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Former Member
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There was one member who noted that he'd installed DNSmasq on his Linux, so that the loop-backs that BOINC needs over IP 127.0.0.1 don't get interrupted when the internet drops away and the NIC/WIFI goes choking [Linux desperate sucking juice to reconnect]. My Linux runs mostly offline to counter the problem [with WiFi dropping], and would be interested to see a short write-up how that DNSmasq was set up / configured [it read as quite involved to the "not in"]. It's a potentially Start Here FAQ worthy item.
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Hardnews
Senior Cruncher England Joined: Oct 11, 2008 Post Count: 151 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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A FAQ might help. I hardware checked everything yesterday, and installed a new router. The variable I cannot fix is the 3G mobile data internet signal, which even when I have full carrier lock for days on end, often has no connectivity. 4 more WU died yesterday, R.I.P. The wifi, in contrast, is pretty solid.
----------------------------------------I think I will have to run BOINC off-line, and manually connect to up/down link when I test that 3G is actually linked. (UK mobile data '3 Network') I can lock the 3G signal to always on in the new router, which might help. I move to a new house soon, which may have 'proper' internets made by old-tech copper wires slung from wooden poles. These usually work as opposed to 3G Ethernot. :-) s. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Hardnews at Jun 7, 2012 6:13:30 AM] |
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Former Member
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Loving me WIFI as it peaks out at nearly 3x the throughput of me 100MB limited ethernet, PLUS, wire is not an option but for trouble shooting, which earns me foul looks.
A properly phrased search at google, popped up a good set of instructions for DNSmasq, so will have a go at this in the near future. http://www.google.it/search?q=linux+setup+dnsmasq A second search more specific to the popular Ubuntu http://www.google.it/search?q=linux+ubuntu+setup+dnsmasq Yesterday went in and installed Windows-List... more mousing, less keyboard in Unity: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/how-to-get-list-of-open-windows-on.html . A handy little list from the top bar of open windows, though, in this department I much prefer how GNOME 3.2/3.4 present a mosaic of open apps and how one can organize the layout with the drag function. --//-- |
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Former Member
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Further to the dnsmasq, followed the instructions of this official Ubuntu documents
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Dnsmasq and we're zooming. Now to test if BOINC jobs crash... the wifi was disconnected, whilst BOINC is working hard to connect to WCG (which momentarily is not doing very well... downloading tasks succeeds, ready to report clearing succeeds, but uploading result files is now on a 6 hour back-off after a series of autonomous tries.) --//-- |
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Hardnews
Senior Cruncher England Joined: Oct 11, 2008 Post Count: 151 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Excellent, thanks. My box is offline until I sort the problem out, this will help. I've just hardwired in Gigabit ethernet, with static IP addresses, if I still have problems it's going to a DNS hack.
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Former Member
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Great *Big* Linux Does Great Big Science, and a mention of BOINC in it's history: https://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/high-pe...scle-in-linux-lab-partner and yes, World Community Grid gets mentioned too, without hotlink :|
----------------------------------------edit: Notably, TACC gets a mention too, with which Dr. Watowich / DDDT2 have a data storage / processing / backup arrangement, from after hurricane Ike hit Galveston. --//-- [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jun 9, 2012 2:08:53 PM] |
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Former Member
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Mentioned before on the forums by a user of 12.04 LTS with BOINC 7.0.24 and up, the Manager only shows the *Fi* of the first menu option in Gnome. By coincidence discovered that if you slightly expand a *normal* sized window to the left, the full menu appears. Also briefly doing a Max > Normal resize brings the menu back.
(now in dual boot trial crunching CFSW 6.11, the shorties, on me octo laptop on 12.04 with the latest kernel updates. Let's see how that compares to running them babies under W7-64 on the same device. The first one went south after 0.06 hours). Think to see the same issue... too busy Linux, starving the BOINC processes long enough to cause them to have heart failure. Down to pausing them sciences if the CPU is busier than 30%) <core_client_version>7.0.27</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ <message> process exited with code 211 (0xd3, -45) </message> <stderr_txt> [13:01:22] INFO:Beginning simulation: 1990:240:753304179 [13:05:31] INFO: Finished tick number 4 [ERROR] Failed to open wcg_checkpoint.dat for writing. [ERROR] Checkpoint failed. Exiting. 13:07:06 (6217): called boinc_finish </stderr_txt> And got a 230 World Community Grid 6/9/2012 1:12:27 PM This computer has finished a daily quota of 1 tasks ]]> That was quick :( --//-- |
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GeraldRube
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Great *Big* Linux Does Great Big Science, and a mention of BOINC in it's history: https://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/high-pe...scle-in-linux-lab-partner and yes, World Community Grid gets mentioned too, without hotlink :| --//-- Better that than not getting a mention, or getting a dud email link, "Milkyway@home and"! Sort of ironic that they mention Orbit@home. This is the sort of flat-lining project that could have been running for peanuts, but for the fact that ultra-large projects such as cern/LHC came in and gobbled up all the research grants throughout the world, leaving tens of thousands of research projects floundering. The LHC alone cost ~£6Billion. I would have preferred half a million in funding to 12000 projects. I'm sure WCG is doing a lot more for a lot less. Of course more will come out of this than a neutral particle. The fact that they use DC may further promote DC as a scientific research tool. The use of Linux clusters has helped develop and fund cloud computing, and move away from SaaS. Running Boinc/WCG in the cloud might become a more attractive method of participation for many. I would like IBM to facilitate this. That way it would be done properly. If Google and Amazon are doing this why not IBM? I'm sure plenty of people here would like that option, and would rather pay IBM for the service than another corporation, as it's IBM that's supporting WCG. Well its good news for Linux which is also great for us--good article  --(edit spelling)   [Edit 1 times, last edit by GeraldRube at Jun 9, 2012 1:57:51 PM] |
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Bearcat
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I think it's sad WCG didn't get hotlinks while others have. As big as IBM is, would think they would make a call or email them on it.
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