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pcwr
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Sep 17, 2005 Post Count: 10903 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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14/06/2009 23:01:20|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 53216 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
----------------------------------------14/06/2009 23:01:25|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 14/06/2009 23:01:25|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work sent 14/06/2009 23:01:25|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your settings on the website. 14/06/2009 23:01:25|World Community Grid|Message from server: (won't finish in time) Computer on 99.9% of time, BOINC on 0.2% of that 14/06/2009 23:03:51|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 65108 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 14/06/2009 23:03:56|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 14/06/2009 23:03:56|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work sent 14/06/2009 23:03:56|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your settings on the website. 14/06/2009 23:03:56|World Community Grid|Message from server: (won't finish in time) Computer on 99.9% of time, BOINC on 0.2% of that 14/06/2009 23:05:25||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 14-Jun-2009 22:53:43) 14/06/2009 23:05:25||Host location: none 14/06/2009 23:05:25||General prefs: using your defaults 14/06/2009 23:05:25||Reading preferences override file 14/06/2009 23:05:25||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 281.06MB 14/06/2009 23:05:25||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 459.91MB 14/06/2009 23:05:25||Preferences limit disk usage to 13.97GB 14/06/2009 23:09:43|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 15843 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 14/06/2009 23:09:48|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 14/06/2009 23:09:48|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work sent 14/06/2009 23:09:48|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your settings on the website. 14/06/2009 23:09:48|World Community Grid|Message from server: (won't finish in time) Computer on 99.9% of time, BOINC on 0.2% of that How do I edit my XML files (which one?) I have managed to get the only downloaded WU to be running (will finish with the hour of CPU time). Can't get it to download any other WUs. My BOINC isn't .2% The stats are probably screwing it up, as it suddenly thought it was August 8th. BOINC ver 5.10.30 (PC wont run a newwer version) Patrick  |
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 3010 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi Patrick, as a starter, I'd suggest that you clear your local preferences file - so that all the changes are taken from the one place (and thus, confusion doesn't reign).
----------------------------------------To do this, from your BOINC Manager program, select the Advance drop down menu, Preferences, and then press the 'Clear' button. After this, refresh your settings by going to the Projects tab and pressing 'Update'. This will ensure that, whatever you've set on the WCG website, will take effect. As to actually modifying your XML files, that's something that I've never done before (whenever mine has got confused, I've just let BOINC run and clear itself). Thus, if you really wish to do this, I'll leave the instructions for someone who's already done it. BTW, I'm presuming that you've already checked the FAQ's for instructions on how to do this????   |
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Ingleside
Veteran Cruncher Norway Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Post Count: 974 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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How do I edit my XML files (which one?) I have managed to get the only downloaded WU to be running (will finish with the hour of CPU time). Can't get it to download any other WUs. My BOINC isn't .2% The stats are probably screwing it up, as it suddenly thought it was August 8th. BOINC ver 5.10.30 (PC wont run a newwer version) Patrick Normally it's best to just let BOINC auto-correct itself, but the problem with so old BOINC client is, it won't fix itself until after you've passed the "wrong" date... and waiting until 08.08 is too long... To fix, shutdown BOINC-client, make sure it's really shut down (check Task Manager). Navigate to your BOINC-directory, default would be "c:\program files\boinc" and open-up client_state.xml in notepad. At the start of this file, there's a <host_info> - block with various info, followed by a <time_stats> - block. In my experience the easiest is to just delete the whole block, this would mean everything from <time_stats> to </time_stats> (7 lines total), save client_state.xml, and re-start BOINC. It's also possible to manually edit the lines, so <on_frac>, <active_frac> and <cpu_efficiency> is 0.99something, but if you're using this method make sure to also edit <last_update> to 12450something (make sure it's 10 numbers total).  "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." |
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BOINC ver 5.10.30 (PC wont run a newwer version) What computer do you have? I'm using the latest BOINC version on a Pentium-III with Windows 2000 without problems. 14/06/2009 23:01:25|World Community Grid|Message from server: (won't finish in time) Computer on 99.9% of time, BOINC on 0.2% of that This seems strange. Why BOINC is only "on 0.2%" of the time? |
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pcwr
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Sep 17, 2005 Post Count: 10903 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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What computer do you have? I'm using the latest BOINC version on a Pentium-III with Windows 2000 without problems. P4 Windows2000Pro SP4. Tried a newwer version sometime ago, but found that it didn't report completed WUs properly. This seems strange. Why BOINC is only "on 0.2%" of the time? Because the stats suddenly gave 1 figure for 8/Aug, therefore no other results for 2 months (because at the time it should have been 8/Jun), the client thought it was only 0.2% of the time. Patrick |
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oliverstirling
Advanced Cruncher United Kingdom Joined: May 7, 2007 Post Count: 107 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Tried a newwer version sometime ago, but found that it didn't report completed WUs properly. Where did you get that version of boinc from? If you got it from here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ then you can often find yourself with a beta version that hasn't been tested properly. For the latest WCG approved version go to the WCG home page and click download now. This will give you the latest version of Boinc that has been tested by the Tech's and CA's for compatibility and shouldn't give you any trouble. |
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Sekerob
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What computer do you have? I'm using the latest BOINC version on a Pentium-III with Windows 2000 without problems. P4 Windows2000Pro SP4. Tried a newwer version sometime ago, but found that it didn't report completed WUs properly. This seems strange. Why BOINC is only "on 0.2%" of the time? Because the stats suddenly gave 1 figure for 8/Aug, therefore no other results for 2 months (because at the time it should have been 8/Jun), the client thought it was only 0.2% of the time. Patrick Yes, 5.10.30 is not very good at recovering from wrong date entries. You can hack per the Ingleside way, or set No New Work in the project tab, finish the jobs you have, exit BOINC completely, find all files that have a name starting with client_state...xml and delete those, then restart BOINC which will recreate those files cleanly without the warped scheduling and activity information. Optimal is though to do the delete part of these client_state....xml files and upgrade to 6.2.28, but at least the WCG 5.10.45 version. Download links for current and previous WCG versions in this FAQ: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=16642 5.10.30 was a short-lived release.
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Ingleside
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Yes, 5.10.30 is not very good at recovering from wrong date entries. You can hack per the Ingleside way, or set No New Work in the project tab, finish the jobs you have, exit BOINC completely, find all files that have a name starting with client_state...xml and delete those, then restart BOINC which will recreate those files cleanly without the warped scheduling and activity information. Deleting client_state.xml can have major disadvantages, if multi-core you'll never have more than one wu per BOINC-project with so screwed-up stats, you'll lose your proxy-settings (if uses any), you'll lose the duration_correction_factor (albeit if you're only running WCG this can fluctuate a lot anyway so...), and if multi-project you'll screw-up long-term-debt. Oh, and if multi-core and multi-project there if one of the other projects is CPDN and you've just started on a model taking a couple months, waiting until it's finished while the other cores sits idle is a huge waste of cpu-resources... Optimal is though to do the delete part of these client_state....xml files and upgrade to 6.2.28, but at least the WCG 5.10.45 version. Download links for current and previous WCG versions in this FAQ: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=16642 5.10.30 was a short-lived release. Not sure why, but some users "likes" v5.10.30 and don't want to upgrade to v5.10.45, even v5.10.45 did include various bug-fixes... BTW, as far as screwed-up time-stats goes, it's no difference between v6.2.28 and v5.10.xx. v6.6.xx on the other hand correctly handles times set into the future: 15.06.2009 16:00:12 [error] bad value 1345071018.075678 of time stats last update; ignoring "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." [Edit 1 times, last edit by Ingleside at Jun 15, 2009 2:08:25 PM] |
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Sekerob
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The member pcwr is a WCG only contributor, so miss entirely why again bringing in the CPDN angle. We try to help members tailored to what we know from public information.
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pcwr
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Only run WCG on BOINC 5.10.30
----------------------------------------P4, so not multi-core PC. Previously upgraded to BOINC ver 6.whatever. - Downgraded as ver 6 didn't work on my PC for some reason. (after processing a weeks worth of differant project WUs that all failed, I gave up and went back to a version that did work) I'm sure I can live with the current problem for the next 2 months, while it sorts itself out. Still processing WUs, even if it doesn't give me any spare in the buffer. Patrick |
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