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Former Member
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This has happened three times so far. I updated to the latest BOINC about two weeks ago after the second one.
Some time last night a faah stopped progressing. The activity monitor showed 95+% system CUP usage. I force quit BOINC and restarted it. Things appear to be running normally now. Genius that I am, I didn't save the message log before restarting. |
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retsof
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In the meantime, save your computer device number to post with the message log next time. That will help the techs figure out what's going on there, if something burps again.
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Sekerob
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Well you can work on that. Visit the stdoutdae.txt file in the BOINC program dir and several other txt files. They may contain the messages to our interest. Also can you please tell what exactly you mean with latest BOINC. What version are we talking and what science was running and did u use / not use any graphics (if available for the particular science project).
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I am using version 5.8.16. The date on the download is April 16, 2007.
From stdoutdae.txt: 2007-06-04 13:58:15 [World Community Grid] [file_xfer] Throughput 4146 bytes/sec 2007-06-04 15:11:40 [World Community Grid] Computation for task faah1695_d067n165_x2AZ8_00_2 finished 2007-06-04 15:11:40 [World Community Grid] Starting faah1643_ZINC04336195_x2AZ8_00_3 2007-06-04 15:11:41 [World Community Grid] Starting task faah1643_ZINC04336195_x2AZ8_00_3 using faah version 530 2007-06-04 15:11:42 [World Community Grid] [file_xfer] Started upload of file faah1695_d067n165_x2AZ8_00_2_0 2007-06-04 15:11:42 [World Community Grid] [file_xfer] Started upload of file faah1695_d067n165_x2AZ8_00_2_1 2007-06-04 15:11:46 [World Community Grid] [file_xfer] Finished upload of file faah1695_d067n165_x2AZ8_00_2_0 2007-06-04 15:11:46 [World Community Grid] [file_xfer] Throughput 8004 bytes/sec 2007-06-04 15:11:46 [World Community Grid] [file_xfer] Finished upload of file faah1695_d067n165_x2AZ8_00_2_1 2007-06-04 15:11:46 [World Community Grid] [file_xfer] Throughput 49755 bytes/sec 2007-06-04 16:23:51 [World Community Grid] Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks 2007-06-04 16:23:51 [World Community Grid] Reporting 1 tasks 2007-06-04 16:23:56 [World Community Grid] Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509] 2007-06-04 16:23:56 [World Community Grid] Deferring communication for 5 min 3 sec 2007-06-04 16:23:56 [World Community Grid] Reason: requested by project 2007-06-05 08:28:06 [---] Exit requested by user 2007-06-05 08:28:35 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.8.16 for powerpc-apple-darwin 2007-06-05 08:28:35 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 2007-06-05 08:28:35 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 2007-06-05 08:28:35 [---] Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data 2007-06-05 08:28:35 [---] Processor: 1 Power Macintosh Power Macintosh [Power Macintosh Model PowerMac10,1] [AltiVec] 2007-06-05 08:28:35 [---] Memory: 512.00 MB physical, 29.16 GB virtual 2007-06-05 08:28:35 [---] Disk: 37.14 GB total, 28.92 GB free 2007-06-05 08:28:35 [World Community Grid] URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 190527; location: (none); project prefs: default 2007-06-05 08:28:35 [---] General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 2007-04-08 20:12:38) 2007-06-05 08:28:35 [---] Host location: none 2007-06-05 08:28:35 [---] General prefs: using your defaults 2007-06-05 08:28:35 [World Community Grid] Restarting task faah1643_ZINC04336195_x2AZ8_00_3 using faah version 530 The GUI indicates this task should have taken ~ 11 hours. It had 5 this morning. There are three other .txt files in the same directory. None show anything that looks like an error in this time frame. I am not using throttling. BOINC is using 95+% when the machine is idle. |
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Former Member
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I do not use any graphics.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
The part of the log you're posted doesn't show any problems. However, you can go to your Results Status page (here: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/viewBoincResults.do ) and find the troublesome work unit. If you click on the status column, it will pop up the error log for that work unit.
There might be something more useful recorded there. |
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Sekerob
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Curious, you speak of last night, yet the last entry before restart is 16:23. When the GUI looks dead, yet the CPU indicates hi usage, try to kill the GUI only and restart. Possibly the front end lost contact to back end (RPC over port 31416). If you succeed to kill and restart and the process resuming counting as if it never stopped, we know something interferes with the comms between GUI (BOINCmgr) and Daemon (BOINC). 5.8.17 is actually the recommended version for MAC. Get it here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_5.8.17_macOSX_universal.zip
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Former Member
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I got 5.8.17. I will install as soon as the current job ends.
The download page for WCG still has 5.8.16 for Macs. |
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Former Member
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I have seen this on the three Macs I have crunching: G4 Mac Mini, G4 iBook, and a very old G4 desktop Tower (Sawtooth). Ended up having to detach/reattach all three in the space of a week. No problems on my XP or Win2K laptops.
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smut, geopsychic: I refer you both to my earlier post. It would be really useful if we knew a) which project(s) are affected, and b) what happens when it crashes. This will also help us determine whether it is a WCG specific problem, or a BOINC problem.
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