I am getting a lot of compute errors

Author	Message
Rob Send message Joined: 14 Jan 08 Posts: 1 Credit: 18,814 RAC: 0	Message 700876 - Posted: 17 Jan 2008, 20:43:29 UTC I've only been running seti@home for a few days, but in that time 66% of the tasks on my computer have ended with compute errors. That seems quite high to me, is it normal? ID: 700876 ·

Dotsch Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0	Message 701076 - Posted: 18 Jan 2008, 7:46:31 UTC Your workunits crashing with a "signal 11" at a randomly point. So I recommend you to let a hardware diagnostisc suite running at your system to test memory, cpu, cache,... ID: 701076 ·

pjdebeer Send message Joined: 26 Jan 08 Posts: 2 Credit: 17,559 RAC: 0	Message 704694 - Posted: 27 Jan 2008, 2:31:47 UTC I am also getting a high number of compute errors - very disappointing - is this really worth the effort if the s/w contains bugs ? ID: 704694 ·

peristalsis Send message Joined: 23 Jul 99 Posts: 154 Credit: 28,610,163 RAC: 51	Message 704783 - Posted: 27 Jan 2008, 9:09:45 UTC I'm running PCLinuxOS. I'm certainly not a linux guru. I occassionally get errors but that happens. A lot of errors on the other hand generally signifies a problem with your machine. I would recommend that you check your memory. I'm no help with naming a program, but with windows it would be Memtest. Hopefully someone will pop in with a recommendation. Might help if you post which distro your're using...p ID: 704783 ·

Dotsch Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0	Message 704790 - Posted: 27 Jan 2008, 9:27:22 UTC - in response to Message 704694. I am also getting a high number of compute errors - very disappointing - is this really worth the effort if the s/w contains bugs ? I also recommend you to let a hardware diagnostic suite running against your system. ID: 704790 ·

pjdebeer Send message Joined: 26 Jan 08 Posts: 2 Credit: 17,559 RAC: 0	Message 704978 - Posted: 27 Jan 2008, 20:07:56 UTC - in response to Message 701076. Your workunits crashing with a "signal 11" at a randomly point. So I recommend you to let a hardware diagnostisc suite running at your system to test memory, cpu, cache,... This is a new machine - there are no memory, cpu problems. As your software is faulty I suggest you upgrade it, else you ere just wasting my CPU time ID: 704978 ·

Dotsch Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0	Message 704991 - Posted: 27 Jan 2008, 20:31:21 UTC - in response to Message 704978. Last modified: 27 Jan 2008, 20:32:09 UTC Your workunits crashing with a "signal 11" at a randomly point. So I recommend you to let a hardware diagnostisc suite running at your system to test memory, cpu, cache,... This is a new machine - there are no memory, cpu problems. As your software is faulty I suggest you upgrade it, else you ere just wasting my CPU time It work for several hundret thousands of computers/peoples with no problems. A new hardware did not prevent you from hardware failures. It happens more often as you think, that new hardware has defects. Often the failures happens in the first weeks/month. A good practice is, if the system running about 2 to 3 month stable, it will run stable for some years, till some hardware agin defects occurs. Also, the SETI application is a more stessing the hardware (CPU, memory and cache) as in idle mode. So the run of SETI could show some hardware problems. So I am still recommend you to let a hardware diagnostic tool running against your system. ID: 704991 ·

©2025 University of California

SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.