Posts by old_user120137

1) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : computer is overcommitted... (Message 25652) Posted 18 Dec 2006 by old_user120137 Post: Sorry guys for having been too harsh. It was just the realization that having spent hundreds of hours of cpu time without any result that was a bit much. The climate model appears not to be suited for my computer usage. Only daytime, and often just a day a week or perhaps less. That might change soon though as this computer will be moved.
2) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : computer is overcommitted... (Message 25552) Posted 11 Dec 2006 by old_user120137 Post: Hi again In his post on 6 Dec, Les posted a link to the 4 README posts. In the post below that, I suggested specific items in the READMEs. It would still be a good idea to go there. Thanks mo.v, hints do not get more helpful by multiple indirectly refering to them, nor do vanihed references reappear. I apparently had client errors where the upload went wrong. There is no solution, nor a manual upload. IMO, the climate package needs some refining. The upload should work. The package should retry or tell the user what to do in the boinc message list. This error -161 is bull****. Give me a button for manual upload if it needs to be. rene
3) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : computer is overcommitted... (Message 25519) Posted 8 Dec 2006 by old_user120137 Post: Thanks a lot Les, Since Boinc automatically starts after power up, it can be (and is) assumed that it also handles the shutdown. Quite unlike a Notepad or such. Windows sends shutdown messages around to every application running, and it is assumed that these messages are used to eg write final data to the disk and so on. As to hybernation. I\'ll try to shut Boinc down as first measure. But from my understanding hybernation is save for selfcontained applications. I sometimes write multithreaded software too and found no problems when the application is frozen to disk and revived. Of course communication to the external world has to be robust such that it reconnects and retries. The IP may change on dynamically assigned networks. As to using ports. The server, in this case boing grabs a free port. It then can write its number into an accessible config file or the port can be requested by clients(climate) by a message sent to an application name (boinc) or such. The problem should be solvable with some flexibility. Never mind. Thanks anyway. Rene
4) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : computer is overcommitted... (Message 25516) Posted 8 Dec 2006 by old_user120137 Post: Thanks Les and mo.v for your explanations. Apparently there is something very wrong. Why wasn\'t I (and am still not) able to find the \"my results\" page by myself ? There are tons of menu items to the left, but none with this vital information. I wasn\'t able to detect that my computer did spend thousends of hours but was never able to return a result. Client error (unspecified) is not very helpful. Sorry. I was having a regular look at the messages in the Boinc controller and they appeared cryptic but otherwise suggested everything was in order. It was never communicated that the boinc processes do have to be shut down manually. In addition to that I almost never shut the machine down. Every evening I hybernate the machine to the next morning, meaning Windows throws the lot from the memory onto the disk and reverses this process when it is de-hybernated. The only software that really balks at this are USB drivers to peripherals that were unplugged in the hybernated state, which is intuitively understandable. The kick to windows for unstability as seen in some of the readme texts is not justified. I only reboot when truely forced by some rouge software that insists. Which happens very seldom, in the order of months. As side note, I don\'t run the visual part with the rotating globe. No time to follow it. I\'m doing electromagnetic field simulations and the climate is allowed to fill the unused cpu time. By the way, there are other ways to have multiple applications communicate than through possibly otherwise used ports. Back to the start of this thread. How do I solve or remove these unspecified client (some : -161) errors ? There is no competing anti-virus software. Thanks again for your time Rene
5) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : computer is overcommitted... (Message 25492) Posted 6 Dec 2006 by old_user120137 Post: I somehow appear to be too stupid. Do I have more than one workload and try to get an additional ? If so, why am I not told how many in excess I have ? Till now it appeared that climateprediction refused to download for empty diskspace(resolved), it didn\'t start for seti currently running(resolved), so I pressed the update button multiple times. The messages just weren\'t clear. 12/5/2006 10:40:21 \|climateprediction.net\|Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi 12/5/2006 10:40:21 \|climateprediction.net\|Reason: To fetch work 12/5/2006 10:40:21 \|climateprediction.net\|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 results 12/5/2006 10:40:26 \|climateprediction.net\|Scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded 12/5/2006 10:40:26 \|climateprediction.net\|Message from server: No work sent 12/5/2006 10:40:26 \|climateprediction.net\|Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 results) 12/5/2006 10:40:26 \|climateprediction.net\|No work from project
6) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : computer is overcommitted... (Message 25488) Posted 6 Dec 2006 by old_user120137 Post: What is this overcommitted meaning ? What is the cause and what are the consequences ? 12/6/2006 12:59:32 \|climateprediction.net\|Finished download of 1081_ocean.year.gz 12/6/2006 12:59:32 \|climateprediction.net\|Throughput 412838 bytes/sec 12/6/2006 12:59:33 \|\|request_reschedule_cpus: files downloaded 12/6/2006 12:59:33 \|\|Suspending work fetch because computer is overcommitted. 12/6/2006 12:59:33 \|\|Using earliest-deadline-first scheduling because computer is overcommitted. 12/6/2006 12:59:33 \|climateprediction.net\|Starting result hadcm3ohc_110s_05596339_0 using hadcm3 version 515 12/6/2006 13:01:12 \|\|request_reschedule_cpus: project op