Posts by Lester Lane

1) Message boards : Number crunching : -1,770,905 Points Taken, what is UP? (Message 58308) Posted 29 Jun 2018 by Lester Lane Post: Seems like there were serious IT issues earlier in the month, but they were fixed. I have just noticed that today (29th June) I have lost a shed load of work units (completed and credited). Why did I bother. Is this a doomed project?
2) Questions and Answers : Windows : Did this job really suddenly finish? (Message 33031) Posted 19 Mar 2008 by Lester Lane Post: Even if a task has been reported to the server as crashed, you can still restore a backup and try again. If the server learns of the crash it just doesn\'t award you with the word \'Success\' when the task completes. Properly made backups of the complete contents of the BOINC folder, done after exiting from BOINC, almost always restore correctly. Hope your restore works, Lester - best of luck. Lester, to reduce your chances of future model crashes, have a look at the README collection about crashes and problems (link in my signature). The important item for you is #6 by MikeMars. He lists all the usual model crash causes and suggests solutions that are mostly very easy to implement. Thanks. I think it was the backup that took the model down, so no, the restore did not work. Will have to go back further... Will now set the BOINC to stop when backups run. Got it working again - great! BOINC no longer runs whilst backing up.
3) Questions and Answers : Windows : Did this job really suddenly finish? (Message 33029) Posted 19 Mar 2008 by Lester Lane Post: Even if a task has been reported to the server as crashed, you can still restore a backup and try again. If the server learns of the crash it just doesn\'t award you with the word \'Success\' when the task completes. Properly made backups of the complete contents of the BOINC folder, done after exiting from BOINC, almost always restore correctly. Hope your restore works, Lester - best of luck. Lester, to reduce your chances of future model crashes, have a look at the README collection about crashes and problems (link in my signature). The important item for you is #6 by MikeMars. He lists all the usual model crash causes and suggests solutions that are mostly very easy to implement. Thanks. I think it was the backup that took the model down, so no, the restore did not work. Will have to go back further... Will now set the BOINC to stop when backups run.
4) Questions and Answers : Windows : Did this job really suddenly finish? (Message 33022) Posted 19 Mar 2008 by Lester Lane Post: I ran into the same problem with a BBC WU, it was due to an abrupt power failure and like this Wu it had successfully conveyed the message to the BBC server :( first time it had happened. Any way i ran it to completion from a back up, i had, and got the credits even though the server had marked it as client error. Now i am very careful as to what is being sent to the server. Any problem, i kill it and start from a back up. No more tales being carried back to the server. Regards Masud. Thanks, I could try running it again from a backup to see if it works. But it is not a power failure as I have an APS unit.
5) Questions and Answers : Windows : Did this job really suddenly finish? (Message 33014) Posted 18 Mar 2008 by Lester Lane Post: I\'m assuming this is the result in question. There are a lot of \"no heartbeat from core client\" messages in the output on that page. Did it fail during a time that some other CPU intensive task was running? No, but I am running SETI and Einstein projects too but only two will run at any one time.
6) Questions and Answers : Windows : Did this job really suddenly finish? (Message 33001) Posted 16 Mar 2008 by Lester Lane Post: It had taken ages to get nearly 40% done on my first job. Then suddenly it vanishes. The log reads: 16/03/2008 19:04:08\|climateprediction.net\|Task hadsm3fub_0555_005909211_9 exited with zero status but no \'finished\' file 16/03/2008 19:04:08\|climateprediction.net\|If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project. 16/03/2008 19:04:08\|climateprediction.net\|Restarting task hadsm3fub_0555_005909211_9 using hadsm3 version 506 16/03/2008 19:04:16\|climateprediction.net\|Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 16/03/2008 19:04:45\|climateprediction.net\|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 16/03/2008 19:05:10\|climateprediction.net\|Computation for task hadsm3fub_0555_005909211_9 finished 16/03/2008 19:05:10\|climateprediction.net\|Output file hadsm3fub_0555_005909211_9_2.zip for task hadsm3fub_0555_005909211_9 absent 16/03/2008 19:05:10\|climateprediction.net\|Output file hadsm3fub_0555_005909211_9_3.zip for task hadsm3fub_0555_005909211_9 absent 16/03/2008 19:05:10\|climateprediction.net\|Restarting task hadsm3fub_033m_005920429_4 using hadsm3 version 506 16/03/2008 19:08:21\|climateprediction.net\|Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks 16/03/2008 19:08:26\|climateprediction.net\|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks Has this really finished? Looks to me like it failed to produce a file. I would not like this error to reoccur, if it is one. Can someone explain this please?