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Former Member
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I would guess that it is from the Biblical story of Job, and that the original expression is not an English idiom.
Darn. I had hoped this OSX problem had spontaneously resolved. By the way: you should all be using BOINC 5.10.34 - a serious memory leak was fixed. There have been a few other Mac changes, but none that are likely to affect the problem discussed in this thread. |
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Former Member
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I've certainly encountered this bug as well, and I thought at the time it did only affect faah (I had three tasks stalled in a few days...)
I abandonned faah for now... (I did post the bug I encountered on the faah forum) Now the same happened for dddt today... One more thing : when a task is stalled, it looks like (activity monitor) it is multithreaded by eating 200% (or even 300%) cpu... (My mac pro has 8 cores...) Suspend works for every other task but the one that is stalled, and eating cpu cycles for nothing... For what it's worth, the task that I had to stop today was named : dddt0301c0161_ZINC02814818-0000_00_0 phjo |
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Former Member
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DDDT and FAAH use the same science software, a program called AutoDock.
Thank you for your comments - hopefully other Mac users can keep an eye out for the CPU usage you mention. Earlier in this thread are a few suggestions on how to gather more information when this happens. In this situation, the more information, the better. So far nobody has had any luck in reproducing this bug; it just shows up randomly. |
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Another lockup today of one hpf2 task this time... Same symptom : cpu activity shows more than 100% to the said task.
Same fix : kill the stalled task, and it starts again and will finish properly... phjo |
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I have one ppc mac running 10.5.x and it has been freezing more than once a day, everyday. I gave up until it's fixed and I'm now running a different project.
 As soon as it's fixed I will change it back. |
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zombie67 [MM]
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FWIW, I just had two FAAH tasks lock up on my 8-way mac Pro. Quitting/restarting seems to have resolved the issue for the time being.
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armstrdj
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zombie67, do you run DDDT as well? With the latest upgrade to DDDT we have linked to a newer version of the BOINC API on Mac. If we see this problem go away with DDDT on Mac we can rebuild FAAH with the newer BOINC API.
Thanks, armstrdj |
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I'm going to start crunching again with my ppc mac 10.5 and see if it locks up a work unit.
This will keep it off eBay for a little longer.  Need to upgrade to the Intel mac sooner than later though. |
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zombie67 [MM]
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zombie67, do you run DDDT as well? Yes I do. The two that were frozen were FAAH. If I see it on DDDT. I will post about it. |
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jonathandl
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When I go to the home page and click on the download button I see that the version currently offered for my machine is 5.10.29. Are you recommending that I download 5.10.34 directly from the BOINC.berkeley.edu website? If so, then should I download the latest version, 5.10.44, or you recommend 5.10.34 specifically?
By the way: you should all be using BOINC 5.10.34 - a serious memory leak was fixed. There have been a few other Mac changes, but none that are likely to affect the problem discussed in this thread. |
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