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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I witnessed a very strange behavior of my "Pluto" station.
----------------------------------------I was checking my global WU production and saw today and abnormal slight reduction. I could identify that "Pluto" was dead and not sending anymore. When I checked in my basement were I have the stations I saw that Pluto was switched off. First I thought maybe the power supply went dead or something. I restarted the station all went well, Boinc started and after a minute or so that the machine was crunching, the station switched itself off. I was very surprised as Pluto is a very reliable station. It has high quality components, an Asus Rampage III mainboard, a 980X Intel CPU etc. etc. I checked everything nothing seemed abnormal. I started it again, checked the BIOS, the parameters, nothing abnormal too. The station was on again but the Boinc application had disappeared. Normally the station would automatically start Boinc after a switch on and immediately start crunching full power. This machine does nothing else, it is designed to run 100% WCG, 24/7. There are no other applications installed or running except W7. I checked CPU core temps, memory etc... everything perfect. I started Boinc manually and second surprise, the task page was empty. Nothing to crunch. No surprise here as the WCG project had disappeared. I had to connect again the station to my account on WCG, a full three days batch of tasks were downloaded and Pluto started crunching full power again. I checked the machine after a few hours, it's running smoothly. No trouble yet. Checked core temps again at full power, no problem. So what happened ? Did any of you experience such a strange behaviour?  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Hypernova at Dec 11, 2011 10:47:41 PM] |
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Former Member
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Not experienced, but something dominoed maybe due a fs corruption [guess you checked the disk too]. When you found WCG gone did you visit the BOINC data dir if the project folder an WCG account xml file were still there?
----------------------------------------For sure when you reattached, you essentially started off with a clean WCG install. Begs the question though why the machine would switch itself off again in your attendance. Also, did the reattach give you the old device ID or did it create a new one? The device statistics page would tell what is up on that count. --//-- P.S. At Pluto it's about 32-55 Kelvin IIRC, depends on where it is in the cycle around the sun [it's moving away presently]. Undercooling response ;>) [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 11, 2011 11:34:38 PM] |
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Maybe it was telling you that it was no longer a planet...LOL
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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For sure when you reattached, you essentially started off with a clean WCG install. Begs the question though why the machine would switch itself off again in your attendance. Also, did the reattach give you the old device ID or did it create a new one? The device statistics page would tell what is up on that count. I did not do a clean WCG Install. I restarted the existing one. And the reattach did attach on the old device. At least that is a good thing.  |
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Former Member
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Let me expand on the quoted paragraph. With "clean WCG install" I meant the science applications [as was obvious that the client itself was intact, but did not say the version... now guessed as being WCG 6.10.58]. Never tested if an involuntary detach and manual reattach causes fresh apps to come down. The message log would have informed you of that. Never good fun if that set of 200+ megabyte for CEP2 being re-downloaded, if it was in Pluto's profile.
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