Posts by John Gillett

41) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Seti@hom Enhanced is not available for your type of computer ?? (Message 786095)
Posted 24 Jul 2008 by Profile John Gillett
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It should start up and start crunching with the optimized worker.

I had to give it a little nudge with a Retry comm, but it then took off and gobbled up 8 tasks immediately to work on. We'll see how my RAC does. Dual G5 2GHz.

Thanks for the app and great instructions!
42) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Seti@hom Enhanced is not available for your type of computer ?? (Message 785588)
Posted 23 Jul 2008 by Profile John Gillett
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Are you saying you found something greater than the current (showing) 5.10.45?
43) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Seti@hom Enhanced is not available for your type of computer ?? (Message 785553)
Posted 23 Jul 2008 by Profile John Gillett
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The project is funded by very little money from private donations. Everything SETI@Home does is essentially new terroritory as there is nothing else out there like SETI@Home (running as long or with as many participants or with the sheer scope of the project). There will be ups and downs as things are discovered and tested.

I would only hope that you can understand that this is the process of learning and the process of science itself. Nothing is perfect. If you can't take the bad with the good, then there's nothing to stop you from leaving. Any loss to the project is a loss indeed and I'm sure Eric would prefer everyone staying, but it is ultimately your choice. The project will have to march on looking for newer participants to replace those who have lost their understanding.

With all due respect, I do understand. Otherwise I wouldn't have hung in here for over 9 years contributing my time, machines, and yes, even cash, to this project.

My post said nothing about leaving, but simply expressed disappointment about the way things have been going for some time (IMHO). However, if the project (or moderator(s)) no longer wants my contributions just say so, and I will, regretfully, take them elsewhere.
44) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Seti@hom Enhanced is not available for your type of computer ?? (Message 785420)
Posted 22 Jul 2008 by Profile John Gillett
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FWIW, none of my Macs are asking for additional work. Once the error shows up it's all over. Both Tiger and Leopard.

To be quite honest, this is very disappointing. With all the recent server problems, which have dropped my RAC by >1,000 (although it's very slowly coming back up), and now this, I have some major concerns about SETI in the long run. As you can see from my stats, I've been around for a while, and I'm not happy with the outlook.
45) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Seti@hom Enhanced is not available for your type of computer ?? (Message 785375)
Posted 22 Jul 2008 by Profile John Gillett
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I'm still on a dual 2GHz PPC, so that answer wouldn't apply here, either.
46) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Message from server: (Message 785315)
Posted 22 Jul 2008 by Profile John Gillett
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Same exact message here. Nothing new added, running 10.5.4 and 528 all along.

Mon Jul 21 22:29:55 2008|SETI@home|Restarting task 14ap08aa.9548.380010.3.8.90_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528
Mon Jul 21 22:34:09 2008|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 48170 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Mon Jul 21 22:34:13 2008|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
Mon Jul 21 22:34:13 2008|SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent
Mon Jul 21 22:34:13 2008|SETI@home|Message from server: SETI@home Enhanced is not available for your type of computer.
47) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : exited with zero status but no 'finished' file (Message 607149)
Posted 21 Jul 2007 by Profile John Gillett
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Thanks, Dena.

Unfortunately (in this case) my CPU performance has always been set at Highest, so no help there.

The Widget is cool (showing 94% nice!). CPU temps are 124F and 117F. However, right now my A/C is being replaced, so the house is HOT and those temps are not normal.

Any other ideas appreciated.
48) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : exited with zero status but no 'finished' file (Message 607131)
Posted 21 Jul 2007 by Profile John Gillett
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Thanks, Dena.

Unfortunately (in this case) my CPU performance has always been set at Highest, so no help there.

The Widget is cool (showing 94% nice!). CPU temps are 124F and 117F. However, right now my A/C is being replaced, so the house is HOT and those temps are not normal.

Any other ideas appreciated.
49) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : exited with zero status but no 'finished' file (Message 606748)
Posted 21 Jul 2007 by Profile John Gillett
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I agree that 522 needs some additional tweaks.

My dual G5 is running ~95% each CPU, and of that 97% is 'nice' time! No wonder these WUs are taking longer to run. How 'bout giving control of nice back to us as we used to be able to do (long ago).

Yes, granted, it's running, but it still ain't right...
50) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : exited with zero status but no 'finished' file (Message 606301)
Posted 20 Jul 2007 by Profile John Gillett
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Looks like 522 has fixed the problem (he said, gritting his teeth). I reset the project and 522 came down and started processing with no error messages as before (but some huge completion times!).

However, it did not pull any additional ready to start files. This particular machine is a dual G5, and all it got was the 2 files to run. We'll see how it goes.
51) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : exited with zero status but no 'finished' file (Message 605888)
Posted 19 Jul 2007 by Profile John Gillett
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I need some additional infos for the mail to the devs...
Did everytime the WU resets to 0 % or are sometimes some WUs which continues after the latest checkpoint ?
Do you use CPU throtteling ? - If yes, on which value is the CPU throtteling set ?


The WU resets immediately. There is no time at all for any other unit to start processing. Throttle not used.

Dual 2GHz G5, 1.5GB RAM, 10.4.10.
52) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : exited with zero status but no 'finished' file (Message 605769)
Posted 19 Jul 2007 by Profile John Gillett
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Same problem here, and I agree with Jimmy J - I'm running the latest stuff you provide (5.10.7/enhanced 521). The problem appears to have started with 521.
53) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : 'Nice' value (Message 14414)
Posted 6 Aug 2004 by Profile John Gillett
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My G5 dual 2GHZ is running literally 90-95% nice. Can't get much done that way. Is there a parameter that will allow changing this?

Thanks.


John


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