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jal2
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The big resource hog is plasma, with boinc or the wu listed right behind it. There seems to be a problem with Plasma & the calendar widget. Could this be your issue? Plasma & Calendar plasma-widgets-workspace: calendar widget eats all CPU |
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Gort
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The big resource hog is plasma, with boinc or the wu listed right behind it. There seems to be a problem with Plasma & the calendar widget. Could this be your issue? Plasma & Calendar plasma-widgets-workspace: calendar widget eats all CPU  This is strange since I have the calendar widget on the celeron too, but plasma is consuming less than 8% of the cpu. Both are running the Oxygen theme. I wonder if there is more than 1 calendar widget and I just missed that. Thanks so much! I felt guilty turning my pc off at night. Now, I can get back to crunching. *edited for inappropriate language - CIH [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Apr 27, 2009 3:28:05 PM] |
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Former Member
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So, my first diagnosis was right, and you have learned a valuable lesson about reading the output from "top".
Excellent. Glad your computer is back to work. |
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Gort
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Just as a follow up:
The celeron, running 6.2.15, is a little more than halfway through the wu. My main pc, running the beta software, finished its wu and is a third of the way through the next wu. I think I'll keep the beta for now. Thanks for the tips. I remember them for the future. |
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Former Member
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This is is probably unrelated, I share it just in case...
I had the same symptoms, it turned out that the problem was not caused by Boinc, it was caused by aMule running "behind" the Firestarter firewall with outbound traffic policy set to "restricted by default, whitelist traffic". The problem ceased when I switched the firewall to "permissive by default, blacklist traffic" (which is a good reason to keep looking for a firewall for Linux with both the portNumber-oriented and the applicationName-oriented approaches to the allow/deny question, being the former the current Firestarter approach, the latter the current ZoneAlarm Free approach [windows]). P.D.: Linux Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit (up to date). |
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Former Member
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I need some help, I've just recently switched from Windows to Linux and I was to run Boinc. Apparently I've done something wrong because my computer seems to not want to recognize the program. I keep getting this message:
Could not open the file /home/hossamassey/Deskto…5_i686-pc-linux-gnu(3).sh. Thanks. |
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jal2
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A Google search suggests that you tried to use the installer from the Boinc website.
----------------------------------------Try using the version from the WCG home page (follow the download link). Also, your script might not be marked as executable: chmod 770 <file name> ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by jal2 at May 3, 2009 7:11:23 AM] |
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I need some help, I've just recently switched from Windows to Linux and I was to run Boinc. Apparently I've done something wrong because my computer seems to not want to recognize the program. I keep getting this message: Could not open the file /home/hossamassey/Deskto…5_i686-pc-linux-gnu(3).sh. Thanks. You can also just use your package manager with whatever Linus distro you are using and you shouldn't have any problems. It will save you a few steps. If your new to Linux and don't know how to do this just start another thread and ask. |
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Former Member
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I need some help, I've just recently switched from Windows to Linux and I was to run Boinc. Apparently I've done something wrong because my computer seems to not want to recognize the program. I keep getting this message: Could not open the file /home/hossamassey/Deskto…5_i686-pc-linux-gnu(3).sh. Thanks. You can also just use your package manager with whatever Linus distro you are using and you shouldn't have any problems. It will save you a few steps. If your new to Linux and don't know how to do this just start another thread and ask. I don't have a clue on how to do this...can you please explain. Thank you. |
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Former Member
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Hello hossamassey,
You are going to have to explain your system and Linux distro, then ask for help. Nobody can help you with an unknown computer. Installing software using package managers is about the most basic help you can get in Linux since you need to be able to install software. Lawrence |
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