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1) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Resource share working backwards? (Message 2922) Posted 3 Sep 2004 by old_user458 Post: > > > I think what may be happening is there is a "debt" from when you > ran > > CPDN > > > 100%, so SETI is "catching up" > > > > > > > > > > Hmm. Okay, I understand that. Is there a way to reset the "debt" to > zero > > (without resetting the projects) so that it computes at my preferences > now, or > > do I just have to wait? > > > > Edit: Thanks for the answer Carl. I should have looked down the board a > bit > > more before posting... I seems that this has been asked before. :) > > > Actually, there is. It does involve tinkering with the client_state.xml file. > If you get it wrong, you really can screw up things very badly. > > Shut down BOINC. > Look for "debt" there should be one for each project. > Change them all to be the same value (NOT 0). > save the changes, and restart BOINC. Now see what happens. > > jm7 > > I'm just letting it run rather than risk messing up the client_state.xml file. It looks like, after 3 or 4 days, the SSETI debt is finally getting caught up. SETI was getting 2 hours to every one hour CPDN was getting. Now SETI is getting around 1.5 hours per CPDN hour. I've seen several mentions (on this board) to the effect that 4.05 will catch up in a matter of hours rather than weeks, but I believe this is either not the case, or it was an intended change, but it's not working properly. It appears that it will indeed take at least 2 weeks for my resource share settings (67% CPDN, 33% SETI) to kick in.
2) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Resource share working backwards? (Message 2390) Posted 31 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: > I think what may be happening is there is a "debt" from when you ran CPDN > 100%, so SETI is "catching up" > > Hmm. Okay, I understand that. Is there a way to reset the "debt" to zero (without resetting the projects) so that it computes at my preferences now, or do I just have to wait? Edit: Thanks for the answer Carl. I should have looked down the board a bit more before posting... I seems that this has been asked before. :)
3) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Resource share working backwards? (Message 2388) Posted 31 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: I have setup my BOINC preferences in CPDN with a 200 resource share, and in SETI with a 100 RS. This should, if I understand it all correctly, give CPDN the preference 67% of the time, and SETI 33% (and this is indeed what it says in the BOINC software). What I am seeing is the opposite. CPDN only runs for an hour at a time. SETI on the other hand gets 2 hours every time. Anyone else seeing this? Edit: The last 21 hours are as follows (# = # hours allowed to run) CPDN 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 SETI 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 2
4) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC error on reboot (Message 2386) Posted 31 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: > Not sure, yet - still testing. What version of the BOINC client are people > having this problem running? > > The released version - 4.05.
5) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC error on reboot (Message 2265) Posted 31 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: Well, it's still happening on every reboot. I have verified that it is not caused by NOD32 Anti Virus. Anyone find a solution yet?
6) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC error on reboot (Message 1829) Posted 27 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: > Since it's SP2 you're using, it could well be that the firewall is interfering > with your setup as soon as you reboot. But I'll have to leave that in the > hands of Carl & other users of XP with SP2. > -------------------- > Jordâ„¢ I have the SP2 firewall turned off as I am using ZoneAlarm Pro (never had a problem with it even though a lot have). > The only common factor with the two machines that show this error is they're > both VIA KT333 chipset motherboards, the other two are both NForce2 chipset > motherboards. Funny... My computer has a NForce2 chipset and has the problem, so I doubt that is it. :) Just out of curiosity, uk_nick, are you running NOD32 antivirus? I'm asking because it was the cause of a previous problem.
7) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC error on reboot (Message 1810) Posted 27 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: > And your Windows version is what exactly? > Are you logged in as Administrator and do you have full write & read > rights on the CPDN/BOINC folder(s) and all the files there in? > -------------------- > Jordâ„¢ > > Windows XP Pro SP2. I am logged in as administrator and have full read write access to all files. I am running BOINC version 4.05 and the hadsm* versions are 4.03.
8) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC error on reboot (Message 1800) Posted 27 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: Every time I reboot, I get this error window: ------------- BOINC Runtime Exception - 108 File Operation Failure Failed to reopen stdout for diagnostics redirection (overwrite) Filename: \'\\Boincsrc\\Main\\boinc\\lib\\diagnostics.C\' Line: \'93\' -------------- After I hit OK, it seems to run normally. I\'ve exited BOINC and restarted it with no error - it only happens after a reboot.
9) Questions and Answers : Windows : \"bad first tag\"/\"Can\'t parse scheduler reply\" issue - resolved (Message 1588) Posted 24 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: > wow, I'm glad it worked out for you in the end, but what a bizarre thing for > an anti-virus program to do! I guess some of them open & check every file > that's accessed on an operating system, which could be a nightmare when > running with a climate model which has hundreds of ancillary files. > > Yea, I was really getting discouraged about the project so I reinstalled the 3.2 version that SETI uses and I had the exact same problem. So, I started searching the SETI boards and someone had discovered the connection with NOD32... Anyway, I'm back at CPDN and chugging away! :) Just a note on IMON: it's the real time internet monitoring module for NOD32. The module that monitors file access on the PC is called AMON. AMON does not have this problem. Anyway, I posted a note about this issue on the NOD32 beta forums, so hopefully it will be fixed in the future.
10) Questions and Answers : Windows : \"bad first tag\"/\"Can\'t parse scheduler reply\" issue - resolved (Message 1581) Posted 24 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: Sorry for posting this as a new question, but it may help others who have this same problem... It turns out that the cause of the \"bad first tag\" and \"Can\'t parse scheduler reply\" issue was the anti-virus program NOD32. I am using a beta version that is Windows XP SP2 Security Center aware. It seems to be adding a carriage return at the beginning of the file \"sched_reply.xml\". I disabled IMON and had no issues connecting to the project and downloading a model. In order to re-enable IMON, I went into advanced setup , selected boinc_gui.exe and boinc_cli.exe as exclusions to IMON protection. Hope this helps others! :)
11) Questions and Answers : Windows : Can\'t attach - check account ID (Message 1543) Posted 23 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: > Yes it could be related. The multiple computers tend to point to a > communications issue also. You may have a firewall that is letting the request > out but not letting the reply in. Check your firewall settings and give it > some time in case it is an internet glitch. > <br>John Keck > BOINCing since 2002/12/08 > > I thought of the firewall issue but I've had it the entire time and it never caused a problem before. Having said that though, I did try disabling it and I am still not able to attach. I restored a backup of the file "account_climateprediction.net.xml" from my previous install and all I get from it is the "Cannot parse scheduler reply, bad first tag" error message which has been going on for quite a while now. I have Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed, but I have its firewall disabled. Currently, I am at a loss to get this working again. Any other suggestions?
12) Questions and Answers : Windows : Can\'t attach - check account ID (Message 1528) Posted 23 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: > The 2 most likely causes are a typo/space and that the server is having > issues. > <br>John Keck > BOINCing since 2002/12/08 > > I've done this several times by pasting the values from the email I received, and by typing them in manually. One thing I noticed is that somehow, I had about 15 computers listed. I just merged them all into my original. I then tried to attach again and it created another. Could this all be related? This computer hasn't changed since I first joined.
13) Questions and Answers : Windows : Can\'t attach - check account ID (Message 1525) Posted 23 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: After my previous problems with the error message, I decided to detach, uninstall and reinstall everything. I am currently not able to attach to the project. The message says to check my account ID, but I can log in fine on the website. It seems like I am either doing something wrong, or there is a problem with my account on the server.
14) Questions and Answers : Windows : Work unit ready to report (Message 1427) Posted 21 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: Apparently the model I was working on crashed and it comes up as ready to report. However, it is not sending the results due to this error: 2004-08-21 17:32:33 [climateprediction.net] Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi 2004-08-21 17:32:36 [climateprediction.net] Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded 2004-08-21 17:32:36 [climateprediction.net] SCHEDULER_REPLY::parse(): bad first tag 2004-08-21 17:32:36 [climateprediction.net] Can\'t parse scheduler reply 2004-08-21 17:32:36 [climateprediction.net] Deferring communication with project for 5 minutes and 13 seconds I have been getting this error message for well over a week now and have no idea what to do to fix it. I am attached to the project using the url climatprediction.net, which I believe is correct. Any help is appreciated!
15) Questions and Answers : Windows : Can\'t parse scheduler reply (Message 1150) Posted 17 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: This is still ocurring. Is there anything I should do to help resolve it? Also, my model stops computation a couple of times a day and the only way to force it to continue is exit BOINC and restart it. This almost always happens when some other program uses the CPU heavily for a period of time (playing a game will cause BOINC to stop processing - the hads* programs are no longer showing in the task manager).
16) Questions and Answers : Windows : Can\'t parse scheduler reply (Message 939) Posted 13 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: > The file looks fine to me. The only other check I can think of is that > cross_project_id and global_prefs_source_email_hash in sched_request.xml match > the values in the reply. They match, although the "global_prefs_source_email_hash" shows up as "email_hash" in sched_reply.xml. The values are identical.
17) Questions and Answers : Windows : Can\'t parse scheduler reply (Message 898) Posted 13 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: > > - {scheduler_reply} > > - {project_preferences} > > Those "-" characters look like the problem. The {message_ack/} line indicates > that your request went through okay. Also I'm getting > {host_venue}{/host_venue} instead of {host_venue/}, which might indicate that > we're trickling to different servers. Ok, well at least you found something. I just double checked the file (it opens in IE when double clicked - that might be a problem) and the "-" seem to denote that what comes below it are children of it... The section immediately below the first "-" is indented, and when I click the "-" it collapses. This is what it looks like in Notepad: {scheduler_reply} {project_name}climateprediction.net{/project_name} {user_name}Paul Roeber{/user_name} {user_total_credit}831.754026{/user_total_credit} {user_expavg_credit}156.836057{/user_expavg_credit} {user_create_time}1091897703{/user_create_time} {host_total_credit}831.754026{/host_total_credit} {host_expavg_credit}156.836056{/host_expavg_credit} {host_venue}{/host_venue} {email_hash}19e8590dfd65e4cd17463636fe92f7ea{/email_hash} {cross_project_id}a0d2ce215c7ee2c3ec8d2e839efef60d{/cross_project_id} {project_preferences} {resource_share}100{/resource_share} {/project_preferences} {message_ack/} {/scheduler_reply} It doesn't have the "-" characters, but I am still getting the messages. Anything else I can do?
18) Questions and Answers : Windows : Can\'t parse scheduler reply (Message 865) Posted 12 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: Sigh... sorry about that. I didn't check the post after I posted it. It seems like my recent credit hasn't been updated... - {scheduler_reply} {project_name}climateprediction.net{/project_name} {user_name}Paul Roeber{/user_name} {user_total_credit}756.140023{/user_total_credit} {user_expavg_credit}155.993074{/user_expavg_credit} {user_create_time}1091897703{/user_create_time} {host_total_credit}756.140023{/host_total_credit} {host_expavg_credit}155.993072{/host_expavg_credit} {host_venue /} {email_hash}19e8590dfd65e4cd17463636fe92f7ea{/email_hash} {cross_project_id}a0d2ce215c7ee2c3ec8d2e839efef60d{/cross_project_id} - {project_preferences} {resource_share}100{/resource_share} {/project_preferences} {message_ack /} {/scheduler_reply}
19) Questions and Answers : Windows : Can\'t parse scheduler reply (Message 850) Posted 12 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: The computation is running normally, but from time to time, it stops and I have to manually restart BOINC in order to make it continue. Here are the contents of the sched_reply.xml file right after I get this message: climateprediction.net Paul Roeber 756.140023 156.099706 1091897703 756.140023 156.099704 19e8590dfd65e4cd17463636fe92f7ea a0d2ce215c7ee2c3ec8d2e839efef60d - 100
20) Questions and Answers : Windows : Can\'t parse scheduler reply (Message 772) Posted 12 Aug 2004 by old_user458 Post: > And your PC is a what on a what? > > In other words, are you using a 386 on a 9600baud modem, or some PC somewhere > at the end of a network? > -------------------- > Jordâ„¢ > <img src="http://boinc.mundayweb.com/cpdn/stats.php?userID=2&trans=off"> > > It's an AMD XP 3200+ on a local two computer network (simple MS file & printer sharing) connected to a DSL (1.5 Mbps down, 128Kbps up) router. Before today, it had no issues at all communicating with the server.

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