Posts by Harri Liljeroos

21) Message boards : Number crunching : Unable to stay logged in (Message 923542)
Posted 1388 days ago by

Indeed. I had the problem for about 10-15 minutes and then it was back to normal again. :)

22) Message boards : Number crunching : Unable to stay logged in (Message 923534)
Posted 1388 days ago by

Today I am no longer able to stay logged in here. This happens on all computers I've tried so far. Using Win XP and Win XP64 with Firefox and IE7.

Has something changed here on the web pages?

Edit: Now it is working again!

23) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : New version 6.6.31 not exiting? (Message 908327)
Posted 1436 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

This works at least on 6.6.36:
- open a command prompt window and go to "\Program Files\BOINC\" directory
- there is an executable program boincmd.exe, run it with parameter --quit
- this should shutdown boinc and the science apps

24) Message boards : Number crunching : AstroPulse Ghost WUs !!! (Message 791978)
Posted 1753 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

If you are using anonymous platform, how does the server know if you have all applications installed on you computer? Does it have any other way but to send AstroPulse WU's? Then BOINC could report back to server that applications were not found and mark the WU's in question rejected or something.

25) Message boards : Number crunching : Unable to install Boinc 5.8.15 (Message 524109)
Posted 2276 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

Internal Error 2753

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=261

Thank you for the link. I removed Boinc using installer without deleting manually any files from Boinc folder. Then copied all executables and now everything seems to run OK and I didn't loose any WU's.

Thanks again!

26) Message boards : Number crunching : Unable to install Boinc 5.8.15 (Message 524044)
Posted 2276 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

Hi,
I've been updating Boinc to my computers but on some of them without success. Out of six computers so far three has failed. OS (win2000, win xp) and previous versions of Boinc (5.4.11 and 5.3.12) vary on these hosts.

After I stopped boincmgr and boinc daemon I run the installation package (single user install) and everything seems to progress as planned but when installation routine tries to launch Boinc it gives error: Internal error 2753. boincmgr.exe

Manually starting Boinc starts the previous version like nothing new was ever installed. On two computers none of the executable files in Boinc folder has been changed, on one computer only boinc.exe was changed from 5.4.11 -> 5.8.15 but boincmgr.exe is still 5.4.11.

Rebooting and reinstalling (repair) does not make any difference. Removing Boinc completely may be next step but I am unwilling to do it just now as two of these host have about 2000 hours worth of unfinished workunits for CPDN.

On three computers updating went just fine (win2000,winXP, winXP x64 and Boinc 5.3.12).

Anybody have similar experinces or pointers how to solve this without removing Boinc first completely?

27) Message boards : Number crunching : Stale Results (Message 510747)
Posted 2305 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

Here's one:
23422358

also from August 10th 2005.

28) Message boards : Number crunching : CLOSED -- SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ IX -- CLOSED (Message 510303)
Posted 2306 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

1000,000 for SETI!
Now going for next one.

29) Message boards : Number crunching : 7 year club (Message 496650)
Posted 2332 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

May '99 ... such a good times.

30) Message boards : Number crunching : Current download problem prohibits also other projects downloads (Message 457621)
Posted 2381 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

It's my guess that his client has requested X seconds of work from seti and the order was filled, but just hasn't reached him yet, so the puter thinks it has X seconds on hand when infact it doesn't. The scheduler has already taken that into account and isn't requesting other work. Atleast, I think this is correct.

So when the download is finally completed, he would have X seconds on hand, and if the code was changed to see the non existent download and actually get work from elsewhere, then if the outage was short, the host would be overcommitted and risk missing deadlines.
tony

I think that's what is happening. This is one rare situation when micro managing may be needed. As I mentioned, suspending seti for a minute allowed other projects to download some work and keep my hosts busy, at least for a while.

Harri

31) Message boards : Number crunching : Current download problem prohibits also other projects downloads (Message 457562)
Posted 2381 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

Hi,

for some curious reason, my hosts did not download new WU's from other projects although CPU's were already running idle. BoincView shows that there is a work buffer for sah even when download is not succesful.

I had to suspend sah to download new work from Einstein. This happened with Boinc 5.4.11 and 5.3.12 (truXoft). Update did not help.

Harri

32) Message boards : Number crunching : Please post ~6 month old WUs, here - Revisited. (Message 266632)
Posted 2618 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

Hi,
I have also one that needs to be deleted.

Here.

33) Message boards : Number crunching : Calibrating Client v5.3.12.tx37 - fair credits in all projects (Message 236295)
Posted 2676 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

Hi,
I started to use the version tx36 on one of my computers and I've had some new problem: I'm running on this computer SETI, LHC and CPDN and four times I've received error

2006-01-23 13:24:36 [SETI@home] Result 17se04aa.6145.25137.848566.1.59_2 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
2006-01-23 13:24:06 [SETI@home] If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.

Two times on SETI and two times on LHC. On one of the slots folders I found sterr.txt which said "no heatbeat from core client for 31 seconds".
I am running on this computer also a 3D simulation program which can take 99% of CPU time for hours at a time. I believe this might be the reason for this error. Anyway I have run several previous versions of Boinc clients (standard and optimized but not calibrating) without seeing this problem before although I have been running the 3D simulation with them also.

So I think that this version is somehow more sensitive to other software using a lot of CPU power.

Harri Liljeroos

34) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI Processing times with Xeon Irwindale wanted! (Message 219169)
Posted 2709 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

I have a Xeon 3.2 GHz with 2 MB cache and it does with hyperthreading on 2 WU's in 41 minutes with Crunch3r's optimised Seti science app on Win XP.

35) Message boards : Number crunching : Andy K is UOTD (Message 214660)
Posted 2715 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

Congratulations Andy!

Has anybody heard of him lately?

He was developing a pending credit calculator/monitor II about two weeks ago. He left for the weekend and after that I haven't seen any news from him.

Harri Liljeroos

36) Message boards : Number crunching : Pending Credit calculator/monitor II (Message 200076)
Posted 2729 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

Nice work!
The Last WU Received column is showing 1970-01-01 01:00:00 UTC on all my computers.

hmm, ok will look into it, but I'm on my way to set off for the weekend. Will be back on Monday.

OK, have a nice weekend.

Maybe you could add the explanations for different numbers on #wu's column? At least I don't usually remember their meaning.

Harri Liljeroos

There is already a description available. Just hover your mousecursor over the column header. :-)

Andy

Missed that one. Thanks for pointing that out.

Harri Liljeroos

37) Message boards : Number crunching : Pending Credit calculator/monitor II (Message 200066)
Posted 2729 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

Nice work!

The Last WU Received column is showing 1970-01-01 01:00:00 UTC on all my computers.

Maybe you could add the explanations for different numbers on #wu's column? At least I don't usually remember their meaning.

Harri Liljeroos

38) Questions and Answers : Windows : SETI / BOINC waits 20min to start next WU .. ? (Message 179916)
Posted 2773 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

Hi,
I have also this problem on two of my machines. The other one is a P3 700MHz laptop where only SETI is running and only when it is idle. When it has finished a WU it doesn't start a new one until it is once been suspended and then has restarted the calculations. This host has Win2000 and optimized Seti client and optimized Boinc.exe 4.45.

The other computer where this happens is a Xeon 3.2 GHz with HT on and it is running SETI and LHC. This computer has calculations normally always on (sometimes manually suspended). Here also a new WU is not always started after one is finished. Boinc.exe must be running because task manager shows 50% CPU load when this happens (100% when everything is OK). This computer has standard versions of Boinc (4.45) and client software. The WU is started if I manually suspend the calculations and then manually restart calculations.

Here is the log of P3 laptop messages when this happens:

19.10.2005 8:19:35||Starting BOINC client version 4.45 for windows_intelx86
19.10.2005 8:19:35||Data directory: C:\\Program Files\\BOINC
19.10.2005 8:19:35|SETI@home|Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
19.10.2005 8:19:37|SETI@home|Computer ID: 146274; location: ; project prefs: default
19.10.2005 8:19:37||General prefs: from unknown project http://lhcathome.cern.ch/ (last modified 2005-05-08 12:16:26)
19.10.2005 8:19:37||General prefs: using your defaults
19.10.2005 8:19:37||Remote control allowed
19.10.2005 8:20:26|SETI@home|Deferring computation for result 08my04aa.8067.3858.997154.165_2
19.10.2005 8:20:26||Resuming computation and network activity
19.10.2005 8:20:26||request_reschedule_cpus: Resuming activities
19.10.2005 8:20:29|SETI@home|Restarting result 08my04aa.8067.3858.997154.165_2 using setiathome version 4.18
19.10.2005 8:21:01||Suspending computation and network activity - user is active
19.10.2005 8:21:01|SETI@home|Pausing result 08my04aa.8067.3858.997154.165_2 (left in memory)
19.10.2005 8:23:20||Resuming computation and network activity
19.10.2005 8:23:20||request_reschedule_cpus: Resuming activities
19.10.2005 8:23:20|SETI@home|Resuming result 08my04aa.8067.3858.997154.165_2 using setiathome version 4.18
19.10.2005 9:14:30||request_reschedule_cpus: process exited
19.10.2005 9:14:30|SETI@home|Computation for result 08my04aa.8067.3858.997154.165_2 finished
19.10.2005 9:14:31|SETI@home|Started upload of 08my04aa.8067.3858.997154.165_2_0
19.10.2005 9:14:33|SETI@home|Finished upload of 08my04aa.8067.3858.997154.165_2_0
19.10.2005 9:14:33|SETI@home|Throughput 41621 bytes/sec
19.10.2005 9:14:36|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
19.10.2005 9:14:36|SETI@home|Requesting 0 seconds of work, returning 1 results
19.10.2005 9:14:38|SETI@home|Scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
19.10.2005 9:14:39|SETI@home|Deferring communication with project for 10 minutes and 4 seconds
19.10.2005 9:39:37||Suspending computation and network activity - user is active

I have also other hosts using Win2000 and Win XP where this problem does not happen.

If anybody has any ideas, they are much appreciated.

Harri

39) Message boards : Number crunching : Weird!! My BOINC is suddenly empty (Message 104432)
Posted 2948 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

I've had similar problem and there is at least two threads in "questions and problems" section about this
here and here.

No good answer yet to the problem. At least my problem is that boinc.exe does not start when BoincManager starts. The error message is shown in stderrdae.txt file.

2005-04-27 08:49:13 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1
gstate.init() failed: -180

Same error is displayed if you try to start boinc.exe from command prompt.

Help is needed,
Harri Liljeroos

40) Questions and Answers : Windows : Error message gstate.init() failed: -180 (Message 104399)
Posted 2948 days ago by

Harri Liljeroos

I have also this problem, but my computer is using Windows 2000.

I've had this error once before but then restarting the BoincManager solved it. Now that doesn't help, nor restarting the computer.
Here is the contents of my stderrdae.txt

2005-04-18 09:08:40 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1
gstate.init() failed: -180
2005-04-27 08:25:07 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1
gstate.init() failed: -180
2005-04-27 08:32:05 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1
gstate.init() failed: -180
2005-04-27 08:41:34 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1
gstate.init() failed: -180
2005-04-27 08:49:13 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1
gstate.init() failed: -180

Problem is also that BoincManager does not recognize that Boinc.exe is not running (or informs only that it is disconnected but gives no other information)

Does anybody know a solution to this?

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