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Former Member
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Update: 9 pending validation, 1 error, 2 in progress
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Update: 9 pending validation, 1 error, 2 in progress 15PV, 1E, 2IP |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
darkskye,
----------------------------------------Can u look in your Result Status detail for all of the PV's and see if there are 2 or 3 for each in that status....click on the workunit name to see that. thx
WCG
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Former Member
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They all* have 3 entries, one of which is my Pending validation and the other two are "Waiting to be sent"
(* The error has 4 entries which are all waiting to be sent, but this is normal from what i can tell) |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Okay, will pass to the technician. The initial distribution of the first 3 copies is normally within minutes and should at least show 'In Progress', not 'waiting to be sent'.
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WCG
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Former Member
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darkskye, it appears your agent is identifying as BSD, not Linux. I thought that WCG were not sending work to BSD agents, so I assumed that you getting work implied that your agent was identifying as Linux, and your work would be compared against other Linux work units.
If WCG decide to run a separate pool for BSD, then I will see if I can get a couple of my team members set up using your excellent instructions, and those "waiting to be sent" units can be sent out. However, if WCG decide your agent needs to send a Linux platform identifier, then we will have to look closely at your setup, and it is possible your work to date will be lost. Sekerob and I have asked for some further input from the techs. I really want to solve this for you (and my teammates). |
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uplinger
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: May 23, 2005 Post Count: 3952 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I am setting up a FreeBSD machine as I type. I will be using the instructions and the same build that darkskye has provided. Once I get this up and running, I am hoping that my machine will do a few things:
1. Connect with World Community Grid servers properly. 2. Return a result that is similar to darkskye's 3. Prove that darkskye's tutorial works properly As for the OS not looking properly, it appears your OS is showing up as "128" in the world of BOINC. It is distributing the proper version, but since your OS does not show linux, it is being sent only against other "128". I do not know where this 128 comes from at this time. -Uplinger |
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Former Member
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If it does work, may I suggest adding the BSD platform as an accepted platform? That way, the hackishness with faking the platform identifier won't be required.
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Former Member
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darkskye, it appears your agent is identifying as BSD, not Linux. That is correct, my agent is FreeBSD native, but the hack was done so that the client ran linux projects I thought that WCG were not sending work to BSD agents, so I assumed that you getting work implied that your agent was identifying as Linux, and your work would be compared against other Linux work units. No, for that to happen I'd be running the pure linux BOINC client under emulation, which doesn't work as it reports things like negative RAM and zero free disk space If WCG decide to run a separate pool for BSD, then I will see if I can get a couple of my team members set up using your excellent instructions, and those "waiting to be sent" units can be sent out. However, if WCG decide your agent needs to send a Linux platform identifier, then we will have to look closely at your setup, and it is possible your work to date will be lost. I'm hoping that the WCG/BOINC setup is entirely automated and if a client with id '128' requests new data, it checks to see if any '128' data needs vailidating. Sekerob and I have asked for some further input from the techs. I really want to solve this for you (and my teammates). If my above theory is true, I have another FreeBSD/i386 machine I can use to test with to see if it starts validating my existing results. Note for the techs: All the work done is run by the linux versions of the projects as downloaded by the BOINC client, the only changes my hack does to the client is that it requests the Linux/i386 version of the projects and not the non-existent FreeBSD/amd64 versions. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 13, 2006 5:31:07 AM] |
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Former Member
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Either I'm revalidating my own work or something is going according to my hopes!
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