1) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC running @100% cpu while I work? (Message 10863) Posted 21 Jul 2004 by The Dreamer Post: > I found out that my HyperThreading Intel processor running Windows 2000 > detects 2 CPU's and uses them both which causes immense slowdowns. Since I > changed the settings to use only 1 processor this bug stopped. I reccomend > limiting your use to 1 processor only, unless you are using XP or W2k3, which > are known to work better with the new technology. > > When I first setup BOINC, I had the problem where the benchmark is low with HT enabled...and since it reruns the benchmark whenever it feels like it, I was having trouble getting it to stick with the results from when I had HT disabled. I found if I set boinc's affinity for only one CPU it works. And, from the beginning I had my default preferences to use only one CPU (and I have no separate home preference). Well. I noticed last night that there were two processes running....though it was effectively only using 'one' CPU, because they inherited the CPU affinity setting from the parent BOINC process. Not quite what I had in mind though.... The Dreamer --

2) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Preferences/Venue keeps getting reset. (Message 10402) Posted 20 Jul 2004 by The Dreamer Post: I haven't touched my preferences since June 26th (it says so), yet my BOINC machines keep forgetting that they are supposed to be using 'work' or 'school' preferences...and switching to the default/home preference. And, the venue setting for the computer hasn't changed for longer.... This is very annoying, because 'school' preference is to only run at night...but when it gets reset...it runs all day...which isn't when I'm allowed to run it. Not so bad with the difference between 'work' and 'home'....where the difference is mainly whether or not it can run while the computer is not idle. 'home' means run only when idle.... 'home' and 'work' (and 'school' for that matter) do not denote locations for me...but rather the type of machine I'm running on. The Dreamer --

3) Message boards : Number crunching : How do you get your stats to appear at the end of your post (Message 4655) Posted 5 Jul 2004 by The Dreamer Post: Let's see if this works now.... --

4) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sig Test... (Message 3312) Posted 2 Jul 2004 by The Dreamer Post: Testing.... --

5) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Script for starting/stopping Boinc (Message 3220) Posted 1 Jul 2004 by The Dreamer Post: Here's my script that I use on all my Linux boxes (RedHat 7.2, RedHat 7.3, RHEL3, SuSE 7.3, SuSE 8.2): <PRE> #!/bin/bash # chkconfig: - 95 5 # description: boinc case "$1" in start) cd /var/.seti ./boinc -allow_remote_gui_rpc > boinc.log 2>&1 & ;; stop) pid=`ps -e | grep -v K | awk '$NF~/boinc/ {print $1}'` if [ "X$pid" != "X" ]; then kill $pid fi ;; reload|restart) $0 stop sleep 10 $0 start ;; refresh) pid=`ps -e | grep -v K | awk '$NF~/boinc/ {print $1}'` if [ "X$pid" == "X" ]; then $0 start fi ;; *) echo "usage $0 {start|stop|restart|refresh}" ;; esac exit 0 </PRE> -- You may be a dreamer, but I'm The Dreamer, the definite article you might say!

6) Message boards : Number crunching : my CPU performance are (Message 3214) Posted 1 Jul 2004 by The Dreamer Post: P3-1133MHz - Windows 2000SP4 512MB double precision MIPS = 1227.5 integer MIPS = 2235.7 P3-1133MHz - RedHat Linux 7.3 256MB double precision MIPS = 581.7 integer MIPS = 1271.3 P3-733MHz - SuSE Linux 8.2 512MB double precision MIPS = 393.1 integer MIPS = 813.6 P2-400MHz - RedHat Linux 7.2 256MB double precision MIPS = 205.1 integer MIPS = 445.4 P2-450MHz - RedHat Linux 7.2 128MB double precision MIPS = 229.6 integer MIPS = 501.1 P3-450MHz - RHEL 3 WS 384MB double precision MIPS = 234.1 integer MIPS = 499.1 P2-450MHz - SuSE 7.3 128MB double precision MIPS = 238.8 integer MIPS = 516.9 P4-3.2Ghz - Windows XP SP1 1GB double precision MIPS = 1873.4 integer MIPS = 4172.8 P3-933MHz - Windows 2000 SP4 512MB double precision MIPS = 1021.5 integer MIPS = 1550.3 AMD Duron 800MHz - RedHat 7.2 512MB double precision MIPS = 409.3 integer MIPS = 989.6 I plan to upgrade the CPU in the AMD box on the weekend....wonder if I'll get any work for it to do.... The Dreamer <I> Well, I upgraded early....new stats are: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ - RedHat 7.2 512MB double precision MIPS = 857.1 integer MIPS = 2076.2 </I> -- You may be a dreamer, but I'm The Dreamer, the definite article you might say!

7) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC running @100% cpu while I work? (Message 2024) Posted 25 Jun 2004 by The Dreamer Post: Well, looks like there's bug if you have a separate 'home' preference...it won't see that you want it to only run when idle...even if I set it to 'no' in both 'home' and the general preference. general was the settings to use when running on Linux (which is mainly known as my 'work' preference, since that's my work machine.) I suppose if I thought about it sooner...I would've made 'work' mean Windows boxes (both start with the same letter...and 'home' would be Linux, not sure what parallel for that 8-) What I did was take my 'work' settings and put them in a separate preference, and move my 'home' settings into general and remove the 'home' preference. Now the Windows clients correctly suspend on activity. -- You may be a dreamer, but I'm The Dreamer, the definite article you might say!

8) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC running @100% cpu while I work? (Message 1817) Posted 25 Jun 2004 by The Dreamer Post: > Are you looking at (tab) 'Projects' (item) 'Resource Share' in the BOINC > client, or 'CPU Usage' under the Windows Task Manager? > > If your looking at the BOINC client, it shows that 100% of your resourced USED > will be for seti@home, not that it is currently using 100% of your resources > now. > > Who are you responding to? Because I'm not stupid....to not be able to tell the difference between something using 100% of my CPU and rendering my PC sluggish and something that just says 100% but isn't. -- You may be a dreamer, but I'm The Dreamer, the definite article you might say!

9) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : How do I get this thing running on Redhat Linux 7.3? (Message 1496) Posted 24 Jun 2004 by The Dreamer Post: My boxes are RH7.2 But, I did eventually get it to build.....needed all the gcc3 and libraries stuff...and then set CC=gcc3 and CXX=g++3, and configure and make. I got the latest from updates/7.2 for my RH7.2 boxes that didn't have this stuff (though I probably just needed the lib files). I couldn't find the RPMs for the 7.3, but hopefully the 7.2 ones will work. I have 3 servers running 7.2 and one server running 7.3. Since Seti/BOINC is not the primary purpose of these servers, upgrading the OS just to support BOINC isn't an option....since they aren't broken. Until recently, I had a production server that was running RH5.2 under the same philosophy. <font face="ocr-a,keypunch,kids">You may be a dreamer, but I&#39;m The Dreamer, the definite article you might say!</font>

10) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC running @100% cpu while I work? (Message 1488) Posted 24 Jun 2004 by The Dreamer Post: > There is a setting in the general preferences area of your account on the web > site. But, both my general and specific home settings have "NO" to the question "Do work while computer is in use?" Yet, BOINC is running continuously....and because this is Windows...even though it is running at LOW, the machine is pretty unusable. Though I do know it is using my "home" settings, because I in the "general" settings max cpus is set to 1...while under "home" it is set to 2. So it is running two.... The Dreamer -- You may be a dreamer, but I'm The Dreamer, the definite article you might say!

 
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