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I am beta testing new release of Ubuntu (Karmic). Good transision policy needed!
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emarkay Send message Joined: 11 Sep 03 Posts: 33 Credit: 132,678 RAC: 0 |
I aborted about 15 unstarted jobs in "Jaunty" (current Ubuntu release) and was going to reboot into "Karmic" (beta test -will be released 10/31/2009). I wanted to leave only 2 or 3 there in Jaunty, and then let the Karmic jobs (about 15 also) run for a while. (I expect that within the week I will be using Karmic soely.) I don't want to abandon any work. The problem is that when I aborted the Jaunty jobs, BOINC re-downloaded as many or more NEW ones! So what is the best way to do this without hurting SETI@HOME? Thanks! MRK Firefox 3.5.x & Thunderbird 2.0.0.x - Ubuntu 9.04 & 9.10 & Windows XP-SP3 (1) 2.8 GHz/2Gb/ATI HD2600-512 RAM, SIS AC97 OB Audio (2) 2.9GHz /2Gb/NVIDIA GeForce 7300LE-256 RAM, Intel 82801 OB Audio |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
If you can start up and use BOINC Manager, go Advanced view->Projects tab->Select Seti and click on the No New Tasks button. If you use boinccmd (or boinc_cmd, depending on BOINC version), use the following command: boinccmd --project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu nomorework That will stop downloading more work until you tell it different (which in the Manager is the Allow new tasks button and in boinccmd the same as above, but instead of nomorework you put in allowmorework) |
emarkay Send message Joined: 11 Sep 03 Posts: 33 Credit: 132,678 RAC: 0 |
Cool, thanks! Firefly/Serenity - also, way-cool! Firefox 3.5.x & Thunderbird 2.0.0.x - Ubuntu 9.04 & 9.10 & Windows XP-SP3 (1) 2.8 GHz/2Gb/ATI HD2600-512 RAM, SIS AC97 OB Audio (2) 2.9GHz /2Gb/NVIDIA GeForce 7300LE-256 RAM, Intel 82801 OB Audio |
DeMus Send message Joined: 5 Jan 08 Posts: 238 Credit: 1,765,862 RAC: 0 |
I just re-installaed Jaunty, now on a RAID 0 configuration. I have Boinc running in my home folder and I simply copied the complete Boinc folder to an external disc, wiped the hard discs clean and re-installed the OS. Then I put the Boinc folder back in my home folder and fired it up. That way I could simply continue with the WU's I was working on. No harm done, no WU missed. ______ DeMus |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20289 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
I just re-installaed Jaunty, now on a RAID 0 configuration. ... Just to check... You know that RAID 0 is "RAID stripe". You get the sum of the hdds, up to twice the rate of data throughput (if using 2 hdds), but also complete failure if any one hdd fails. I would doubt that you need such performance. Are you really wanting RAID 1 "RAID mirror" so that if one hdd fails, you already have a copy on another hdd to continue working? Happy crunchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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