Posts by old_user31357

1) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Client errors (Message 16955) Posted 2 Nov 2005 by old_user31357 Post: For what it is worth, I\'ve detached from Climate Prediction and now run Seti, Predictor and Rosetta projects on my computers with none of the problems noted here. I assume they have the same mix of Mac and Intel/AMD clients as Climate Prediction, although on reflection, they probably have more (for the obvious reason).
2) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Client errors (Message 16793) Posted 26 Oct 2005 by old_user31357 Post: If one looks at the stats for \"Hosts by CPU brand\" and \"Hosts by Operating System\" on BOINCstats for any project, it shows about 2%. cpdn has 2 programmers, and only a portable Mac to use for developing software. The source code is over 50Megs in size, and over a million lines long. With Intel/AMD being used by over 90% of users, this is where the development effort has to go to be cost effective. If Mac users can convince 10-20 thousand more Mac users to join distributed computing projects, the Uni boards may grant more resources to support the Mac. And the other machines, like Sparcs, etc. Sorry to be a wet blanket, but that\'s how it is. I understand your position but I don\'t quite see how you\'re going to persuade 10-20 thousand users to adopt some software that doesn\'t work. Perhaps it would be better to make it clear that the Macintosh platform is not supported and leave it at that.
3) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Client errors (Message 16791) Posted 26 Oct 2005 by old_user31357 Post: There seems to be a problem running the climateprediction.net application on dual-processor G5 Macs; it appears to have a concurrency error of some kind. There doesn\'t seem to be much interest in diagnosing or fixing the problem. I\'d like to participate but at this point the application just doesn\'t work on some Mac models. If you\'re seeing problems on a machine that does not have a dual processor, then it could be something else. All my non-DP machines seem to be running climateprediction.net just fine. This problem turns up on both DP and SP machines so that doesn\'t seem to be the cause. I guess if there is no fix for this I may as well detach from this project since I\'m presumably adding nothing to their work.
4) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Client errors (Message 16775) Posted 25 Oct 2005 by old_user31357 Post: It seems that all of the models I\'ve downloaded have failed with a client error. Most of these are of the type: <core_client_version>4.44</core_client_version> <message>process got signal 10 </message> <stderr_txt> MacOS Error -43 occured in Mac_Lib.c line 64 MacOS Error -43 occured in Mac_Lib.c line 64 </stderr_txt> but there are also errors like: <core_client_version>4.44</core_client_version> <message>process exited with code 251 (0xfb) </message> <stderr_txt> </stderr_txt> I assume from this there is something wrong and I wonder if anyone can suggest how I might fix Computer Dual 2 GHz G5, OS 10.4.2 Boinc client boinc_4.44ppcALL compiled from MacNNN Many thanks, Craig