1) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC, or BOINC Manager? (Message 103402) Posted 24 Apr 2005 by David Dyer-Bennet Post: What I can see running currently as an application is "BOINC" only. As processes, I can find boinc_gui.exe and two hadsm* thingies (climateprediction happens to be what's running at the moment). I can't find any actual separate BOINC process. On the other hand, if I close the GUI window, the boinc_gui.exe process is still there (and BOINC still shows in the system tray). Oh, do remember that I've fallen back to 4.19; maybe 4.25 has a different process structure. Has anybody else needed to create that file listing systems to connect to to have 4.25 work for you *on a single system*?

2) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC, or BOINC Manager? (Message 103211) Posted 24 Apr 2005 by David Dyer-Bennet Post: In the absence of any coherent documentation, I'm very confused about many things. The thing that I can run appears to be called "BOINC manager", and in version 4.25 at least (which I've had to roll back to 4.19, since 4.25 eventually lost the ability to see my projects) there's a "connect to computer" option (though it doesn't say if it wants a windows computer name, a DNS name, an IP address, or what!). And when it was not finding my projects, it was showing "disconnected" in the lower right corner. All of which suggests that it is indeed just a manager or interface application, and that there's an actual BOINC that's supposed to be running on my computer somewhere also. But there's nothing like that in the BOINC programs folder, and no mention of it in the documentation. And thus no clue to why it's not running (which I presume is what my "disappearing projects" problem comes down to). I'm trying to run BOINC on a Windows 2000 SP4 system.

3) Questions and Answers : Windows : Dissapearing project (Message 103210) Posted 24 Apr 2005 by David Dyer-Bennet Post: I recently started having the same problem. I was running BOINC 4.25 on Windows 2000. I noticed that when I restarted the system, BOINC started but no projects were shown. It showd "disconnected" in the lower right corner. Sometimes stopping it and manually restarting it would help; but that worked less and less often. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times, and that didn't help. Finally, tonight, nothing helped. Following some ideas shown elsewhere, I dropped back to 4.19, and now everything is running beautifully again. I must say that, compared to classic SETI, BOIC is a nightmare to work with.

4) Questions and Answers : Windows : Preictor@Home displaces Seti@home (Message 8164) Posted 15 Jul 2004 by David Dyer-Bennet Post: No, I'm not making a political statement; I'm making a technical complaint. I added predictor@home (Yes, I know you're not responsible for that!) a couple of days ago when I was out of SETI workunits and the server was unable to supply any (BOIC repeatedly connected, and failed to get work units) and figured my computer might as well do something useful. It's set for Seti 100, Predictor 50 "priority" or whatever. On the Projects tab of BOINC it shows Predictor getting 33.33% of the resources and SETI 66.67%, as expected. However, since I got Predictor in, BOINC has never once attempted to connect to the SETI scheduler to get workunits (according to the messages logged in that tab). Resetting the project and rebooting have had no effect. I *believe* this is a BOINC issue, from the looks of it; nothing Predictor does *should* be able to steal 100% of the resources when I've told BOINC to give it 33%.

5) Questions and Answers : Windows : Server says: no work available (Message 2107) Posted 25 Jun 2004 by David Dyer-Bennet Post: > The lines above the no work available message give the reason why. This > project was down for maintenance this afternoon. Are there any other BOINCed projects around? If I'm going to have trouble getting SETI workunits, I might as well do something else too, at least while SETI is down.

6) Questions and Answers : Windows : Program reaches 25% in a minute, then takes 3 hours to finish. (Message 2103) Posted 25 Jun 2004 by David Dyer-Bennet Post: > Nope, this is by design. Well, it's a bad design. I know it's hard to make a well-behaved progress indicator when multiple steps are being done, or when the actual work is very non-uniform; but this grotesque degree of non-linearity *by design* is just wrong. I've had my own runins with implementing progress indicators at work, and been told that by others, sorry if my satisfaction of getting to pass it on is too evident :-).

7) Questions and Answers : Windows : Monitor shutdown disabled? (Message 2099) Posted 25 Jun 2004 by David Dyer-Bennet Post: > Works for me (at least most of the time). I always thought this was a windows > problem. Setting the blank time in the screensaver to something longer than > the monitor power time seems to help a bit. Interesting idea. I had the default 0 (and go to blank screen not checked) there for BOINC, so I've changed that, and we'll see. Thanks for the suggestion!

8) Questions and Answers : Windows : Temporarily failed download (Message 2098) Posted 25 Jun 2004 by David Dyer-Bennet Post: > The .pdb file is the error symbols file for the S@H project application. > > And yes, backing off is scheduling a later attempt to download. You can force > another download attempt by right clicking on the file in question under the > "transfers" tab, and select "retry now". Nothing ever appears on my "transfers" tab (BOINC 3.19, Windows 2000). Transfers are taking place both ways, according to the "messages" tab. But since nothing appears in transfers, I can't ever influence it.

9) Questions and Answers : Windows : Monitor shutdown disabled? (Message 1592) Posted 25 Jun 2004 by David Dyer-Bennet Post: When I installed BOINC and the boinced SETI on WIN2K, my monitor stopped shutting off after 20 minutes as specified in my power-management settings. Looking at the settings, they're still there, too; something about running the BOINC screensaver or the SETI code is blocking the power-management monitor shutdown.

 
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