1) Forums : Announcements : Test site for new design (Message 6341)
Posted 17 Jun 2008 by Profile Sou'westerly
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I had the same problem as Jord. The first couple of tries did not load the black background so all the white text was invisible. It is also very slow to load, too narrow and text overhangs. Dave.
2) Forums : Technical Support : URGENT Problems Discussion Thread (Message 5884)
Posted 8 Apr 2008 by Profile Sou'westerly
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I would put that comment in the reverse order from where I am sitting:
Still slow navigating the web pages but with occasional flashes of inspiration.

F.


I would agree with Fred. Also am now getting these messages so all is not well.

08/04/2008 13:21:12|Cosmology@Home|Message from server: Server can\'t open database
08/04/2008 13:27:14|Cosmology@Home|Message from server: No work sent

Dave.
3) Forums : Technical Support : Looping result (Message 5647)
Posted 1 Apr 2008 by Profile Sou'westerly
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The other ranges 030608, 031108, 022708, 022208, 031008, 031808, 022808 and a few others all seem to work OK for me, the 030608 one could be another looper but I have caught it doing this.

Unsure why this old work has been re-badged and sent back out to us.


Hi Conan, Since and exception proves the rule, I had this WU in the range 031808 loop for just over 8 hours today before I caught it. It also locked up BOINC and took out the Einstein unit on the other core when I aborted it, luckily Einstein is a bit more stable and was able to restart from the checkpoint. Dave.
4) Forums : Technical Support : Camb 2.08 not suspending. (Message 5036)
Posted 6 Mar 2008 by Profile Sou'westerly
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The new Camb 2.08 is not reliably suspending. It initialy does so but after about 10 minutes into the WU it fails to repond to a suspend request. I now have 4 WUs running on a two core!
Running 5.10.30 on Windows XP
Dave.
(Edit)Following Yeti\'s intial report on 2.07
5) Forums : Technical Support : Upload/Download Server Problems (Message 4670)
Posted 24 Jan 2008 by Profile Sou'westerly
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I made the mod to the client_state.xml file to report tasks, then did the reattach on my Intel host. I am not experiencing upload issues or reporting issues...

Brian, did you edit the upload handler URL for each of the 6 output files for each WU or just the project URL? Dave.
6) Forums : Technical Support : Upload/Download Server Problems (Message 4662)
Posted 24 Jan 2008 by Profile Sou'westerly
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WU\'s seem to report ok and give credit:


Anthony, it may be reporting OK but it looks like all your results files are failing to upload so there will be nothing for the validator to check and eventually it will fail validation.
Dave.
7) Forums : Technical Support : Validation?? (Message 4656)
Posted 24 Jan 2008 by Profile Sou'westerly
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Fred, there are two stages to reporting a completed WU. The result files are first uploaded and then BOINC reports if it successfully completed the WU. The validator will then check the two sets of result files to see if they agree.
If BOINC reports that it successfully completed the WU then it will show on the results page as \"Success\" until such time as it is accepted or rejected by the validator.
If you uploaded all your result files then it could be that the other host has failed to upload their result files.
As an example look at this WU. (I am 628)
I will never get credit for it because all my result files failed to upload, but it is still shown as success because that it the way BOINC reported it and the validator hasn\'t yet found two matching results to disprove it.
Dave.
8) Forums : Technical Support : [error] Error on file upload: no command (Message 4653)
Posted 24 Jan 2008 by Profile Sou'westerly
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I detached, reattached and downloaded new work. When I looked at the scheduler reply from cosmology in BOINC I found that it gave the following for each work unit and each download file:
<url>http://cosmos.astro.uiuc.edu/cosmohome_cgi/file_upload_handler</url>
If I understand it right then this is the wrong URL.
Dave.
9) Forums : Technical Support : Unfair outcome (Message 4460)
Posted 14 Jan 2008 by Profile Sou'westerly
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On this wu

http://www.cosmologyathome.org/workunit.php?wuid=1089582

Credit SHOULD be granted to me.


The \"arrangement\" reached between the community and Ben\'s team was that the credits would be slightly generous whilst we are in testing and that Scott would not be constantly going back to the database when valid results did not receive credit because of a lack of quorum. The idea was that this would free him up to continue to develop the project. Over the long term you should not be out of pocket. Dave.
10) Forums : Technical Support : Does resume work? (Message 4239)
Posted 12 Dec 2007 by Profile Sou'westerly
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Brian, if you select \"leave applications in memory while suspended\" then I find that the CPU time resumes normally after a suspend. Dave.
11) Forums : General Topics : Its quiet in here. (Message 4122)
Posted 1 Dec 2007 by Profile Sou'westerly
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Congratulations everyone: we have entered the top 10 most active BOINC projects in the world

It\'s hard to believe, I\'ve seen dormant projects with more active boards. Scott, You must have lots of contented crunchers quietly beavering away, how about halving the credit, that might liven things up a bit!
12) Forums : Technical Support : Unit Verified But Status is Still Pending (Message 4059)
Posted 24 Nov 2007 by Profile Sou'westerly
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Scott, A final thought before I go to bed. What happens if two clients have reported the same WU but have both failed to upload the output files? Will the validator spot the lack of output files and invalidate them both? If not then you could have a real headache trying to sort them out of your database! Dave.
13) Forums : Technical Support : Unit Verified But Status is Still Pending (Message 4057)
Posted 24 Nov 2007 by Profile Sou'westerly
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Just a thought =)

I\'m turning on some debugging features of the validator to see which files aren\'t validating and why. Hopefully I\'ll have some answers soon.


Scott, If it helps the problem will be that these files will have some or all of the output files missing. The clients effected will probably be 5.10.21 and later and the files will have downloaded prior to the outage and reported back to the scheduler after the outage.
I suspect that the project connected up a temporary server on the 12th to inform users what the problem was. This server would not have had a file_upload_handler program installed and this caused these later clients to think that they had contacted the server and that the files were no longer needed so they auto-deleted any upload file that tried to upload. The code has now been changed and should be in the next release after 5.10.30. Dave.
14) Forums : Technical Support : Problem switching projects (Message 4016)
Posted 20 Nov 2007 by Profile Sou'westerly
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I do have BOINC set to leave applications in memory while suspended.

EigenState, what you describe indicates that this work unit was not kept in memory but resumed from a check point. It may be that you either re-booted your system exited BOINC in the time before the unit restarted. In that case everything will have been removed from memory. If this isn\'t the case then you need to check that BOINC is indeed leaving tasks in memory. Dave.
15) Forums : Technical Support : Results uploaded due downtime (Message 4010)
Posted 20 Nov 2007 by Profile Sou'westerly
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where do you post the Bug?
Can you post an link to your thread here?

I\'ve posted an Thread at Boinc core client too. See first message of this thread.

Thanks
Matthias


Hi Matthias, I posted it to BOINC Trac. I don\'t expect any reply for some hours though as it is the middle of the night there.
See your PMs for the link.
Dave.
16) Forums : Technical Support : Results uploaded due downtime (Message 4008)
Posted 20 Nov 2007 by Profile Sou'westerly
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Just to update you. This is looking like a bug in the BOINC Client as a user on SHA-1 reported a similar problem when their server went down. It looks like 5.10.28 is giving up on uploading the output files after 2 days instead of the 2 weeks it is supposed to wait. I have posted a bug report to Berkley.
Dave
17) Forums : General Topics : Confused by Invalid Status (Message 3998)
Posted 19 Nov 2007 by Profile Sou'westerly
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Macditch, looking at the dates on your WU could you have been caught by the same problem as I was with 5.10.28 ie the output files went missing. See here
Dave.
18) Forums : Technical Support : Results uploaded due downtime (Message 3997)
Posted 19 Nov 2007 by Profile Sou'westerly
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Matthius I fear that you will get no credit for these WUs. I had exactly the same behaviour with 5.10.28 under win XP Pro. So far two of my WUs have been marked invalid, presumably because no output files uploaded.

Scott, Is there anything in your application or output files that would cause them to be killed after two days of trying to upload?

Dave.
19) Forums : Cosmology and Astronomy : Dark Energy. (Message 3885)
Posted 15 Nov 2007 by Profile Sou'westerly
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Could dark energy just be the energy in the space time dimension itself? I ask this because in my simplistic one dimensional view of space time I see gravity as the effect of distorting space time thus:-





Space time resists this distortion resulting in gravity, in other words space time wants to be flat.

The mass in the universe will cause a curvature of space time but if there has not yet been enough time for the actual curvature to grow to this size then there will be stored potential energy in space time, just like a spring. Could this be your dark energy? Whilst the curvature of the universe is greater than that necessary to balance gravity the effect would be to open out space time causing an acceleration in the expansion of the universe since it is the essentially the reaction force to gravity.

Clearly there is a flaw in this or Einstein would have thought of it as his explanation of the cosmological constant. The question is would I understand the flaw in my one dimensional view of space?

Dave.


20) Forums : Technical Support : CAMB 2.02 (Message 3665)
Posted 29 Oct 2007 by Profile Sou'westerly
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I notice with each restart that and the CPU time and the percentage done starts from zero. It takes 2 minutes to reach 10%, then CPU time switches to --- for the remainder of the time, before it restarts again. Does it even do anything? My stderr.txt in the slot it's running in has not been written to for over an hour. It's still at 0KB.


Jord, IF BOINC is telling the truth about Camb 2.02 check pointing then restarting is going to lose a lot of work and could easily lead to a WU never finishing.
None of the versions of Camb have ever written to stderr.txt in the slot for me. It is always 0KB. The strange thing is that I have seen results for a few users with stderr.txt in their result but I have never worked out why.
Must away now, Dave.



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