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Windows :
HadCM3 not allowing anything else to run?
(Message 34294)
Posted 17 Jul 2008 by old_user500722 Post: I have some sort of graphics issue that I haven\'t isolated yet - about 80% of the time, images appear corrupt onscreen. No, I don\'t use any graphical interface for BOINC stuff. |
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Windows :
HadCM3 not allowing anything else to run?
(Message 34280)
Posted 15 Jul 2008 by old_user500722 Post: Ok, will dump some details about the environment, then work out who/how to get that info to the right persons. The PC was new (about 3 weeks old) when I installed BOINC and it\'s been running 24x7 since, in an office environment. I only do email on it and Word, so there\'s nothing computationally intensive happening. The PC is a managed corporate machine. I have local administrator access when I need it, but I normally run in a restrictive user logon account. I installed BOINC as administrator and it runs using the administrator account as a service. I log on as a restricted domain user and run BOINC Manager from there. The PC has several corporate things installed: Lotus Notes 6.53P Lotus Sametime 7.5 MS Office Citrix Desktop (but I\'m not running in a Citrix env) Quicktime, VLC, RealOne, Windows Media player Zenworks for Desktops 4 etrust A/V I\'m running an Acer Veriton 7900Pro, which is an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (Kentsfield)@2.4GHz. Not overclocked. GPU is an Nvidia GeForce 7600GT, not overclocked, 256MB, on ForceWare version 175.16. I have some sort of graphics issue that I haven\'t isolated yet - about 80% of the time, images appear corrupt onscreen. It appears the same as when you overclock a GPU and you start getting artifacts. I live with it but it\'s annoying. Opsys is XP SP2, DirectX 9.0c. Boinc Manager is 5.10.45. Someone let me know if there\'s any other info you\'d like, and if I need to contact anyone else to look at this. Cheers, Doug |
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Windows :
HadCM3 not allowing anything else to run?
(Message 34273)
Posted 14 Jul 2008 by old_user500722 Post: Well, it\'s been 3 weeks since my original post. Since the, 2 of the 4 tasks have finished, and based on the response to my question, I expected that the climateprediction process would stand aside and allow the Seti to run. But that\'s not the case. When the 2 tasks finished, they were replaced by 2 more from climateprediction: This time, it\'s \"UK Met Office HADAM3 5.03\". So Climateprediction.net is still getting 100% of the share, and Seti hasn\'t run now in weeks. However, having said that, the log shows that Seti@home has had a lookin and done some work - albeit only short bursts of work lasting a few seconds, but there are many of them. Here\'s an extract of a typical set of log entries: 5/07/2008 8:11:11 AM|SETI@home|Finished upload of 28my08ab.25214.8661.5.8.42_0_0 5/07/2008 8:11:13 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks 5/07/2008 8:11:15 AM|SETI@home|Started download of 01my08af.13507.7843.14.8.32 5/07/2008 8:11:18 AM|SETI@home|Finished download of 01my08af.13507.7843.14.8.32 5/07/2008 8:11:19 AM|SETI@home|Starting 01my08af.13507.7843.14.8.32_1 5/07/2008 8:11:19 AM|SETI@home|Starting task 01my08af.13507.7843.14.8.32_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 527 5/07/2008 8:11:48 AM|SETI@home|Computation for task 01my08af.13507.7843.14.8.32_1 finished 5/07/2008 8:11:48 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 30240 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks 5/07/2008 8:11:50 AM|SETI@home|Started upload of 01my08af.13507.7843.14.8.32_1_0 5/07/2008 8:11:53 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks 5/07/2008 8:11:54 AM|SETI@home|Finished upload of 01my08af.13507.7843.14.8.32_1_0 5/07/2008 8:11:55 AM|SETI@home|Started download of 01my08af.13507.7843.14.8.142 Off the top of my head, it looks like Seti gets to run numerous times, but eventually Climateprediction wants to do some work and loads up with a gargantuan task that won\'t finish for weeks. All of Seti\'s tasks are rapid and short-lived. The end result is that 99.999% of the time, it\'s Climateprediction that\'s running, and over the last 2 months, Seti\'s received almost no time at all. Doesn\'t seem fair. At what point does the climateprediction new task requests get told \"bugger off, you\'ve hogged the CPU for the last 2 months and you won\'t get another chance until Seti\'s hogged the CPU for an equivalent amount of time\"? It seems that the rule is more like, \"Bugger off climateprediction, let\'s give Seti a chance. Ok, Seti, go ahead. (30 seconds later...) Ok, Seti you\'ve finished, let\'s give climateprediction another go\", at which point, CP loads up a 2-month monster task yet again. |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
HadCM3 not allowing anything else to run?
(Message 34126)
Posted 23 Jun 2008 by old_user500722 Post: I\'ve had Boinc installed for several months, initially with just Seti@home, then later with climateprediction as well, configured 50/50. Over time, Seti seems to have been pushed out by cp such that now, Seti hasn\'t run in weeks or possibly months. I don\'t know much about how all this operates and reading the forums confuses me with all the nomenclature and idiomatic terminology, so please keep your answer simple. If I look in advanced view within the Boinc Manager, I see only 4 tasks running, all climateprediction. I can\'t seem to find a way to get Seti to run at all. Then I noticed that the 4 climateprediction tasks are all incredibly long tasks: hadcm3istd_0boc_1920_160_05936406_2 cpu time: 1919:25:11 progress: 81.252% To completion: 422:33:11 Report Deadline: 28/08/2010 8:37:22 AM Status: running, high priority The other 3 tasks are similar: cpu times: 1428:43:48/1312:38:38/1262:57:08 Progress: 59.056%/54.150%/52.515% To Completion: 884:01:42/976:50:59/1001:56:21 1919:25:41 hours equates to about 80 days of CPU, with another 17 to go. Is this normal? Seems awfully piggish for climateprediction to be working on tasks for 4 months solid. I really just want it only getting 50% of the available resources so that Seti can run. What do I need to do/check to make this work? |
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