Posts by Dorsai
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Move Boinc & Seti to new partition....
(Message 1625508)
Posted 8 Jan 2015 by  Dorsai
Post: I can guess at the answer, but will ask the question anyway. Is there any way to move Boinc to another drive/partition without having to finish all tasks, report them, un-install & re-install specifying the new location? I ask as I recently upgraded my C drive from a HDD to a SDD. I realise it should take many decades for the read/writes from Boinc to degrade my SSD, but as Seti/Boinc do not need the access speeds a SSD gives It would make a little bit of sense to shift them to disk drive and off the solid state drive, and reduce the wear of the SSD as much as possible. Thoughts, comments and criticisms welcome. |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Won't get new tasks
(Message 1624993)
Posted 7 Jan 2015 by Dorsai
Post: I too am not getting any tasks. |
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News :
Database Rebuild Status update.
(Message 1608777)
Posted 3 Dec 2014 by Dorsai
Post: Thanks for the Update. I do not know if this is the right time, or even the right place to say this but: Once upon a time a WU took about 24 hours to process, and there was no work buffer. Seti Classic. Then they got called tasks. Boinc Arrived, and one could add a work buffer to allow for downtime, up to a week, or more. Situations like the current one left many still with work to process. I used to be able to have 2 weeks of tasks downloaded. Computers continued to get faster & they got multi-core processors as well... Then Graphics processors got added... I set Boinc up to get 8 days of work, and it gets 100 tasks, 30 hours. Seems like saying you can have any colour car you want, as long as it is black. |
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Technical News :
What's happening... (Nov 8, 2014)
(Message 1603220)
Posted 20 Nov 2014 by Dorsai
Post: Thanks to both tullio and Gary Chapentier for explaining. :) |
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Technical News :
What's happening... (Nov 8, 2014)
(Message 1601754)
Posted 17 Nov 2014 by Dorsai
Post: Astronomy isn't top dog at Arecibo anymore, Slightly confused by that statement. It is a radio-telescope. How does one use it for something other than astronomy? I am sure someone can explain.... |
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Questions and Answers :
Wish list :
Elaspsed/remaining time.
(Message 1595043)
Posted 31 Oct 2014 by Dorsai
Post: Hi all. Boinc shows me a time for "remaining" and a time "Elapsed." A Wu that has not been started might show 1:23:15 remaining, meaning Boinc thinks it will take that long. Once it has finished it just shows the "elapsed" time X:Y:Z, with remaining time as 0:0:0 (obviously, as it has finished!) I would like it to still show the original "estimate" so I can see if the estimate and the time taken were close. EG, Elapsed/remaining/estimated. "Elapsed 1:15:14, Remaining 0:0:0, estimated 1:23:15." OR in other words it took about as long as expected. In my job it is as important to know how it did take to do a job as it is to know how long we estimated it would take, as if we constantly underestimate we lose money. |
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Questions and Answers :
GPU applications :
Using on board graphics as well as a card?
(Message 1595025)
Posted 31 Oct 2014 by Dorsai
Post: The lack of some form of monitor (dummy or otherwise) connected to the on-board graphics explains one possible reason I can not get it to work. I think I will just accept that "It is not as simple as I hoped" and leave things as they are. Thank you all for your comments. :) |
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Questions and Answers :
GPU applications :
Using on board graphics as well as a card?
(Message 1584030)
Posted 9 Oct 2014 by Dorsai
Post: Have you tried restoring the default settings in your Bios? I realise that would enable it, but would it achieve my desired objective of using them both at the same time? |
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Questions and Answers :
GPU applications :
Using on board graphics as well as a card?
(Message 1584027)
Posted 9 Oct 2014 by Dorsai
Post: My settings are for "Show computers = Yes" so it should not be hidden. It is 7243927. The card is an AMD Radion R7 200 series. The integrated graphics system is (according to the MB manual) an "ATI Radeon HD3000" |
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Questions and Answers :
GPU applications :
Using on board graphics as well as a card?
(Message 1582859)
Posted 7 Oct 2014 by Dorsai
Post: My PC has on-board graphics, and a graphics card. Currently the on-board graphics are disabled in the Bois, but I wonder, can they be turned on and used? |
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Questions and Answers :
GPU applications :
Schedular wait: Cuda runtime, memory related failure, threadsafe temporary exit.
(Message 1383583)
Posted 22 Jun 2013 by Dorsai
Post: Since your computer(s) are hidden, we can't take a look at your work to see if there are any clues in their error output. Please unhide them so we can help. There is no personal information displayed in unhidden system information. The WU's are not erroring out and reporting with this message, it is their current status as they try (and fail) to run in Boinc.  But because you asked look here. |
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Questions and Answers :
GPU applications :
Schedular wait: Cuda runtime, memory related failure, threadsafe temporary exit.
(Message 1383436)
Posted 21 Jun 2013 by Dorsai
Post: I only just got CUDA running on my system. Using win XP, up to date. AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual core, 5400+. Only updates not installed are ones that install in a never ending loop, (KB2656351 and KB287367 to name two that I wrote the numbers down for) and one that corrupted/disabled my Ethernet card driver, and disconnected me from the interweb, KB number forgotten. Boinc 7.0.64. All Seti related files downloaded yesterday after a reset and re-attach to the project Up to date drivers downloaded from Nvidia yesterday before reattaching to seti. Card is NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT, 1GB ram. I get the error "Schedular wait: Cuda runtime, memory related failure, threadsafe temporary exit" for all GPU tasks after 20 seconds, plus or minus 5 seconds. If I do nothing, and let it carry on as above I eventually I get a corrupted screen when I go to use the PC. A few pixels change colour randomly, followed by a general disintegration of the image on the screen. Imagine the pixels were grains of sand on a tray: someone throws a small number or randomly coloured grains of sand on the tray, then gives it a really good shake. Apart from the obvious- disable GPU tasks and forget about them, any ideas? |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
A cautionary (mouse) tail.
(Message 1349969)
Posted 23 Mar 2013 by Dorsai
Post: Hi, Posted as a FYI type thing. I do not check Seti or Boinc that often. It runs in the background, does its own thing, and can normally be left to its own devices quite successfully. I checked about 12 hours ago, and noticed that I had not gained any credit for about a day. Thought to my self "Pending credit" and did other things. looked again just now, still no gains, so checked, and the the WUs I had that were pending credit had all been submitted over 24 hours ago. In other-words I had not got any credit because I had not done anything to get credit for. I opened Boinc, and everything looked normal, so I waited a minute, and nothing started processing, and it should have. So I opened the "Event log".. Suspending computation - computer is in use (at 3am, when I was asleep) Resuming computation (one hour later) Suspending computation - computer is in use (3 seconds later) Resuming computation (15 minutes later) Suspending computation - computer is in use (4 seconds later) and so on, along the same lines, for the last 24 hours+. Boinc was thinking the computer was being used almost all the time, when it was not! SO I sat and watched it. Nothing happened, not even the screen saver came on. So I looked into this setting, that setting, CPU temps, drive temps, ran a Virus scan, an on-line scan, Rebooted, un-installed a newly installed Wi-Fi dongle driver and swapped the dongle back to the old one & I got quite worried as to who was using my PC remotely. I sat back, and pondered, everything came up clean, I had undone recent changes, and it would not crunch..... Then I SAW IT. The mouse pointer moved ONE pixel. About 5 mins later it moved another pixel. I turned my optical mouse over, and it had a hair in the sensor. The hair was being moved by the exhaust from my pc's case fan as it blows over my desk past the mouse. Moved just enough to keep the PC "active" but not enough to make the pointer move a lot, as the gap between mouse and desk is very small. To make sure I was right I removed the hair, and moved the mouse. 1 Minute later Seti started up, and ran quite happily for 15 mins. Moral: If your PC wont crunch make sure your optical mouse is crud free. It might save you a lot of time...... ;) |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (80) Server Problems?
(Message 1323736)
Posted 2 Jan 2013 by Dorsai
Post: From a quick glance over the the above posts am I correct in assuming the situation can be summarized as follows: There are plenty of work units to send, but they are not getting sent. (For whatever reason.) |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Excessive "Time to compleation" estimate!
(Message 894252)
Posted 13 May 2009 by Dorsai
Post: ... Will try that. Ty. :) (you never know what you are doing is screwing it, until you're told "Stop screwing it before I screw you!") |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Excessive "Time to compleation" estimate!
(Message 893300)
Posted 10 May 2009 by Dorsai
Post: Duration Correction Factor is, and should be, a multiplier. That is of it self not a problem. What I meant was that if the DCF was .5 (IE it will take half as long as estimated) then 20 x 0.5 is 10, but it looks like it is doing 20 / 0.5 which is 40. What seems to be happening is that every time I finish an astropulse WU faster than expected the next one I get is expected to take even longer. IE, Do a 100 hour one in 50 hours, (Half the time) and the next one is expected to take 200 hours (twice as long, rather than half as long!) So when I then do this 200 hour one in 50, the next one is expeted to take 4 times as long, and so on. Host in question is this: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=4026476 It's not causing any problems, as they take that long that I would not want a queue of work, and as soon as one is almost finished I get another, but it seems that the estimates for time are going geometrically up, rather than slowly going down. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Excessive "Time to compleation" estimate!
(Message 893058)
Posted 9 May 2009 by Dorsai
Post: Can anyone offer a suggestion as to why this has occurred? I realise it won't actually take 1200+ to finish, but it's as if the "duration correction factor" has been applied as a "multiplier" when it should have been a "divider"? 
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD Seems working now...
(Message 574479)
Posted 23 May 2007 by Dorsai
Post: I just get: 23/05/2007 18:40:26|seti@home|Scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed: error 500 constantly. restarting boinc is no help. Edit. Reedit. Have been running a version tooooo old, with an custom cruncher. It does not auto update. I was too out of date. Got latest boinc, deleted "app_info.XML" and away we go. Ho hum. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD Seems working now...
(Message 567346)
Posted 14 May 2007 by Dorsai
Post: I am not hammering the server. I connect once a day for 1 hour on all my hosts. That leaves 23 hours for the rest of the world to get through. Add in the fact that one of my PC's blew 4 capacitors about 3 days ago (and is now awaiting major surgery).... So. No problem, apart from the problem that I get allocated WU's, but don't actually get them. It's not a problem. This is a game, and the Electric bill will benefit from the fact that it's all now turned off overnight. (Even though one is turned off because it blew up) LOL. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
I'm getting fed up,
(Message 327842)
Posted 5 Jun 2006 by Dorsai
Post: Of all the winging, wineing, moaning, petty threads that seem the norm here for tha last few days. So, one person accused another of something. (right or wrong.) The another took insult, and left. FFS! We have turned on each other like a pack of wild animals bereft of a pack leader. It's getting REALLY RATHER TEDIOUS. I might bemoan the loss of one person, and disagree with the other, or I might not, or I might have gone pas careing..... But I will not make a visit to this forum again till next month, in the hope that by then all the toy throwers have thrown all their toys out of their prams, run out of toys, and grown up a bit.... If I wanted to be surrounded by Little Children I would go work in a (i think the american is) Kinder Garden. Seti. Several Extreamly Tedius Infants! SO there! Rant over. I'm off from this forum. It's BORING. Flame away, I don't GIVE A Damn! |
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