Posts by old_user34373

1) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : \"Another instance of BOINC is running\" (Message 9955) Posted 25 Feb 2005 by old_user34373 Post: Thanks for your suggestion, Cliff, but I can't find anything that looks like the model name. My gut tells me that there's some file that's locking BOINC that I haven't found yet. I did try grepping "/usr/bin" (ps aux \| grep /usr/bin), since my copy of BOINC is in "/usr/bin/boinc". No dice - the only thing that came up was my grep command. Any help finding that lock file or even just a user guide for the BOINC project would be helpful. Todd > > Have you tried grepping the actual model name ? For example the output of top > for my g5 is listed below. For my example you need to kill the PIDs of 25676, > 25601, 25602 and 25603. > > My 2 cents, > Cliff > > > > > Processes: 62 total, 4 running, 58 sleeping... 142 threads > 11:32:09 > Load Avg: 2.50, 2.17, 1.76 CPU usage: 77.4% user, 22.6% sys, 0.0% idle > SharedLibs: num = 122, resident = 26.0M code, 2.70M data, 7.23M LinkEdit > MemRegions: num = 6352, resident = 103M + 6.05M private, 63.5M shared > PhysMem: 75.5M wired, 113M active, 228M inactive, 417M used, 94.3M free > VM: 4.29G + 82.7M 464588(0) pageins, 315095(0) pageouts > > PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE > 25728 top 15.2% 0:11.24 1 16 25 276K 492K 676K 27.1M > 25684 bash 0.0% 0:00.74 1 12 25 740K 920K 1.35M 18.2M > 25683 login 0.0% 0:00.02 1 13 38 128K 500K 508K 26.9M > 25676 hadsm3viz_ 26.5% 5:42.34 2 96 207 6.16M 20.4M 29.3M 170M > 25674 bash 0.0% 0:00.05 1 9 26 140K 1.54M 988K 18.2M > 25631 bash 0.0% 0:00.88 1 12 25 100K 1.52M 836K 18.2M > 25630 login 0.0% 0:00.04 1 13 38 124K 500K 508K 26.9M > 25617 Safari 0.0% 0:47.22 5 103 226 14.7M 11.9M 23.1M 156M > 25603 hadsm3um_4 33.3% 30:59.19 1 12 38 40.8M 7.27M 43.5M 91.2M > 25602 hadsm3_4.0 0.0% 0:02.39 1 11 27 212K 1.54M 1.12M 29.6M > 25601 boinc_4.19 0.0% 0:00.98 1 13 26 336K 1.27M 1.02M 23.8M > 25600 bash 0.0% 0:00.01 1 11 16 92K 912K 548K 18.2M > 25599 bash 0.0% 0:00.02 1 9 25 432K 936K 688K 18.2M > 3921 lookupd 0.0% 0:25.01 2 37 98 1.87M 980K 1.20M 30.6M > 1325 bash 0.0% 0:00.68 1 12 25 400K 936K 464K 18.2M >
2) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : \"Another instance of BOINC is running\" (Message 9552) Posted 19 Feb 2005 by old_user34373 Post: No, that's not quite what I have. I have searched all running processes for all "users" for BOINC. The Mac version of BOINC is much more like other UNIX/Linux versions than the Windows version. And I have also done a keyword search. > I don't know about Macs, but this has been a common problem on the Windows > forum. > There, users have setup BOINC so that it appears in all user areas, or as a > service and a cli, > or some such. So Boinc starts somewhere, and then gets started in another > place. It does NOT like this! > This is most likely what is happening with you. But I've no idea about how to > find the other instances of BOINC. > > Perhaps if you do a keyword search. And don't forget: Click the Search button! > DON'T press enter. > > Les > > >
3) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : \"Another instance of BOINC is running\" (Message 9499) Posted 18 Feb 2005 by old_user34373 Post: I transferred my Mac OS X user account from an oldy-moldy iMac to a new Mac mini, and now I can't run BOINC. I first tried to copy the directory I was using on the iMac (which isn't going to run BOINC anymore), but running BOINC showed an error. I deleted that directory and downloaded a fresh BOINC, but now it won't run, claiming "Another instance of BOINC is running." There are no other files in the BOINC directory (which I called "/usr/bin/boinc") right now. And I've already checked "ps aux \| grep boinc" and restarted the computer, but it's still not working. I've also tried removing files "lockfile," "account_.xml," and "boinc.txt.bf" from my home directory, but still no luck. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.