Posts by Kathy Applebaum

1) Questions and Answers : Windows : Preempting question (Message 3453) Posted 8 Sep 2004 by Kathy Applebaum Post: > I think that there may be a bug with the resource sharing in 4.05. After letting it run overnight, I'm leaning more and more towards this possibility. More below. > It is possible that the application switches to a new project every hour, it > picks the one that is not currently running that has the highest debt. That's what I had understood. It might be the project BOINC had just been crunching, it might be another one. After I posted, it occured to me that the docs on resource sharing had said that "no work" resets the debt to zero, but it didn't say anything about just not being able to connect to the servers. However, after running all night, SETI is still getting every other hour. Looking at how much time SETI has gotten in the last 18 hours, versus how much time CP has gotten in the last three weeks, SETI is definitely above the resource share it should be getting.
2) Questions and Answers : Windows : Preempting question (Message 3392) Posted 8 Sep 2004 by Kathy Applebaum Post: BOINC version 4.05 is happily chugging along on my Windows XP box, doing Climate Prediction and SETI. I have CP set to have about 95% of the resources, and SETI about 5%, and this is reflected correctly in the \"projects\" tab. As I understand it, this setup should give Climate Prediction 95% (more or less) of my time, and SETI isn\'t supposed to have a \"debt\" from the time their servers were down. But in the last six hours (since my box got more work from SETI), CP and SETI have been taking turns every hour -- SETI has had a total of three hours, and CP has had three hours. This is reflected both in the log and in the CPU time listed. So, am I not understanding this preemption thing? Is there another setting I need to do? Is it just not working right? Thanks!
3) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC stalled? (Message 1514) Posted 22 Aug 2004 by Kathy Applebaum Post: > > It's been at this same spot, with no additional CPU activity, for over > 18 > > hours now. No other processes running on the computer. > > oh that's different. Can you exit BOINC and go back in, it should pick up > where it left off? How about the directory it's in, can you go to the > boinc/projects/climateprediction.net/RESULT_NAME/dataout directory and see > what files are there? Are there a lot of ".nc" extension files? That would > tell us how far along it got in the post-phase processing. > > Thanks. > Okay, I've exited BOINC and went back in, and still no activity after about 20 minutes. It looks like it contacted the server after restarting, but nothing more. I went to the directory you mentioned, and there are a lot of files, but not with a ".nc" extension. Most have names like 036paa.pg21c10 . The most recent file, which appears to have been created about the time I went back in to BOINC, is called 036paa.pc.8yac.anc (and is the only one that ends with the ".anc".
4) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC stalled? (Message 1492) Posted 22 Aug 2004 by Kathy Applebaum Post: > So just let it run, it should only take about 5 minutes or so depending on how > much other activity you are doing on the computer, and then the next phase > will start (it's three phases ergo 33.33% each). It's been at this same spot, with no additional CPU activity, for over 18 hours now. No other processes running on the computer.
5) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC stalled? (Message 1435) Posted 22 Aug 2004 by Kathy Applebaum Post: I got 33.33% of the way through the WU without a hitch in Windows XP, and now my WU seems to be stalled. The CPU time counter is not changing, and BOINC is not getting any system time according to the Windows Task Manager. No new programs installed, no changes to anything, and rebooting did not change the situation. Is this normal? Any suggestions?
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Client performance (Message 683) Posted 11 Aug 2004 by Kathy Applebaum Post: > Are there any > other mac users out there at all? I am feeling so lonely... :-)) > I've got a PowerBook and a Windoze machine crunching climate... My G3 is doing SETI/Predictor. When there's a BOINC version that can handle climate and SETI, I'll move hubby's G4 to climate, also.