Posts by Khangollo

41) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 8 Release Preview now available (Message 1241725)
Posted 5 Jun 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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They should name it Millennium Edition 3.0. More appropriate.
42) Message boards : Number crunching : Strange result...................... (Message 1240684)
Posted 3 Jun 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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Looks like it tried to run on GPU then failed and was re-scheduled to CPU? Maybe with one of those external rescheduler programs.

Edit: yes, the 5 minute difference between issued and reported suggests it is indeed from this new, stupid server bug. :@
43) Message boards : Number crunching : transient HTTP error (Message 1240614)
Posted 3 Jun 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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I'm not sure this will help, but you might try.

In notepad, create a file called cc_config.xml in directory F:\ProgramData\Boinc with these contents:
<cc_config>
  <options>
    <http_1_0>1</http_1_0>
  </options>
</cc_config>

then restart boinc (or reboot). This will instruct boinc to make http/1.0 requests instead of 1.1. It helped me once when there was a misconfigured transparent proxy on my network.
44) Message boards : Number crunching : Slow and steady: Crunching on the cheap (Message 1239726)
Posted 1 Jun 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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I'm afraid that FX5500 predates CUDA computing, big time.

8xxx series is the first that supports CUDA.
45) Message boards : Number crunching : 62 AP_V5 Left In The Field (Message 1239425)
Posted 1 Jun 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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THE LAST ONE http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=931699188 is still out there after the latest outage.
Report deadline 9 Jun 2012 | 8:49:09 UTC

Looks like another forever stuck workunit.
Even if it gets returned (unlikely?), the WU will just stay in validation.

More important question is... when will the admins change astropulse status display in status page to APv6. Is it really that difficult?
46) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Andromeda & Triangulum collision with the Milky Way (Message 1239399)
Posted 1 Jun 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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I wish mass press would stop calling this event collision, crash, destruction, etc... They really like to spin everything into some kind of doomsday scenario. 2012, 2013, 4500000000... :rollseyes:

It is a merger and it is a positive thing - gases will mix so that new stars could be born again. This will only prolong life of both galaxies.

Also, Earth will be gone loooong before that, and human species way way WAY before that, too.
These events take place over such incomprehensible time spans that serveral intelligent species could evolve from goo and get extinct while merging galaxies would make a couple of spins at best.
47) Message boards : Number crunching : My worthless non-GPU adventure (Message 1239360)
Posted 1 Jun 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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Actually, VLARs *DO* produce more heat. The moment one VLAR is being processed, CPU temps go up for additional 5 degrees C on my computers. Especially the crappy notebook where it goes from normal 80 to almost 90 when processing one or more VLARs (with optimized apps.).
48) Message boards : Number crunching : Resending LOST tasks? (Message 1239041)
Posted 31 May 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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And this is now what I meant. Of course it should be fixed at source.
Just for those who can; it is easily possible to do it now, by yourself, and avoid the resent lost tasks problem for the long months to come.
49) Message boards : Number crunching : Resending LOST tasks? (Message 1239020)
Posted 31 May 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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Putting <max_tasks_reported>64</max_tasks_reported> into cc_config.xml also does the trick; permanently.
50) Message boards : Number crunching : Resending LOST tasks? (Message 1238471)
Posted 28 May 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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Just wait 8 more months and the problem will be fixed.
Maybe
51) Message boards : Number crunching : SAH On Linux (Message 1237509)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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On first boot I found the crunching times nearly doubled. Investigation showed that the Linux app has roughly double the CPU usage of the Windows version and the poor E7200 just did not have enough grunt to run the system

In my experiments, Linux app. has exactly the same CPU usage as when I tested it in wintendo 7. What tool were you using to measure CPU usage?
Plese note that "top" shows 0-100+% per process where 100% is maximum use of a single core. Task Manager in windows shows 0-50% where 50% is maximum of a single core on dual core (or 0-25% on quad).

I swapped it out for a Q6600 quad. Getting a bit more horsepower under the bonnet helped but crunching times are still around 5 minutes longer for a "standard" unit than the same hardware under Windows, the crunching time for "shorties" has nearly doubled.

As for lower performance, the default process priority (niceness) optimized app. runs is the culprit.
Are you running that script to lower niceness of CUDA processes to 0 ? It is absolutely mandatory for now, otherwise CUDA takes a huge performance hit.

Anyway, I'm running all my cuda crunchin in linux, RAC is perfectly nominal for that hardware. I would never switch to wintendo. No silly problems with drivers, no problems with monitor sleep, no problems with dummy plugs and desktop settings, no downclocking... etc... both my cuda machines run headless, with only power and network cable attached, no X sever running.
52) Message boards : Number crunching : My PC have his own life..? ;-) (Message 1236558)
Posted 25 May 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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What is 'trackpad'?

I meant touchpad, that supplement for mouse all notebooks have. In my case it was malfunctioning and causing mouse clicks on its own, so I disabled its drivers.

I have Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus.

Just in case, also try Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free (it is on-demand only, so it won't slow down your system or interfere with other antivirus programs).
53) Message boards : Number crunching : My PC have his own life..? ;-) (Message 1236459)
Posted 25 May 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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I had similar problem on an old notebook once (unexplained mouse clicks and button "sticking"). Disabling trackpad fixed the problem.
But it *could* be malware in your case.
54) Message boards : Number crunching : Internal server error... (Message 1235631)
Posted 24 May 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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Way to ruin a *lot* of already crunched work... :)
Temp. upgrading was too hard, eh?
55) Message boards : Number crunching : Internal server error... (Message 1234447)
Posted 21 May 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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The fix is to move the scheduler to the Campus link so scheduler contacts aren't competing with uploads and downloads on the Hurricane link, there's Politics involved there so we'll probably be waiting a while,
Or increase the timeout from 5 minutes to 10 minutes, but i'm sure they'll be consequences to that change,

Claggy

I don't think this issue has anything to do with link, but with the database server(s) not being able to process that many workunits in time until the http request times out.

I agree with Lionel, this IS an issue with servers and should be addressed somehow. Not everyone will check their clients and make an adjustment to cc_config.xml and a lot of work is going to waste, needlesly clog the database and link with resends and make a lot of wingmen wait.
56) Message boards : Number crunching : Hang on wingys, I'm trying.......... (Message 1233555)
Posted 19 May 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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All other rigs are shut down and it's still 84f in the crunching den.

Just out of curiosity...if you can afford running that many power-guzzling rigs, why can't you just get an AC unit for a price of one rig? That way you'd need to shut down only one rig and let others crunch cool.
57) Message boards : Number crunching : Changes in BOINCstats Page (Message 1232994)
Posted 18 May 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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You don't even wanna know what was done to BAM! account manager... Because the function "save settings to projects" is now gone (which was the only reason I was using it for only two projects) and layout is all garbled up on my Firefox, I'm in a process of detaching from it.
Changing UI for the sake of changing UI... reminds me of... boinc manager ;)
58) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (74) Server problems? (Message 1232935)
Posted 18 May 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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This WU looks like it'll be fun. _0 and _1 both failed on download. _2 managed to get it, supposedly. _3 and _4 (me) failed on download. _5 is unsent at the moment.

Check this one - Too many errors (may have bug).

I'm getting a huge amount of download errors now. What's going on?
59) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (74) Server problems? (Message 1232865)
Posted 18 May 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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At first I got 2 new WUs which flew through with over 100kB/s. That got me a bit worried. Now I just got a large batch of 34 WUs, all of them stuck at 1% and retrying indefinitely. Yay, we're at 100+% again!!

Situation normal 8-)

Edit: also, I'm getting some of this on newly assigned WUs:
[error] File 23mr10ad.21569.11693.3.10.156 has wrong size: expected 375356, got 0
Checksum or signature error for 23mr10ad.21569.11693.3.10.156

And this on different machines/platforms.
Perhaps not everything was shut cleanly? :(
60) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (74) Server problems? (Message 1232778)
Posted 18 May 2012 by Profile Khangollo
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2 days? That's one shockingly bad power company.


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