Posts by old_user186450

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Iceworlds & Slowdowns hadsm3/mh - Closed - Discussion (Message 36225) Posted 26 Feb 2009 by old_user186450 Post: A couple of your models crashed with -107 errors eg this one. Hi, Almost 100% certain that that those were caused by dodgy memory - I swapped out 4 sticks of Balistix non-ECC for 4 sticks of ECC around 21st Jan 09. That WU crashed 9th Dec 08. It\'s a pity that there was no visible alert that something was wrong else I\'d have taken corrective action sooner. Any crashes before that point I\'d like to either run again or markup somehow with an explanation but we don\'t have those facilities. FWIW- A second machine (htpc) also had the same issues but with a completely different graphics card. It too now has ECC RAM and has settled down. One last thought - I also run the SETI cuda apps on this PC - could they interfere?
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Iceworlds & Slowdowns hadsm3/mh - Closed - Discussion (Message 36193) Posted 23 Feb 2009 by old_user186450 Post: OK - Think I know what happened. I used the local preferences dialogue to limit the number of CPU cores to use to 3. In the windows version of BOINC this dialog defaults many fields - including those on other tabs - and had limited the disk space available to BOINC to 2GiB. Hence no space available to create/retain the file. Turns out I was right on the 2GiB busage border as other projects also take a bite out of this space. I have subsequently upped the limit to 20GiB to prevent this happening again.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Iceworlds & Slowdowns hadsm3/mh - Closed - Discussion (Message 36143) Posted 14 Feb 2009 by old_user186450 Post: ... Unless you have a backup prior to the 10th I\'d suggest you abort it. Good luck with the next model. Thanks for that - It\'s dead. I\'ll take a look at \'backups\' although I always believed all the maintainance stuff should really be handled automatically by the BOINC wrapper. OT slightly - Is there an error FAQ somewhere? It seems that another of my models (7723388) after appearing to be fine has been marked invalid when it uploaded today :( I\'d like to get to the bottom of it - esp. if I still have a hidden hardware issue.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Iceworlds & Slowdowns hadsm3/mh - Closed - Discussion (Message 36137) Posted 14 Feb 2009 by old_user186450 Post: I\'ve not had much luck with these models... First off it seems I had some dodgy memory that corrupted the first few models I crunched (replaced 19/1/09 with ECC). Now I have a possible \'ICE\' planet :( Task ID: 7736409 Name: hadsm3fub_k95r_005976658_2 Workunit 6188835 Should I abandon this one?