It's worse than above...New downloaded CPU tasks are not appearing in tasks tab once download is complete?

David

Update: some have just appeared.....wierd...they don't normally take several minutes...<confused>

David

All looks O.K. so far on your host.
Make sure you have show all tasks selected in work tab (Boinc manager).

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Ok, I'm a blithering idiot.....

*clicks 'show all tasks'*

There are definitely loads of orphan tasks somewhere on my machine but everything is showing that has been downloaded since the reload of the Lunatics app.

David

...You could get some additional speed by running the installer again and choosing the SSSE3x optimized CPU build, your i5-2410M CPU supports that too.

                                                                  Joe

I stopped the BOINC manager running, uninstalled the Lunatics app, started BOINC manager then reinstalled the Lunatics app selecting SSSE3x as suggested. Guess what:

All downloads and tasks in progress are lost and now BOINC is downloading new tasks to work on <blank stare>

Is there any way of reattaching existing tasks?

Well it seemed like the right order to apply <rolls eyes>

Thanks

David

Well, I'm afraid that you've just learned the hard way that it wasn't the right order.

In fact, Joe just suggested a single step: running the installer again. If you had done that, your existing work would have ben preserved. Unfortunately, now it's gone, you'll just have to download it again the normal way.

For the record, the step which probably did the damage is restarting BOINC between uninstalling Lunatics and installing it again. If you are doing maintenance like that, it's better to stop BOINC at the beginning and leave it stopped until you've finished everything you intend to do.

But just changing applications doesn't require that. You can re-run the installer over the top of the existing applications, and the installer itself will close down and restart the bit of BOINC - the core client - which needs closing. We're going to provide more information about that in the next version - it's already been pointed out that this one isn't as explicit as it could be.

Sorry Guys, I know it's important not to waste the units....Highly inefficient.

I'll know for next time!!

Thanks for your help.

David

and the installer itself will close down and restart the bit of BOINC - the core client - which needs closing.

I saw that in the instructions but decided to do it the old way, shut down client, shut down BM, then make changes. I get kinda cowardly when it comes to trusting a program to do what it is supposed to do until I see others saying it works. Plus, it's hard to overcome force of habit. :-)

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And normally, you do NOT want to 'show all tasks', especially if you have a large cache. Takes more overhead to sort and display everything. Set it back to 'show active tasks' once you have seen what you want to see.
And close Boinc Manager completely if you are not looking at all. Just make sure you have not clicked 'stop running science applications' in the exit window.
I have a link to the Boinc manager pinned to my taskbar in Win7 so I have a 1 click startup for it any time I want to check things.
On my other rigs, I just have a shortcut on the desktop.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Im a coward when it comes to upgrading boinc myslef. I set NNT, waite till all work units are done and gone, then upgrade to the next newest thing. Id rather be safe then flush a days cache down the tubes.

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That makes, at least, two of us!

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Don't take life too seriously, as you'll never come out of it alive!

Make that 3. ;)

Cheers.

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Upgrading Boinc is safe.

Nothing to worry about.
I usually have hundreds of units in my cache while upgrading.

Never had a problem.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

I am installing the new v.38 and I have installed raistmer’s ap to data floder to
C//ProgramData/BOINC/projects/seti.Berkley.edu
And added the ap part to my app_info.xml file
And I see the ap cmdline and looks like this
<cmdline>-unroll 8 -ffa_block 6144 -ffa_block_fetch 1536 -instances_per_device 2 -hp -no_cpu_lock</cmdline>.
And from the readme file it says this

Tuning cmd line parameters:
For MB: other way round - if you experience lag or driver restarts increase
-period_iteration_num

So my question is where is the cmdline at for mb wu or where do I put the mb cmdline at in my app_info.xml file?

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I am installing the new v.38 and I have installed raistmer’s ap to data floder to
C//ProgramData/BOINC/projects/seti.Berkley.edu
And added the ap part to my app_info.xml file
And I see the ap cmdline and looks like this
<cmdline>-unroll 8 -ffa_block 6144 -ffa_block_fetch 1536 -instances_per_device 2 -hp -no_cpu_lock</cmdline>.
And from the readme file it says this

Tuning cmd line parameters:
For MB: other way round - if you experience lag or driver restarts increase
-period_iteration_num

So my question is where is the cmdline at for mb wu or where do I put the mb cmdline at in my app_info.xml file?

I notice that the cmdline is below this entry in the ap part of the app_info.xml file and I notice the other app_version entry also have thie same entry so I should put the cmdline there in the mb parts of the app_info.xml file.
<plan_class>cuda</plan_class>
<cmdline> -period_iteration_num N</cmdline> where as N is my factor

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I am installing the new v.38 and I have installed raistmer’s ap to data floder to
C//ProgramData/BOINC/projects/seti.Berkley.edu
And added the ap part to my app_info.xml file
And I see the ap cmdline and looks like this
<cmdline>-unroll 8 -ffa_block 6144 -ffa_block_fetch 1536 -instances_per_device 2 -hp -no_cpu_lock</cmdline>.
And from the readme file it says this

Tuning cmd line parameters:
For MB: other way round - if you experience lag or driver restarts increase
-period_iteration_num

So my question is where is the cmdline at for mb wu or where do I put the mb cmdline at in my app_info.xml file?

I notice that the cmdline is below this entry in the ap part of the app_info.xml file and I notice the other app_version entry also have thie same entry so I should put the cmdline there in the mb parts of the app_info.xml file.
<plan_class>cuda</plan_class>
<cmdline> -period_iteration_num N</cmdline> where as N is my factor

Note:

On MB cuda the commandline options are not implemented.

This only works for OpenCL apps.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

I am installing the new v.38 and I have installed raistmer’s ap to data floder to
C//ProgramData/BOINC/projects/seti.Berkley.edu
And added the ap part to my app_info.xml file
And I see the ap cmdline and looks like this
<cmdline>-unroll 8 -ffa_block 6144 -ffa_block_fetch 1536 -instances_per_device 2 -hp -no_cpu_lock</cmdline>.
And from the readme file it says this

Tuning cmd line parameters:
For MB: other way round - if you experience lag or driver restarts increase
-period_iteration_num

So my question is where is the cmdline at for mb wu or where do I put the mb cmdline at in my app_info.xml file?

I notice that the cmdline is below this entry in the ap part of the app_info.xml file and I notice the other app_version entry also have thie same entry so I should put the cmdline there in the mb parts of the app_info.xml file.
<plan_class>cuda</plan_class>
<cmdline> -period_iteration_num N</cmdline> where as N is my factor

Note:

On MB cuda the commandline options are not implemented.

This only works for OpenCL apps.

ok thanks

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Hi guys !
I gave it a try , I have installed v0.38 choosing the right OS : W7 x64 , and
the 'for ATI 4XXX and over ' part as use an ATI Radeon HD 5770 .
Now looking in the Task Manager it works for the CPU ( AMD 1100T ) but I think
that the GPU doesn't work at all. At least the GPU-Z looks so...
Should I have done anything else ?
Any ideas ???

Hi guys !
I gave it a try , I have installed v0.38 choosing the right OS : W7 x64 , and
the 'for ATI 4XXX and over ' part as use an ATI Radeon HD 5770 .
Now looking in the Task Manager it works for the CPU ( AMD 1100T ) but I think
that the GPU doesn't work at all. At least the GPU-Z looks so...
Should I have done anything else ?
Any ideas ???

You'll have to wait until your computer has successfully contacted the server and downloaded new work for the card - that doesn't seem to have happened yet.

The servers have been a bit sticky today, and we're about to go into maintenance any second. I think you'll have to postpone your experiments until later today/

OK . THNX for answering