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Lord_Vader Send message Joined: 7 May 05 Posts: 217 Credit: 10,386,105 RAC: 12 |
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? TIA Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station. - Grand Moff Tarkin |
archae86 Send message Joined: 31 Aug 99 Posts: 909 Credit: 1,582,816 RAC: 0 |
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. |
dnolan Send message Joined: 30 Aug 01 Posts: 1228 Credit: 47,779,411 RAC: 32 |
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. -Dave [Edit] I should add that I'm using V 1.4.2. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
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.... |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
I use Boincview too, haven't had any problems with it crashing, looses it's connection sometimes, but that comes back. Claggy |
Lord_Vader Send message Joined: 7 May 05 Posts: 217 Credit: 10,386,105 RAC: 12 |
Where did the "projects" folder go? Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station. - Grand Moff Tarkin |
dnolan Send message Joined: 30 Aug 01 Posts: 1228 Credit: 47,779,411 RAC: 32 |
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\ -Dave |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
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. Claggy |
Lord_Vader Send message Joined: 7 May 05 Posts: 217 Credit: 10,386,105 RAC: 12 |
Thanks... It was under \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Boinc\. Guess I missed a few things lately. :-D Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station. - Grand Moff Tarkin |
Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3184 Credit: 446,358 RAC: 0 |
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. Gruß, Gundolf Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz) SETI@home classic workunits 3,758 SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours |
Fred J. Verster Send message Joined: 21 Apr 04 Posts: 3252 Credit: 31,903,643 RAC: 0 |
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Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Thanks... Read all about it in FAQ: The Big BOINC 6 Answer Thread. |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
Thanks... 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. Claggy |
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