Odd things after the big outage

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dcappello Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 261 Credit: 170,969,320 RAC: 0	Message 1054462 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 2:05:18 UTC Just looking over things after the long outage and I notice a few things - some of my rigs seem to be pulling a lot of compute errors on CUDA WUs - others seeing the same? Also I just noticed that looking over the stats I can't even find myself in the list - my RAC should be around 29K right now. ID: 1054462 ·

Geek@Play Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 31 Jul 01 Posts: 2467 Credit: 86,146,931 RAC: 0	Message 1054465 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 2:10:37 UTC I don't know about your computer but I have been trying to locate myself on the statistics page also and cannot. Should be around RAC 22,500. Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc.... ID: 1054465 ·

dcappello Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 261 Credit: 170,969,320 RAC: 0	Message 1054469 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 2:19:15 UTC - in response to Message 1054465. Geek - I found you at 30 just now.... perhaps some moths still left in the databases.... ID: 1054469 ·

Terror Australis Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 1817 Credit: 262,693,308 RAC: 44	Message 1054470 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 2:19:30 UTC - in response to Message 1054462. Just looking over things after the long outage and I notice a few things - some of my rigs seem to be pulling a lot of compute errors on CUDA WUs - others seeing the same? Also I just noticed that looking over the stats I can't even find myself in the list - my RAC should be around 29K right now. No problems here, Fred Efmer has a thread about -177 errors due to "The Auto DCF" problem. Is this what you're getting ? Re the stats problem, I was experiencing the same problem before the outage, must be some sort of bug in the server software. It usually corrects itself on the next update. T.A. ID: 1054470 ·

dcappello Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 261 Credit: 170,969,320 RAC: 0	Message 1054472 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 2:26:02 UTC - in response to Message 1054470. Humm not seeing those kinds of -177 errors... stuff like: Reason: Illegal Instruction (0xc000001d) at address 0x0000000140003488 Details at: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=1738186251 ID: 1054472 ·

Geek@Play Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 31 Jul 01 Posts: 2467 Credit: 86,146,931 RAC: 0	Message 1054489 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 3:21:22 UTC - in response to Message 1054469. Geek - I found you at 30 just now.... perhaps some moths still left in the databases.... Good grief.....I knew I should look before posting. I looked several times yesterday and was missing. Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc.... ID: 1054489 ·

John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0	Message 1054493 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 3:27:34 UTC - in response to Message 1054489. Geek - I found you at 30 just now.... perhaps some moths still left in the databases.... Good grief.....I knew I should look before posting. I looked several times yesterday and was missing. It can happen. The leaders stats pages each update on a different schedule (minimum time since the last update, but only if someone looks at the page). That means that if you are on page 2 when page 1 updates, but on page 1 when page 2 updates, you disappear. BOINC WIKI ID: 1054493 ·

soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6497 Credit: 34,134,168 RAC: 0	Message 1054495 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 3:28:09 UTC - in response to Message 1054472. That.. is a heck of an error. Not being an expert at Hex addresses but I am guessing a memory error? Hopefully someone more knowledgeable on that can chime in. Janice ID: 1054495 ·

Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0	Message 1054649 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 14:05:44 UTC I'm getting a few -9 errors on my new GPU machine, about 1 in 10. Being new to GPUs, is this typical? I'm just curious, I don't see this as a huge problem unless there is something I can correct. The WUs error out in a few minutes, I get a few credits, and a new WU right away. ID: 1054649 ·

SciManStev Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6653 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0	Message 1054666 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 14:42:25 UTC - in response to Message 1054649. I'm getting a few -9 errors on my new GPU machine, about 1 in 10. Being new to GPUs, is this typical? I'm just curious, I don't see this as a huge problem unless there is something I can correct. The WUs error out in a few minutes, I get a few credits, and a new WU right away. What I saw was a bunch of -185 errors, all coming from your CPU. I don't have time to check further at the moment as I'm at work. Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website ID: 1054666 ·

Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0	Message 1054678 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 15:30:02 UTC - in response to Message 1054666. Last modified: 10 Dec 2010, 15:34:23 UTC What I saw was a bunch of -185 errors, all coming from your CPU. I don't have time to check further at the moment as I'm at work. Steve The CPU errors were all due to me installing the wrong optimized ap on my newish machine. That appears to have been fixed. Looking closer I see the very short GPU tasks were not -9 error messages, but -9 "informational messages", like this task. Never noticed these before, and I was wondering how common they are. ID: 1054678 ·

arkayn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0	Message 1054690 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 15:53:19 UTC - in response to Message 1054678. Fairly common actually, it usually means that they captured a terrestrial signal in that sweep and it overwhelms anything else that might be in that area. ID: 1054690 ·

perryjay Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3377 Credit: 20,676,751 RAC: 0	Message 1054692 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 15:57:36 UTC - in response to Message 1054678. Arkayn is right as usual but I might add that if you are getting a lot of them while your wingman finishes clean it might be a problem with your setup. Usually, heat or the wrong opt package will cause a machine to generate -9s. PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC ID: 1054692 ·

Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0	Message 1054695 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 16:04:20 UTC - in response to Message 1054692. Thanks guys. A quick check shows wingmen having the same results in several cases, so I guess it is just luck of the draw. ID: 1054695 ·

Josef W. Segur Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0	Message 1054735 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 18:42:47 UTC - in response to Message 1054695. Thanks guys. A quick check shows wingmen having the same results in several cases, so I guess it is just luck of the draw. Yes, when you get credit there's generally nothing to worry about. The Science Status page shows how many overflows were seen in the last 10 minutes, that usually indicates between 5 and 10 percent. Joe ID: 1054735 ·

Allie in Vancouver Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0	Message 1054736 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 18:44:07 UTC - in response to Message 1054462. Also I just noticed that looking over the stats I can't even find myself in the list - my RAC should be around 29K right now. You're mo longer MIA. In 14th spot, atm. :) Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein ID: 1054736 ·

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