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How to limit size of job_log_setiathome.berkeley.edu.txt
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RottenMutt Send message Joined: 15 Mar 01 Posts: 1011 Credit: 230,314,058 RAC: 0 |
this file is huge and causing long Boinc load times. |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
If you don't want to keep it, you can delete it. If you want to keep it, you can also compress it. In either case, exit Boinc before doing so, then restart it afterwards. The file will be remade from zero. |
RottenMutt Send message Joined: 15 Mar 01 Posts: 1011 Credit: 230,314,058 RAC: 0 |
this file gets over 40MB!!! isn't it just a log of work units, why does boinc let it get so large? i know i can delete it because i have, just would like to limit the size so i don't have to delete... |
Cliff Harding Send message Joined: 18 Aug 99 Posts: 1432 Credit: 110,967,840 RAC: 67 |
this file gets over 40MB!!! isn't it just a log of work units, why does boinc let it get so large? i know i can delete it because i have, just would like to limit the size so i don't have to delete... Been here since '99 and have never seen it get this large. What are you logging besides the normal stuff, like any debugging logs? Have tried inserting the following into the cc_config.xml? - <max_event_log_lines>N</max_event_log_lines> - Maximum number of lines to display in BOINC Manager's Event Log window (default 2000, 0 means no limit). I don't buy computers, I build them!! |
Lionel Send message Joined: 25 Mar 00 Posts: 680 Credit: 563,640,304 RAC: 597 |
mine are sitting around 33.7MB ... |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Now I just have to ask, with the prices of capacity these days, why are you worried about a measly few MB's? My 3570K rig has a 50MB SETI job_log yet it boots from cold to "everything ready to go" in 18sec's, my 2500K rig only has a 20MB SETI job_log yet it takes 20sec's to be "everything ready to go", both these files are contained on WD black drives in each rig so I can't see why you'd be having any sort of problem with that file unless you compressed it and Windows must expand it for BOINC to read it (yes both my rigs use SSD's for Windows though all data (most especially all BOINC files) are stored on HDD's and the 2500K has more onboard features which likely accounts for those extra 2sec's). Or do you have some other problem there? ;-) Cheers. |
Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13 |
this file gets over 40MB!!! isn't it just a log of work units, why does boinc let it get so large? i know i can delete it because i have, just would like to limit the size so i don't have to delete... That's different. That's just to limit how many lines are displayed in the Messages tab of the Manager. The job log that is being referred to is simply just a text file that keeps a log of the WUs that machine has crunched. Mine has just under 6000 lines in it and is 719KB. Here's a snippet of the last line: 1415945421 ue 40580.467495 ct 41516.970000 fe 94499050408141 nm ap_07jl11ab_B1_P1_00291_20141014_05072.wu_2 et 41762.278152 UNIX time the WU was received, 'ue' = estimated duration, 'ct' = CPU time, 'fe' = estimated FLOPs, 'nm' = name of job, 'et' = elapsed time (aka: "run time" here on the task pages). As far as I know, there's no fancy thing for cc_config to limit the size of that one. If you want to keep its old data for posterity, you can archive it and then delete it and a new one will be made. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
I can see this would be a problem on Boinc for Android, as not all devices there have multiple gigabytes of room to spare. The other where it might be a problem is on devices as the Parallella, Raspberry Pi, etc. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14649 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
this file is huge and causing long Boinc load times. So far as I know, BOINC just appends one line to the log for each completed task, so it'll only get large on a multi-GPU machine that's been running for some years - unlikely to bother Android users for a while yet. And I don't think BOINC ever reads it back in, so I don't think it would be implicated in a slow start-up time. |
Link Send message Joined: 18 Sep 03 Posts: 834 Credit: 1,807,369 RAC: 0 |
To answer the title question: you can delete it with a cmd script when the computer starts up or shuts down or you execute the script as a scheduled task, which deletes the file as often as you like. I'd go with a simple shut down script, should be enough at least for a Windows machine, which has to be rebooted after every Microsoft's Patch Day anyway. |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
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ivan Send message Joined: 5 Mar 01 Posts: 783 Credit: 348,560,338 RAC: 223 |
Mine is 41 MB and 385000 lines Over here they call this "willie waving"... :-) [eesridr:BOINC] > wc job_log_setiathome.berkeley.edu.txt 469562 5165182 51731379 job_log_setiathome.berkeley.edu.txt [eesridr:BOINC] > head job_log_setiathome.berkeley.edu.txt 1273852033 ue 167272.344521 ct 7.204450 fe 167272344521056 nm 10fe07ah.31298.5798.12.10.173_0 et 9.966059 1273852035 ue 167272.344521 ct 6.804424 fe 167272344521056 nm 10fe07ah.31298.5798.12.10.191_0 et 8.589399 1273855954 ue 167272.344521 ct 3890.751156 fe 167272344521056 nm 10fe07ah.31298.5798.12.10.100_0 et 3934.674194 Convert Unix timestamp to Readable Date/time (based on seconds since standard epoch of 1/1/1970) UNIX TimeStamp: 1273852033 Fri, 14 May 2010 15:47:13 GMT |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
In my BOINC start up .bat I do some cleaning before it starts by performing rd notices /s /q SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20152 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
this file gets over 40MB!!! isn't it just a log of work units, why does boinc let it get so large? i know i can delete it because i have, just would like to limit the size so i don't have to delete... When I first started getting into computers. The first hard drive our computer had was a whopping 40MB. Now they have NAS drives up to 6TB. I would not worry to hard unless that is what storage you have left. |
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