1) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : started with Linux, continue with Windows? (Message 90036) Posted 23 Mar 2005 by fjalar Post: Hi, it turns out that the Windows core client under Wine is still running faster than the native Linux client itself. I've tested it and it seems to be confirmed. Is there a way to continue work with the Windows core client? I have been working on a CPDN WU for about 6 months now and I'm half way through (55%). I'd like to continue exactly where I stopped with Linux cc 4.27. I'va already tried copying the directories and state files into the new installation, but the client ignores this and starts downloading new WUs. TIA Matthias

2) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Force client to upload? (Message 70792) Posted 17 Jan 2005 by fjalar Post: > You don't want to use -return_results_immediately if you're > disconnected 98% of the time. I realize that. I wanted to use this option after killing the client, dialing up and restarting it manually. Usually the client is started at boot time, running in the background. > Kill BOINC and restart it with the -update_prefs option. You also have to > supply the URL so it would be: > > ./boinc*gnu -update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu > > (I never remember the name so I use wildcards) That's what I tried, it never worked. Output was something like this, no specific error message. The client behaved as if the -update_prefs URL switch was ignored. it just didn_t try to connect. > You can't contact the scheduler when the result is finished because you aren't > connected to the internet. It can't upload the results or contact the server > until you dial into your ISP. Indeed. I don't want to dial it up automatically, I want do dial up myself. > Have you looked at running <a> href="http://www.boinc.dk/download.php?file=boincview_beta_0.9.1.zip"> > BoincView[/url] under Wine? It provides a GUI interface to BOINC that lets you > enable/disable the network connection (your original q) and manually "update" > to upload results when you want to. Plus a lot more. It might work well > enough for what you need. I thought of that. I'll try that, but it seems an overkill solution for quite a simple problem. Thanks anyway.

3) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Force client to upload? (Message 69743) Posted 15 Jan 2005 by fjalar Post: I know the site that Walt suggested, but my question is not about setting BOINC up and running it. It's running o. k. so far. The problem is: the client is running in the background, and as my machine is disconnected from the net 98% of the time, it is rather unlikely that work is finished and can be uploaded right away. The client tries and tries again, with the waiting period getting longer every time. I want to kill the BOINC process and restart it as soon as the network is up, and force the client to up/download. This is the output I have: 2005-01-15 20:16:02 [climateprediction.net] Deferring communication with project for 8 hours, 2 minutes, and 46 seconds The comment on the option -update_prefs URL is: ...This will also report completed results and get new work if needed. an on -return_results_immediately Contact scheduler as soon as any result done None of the options does what I want. Seems I am missing something that is obvious to others?

4) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Force client to upload? (Message 63299) Posted 12 Jan 2005 by fjalar Post: Hi everybody, possibly I've missed something but so far I could not find a proper documentation for the command line client. My question is: can the Linux client be forced to upload results? I thought the -return_results_immediately option should do it, but whenever the scheduler is not responding the time to wait grows longer. Matthias

5) Message boards : Number crunching : Unbelievable (Message 11166) Posted 22 Jul 2004 by fjalar Post: Hi Chris > Sure there have been and are problems. Noone is denying that. The main point is not that the project has probs, it is that it was released and announced too early. Until this moment, the classic site webpage encourages people to change over to BOINC. The project people should at least stop announcing the new project as long as it is not running stable. I have read a lot of posts (and ignored the bashings, OK, they are there), and I was really astonished how much people are really dedicated ti SETI. I have a single Duron PC here with a dial-up connection, and I didn't realize that some people seem to run whole farms at home, some machines just for SETI clients! I understand there's a lot of frustration in those people, though I agree there should be other way to vent it. Today I killed the BOINC process, reactivated classic and downloaded a pack of units to keep my machine running for a week. I'll be back then and see if BOINC has made any progress. My advice to the people in charge of SETI is: stop encouraging people to switch over and make sure it's running stable first. My advice to all others: stop posting (and reading!) bashing messages. Greetings Matthias, Germany

6) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Download site down? (Message 7568) Posted 14 Jul 2004 by fjalar Post: So far I've not been able to download the Linux client - link seems to be down. Alternative pages also failed. Can anyone mail the the most recent client for Linux (hope it's not too big)?

7) Questions and Answers : Windows : Download page unavailable? (Message 7567) Posted 14 Jul 2004 by fjalar Post: So far I've not been able to download the Linux client - link seems to be down. Alternative pages also failed. Can anyone mail the the most recent client for Linux (hope it's not too big)? ...ooops - this should be in the *ix section.

 
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