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Message 975074 - Posted: 1 Mar 2010, 17:54:11 UTC

I had to leave my farm running basically on its own for awhile so I got a little behind on maintenance and I am not up to date on what's available for monitoring.

I just upgraded the client on all of my machines and was wondering what people use to monitor their 'farm'.

I was using boincview. Any suggestions?

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Message 975076 - Posted: 1 Mar 2010, 18:03:24 UTC - in response to Message 975074.  


I was using boincview. Any suggestions?
I still do. I generally like the behavior when it works. I'm troubled by the frequency of crashes (it puts an error message in German in the status window, and does no more until restarted) which happen a couple of times a week for me. I'm troubled that it puts its own .ini file in a corrupt state in which nothing works, perhaps once a month for me (I keep a known good backup .ini file handy to get running again). It loses contact with one or another of my PCs surprisingly often, though a restart generally attends to that.

So if someone can advise of an ap that does most of the good that BV does with less bad, I'm all ears. Otherwise I keep running BV.

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Message 975081 - Posted: 1 Mar 2010, 18:14:35 UTC
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I use Boincview, too. Haven't seen the crashes that Archae86 has, but I did see some usability issues when I had over 1000 WUs waiting to upload (recent Seti trouble)... When that happened, trying to change anything on the screen took 5 to 10 seconds and it did exit several times on me, without any error messages. But generally been satisfied with it.

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[Edit] I should add that I'm using V 1.4.2.
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Message 975086 - Posted: 1 Mar 2010, 18:27:30 UTC

Likewise, I still use BoincView. I think it's got a memory leak or something, because things tend to get a bit sluggish after several weeks continuous running without rebooting, but I've never seen it pop up any error messages, in German or anything else. This copy will have been running for three years at the end of this month.

It's a bit confused by the new GPU and MT apps, but I can live with that. Better the devil you know....
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Message 975087 - Posted: 1 Mar 2010, 18:31:00 UTC

I use Boincview too, haven't had any problems with it crashing, looses it's connection sometimes, but that comes back.

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Message 975093 - Posted: 1 Mar 2010, 18:46:02 UTC - in response to Message 975074.  

Where did the "projects" folder go?


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Message 975095 - Posted: 1 Mar 2010, 18:53:36 UTC - in response to Message 975093.  

Where did the "projects" folder go?


Are you asking about the system you have 6.10.18 (Boinc) installed on?
If you didn't change anything at install time, it should be in
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Boinc\

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Message 975096 - Posted: 1 Mar 2010, 18:59:45 UTC - in response to Message 975093.  

Where did the "projects" folder go?

On Boinx 6.10.x?,

It's split now between Boinc's Program location, and Boinc's Data location, where all the config files and project folders are,
it's location you can find in the Boinc startup messages, it'll be hidden so you'll have to unhide it.

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Message 975098 - Posted: 1 Mar 2010, 19:09:55 UTC - in response to Message 975096.  

Thanks...

It was under \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Boinc\.

Guess I missed a few things lately. :-D


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Message 975103 - Posted: 1 Mar 2010, 19:36:58 UTC - in response to Message 975074.  

I was using boincview. Any suggestions?

BoincView isn't maintained any longer, as far as I know. But there are (at least) two other tools out there, written by BOINC users, namely Boinc.NET (BDN) and BoincTasks, both downloadable from BOINC add-on software.

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Message 975133 - Posted: 1 Mar 2010, 21:06:35 UTC - in response to Message 975103.  
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Thanks...

It was under \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Boinc\

Guess I missed a few things lately. :-D


In Vista project folders \ProgramData\BOINC\projets\setiathome.berkeley.edu\

In XP it is in Documents and Settings\BOINC\projects\setiathome....etc. (mark the space!)

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Message 975140 - Posted: 1 Mar 2010, 21:21:05 UTC - in response to Message 975133.  

Thanks...

It was under \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Boinc\.

Guess I missed a few things lately. :-D

In Vista project folders \ProgramData\BOINC\setiathome.berkeley.edu\

In XP it is in \Program Files\BOINC\setiathome....etc. (mark the space!)

Read all about it in FAQ: The Big BOINC 6 Answer Thread.
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Message 975145 - Posted: 1 Mar 2010, 21:42:34 UTC - in response to Message 975133.  

Thanks...

It was under \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Boinc\.

Guess I missed a few things lately. :-D

In Vista project folders \ProgramData\BOINC\setiathome.berkeley.edu\

In XP it is in \Program Files\BOINC\setiathome....etc. (mark the space!)

Lord Vader doesn't have any Vista PC's, so why would he need to know that?, the XP location you gave is for Boinc 5, not 6.

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