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Former Member
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I am having problems running the HCC work units. The program appears to hang up afterapprox 2 hours cpu time. It will only star again after re-boot.
The present work unit has run for 15 hours and then stopped. In all cases no other program was running. Any one got any ideas? |
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Former Member
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Hello Stormin Norman,
No special ideas. Sometimes rebooting is overkill and Suspend - Unsuspend will do the trick. First question - what happens to the progress indicator after a reboot? Second question - what do you mean by stopped? What does Task Manager show? Third question - what are you running? I am assuming Windows XP since you didn't say anything about it but what version of BOINC? Fourth question - is this a new problem on a system that has previously successfully run HCC work units? Lawrence |
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crooks_uk
Veteran Cruncher England Joined: Nov 25, 2004 Post Count: 1011 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Assuming that it is a problem only with this workunit, and does not affect all HCC workunits, I would abort the unit and watch what happens to the next one you process.
----------------------------------------If this continues, please copy the messages tab in boinc and paste into this post. It will help with diagnositcs. If you are using the UD agent, please upgrade to bionc as the UD agent is due to be phased out.
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crooks_uk
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Hello Stormin Norman, No special ideas. Sometimes rebooting is overkill and Suspend - Unsuspend will do the trick. First question - what happens to the progress indicator after a reboot? Second question - what do you mean by stopped? What does Task Manager show? Third question - what are you running? I am assuming Windows XP since you didn't say anything about it but what version of BOINC? Fourth question - is this a new problem on a system that has previously successfully run HCC work units? Lawrence Lawrence, It looks like we both posted at the same time. Many thanks for your continued support here in the forums.
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Hi crooks_uk,
 Happens all the time. I answer a post, then see somebody else answered it several minutes earlier. I like your advice about the Abort. That is a good way to find out whether or not it is a general problem.  Lawrence |
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Have tried suspend-unsuspend. next task work unit starts
Using Windows XP and BOINC5.10.28 Task Manager shows CPU 1-2 for task and 80-90 for System Idle Process. Problem has occured with the last two or three HCC runs other work runs run OK. Progress indicator after reboot continues from where it left off. Herewith copy of messages 19/12/2007 12:39:08||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.28 for windows_intelx86 19/12/2007 12:39:08||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 19/12/2007 12:39:08||Libraries: libcurl/7.17.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3 19/12/2007 12:39:08||Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC 19/12/2007 12:39:11||Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7] 19/12/2007 12:39:11||Processor features: fpu tsc sse sse2 mmx 19/12/2007 12:39:11||OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00) 19/12/2007 12:39:11||Memory: 631.48 MB physical, 1.51 GB virtual 19/12/2007 12:39:11||Disk: 37.26 GB total, 9.58 GB free 19/12/2007 12:39:11||Local time is UTC +0 hours 19/12/2007 12:39:12|World Community Grid|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 414485; location: (none); project prefs: default 19/12/2007 12:39:13||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 27-Nov-2007 13:01:59) 19/12/2007 12:39:13||Host location: none 19/12/2007 12:39:13||General prefs: using your defaults 19/12/2007 12:39:13||Reading preferences override file 19/12/2007 12:39:13||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 473.61MB 19/12/2007 12:39:13||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 473.61MB 19/12/2007 12:39:13||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.12GB 19/12/2007 12:39:18|World Community Grid|Restarting task X0000054410945200508262253_0 using hcc1 version 515 19/12/2007 23:27:15|World Community Grid|Starting dddt0301b0117_ZINC05171712-0001_00_1 19/12/2007 23:27:17|World Community Grid|Starting task dddt0301b0117_ZINC05171712-0001_00_1 using dddt version 510 |
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Hello Stormin Norman,
The peculiar value is the extremely low but non-zero CPU usage. My first suggestion is to set the Preferences to run at 100% memory. On my machine HCC likes to grab up to 517 MB if it can. This could be conflicting with your BOINC limit of 473 MB. Lawrence |
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Drorion
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Hi All!
It seems I have the same problem on my linux. 20-Dec-2007 14:29:31 [---] General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 20-Dec-2007 14:29:19) 20-Dec-2007 14:29:31 [---] Host location: none 20-Dec-2007 14:29:31 [---] General prefs: using your defaults 20-Dec-2007 14:29:31 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 503.55MB 20-Dec-2007 14:29:31 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 503.55MB 20-Dec-2007 14:29:31 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 13.97GB 20-Dec-2007 14:31:20 [World Community Grid] Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks I setup 100% of memory in the device profile, but HCC still does not start using CPU. From "top" screen: Mem: 515636k total, 430224k used, 85412k free, 74280k buffers Swap: 530104k total, 46892k used, 483212k free, 236696k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 24456 root 34 19 53748 42m 6580 S 0.0 8.5 0:00.01 wcg_hcc1_img_5. I'm also left it on all night, but the task was not start using my CPU.  |
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Hello Drorion,
Why not reboot, then copy all the message log after things settle down? This will give us more information to work with. Lawrence |
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Drorion
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Hi Lawrence.
I'm don't understand what you mean about "things settle down". I'm not a native english speaker. Ok, here is my full log after rebooting PC: 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.10.28 for i686-pc-linux-gnu 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.16.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8d zlib/1.2.3 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] Executing as a daemon 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] Data directory: /home/kirill/boinc/BOINC 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] Processor: 1 AuthenticAMD AMD Duron(tm) processor [Family 6 Model 3 Stepping 1] 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr pni syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] OS: Linux: 2.6.8-24.25-default 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] Memory: 503.55 MB physical, 517.68 MB virtual 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] Disk: 19.18 GB total, 16.28 GB free 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] Local time is UTC +2 hours 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [World Community Grid] URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 443004; location: (none); project prefs: default 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 20-Dec-2007 14:29:19) 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] Host location: none 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] General prefs: using your defaults 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 503.55MB 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 503.55MB 20-Dec-2007 20:58:20 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 13.97GB 20-Dec-2007 20:58:22 [World Community Grid] Restarting task X0000051351236200506241953_1 using hcc1 version 519 The CPU is fully free: Mem: 515636k total, 184676k used, 330960k free, 11328k buffers Swap: 530104k total, 0k used, 530104k free, 98844k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3769 root 34 19 70356 41m 6580 S 0.0 8.2 0:00.01 wcg_hcc1_img_5. 3768 root 17 0 4380 2592 3356 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.92 boinc |
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