user_expavg_credit: 0.000000 host_total_credit: 0.000000 host_expavg_credit: 0.000000 nrpc_failures: 0 master_fetch_failures: 0 master fetch pending: no scheduler RPC pending: no attached via Account Manager: no ended: no suspended via GUI: no don't request more work: no disk usage: 0.000000 last RPC: 0.000000 project files downloaded: 0.000000 GUI URL: name: Message boards description: Correspond with other users on the SETI@home message boards URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_index.php GUI URL: name: Help description: Ask questions and report problems URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_help_desk.php GUI URL: name: Your account description: View your account information and credit totals URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=8931553 GUI URL: name: Your preferences description: View and modify your SETI@home account profile and preferences URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/home.php GUI URL: name: Your results description: View your last week (or more) of computational results and work URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?userid=8931553 GUI URL: name: Your computers description: View a listing of all the computers on which you are running SETI@Home URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php?userid=8931553 GUI URL: name: Donate description: Donate to SETI@home URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_donate.php ======== Applications ======== 1) ----------- name: setiathome_enhanced Project: SETI@home ======== Application versions ======== 1) ----------- application: setiathome_enhanced version: 5.27 project: SETI@home ======== Workunits ======== 1) ----------- name: 11mr08ad.17879.10706.12.8.21 FP estimate: 84866790984966.593750 FP bound: 848667909849666.000000 memory bound: 33554432.000000 disk bound: 33554432.000000 ======== Results ======== 1) ----------- name: 11mr08ad.17879.10706.12.8.21_0 WU name: 11mr08ad.17879.10706.12.8.21 project URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ report deadline: Mon Sep 22 00:51:29 2008 ready to report: no got server ack: no final CPU time: 9.765624 state: 2 scheduler state: 2 exit_status: 0 signal: 0 suspended via GUI: no active_task_state: 1 stderr_out: app version num: 527 checkpoint CPU time: 0.000000 current CPU time: 18.148437 fraction done: 0.000000 swap size: 0.000000 working set size: 0.000000 estimated CPU time remaining: 285320.162879 supports graphics: no The differences: diff 080903-11_53 080914_1 79c79 < final CPU time: 0.000000 --- > final CPU time: 9.765624 89c89 < current CPU time: 17.421875 --- > current CPU time: 18.148437 93c93 < estimated CPU time remaining: 285320.307311 --- > estimated CPU time remaining: 285320.162879 The application is apparently doing _something_ as it's using >90% of cpu all the time and ~100M of ram, but it feels like it isn't supposed to take this long as the other computers I have finish their tasks much faster. |
timo Send message Joined: 23 Aug 08 Posts: 8 Credit: 255,330 RAC: 0 |
I'll try the openbsd setup on a computer that finishes tasks within 1-2 days using winxp to see if it will complete there... |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
Not shure, if it's a problem with the WU or the whole CPU counting is hanging or the WU is hanging. I till try to reproduce this. Eventualy aborting the WU would help... Edit: Tried to reproduce this error. It looks like the CPU time and progress counting is hanging. Could you please try to stop the BOINC client and start it again and look if there was a cahnge in the CPU time and progress. I am working on a fix. |
timo Send message Joined: 23 Aug 08 Posts: 8 Credit: 255,330 RAC: 0 |
Since the first time I used the client I have restarted it several times and even rebooted os a couple. Oh btw thanks for your effort! |
timo Send message Joined: 23 Aug 08 Posts: 8 Credit: 255,330 RAC: 0 |
Not shure, if it's a problem with the WU or the whole CPU counting is hanging or the WU is hanging. I till try to reproduce this. Stopped and started client with this result (restarted between the diff): $ diff 4.03pm 4.06pm 89c89 < current CPU time: 15.203124 --- > current CPU time: 16.335937 I also stopped/started it on the other computer I mentioned: $ diff 080914_3.56PM 080914_3.59PM 89c89 < current CPU time: 6.890625 --- > current CPU time: 6.945312 Hope this helped |
timo Send message Joined: 23 Aug 08 Posts: 8 Credit: 255,330 RAC: 0 |
Strange, now I noticed that the cpu counter is hanging on the first computer, the 600mhz, until i restart the client: $ diff 080914_3.59PM 080914_4.14PM $ but on the other one it keeps counting without having to restart: $ diff 4.06pm 4.12pm 89c89 < current CPU time: 16.335937 --- > current CPU time: 18.281250 I don't know if that is relevant to the problem but better safe than sorry |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
I've investigated the problem... Looks like only SETI 5.2x is affected. Older SETI Multibeam versions (5.1x) and the actual Astropulse application works without any problems. Till I have found cause of the problem, I have put the SETI Mutlibeam application 5.12 on my homepage for download, which works fine. SETI Mutlibeam producing still valid results. Timo, thank you for the bug report ! |
timo Send message Joined: 23 Aug 08 Posts: 8 Credit: 255,330 RAC: 0 |
Yep, the older version seem to work. Cheers |
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