Wondering if anyone knows what version of the BOINC Manager got the "Finish file present too long" fix?

7.16.3 and above, I believe.

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Definitely should do a

"Seti@Home 1999-2020
- almost 21 years..."


;^)

It's been fun, eveyone.
I managed to squeak out 200M! didn't think I would make it...
didn't manage 1M on a single core I was trying for (sigh) - thought there would be more time.
Maybe in my next multiverse

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Member of the 20 Year Club

Wondering if anyone knows what version of the BOINC Manager got the "Finish file present too long" fix?

The client code was merged into the sources from which the client is built on Mar 30, 2019, with a second ('belt and braces') fix on Oct 18, 2019.

You will notice that v7.14.2 was released in October 2018, a year earlier. So that's a no. There is currently a v7.16.5 Beta available - that should fix it.

Ta.
Just been looking at some of the systems at Rosetta, and for those with oodles of cores & threads, "Finish file present too long" appears to be one of the bigger causes of errors there (along with out of memory errors).

The Newer Macs with many CPU cores seem to getting quite a few of these, https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=8876600. From My observations, the Finish File error happens more often with machines running many CPU tasks. Machines running mainly GPUs receive them much less often. So, what's going to happen with the Macs? They are still looking at 7.14.4 as the most recent version, https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php

Thanks for the information Grant. Is this system running Linux or Windows?

Windows.
Doesn't appear to be any difference between OS, all the RACs are ridiculous.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Thanks Grant. Yes I have to agree with you it is quite ridiculous

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I have this bizarre status on my Windows OS:
GPU missing, Ready to start
Any fix appreciated.

If nothing is wrong with the GPU itself, probably the windows update the driver and you loose something in the process.

First clue. DL a new fresh driver from the Nvidia Site and install it using a clean installation.

But avoid the Release 445 driver there is a bug in on it who causes problem while you crunch some SETI WU.

You could read about in this thread: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84694

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Thanks juan, I'll try that if I have to... Somehow is's sorted itself out, running again!

When you have something like this, is a good practice to reset the host and do a cold boot.
Sometimes the driver crash without warning. If that is the case that solves the problem.
Maybe that is what happening. Nice is working.

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For the only time, I have the 1% badge! Not a great thing for me to hang my hat on, but still surprising.

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Seti@home classic: 1,456 results, 1.613 years CPU time

Well, BOINC's new server didn't last very long, did it?

Now though, it can be considered dead.

Stillborn, perhaps.

There was a news post from David Anderson this morning, thanking Jeff Cobb for the help in setting up a new server.

Has to be the craziest set of results for a WU that my computer has been part of, https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=3875538397

Task		Computer	Sent				Time reported			Status				Run time	CPU time	Credit	Application
8524350316 	8259088 	8 Feb 2020, 16:45:43 UTC 	1 Apr 2020, 1:54:53 UTC 	Timed out - no response 	0.00 		0.00 		--- 	SETI@home v8 v8.08 (alt) windows_x86_64
8524350317 	8805108 	8 Feb 2020, 16:45:24 UTC 	8 Feb 2020, 19:35:41 UTC 	Completed and validated 	60.19 		58.26 		84.79 	SETI@home v8 Anonymous platform (NVIDIA GPU)
8695012337 	8320991 	30 Mar 2020, 18:03:05 UTC 	31 Mar 2020, 6:42:14 UTC 	Completed, can't validate 	811.11 		804.67 		0.00 	SETI@home v8 Anonymous platform (NVIDIA GPU)
8695161796 	8900813 	30 Mar 2020, 18:47:25 UTC 	22 May 2020, 3:56:35 UTC 	In progress 			--- 		--- 		--- 	SETI@home v8 v8.05 windows_x86_64
8695280588 	7213102 	30 Mar 2020, 19:15:55 UTC 	22 May 2020, 4:25:05 UTC 	In progress 			--- 		--- 		--- 	SETI@home v8 Anonymous platform (CPU)
8695402364 	8638041 	30 Mar 2020, 19:45:44 UTC 	31 Mar 2020, 0:53:04 UTC 	Completed, can't validate 	119.39 		50.21 		0.00 	SETI@home v8 Anonymous platform (NVIDIA GPU)
8695525628 	8652081 	30 Mar 2020, 20:16:37 UTC 	31 Mar 2020, 0:13:10 UTC 	Aborted 			0.00 		0.00 		--- 	SETI@home v8 Anonymous platform (CPU)
8695645326 	8866571 	30 Mar 2020, 20:49:25 UTC 	31 Mar 2020, 0:45:42 UTC 	Completed and validated 	449.39 		265.67 		84.79 	SETI@home v8 v8.24 (opencl_ati_nocal) windows_intelx86
8695759183 	8807028 	30 Mar 2020, 21:20:29 UTC 	31 Mar 2020, 3:30:07 UTC 	Completed, can't validate 	116.88 		114.99 		0.00 	SETI@home v8 Anonymous platform (NVIDIA GPU)
8695873149 	8708959 	30 Mar 2020, 21:53:54 UTC 	31 Mar 2020, 8:22:16 UTC 	Completed, can't validate 	205.20 		201.27 		0.00 	SETI@home v8 v8.22 (opencl_nvidia_SoG) windows_intelx86

you're not alone ^^

3875578989

and

3874037460

ever seen somewhere on the board

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Greetings,

I have 3 devices still hooked up, my main this PC doing Rosetta, my laptop still doing SETI and my Pi-3 which is not doing BOINC at all.

I have Pi-Hole installed and running on my Pi-3 and it is doing the DNS work and blocking shady places on the Internet. My router is set to look at the Pi for the DNS and all other devices go through the router going through the Pi DNS. I did not have to change the DNS lookup on each device, too much work.

I shoulda done this a long time ago. ;)

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

My i7-4790K CPU is now idle, and down to 33°C/91.4°F (AIO cooler)
The GTX980 GPU is also idle and down to 45°C/113°F (both fans have stopped)

And soon my electricity company will SMS me and wonder if something is wrong :-)

Interesting it's the first time I've heard of the power company contacting someone to see if something is wrong (said with tongue-in-cheek)

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My i7-4790K CPU is now idle, and down to 33°C/91.4°F (AIO cooler)
The GTX980 GPU is also idle and down to 45°C/113°F (both fans have stopped)

And soon my electricity company will SMS me and wonder if something is wrong :-)

Interesting it's the first time I've heard of the power company contacting someone to see if something is wrong (said with tongue-in-cheek)

If you are a big user and suddenly the power used drops below some warning level they certainly does. But is more likely instead of a SMS they send an inspection to your premises to see if you make any "unwanted" deviation. Happened with me when i moved to here and shut down my little farm in Brazil and my son remains living on my old apt. In the beginning they even send few bills calculated my the mean of the power usage of 12 months instead of the real one. I was forced to rise a revision request and prove why my electric usage drops so much. They even change the electric meter to be sure the old one was not tempered. At the end they accept my allegations and recalculate all the bills back to my move month.

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Interesting it's the first time I've heard of the power company contacting someone to see if something is wrong (said with tongue-in-cheek)

LOL, mine sends me a graph each month showing me how much more energy I use than my neighbors. Wonder if that will now end?

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Interesting maybe you could look at contributing to another project? I know world community Grid is going to have a covert 19 projects so only on CPU Rosetta@home already is processing covert 19 also on CPU

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So, I joined Einstein@home, Rosetta@home and GPUgrid now, but set the resource share for Set@home to 100,000 so the remaining tasks and resends get processed as quickly as possible (as well as in hope that when S@H should be pulled out of hibernation anytime in the future, I will unexpectedly suddenly crunch for this project again).

Interesingly, only Einstein@home is giving me new tasks - looks like Rosetta@home and GPUgrid dont actually have enough work for the sudden rise of hosts because of the stop of S@H "flash mob".

But I know noticed some odd behaviour of the boinc client: I have 4 CPU cores but limited memory. When Computer is in use, Boinc Client is set to only 50% Memory usage. So it is processing now only 1 Einstein@home task, 3 are "waiting for memory". But there would be more than enough memory to process 3 Seti@home tasks in parallel to the 1 Einstein@home task. Yet the client won't do that, I wonder why.

It looks like a bug in the BOINC Client to me....