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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Cool, got it running.
I ran into a few glitches of my own doing, I'll share them so nobody has to repeat my mistakes. Installed from ports with no runs, no hits, no errors, and no modifications. First, boinc_gui doesn't like vnc, gives a gtk error. Works fine on the console however. Second I tried setting it up through the gui and I must have entered something wrong because it crashed boinc_client. Even worse it must have written this data since boinc would crash everytime I tried to relaunch it. Got around that by running boinc_client in my vnc window. Not really sure why that worked. heh Third, ran into the SSL problem, so I found the thread on needing ca-bundle.crt from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/boinc/curl/ I copied that to my /var/db/boinc directory and it connects fine now. |
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Former Member
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Third, ran into the SSL problem, so I found the thread on needing ca-bundle.crt from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/boinc/curl/ I copied that to my /var/db/boinc directory and it connects fine now. When you install boinc from the ports dir you get the question if you want to enable ssl, you probably did not enable ssl support. |
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Former Member
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No, I never got asked that. The first few times I got asked if I wanted X11 support but I didn't even get that on the last time despite deinstalling first.
I set the cpu to 100.0%, but it seems to drop off to 25% rather frequently. Is that normal? (Its a hyperthreaded cpu so the percentages are halved) Just waiting on the stats update to see how its doing. |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Chanler,
----------------------------------------with BOINC u don't have to wait for stats updates: 1. BOINC shows in project tab the latest cumulative as u very probably know. 2. In the Result status page u can see immediately which of the 9 different statuses each work unit has and how much credit was granted. How to sort u can find out here : Multiply the credit with 7 and u got the equivalent WCG(UD) points added to your stats. cheers
WCG
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Thanks, forgot about the results page.
Ok, another question for everyone. I'm getting out of disk errors since Boinc installs to /var, which on my machine is a 2GB partition instead of my 200GB /usr directory. Is there any way to change the install or the location of the data files? |
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Former Member
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Ok, another question for everyone. I'm getting out of disk errors since Boinc installs to /var, which on my machine is a 2GB partition instead of my 200GB /usr directory. Is there any way to change the install or the location of the data files? I didn't test this one but you can try it. Move all the files in /var/db/boinc to the dir you want to use as boinc dir Add to /etc/make/conf these lines: BOINC_HOME=/var/db/boinc //you can change this to /usr/?? BOINC_USER=boinc BOINC_GROUP=nobody I hope it works |
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