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Message 864715 - Posted: 12 Feb 2009, 17:49:09 UTC
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#1

At ~ UTC 13:00 my rig asked for new work.
7 times in ~ one hour.. because of 'no work available'

Then I had some upload HTTP errors..

Since of few hours everything is well..

But, BOINC don't ask for new work.
No upload are waiting. [Yes, I know, if CPUs x 2 = x. x = in upload but not uploaded -> no ask ;-)]

[EDIT: How is it with a Quad and 4 GPUs? It's also 8 in uploads?]

And in past with BOINC V5.10.45 I saw in BOINC a time counter when BOINC will ask automatically again.
But not in BOINC V6.4.5.

He's now counting without message?

Or is there a bug in V6.4.5 ?

[only SETI@home CUDA crunching on AMD Quad with 2 GPUs]


#2

I let run this rig only as GPU cruncher.
If I don't use an cc_config.xml everything would be well?

[Current 2 GPUs without cc_config.xml]

I ordered now two more GPUs.. so soon in my rig.. ;-)

No CPU WUs.. only GPU work.. no cc_config.xml needed?
AMD Quad with 4 GPUs.

The 4 Core will support the 4 GPUs well?
Or I need to simulate 8 CPUs with cc_config.xml?

Or is this only needed for simultaneously CPU WU work?



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Message 864722 - Posted: 12 Feb 2009, 18:22:42 UTC
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Update:

Between ~ 13:00 UTC and ~ 18:00 UTC no ask for new work.

Now at ~ 18:00 UTC he's asking and counting.. *confused*




#3

How is it with the size of the cache?

I have a cache of 10 days.

So the first day he reached the limit of 1.400 WUs.
The second day he downloaded ~ 700 WUs.

After 4 days he ask the first time again for new work.. ~ 3,000,000 seconds.
Hmm.. why he waited soo long for asking for new work?
Why now soo much?

If he would ask every day some WUs.. then it would be not soo much..



Yes.. ;-)
I don't want to reduce the cache size..
SETI@home is my one and only project..
And in past there where more times outages over days..
One time over one week or like this..
And I don't want that my PC idle.. :-)


[Now he make ~ 370 WUs [AR=0.44x] at one day.]
[Soon the double.. :-D]



Thanks a lot!
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Message 865031 - Posted: 13 Feb 2009, 14:17:02 UTC - in response to Message 864722.  
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Hi, I've been using BOINC 6.4.5. for more then a month, now.

And a few things are handled differently, compaired to 6.2.19. , the cache-setting on your account page don't has the same effect as the previous BOINC.
It takes a while, ~3-4 weeks, then the right amount of work is downloaded.
Haven't been out of work since then.

When you try to shut BOINC of, by stopping the manager, using the shut-down button, it doesn't stop!

Probably while 6.4.5. is 'sandboxed' ?!
But when clicking on the taskbar icon and stop it from there, it does stop!
Haven't tested it with CUDA, also didn't find or come across any bugs, so far.
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Message 865242 - Posted: 14 Feb 2009, 1:30:54 UTC


Thanks for reply!

I used V6.4.5 -> no new work.
I used V6.5.0 and few WUs came in.. then he didn't asked again.. manually or automatically..

Then I used V6.6.5 and BOINC downloaded WUs.. much.. but now he can't because of 'no jobs available'.. ;-(
So I think the 'download-BUG' is no longer in V6.6.5 .


Now is V6.6.7 out..
But to now I don't know what's new in it..

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