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Former Member
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and I am pleasantly surprised as I have one repair WU. That means I got 22 WU in this cycle with one still PV and the rest valid
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Former Member
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Why do those of us who have beta testing for this project not receive any work units? I have my profile set now only for beta win7 testing for this project and I have never gotten any work units at all. Does anyone know why this might be the case?
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Sekerob
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... because there were only 30,000 work units in this Beta. Including repairs about 30,600 have been returned on this test.
----------------------------------------Note that selecting Beta is not coupled with any specific research i.e. selecting Beta+CEP2 (rather novel), does not mean you get CEP2 related beta tasks. You'll be getting any beta work, if there are any in the feeder and your client happens to call for work when the limited supply is in the feeder. Of course a beta volunteered device must meet minimum system requirements.
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Former Member
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Are there still some repairjobs around? What is planned for the future now? Another Beta, or the windows version, or nothing?
----------------------------------------Would be nice, if you could give us some answers. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Sep 29, 2010 5:46:19 AM] |
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armstrdj
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Oct 21, 2004 Post Count: 695 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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We will be running another beta for Windows soon. There are some minor code changes and this beta will also limit a host to running only one workunit at a time.
The largest error we are still seeing is that the application is failing to launch, should see something like "CreateProcess() failed" in the result log and the error code is -185. There have been a couple of users who reported this error due to their anti-virus software. If any users continue to see this error and could post their AV software to this post it would be helpful http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,29942 Thanks, armstrdj |
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Sekerob
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armstrdj,
----------------------------------------you are aware of a 'bug' that David Anderson is going to address. "Run based on preferences" + anything but zero on "While processor usage is less than xx percent" is near guaranteed to cause the client to suspend within seconds from task start. David Anderson suspects AV or other security software. Saw Windows Defender also being mentioned, but on Linux these things don't exist for most i.e. I got this dumb BOINC suspending without AV or Firewall or the like and not only with CEP2. Anyway, the thing being addressed is to have the application not exit memory when that function kicks in i.e. as if LAIM is on. Expect this done with 6.12. It would thus be interesting to know if this happens to default set clients 6.10.37 or also 6.10.17 and below. Just a thought.
WCG
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nanoprobe
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We will be running another beta for Windows soon. There are some minor code changes and this beta will also limit a host to running only one workunit at a time. If multi core processors are only allowed to run 1 at a time will they still get 1 unit for each core?
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Dataman
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Personally I am pleased to see they are investigating 1 wu/host. Even the N/2 of the last test had a bandwidth problem when several 8 thread machines were running CEP2.
----------------------------------------I had a recent experience at eOn@home that has very short run times and very large files. Without thinking (Doh!), I put 32 cores on it. At any given moment I had ~8 wu trying to download/upload. Even my browser was taking 2 seconds to respond. I had to back down to 16 across several machines to get everything back to normal. I think it is good practice to continue to test this and other issues in Beta. FWIW.    |
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nanoprobe
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FWIW there is a way to greatly reduce the bandwidth issue. Limit your uploads to no more than 80% of your total upload bandwidth.
----------------------------------------For example, if you have 1 meg of upload bandwidth and you have 4 crunchers. Take 80% of that 1 meg and spread it out over the 4 machines, or 20% each. That way if they are all uploading at the same time it will keep it within that 80% limit. It may take a while for the large files, like CEP2 to finish, but they will finish and shouldn't bog your network down. That is what I have used and it works well for me.
In 1969 I took an oath to defend and protect the U S Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and Domestic. There was no expiration date.
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Dataman
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FWIW there is a way to greatly reduce the bandwidth issue. Limit your uploads to no more than 80% of your total upload bandwidth. For example, if you have 1 meg of upload bandwidth and you have 4 crunchers. Take 80% of that 1 meg and spread it out over the 4 machines, or 20% each. That way if they are all uploading at the same time it will keep it within that 80% limit. It may take a while for the large files, like CEP2 to finish, but they will finish and shouldn't bog your network down. That is what I have used and it works well for me. Thanks nano, that may help some WCG crunchers.  Personally over the last 100 years (well it seems like that  ) I have developed a configuration for my farm that works best for the myriad and varied projects I support. Changing it for one project usually leads to problems in others. I let others crunch "special needs" projects.  |
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