Time left is going up, no progress... please advice

Time left is going up, no progress... please advice

No response, suspending until I hear from Tech support.

Time left is going up, no progress... please advice

No response, suspending until I hear from Tech support.

Tech support?? . . . who are they ? ?

Your computers are hidden so we dont know what they are.
first problem for a new member is often the large amount of RAM that cosmo uses,
Allow AT LEAST 1GB per core to be safe running cosmo on its own.
if you run other boinc projects as well, then you need more and more and . . . .
I used to run everything including seti@home classic in 512MB and have lots to spare,
Cosmo is a different kind of crunching.

Time left is going up, no progress... please advice

No response, suspending until I hear from Tech support.

Tech support?? . . . who are they ? ?

The computer helpdesk went bankrupt.

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me@rescam.org

Thanks, I didn't know there wasn't any tech support and am not really a new user. I've been using Seti@home since 1993, however this is a new project for me. I have 50% of my computer (which has over 200gbs) going towards BOINC. If it doesn't work for Cosmo, so be it. I'm not an IT guy so what can I say. Doing the best I can with the resources I don't have. Let 'em ride.

Time left is going up, no progress... please advice

No response, suspending until I hear from Tech support.

Tech support?? . . . who are they ? ?

The computer helpdesk went bankrupt.

As soon as I attach to your project, BOINC Manager starts malfunctioning ... repeatedly disconnecting/reconnecting to localhost, preventing any work from being done. I tried clearing BOINC program data, re-installing BOINC and re-attaching to all projects; same thing happened again. Operating system: Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit. Thank you - Eric H.

I had the exact same thing happen to me as the above user. I manually removed all the cosmology@home project data files from the boinc Data directory (the entire folder from the projects directory and every xml file one level up) and then re-attached to cosmology@home and that seems to have fixed the problem for now. The only odd thing I saw was that one of the tasks kept trying to re-download an ini file because mine was zero bytes in size. After that the boinc manager would continuously disconnect from the client after a few seconds. Bad WU perhaps?

OS:Windows XP Pro 64 bit

Same thing happened to me with BOINC version 6.6.38. Other users have been experiencing this problem with other ;-) flaky projects such as Sztaki and the Lattice Project. What seems to be happening is that bad workunits are crashing Boinc.exe.

What worked for me was to install an earler version of BOINC (6.4.7). This allows the problem to clear. After that, I re-installed 6.6.38, and that is working so far. I restarted my machine on each change of version. Don't know if that's strictly necessary, but better safe than sorry...

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Tried to setup my community preferences and got the following:

Database Error

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/boincadm/projects/cosmohome/html/inc/db_conn.inc:44) in /home/boincadm/projects/cosmohome/html/user/edit_forum_preferences_action.php on line 168

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Tried to setup my community preferences and got the following:

Database Error

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/boincadm/projects/cosmohome/html/inc/db_conn.inc:44) in /home/boincadm/projects/cosmohome/html/user/edit_forum_preferences_action.php on line 168

It's another thing that's been broken since the server crash in March/April.

I had hopes when Ben posted a week ago, and perhaps it is still too early to say anything too negative again, considering he is having to do catching up, but I am starting to get the feeling that nothing has really changed.

There is an admin position posted for the project, but at $15/hr it's going to be tough to find someone of good caliber for what has been requested. $15/hr is bottom-end developer pay, typically still considered "trainee" or "junior"... Add to that requesting FORTRAN experience as well as Linux admin and knowledge of BOINC code...is a stretch for $15. Better starting pay considering what is being requested, even for students / university jobs, would be around $20-$25/hr...

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Hi,
Please can enyone help me? It's look like i can't download any COSMOLOGY files, I updated a lots of time and the same message:

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29/10/2009 03:18:53 Cosmology@Home update requested by user
29/10/2009 03:18:54 Cosmology@Home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
29/10/2009 03:18:54 Cosmology@Home Reporting 1 completed tasks, not requesting new tasks
29/10/2009 03:18:59 Cosmology@Home Scheduler request completed
29/10/2009 03:19:35 Cosmology@Home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
29/10/2009 03:19:35 Cosmology@Home Requesting new tasks
29/10/2009 03:19:40 Cosmology@Home Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
29/10/2009 03:19:42 Cosmology@Home Started download of params_092809_000447_0.ini
29/10/2009 03:19:43 Cosmology@Home Giving up on download of params_092809_000447_0.ini: file not found
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I'm runing on 6.6.41! ... Where is the problem?

Thanks

Where is the problem?

The problem is with the Cosmology server-side software setup. There is nothing you can do on your side to correct this issue. Just abort any transfers that fail like this and keep trying until a task downloads. Eventually you'll get some...

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We are working to get C@H back online - I'll keep you updated.

All the best,
Ben

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Creator of Cosmology@Home

An attempt to d/l a WU ended with these messages:

11/18/2009 9:39:51 PM Cosmology@Home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
11/18/2009 9:39:51 PM Cosmology@Home Requesting new tasks
11/18/2009 9:39:56 PM Cosmology@Home Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
11/18/2009 9:39:58 PM Cosmology@Home Started download of params_102909_093435_0.ini
11/18/2009 9:39:59 PM Cosmology@Home Giving up on download of params_102909_093435_0.ini: file not found

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Slight problem with downloading new work. It goes to request a new task, but then gives up on downloading in mere seconds, and then fails.

11/19/2009 2:15:53 AM Cosmology@Home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
11/19/2009 2:15:53 AM Cosmology@Home Requesting new tasks
11/19/2009 2:15:58 AM Cosmology@Home Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
11/19/2009 2:16:00 AM Cosmology@Home Started download of params_110209_081824_1.ini
11/19/2009 2:16:02 AM Cosmology@Home Giving up on download of params_110209_081824_1.ini: file not found

It's saying the file isn't found, I'm presuming on the server itself, in order to be downloaded to the client. This happened twice before I NNT'd it to prevent my allowable queue from falling to it.

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The same.

http://www.boincstats.com/signature/user_1816957.gif

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Slight problem with downloading new work. It goes to request a new task, but then gives up on downloading in mere seconds, and then fails.

11/19/2009 2:15:53 AM Cosmology@Home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
11/19/2009 2:15:53 AM Cosmology@Home Requesting new tasks
11/19/2009 2:15:58 AM Cosmology@Home Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
11/19/2009 2:16:00 AM Cosmology@Home Started download of params_110209_081824_1.ini
11/19/2009 2:16:02 AM Cosmology@Home Giving up on download of params_110209_081824_1.ini: file not found

It's saying the file isn't found, I'm presuming on the server itself, in order to be downloaded to the client. This happened twice before I NNT'd it to prevent my allowable queue from falling to it.

I had the same happen to me. So we're back to business as usual again...

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I'm happy - Cosmo@ is busy again at my home!

/raimond.detempe

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Still getting "Failed Downloads - Missing .ini File. Is their some trouble with the server?


10/12/2009 16:27:32 Cosmology@Home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
10/12/2009 16:27:32 Cosmology@Home Reporting 1 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for CPU
10/12/2009 16:27:37 Cosmology@Home Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
10/12/2009 16:27:39 Cosmology@Home Started download of params_112509_013042_2.ini
10/12/2009 16:27:41 Cosmology@Home Giving up on download of params_112509_013042_2.ini: file not found

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"All man born has a right to life and no man born has the right to take that life"

The failed downloads problem has been ongoing for a long time,
It affects everyone
there is nothing us crunchers can do about it,
other than abort them if they get stuck.
And the cosmo staff have still not corrected it, whatever the problem is.