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Application: Ghost Detector - find out how big your Ghost Army is
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ded1o1 Send message Joined: 29 Sep 07 Posts: 68 Credit: 10,834,919 RAC: 0 |
Ghosts are starting to get way out of control around here. Seems like every server run creates a whole slew of new Ghosts. Almost 50% of the Work Units the scheduler has assigned to me have become ghosts because I did not receive the scheduler request/response. To make it quicker and easier to figure out how big my Ghost Army has become I decided to write a simple little application. Its very easy to use so I thought I'd share it with my fellow SETIzens. If you are interested, you can download it from http://netfolder.in/folder.php?folder_id=iPe7n5V, there you will find 2 Zip files. Most people will only need the the smaller Zip file which just contains the application and its documentation. Anyone who is having trouble getting it to run should try the larger Zip file which contains a full installer and should solve any problems. |
Mike Bader Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 231 Credit: 20,366,214 RAC: 33 |
Thanks I will give it a try. Mike Bader BOINC V7.16.5 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_join_form.php?id=5 - Join Our International Team [img]http://boinc.mundayweb.com/one/stats.php? |
[B^S] madmac Send message Joined: 9 Feb 04 Posts: 1175 Credit: 4,754,897 RAC: 0 |
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arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Other than the hoops you have to jump through to actually download, I got it just fine. Get the basic version to run? I get a problem with mcinet.ocx......in Win2k again. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
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ded1o1 Send message Joined: 29 Sep 07 Posts: 68 Credit: 10,834,919 RAC: 0 |
Version 1.02 should work a little better, it also automatically detects all BOINC projects. New Host, less hoops so easier to download from. You will find any and all new versions there. http://www.mediafire.com/?yyy64lh5953d7 Please download and use the installer if you are having trouble getting it to run. Once you have used the installer please update to the latest version. cannot get it, how do I download it The new host should be easier to download from [B^S] madmac. Get the basic version to run? Sorry to hear you had trouble with it msattler, thanks for posting the error message. Please use the installer, then update to the latest version. I get a run time error, so no it does not work. Sorry about that arkayn. I've tried it under Win 7 32 bit. Could you please try installer then update to the new version? Please post the error message if you still get one. Here is a sample the pre-formatted information it can place in the clipboard. 2,148 WU 'In Progress' 1,158 WU on board ------------------------ 990 Ghost Work Units |
X-Files 27 Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 104 Credit: 111,191,433 RAC: 0 |
Its a common problem for an app made from vs6 when its packed for distribution - lots of missing pieces. |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
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ded1o1 Send message Joined: 29 Sep 07 Posts: 68 Credit: 10,834,919 RAC: 0 |
Its a common problem for an app made from vs6 when its packed for distribution - lots of missing pieces. The installer supplies the "missing pieces" for those that don't have them already X-Files 27. I uninstalled the old one and reinstalled the newer version Thanks for the extra info arkayn. That was a bug with the 1.00 and 1.01 versions, v1.02 should not suffer from that any more. Most odd, is it displaying v1.02 in its title bar? If it's not then please extract the contents of the GhostDet v1.02.zip file into the folder that you installed it to. |
JohnDK Send message Joined: 28 May 00 Posts: 1222 Credit: 451,243,443 RAC: 1,127 |
Works on my Win7 x64. Downloaded the small zip and ran it, got error message that Mshflxgd.ocx was missing. I then downloaded the big zip file and extracted that file into the folder and all is OK. 706 WU 'In Progress' 476 WU on board ------------------------ 230 Ghost Work Units |
ded1o1 Send message Joined: 29 Sep 07 Posts: 68 Credit: 10,834,919 RAC: 0 |
Works on my Win7 x64. Good news JohnDK, glad to hear it works under Win7 64bit :) |
perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3377 Credit: 20,676,751 RAC: 0 |
Haven't tried the new 1.02 but the original worked fine for me from the installer on Vista. Ok, uninstalled V1.00 and installed v1.02. No problem except it seems to think I have 1 ghost. The old one showed that way too. Not sure why. PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC |
Bill G Send message Joined: 1 Jun 01 Posts: 1282 Credit: 187,688,550 RAC: 182 |
Downloaded the small zip file and it installed and ran just fine in Win 7 64bit. No missing files. Says I have 10 ghosts, am I missing something, what do I do now that I know I have them? SETI@home classic workunits 4,019 SETI@home classic CPU time 34,348 hours |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
Do know that this application uses page scraping, which adds extra load to the database, which in turn could lead to it crashing. This can lead to your IP address being blocked if you use it too often. |
JohnDK Send message Joined: 28 May 00 Posts: 1222 Credit: 451,243,443 RAC: 1,127 |
Says I have 10 ghosts, am I missing something, what do I do now that I know I have them? I wouldn't do anything, they will be crunched by others once they time out. |
JohnDK Send message Joined: 28 May 00 Posts: 1222 Credit: 451,243,443 RAC: 1,127 |
Do know that this application uses page scraping, which adds extra load to the database, which in turn could lead to it crashing. This can lead to your IP address being blocked if you use it too often. Does it add extra load in comparison to when you check for ghosts manually? |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
Yes, as your browser doesn't check all the pages of your work simultaneously. This app does. From Matt Lebofsky, January 16 2008 In other news, it seems the every day there's a different reason our web sites are so darn slow. Yesterday afternoon we were getting hit by some seemingly nefarious activity which I was able to block quite easily once I discovered it. But we were also getting hit by some scraping of stats pages via a robot (called BoincBot) that was not obeying robots.txt. I blocked these hits as well. We don't allow such activity on our web sites. If you want BOINC stats you can download the daily xml dumps just like everybody else. |
Geek@Play Send message Joined: 31 Jul 01 Posts: 2467 Credit: 86,146,931 RAC: 0 |
A Binary search algorithm with a 1,000 Work Unit step interval is used to determine the number This routine would be very kind to the data base compared to a manual search. Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc.... |
Tim Norton Send message Joined: 2 Jun 99 Posts: 835 Credit: 33,540,164 RAC: 0 |
A Binary search algorithm with a 1,000 Work Unit step interval is used to determine the number hmm not sure i agree as if you have tens of pages of tasks then it would have to go through every page to find all the names of the wu list to then compare against your local wu unless there is another way to query the task list that i am not aware of? as it does the checking automatically its going to hit the server hard with multiple requests etc {edit} - actually if it does not have away of fixing the ghosts then there is not much point finding out - could put the server under unnecessary load especially if large numbers of crunchers all start using it! Tim |
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