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SETI@home hibernation
(Message 2038044)
Posted 15 Mar 2020 by ![]() Post: To my utter amazement I seem to grasp the general idea. I have a much clearer view of the whole process now. Thank you very much to you all! |
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SETI@home hibernation
(Message 2038032)
Posted 15 Mar 2020 by ![]() Post: Being a complete layman in this field I am not entirely sure I'll be able to understand the answer to my own question ;-) but I'll ask it anyway: What about Breakthrough Listen? In my mind, the fact that BL data was now being processed by SETI@home seemed a strong indication that the project would last much longer in its present form. |
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SETI@home hibernation
(Message 2035956)
Posted 5 Mar 2020 by ![]() Post: :'( |
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Boinc 7.12.0 Freezing Imac
(Message 1973006)
Posted 1 Jan 2019 by ![]() Post: Curiously, the same problem occurred on this computer with the previous version of MacOS and older versions of BOINC and its screensaver. I didn't test this computer's behavior with a standard image-based screensaver back then, though, as I just did with the new OS. Anyway all this is too technical for me, I'm afraid, but thank you for your comments. |
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Boinc 7.12.0 Freezing Imac
(Message 1972630)
Posted 30 Dec 2018 by ![]() Post: Setting which hardware to use is a project preference, that you can set per project. Obviously, yes, thank you for clarifying. As for these crashes, turning "off" GPU didn't change anything, the computer kept freezing. However, I reverted to a basic image-based screensaver instead of the BOINC one, and so far everything seems to work, BOINC has been running in the background for a few hours without problems so far. Weird. |
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Boinc 7.12.0 Freezing Imac
(Message 1972509)
Posted 29 Dec 2018 by ![]() Post: If that stabilizes things, you can opt for unchecking Use {your GPU brand} in the Seti Project Preferences and afterwards abort all works for the GPU in BOINC Manager. I'll try that, thanks, I simply didn't check online preferences, I focused on the Boinc application. |
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Boinc 7.12.0 Freezing Imac
(Message 1972497)
Posted 29 Dec 2018 by ![]() Post: BOINC writes everything to logs in the data directory (default at /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data), the one you're looking for is called stdoutdae which is a text file. stderrdae logs errors. Oh, thanks. So the Event log in the Tools menu is limited to the current session, too bad. Last time the computer frozethe log registered this: 28-Dec-2018 10:35:42 [---] Suspending computation - computer is in use 28-Dec-2018 10:35:42 [---] Suspending network activity - computer is in use 28-Dec-2018 11:05:03 [---] cc_config.xml not found - using defaults 28-Dec-2018 11:05:03 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.14.2 for x86_64-apple-darwin Computers shutting down when BOINC runs is normally due to excessive heat. Make sure you've cleared as much dust from fan intakes and outtakes as possible. Well, it happened from the very beginning, when the computer was brand new. It happens a few minutes after the computer is turned on and the screen saver triggers Boinc. And my old dusty iMac works fine with Boinc. It must be something else. try to run without the GPU. In the preferences, I see an option to prevent Boing from using the GPU when the computer is in use, but I can't find any option to prevent it from using it continually. It is somewhere else? |
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Boinc 7.12.0 Freezing Imac
(Message 1972486)
Posted 29 Dec 2018 by ![]() Post: I have the same problem with a late-2015 iMac (3.2 GHz intel Core i5) under MacOS 10.14 and the latest version of Boinc reinstalled from scracth. The same problem occurred on this iMac under MacOS 10.13 and older versions of Boinc. I simply can't run Boinc on this computer. It freezes after a few minutes of Boinc calculation, no matter how long the computer has been running, etc. I tried to have a look at Boinc's log, but Boinc seems to erase everything each time it restarts, so I can't even try to find out what went wrong last time. I checked the log options, but I failed to find an option to specify the duration of the log file. Boinc works fine on a 2013 iMac under MacOS 10.14 and a 2011 MacBook Air under MacOS 10.13. |
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