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Message 1683721 - Posted: 24 May 2015, 15:19:25 UTC

Can some one please stop this user from doing any more units please

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5754408

look at his tasks . I have sent him a P.M to tell him he has a problem and what i think may have caused it .

He has 1500 units inconlusive , 141 errors and 1100+ pending

But he only has a Core 2 Duo and his GPU is a GTX 560 .

hes doing Cuda 42 and Cuda 50 so i think he's allowed windows to automatically update the GPU driver and it's gone wrong , so i have told him to reinstall the driver but this time do a clean install
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Message 1683889 - Posted: 25 May 2015, 2:23:15 UTC

Have you gotten a response to your PM yet?

The Tasks list for that box shows only 5 tasks in progress, all CPU MBv7, the newest dated 23 May 2015. He may have seen your PM, or noticed the problem himself, and set NNT or completely shut down that box.

The servers seem to also be choking him off, reducing the # of Tasks Allowed based on the number of Error and Invalid tasks reported. The system seems to be working........
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Message 1683908 - Posted: 25 May 2015, 4:07:21 UTC - in response to Message 1683889.  

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No i haven't recieved a reply but i'm not really expecting one unless he has trouble or did not under stand the the pm . I did explain it how to do it and what he should do like reset windows update to notify him but let him choose when to update and not to let windows automatically update the GPU drivers .

So long as he has now fixed it . I only noticed it as he was my wing man and i had 14 units in the inconclusive and thought wtf !!
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Message 1683915 - Posted: 25 May 2015, 4:40:00 UTC
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Donald i just looked and he now has 30 units in progress and the servers seem to be sending him still cuda 32 and cuda 50 units . Some one might wish to keep a i eye on this account .

Not shore if it's his end or Seti . He seems to be running stock apps . And have the latest Bionic and is running the 347.52 GPU driver so there all up to date !!

EDIT: just looked again now 10 units in progress . Looks like hes not noticed . He is chewing through a hell of a lot of units 3300 in total still ! aprox 1 gig and have , no idea how much per hour but it must be a lot .
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Message 1683934 - Posted: 25 May 2015, 6:42:17 UTC

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Sometimes the system gets it wrong too : as you can see the _0 was a host with lots of invalids, I processed the _1 and the _2 was a host with invalids too so I got "bumped" while the 2 overflow host with all these invalids got it right according to the Seti system...
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Message 1683937 - Posted: 25 May 2015, 7:07:11 UTC - in response to Message 1683934.  

Sometimes the system gets it wrong too : as you can see the _0 was a host with lots of invalids, I processed the _1 and the _2 was a host with invalids too so I got "bumped" while the 2 overflow host with all these invalids got it right according to the Seti system...


i just looked he does not seem to have thousands no.1

the second mmm hes only doing Cpu at the moment and looks like maybe he's noticed
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Message 1684342 - Posted: 26 May 2015, 3:49:27 UTC - in response to Message 1683934.  

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1797590374

Sometimes the system gets it wrong too : as you can see the _0 was a host with lots of invalids, I processed the _1 and the _2 was a host with invalids too so I got "bumped" while the 2 overflow host with all these invalids got it right according to the Seti system...


Same for me here:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1799369095

2 overflow's validated each other while mine was marked as invalid.
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Message 1684366 - Posted: 26 May 2015, 5:40:52 UTC



Same for me here:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1799369095

2 overflow's validated each other while mine was marked as invalid.

Yes, the old AMD/ATi curse.

It's either that 1 or the GTX 560 Ti curse.

Cheers.
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Message 1684462 - Posted: 26 May 2015, 11:41:11 UTC - in response to Message 1684366.  
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Same for me here:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1799369095

2 overflow's validated each other while mine was marked as invalid.

Yes, the old AMD/ATi curse.

It's either that 1 or the GTX 560 Ti curse.

Cheers.


Both AMD hosts using broken (difficult) drivers.


With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.
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Message 1684570 - Posted: 27 May 2015, 0:23:06 UTC

Not entirely related to this thread but didn't want to start a new thread for this question ...

Recently had a 'disturbance' on one of my PC's (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=7567092) and it errored out all WU's in the queue. Not sure why that occurred though the disturbance created an anomaly in the app_info.xml file. I replaced the file, reset the count parameters and restarted. On 'Update requested by user', I get 'Not requesting tasks; don't need CPU, Nvidia GPU'. That has been going on for now about 3 days ... no SETI WU's are being allocated to this PC. I have engaged Einstein on the PC just to prevent wasting compute power but would like to get SETI re-engaged. Any suggestions?
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Message 1684574 - Posted: 27 May 2015, 0:41:58 UTC - in response to Message 1684570.  
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Your Computer shows 268 tasks in progress, which you have a 300 limit, 100 for CPU, 200 for 2 GPUs.

I'm thinking you may have to abort/delete those WorkUnits to get more.

Or you still have a problem in app_info that is not letting those files run.
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Message 1684579 - Posted: 27 May 2015, 0:59:36 UTC - in response to Message 1684574.  

Thanks for reply. Found no tasks in sETI folder and was going to "Reset" but backed off since I didn't know if the reset would apply to only that PC or to the others as well. Do you?

SETI now responds that my cache is full so they think I have those 268 tasks which were apparently errored out around the 23rd.
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Message 1684580 - Posted: 27 May 2015, 1:02:38 UTC - in response to Message 1684342.  

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1797590374

Sometimes the system gets it wrong too : as you can see the _0 was a host with lots of invalids, I processed the _1 and the _2 was a host with invalids too so I got "bumped" while the 2 overflow host with all these invalids got it right according to the Seti system...


Same for me here:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1799369095

2 overflow's validated each other while mine was marked as invalid.



You can add this one to that list.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1798845492

Two overflows marked as valid and two normal results marked as invalid.

That is not particularly good science. I sure hope it wasn't the one with ET calling us. A long shot for sure but then someone does hit the Powerball every now and then ;).
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Message 1684587 - Posted: 27 May 2015, 1:20:11 UTC - in response to Message 1684579.  

A reset should only affect the computer you apply it on.

Have you tried the obvious? Restart BOINC, and a reboot?
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Message 1684595 - Posted: 27 May 2015, 1:48:12 UTC - in response to Message 1684587.  

Yes, did a restart after reloading the app_info.xml file. However, held off on reboot hoping minor adjustments would force SETI to be re-engaged. I'll give the reset a try first.
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Message 1684597 - Posted: 27 May 2015, 1:49:17 UTC - in response to Message 1684595.  

Mis-stated. Did the reboot as well and held off on re-install.
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Message 1684774 - Posted: 27 May 2015, 15:27:10 UTC - in response to Message 1684597.  

Re-installed both BOINC and Lunatics this AM and everything fine. Thanks again for the encouragement.
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Message 1685515 - Posted: 29 May 2015, 6:31:14 UTC - in response to Message 1683721.  

Can some one please stop this user from doing any more units please

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5754408

look at his tasks . I have sent him a P.M to tell him he has a problem and what i think may have caused it .

He's back to trashing GPU Tasks, both cuda42 and cuda50. Over 1000, I spot-checked and everyone I looked at was a -9 results overflow. cuda50 finished in less than 10 seconds, cuda42 took 25-30 seconds.

Glen, did this one ever answer your PM?

If they don't get, or don't answer PMs, the only other way to contact them is by a Project Administrator (Eric, Matt, Jeff,....) sending them an email.
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Message 1685544 - Posted: 29 May 2015, 8:52:32 UTC

I doubt that Glenn did, or indeed ever will. I had an (unpleasant) exchange with him some time ago. His GTX560 is monstrously overclocked, and "it works fine for games, so why not for S@H?" (only with a pile of four letter words). If ever there was a computer and user that deserved to be cut off at its roots then this combination would be my nomination.
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Message 1685584 - Posted: 29 May 2015, 12:36:15 UTC - in response to Message 1685544.  

I doubt that Glenn did, or indeed ever will. I had an (unpleasant) exchange with him some time ago. His GTX560 is monstrously overclocked, and "it works fine for games, so why not for S@H?" (only with a pile of four letter words). If ever there was a computer and user that deserved to be cut off at its roots then this combination would be my nomination.

Whilst I can see his initial reaction might be that, surely if he looks at his recent results and out of the last 883 tasks only 11 are vaild, wouldn't that suggest a problem? He has a 560 and an RAC of 200!

In reality why is he bothering to run SETI at all?
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