Posts by Fourmyle of Ceres

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't report or get new tasks (Message 1135176) Posted 2 Aug 2011 by Fourmyle of Ceres Post: I had posted a message in this thread yesterday as an additional data point: One of my 3 hosts stopped being able to communicate on Thurs 25-Jul-2011 while at least one of the others is fine. This resolved itself overnight. WU's downloaded approx 22:00 EDT Monday and began crunching again. All working fine now, after most of a week with WU's in "Downloading" state. Lesson learned (again): stuff happens. Be patient.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't report or get new tasks (Message 1134939) Posted 1 Aug 2011 by Fourmyle of Ceres Post: One of my 3 hosts stopped being able to communicate on Thurs 25-Jul-2011 while at least one of the others is fine. I'm not using an http proxy and all hosts are behind the same firewall. Host 1: This one (2-CPU Fedora 14) http://stats.kwsn.net/host.php?proj=sah&hostid[]=5792705 hasn't had a successful WU download since Thurs 25-Jul-2011 13:08:48, For days, Boinc Mgr 6.10.58 showed a couple dozen WU's as "downloading". It finally burned through, uploaded, and reported all the WUs I had on hand, then I did a manual project reset. Since the reset, I haven't even been able to download seti_528.jpg for 6+ hours, much less any workunits. I've rebooted it. At the moment, it has complaints like this: 01-Aug-2011 15:25:35 [SETI@home] Temporarily failed download of setiathome-5.28.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu: HTTP error 01-Aug-2011 15:25:35 [SETI@home] Backing off 2 min 35 sec on download of setiathome-5.28.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 01-Aug-2011 15:25:35 [SETI@home] Temporarily failed download of seti_528.jpg: HTTP error etc, etc Host 2: My other speedy box (Snow Leopard) has been uploading and reporting fine. (It normally crunches only during US EDT business hours, M-F, using a couple CPUs) Host 3: My slowest box (single-cpu RHEL5) has been grinding through an AP for 125+ hours, so I have no current info. If Host 1 doesn't get any work units by Thursday or so, I guess I'll reinstall, but I don't see why that would help.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : AP tasks abort - "Output file absent" (Message 1041060) Posted 11 Oct 2010 by Fourmyle of Ceres Post: I had similar problems using the BOINC version supplied with Fedora (6.10.45). See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620585 I removed the version supplied by Fedora and downloaded and installed 6.10.56. I have seen no crashes since I moved to this version. Thank you. I am using the same Fedora-supplied BOINC client RPM on 64-bit FC12. boinc-client-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.fc12.x86_64 boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.fc12.x86_64 Fedora release 12 (Constantine) 2.6.32.21-168.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP This is probably the answer. I have disabled AP downloads until I have time to reinstall a newer BOINC client.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Emergency fund drive for the project............. (Message 1039591) Posted 8 Oct 2010 by Fourmyle of Ceres Post: I'm in as of 5 minutes ago. "We received your gift of $100.00 via Visa on 10/08/2010." Your confirmation number is: 63425
5) Message boards : Number crunching : AP tasks abort - "Output file absent" (Message 1026346) Posted 19 Aug 2010 by Fourmyle of Ceres Post: Anyone have any other suggestions? Has anyone solved a similar problem with 64-bit Fedora? Or, as a last resort, is there a way for me to toggle on/off receiving AstroPulse work units? I haven't seen a profile setting or a setting in the stock BOINC client. Thanks
6) Message boards : Number crunching : AP tasks abort - "Output file absent" (Message 1026136) Posted 18 Aug 2010 by Fourmyle of Ceres Post: I'm using current/updated, multiprocessor 64-bit Fedora Core 12 on that box with glibc-2.11.2-1.x86_64 installed. (2.6.32.16-150.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP) Might it need the 32-bit glibc instead? Or am I out of luck in a 64-bit environment?
7) Message boards : Number crunching : AP tasks abort - "Output file absent" (Message 1025823) Posted 17 Aug 2010 by Fourmyle of Ceres Post: I assume this is an old question that I may have seen asked and answered already, but it didn't register... I have two linux PCs: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php?userid=45664 and the faster, 2-cpu box consistently fails on AstroPulse units. (Error messages below) I hadn't worried about getting replacement work units until we started having the longer, weekly 3-day no-download window. The BOINC client shows I'm using only 40mb of disk space, with 90+ GB "free, available to BOINC" Any explanation? Mon 16 Aug 2010 05:58:37 PM EDT SETI@home Starting ap_19my10ad_B1_P0_00134_20100808_28705.wu_1 Mon 16 Aug 2010 05:58:37 PM EDT SETI@home Starting task ap_19my10ad_B1_P0_00134_20100808_28705.wu_1 using astropulse_v505 version 506 Mon 16 Aug 2010 05:58:39 PM EDT SETI@home Computation for task ap_19my10ad_B1_P0_00134_20100808_28705.wu_1 finished Mon 16 Aug 2010 05:58:39 PM EDT SETI@home Output file ap_19my10ad_B1_P0_00134_20100808_28705.wu_1_0 for task ap_19my10ad_B1_P0_00134_20100808_28705.wu_1 absent
8) Message boards : Technical News : Whac-a-Mole (Sep 03 2009) (Message 932274) Posted 10 Sep 2009 by Fourmyle of Ceres Post: He may or may not be in the wrong forum for his GENÃ–RGEL. I didn't know what GENÃ–RGEL was before I Googled it. It was just the coolest sounding word I'd heard all day.

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