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On several occasions HFCC work units on my Mac-Mini have just put BOINC onto a loop (or something that absorbs CPU cycles and no productive work). The percent complete stays the same for days and CPU utilization is high. The time to completion just increments upwards 1 second per second in real time so it appears it will never end. This workstation is dedicated to BOINC. No other user programs are running on it.
I can suspend the task but a BOINC process is still running and absorbing all available CPU cycles. I need to kill that BOINC task and restart BOINC to get things working on the work unit. After doing the above the work unit begins processing again normally where it left off. I am running the latest BOINC agent. My Mac-Mini is the original PowerPC based model so I am limited on which projects it can participate in. If I can't get this resolved I'll try excluding HFCC from my eligible projects. I don't really want to exclude any projects. Any insight appreciated. J |
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Hello schmidtj,
I am running the latest BOINC agent. Could you post the startup messages in your Messages tab? I don't have any idea how to help, but I would like to have specifics to wonder about instead of assumptions.Lawrence |
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Yes, with my old outdated puters I found the need to exclude HFCC also. I have been watching for someone to say something, went 100 % HCC . Meko
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Hello schmidtj, I don't seem to have a messages tab but found the event log ...I am running the latest BOINC agent. Could you post the startup messages in your Messages tab? I don't have any idea how to help, but I would like to have specifics to wonder about instead of assumptions.Lawrence Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | Starting BOINC client version 6.12.35 for powerpc-apple-darwin Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 c-ares/1.6.0 Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | Processor: 1 Power Macintosh Power Macintosh [Power Macintosh Model PowerMac10,1] [AltiVec] Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | Processor features: AltiVec Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | OS: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Darwin 9.8.0) Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | Memory: 512.00 MB physical, 60.78 GB virtual Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | Disk: 74.41 GB total, 60.53 GB free Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | Local time is UTC -6 hours Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | No usable GPUs found Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1501504; resource share 100 Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | World Community Grid | General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 16-Feb-2011 17:46:32) Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | World Community Grid | Computer location: home Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | General prefs: using separate prefs for home Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | Reading preferences override file Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | Preferences: Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | max memory usage when active: 384.00MB Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | max memory usage when idle: 460.80MB Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | max disk usage: 10.00GB Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) Mon Dec 12 05:45:53 2011 | | Not using a proxy Mon Dec 12 05:46:19 2011 | World Community Grid | task HFCC_target-8_00022464_target-8_0000_0 resumed by user Mon Dec 12 05:46:20 2011 | World Community Grid | Restarting task HFCC_target-8_00022464_target-8_0000_0 using hfcc version 640 Mon Dec 12 08:35:57 2011 | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Mon Dec 12 08:35:57 2011 | World Community Grid | Requesting new tasks for CPU Mon Dec 12 08:35:59 2011 | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks Mon Dec 12 08:36:02 2011 | World Community Grid | Started download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_ZINC06387495.pdbqt.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:02 2011 | World Community Grid | Started download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_ZINC06387495_x3NF6_00.gpf.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:03 2011 | World Community Grid | Finished download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_ZINC06387495.pdbqt.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:03 2011 | World Community Grid | Finished download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_ZINC06387495_x3NF6_00.gpf.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:03 2011 | World Community Grid | Started download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_AD4.1_bound.dat.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:03 2011 | World Community Grid | Started download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_x3NF6b.pdbqt.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:04 2011 | World Community Grid | Finished download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_AD4.1_bound.dat.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:04 2011 | World Community Grid | Finished download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_x3NF6b.pdbqt.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:04 2011 | World Community Grid | Started download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6_00.dpf.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:04 2011 | World Community Grid | Started download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_base.00009.dat.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:05 2011 | World Community Grid | Finished download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6_00.dpf.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:05 2011 | World Community Grid | Finished download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_base.00009.dat.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:05 2011 | World Community Grid | Started download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_base1.00009.pdbqt.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:05 2011 | World Community Grid | Started download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_base2.00009.pdbqt.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:06 2011 | World Community Grid | Finished download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_base1.00009.pdbqt.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:06 2011 | World Community Grid | Finished download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_base2.00009.pdbqt.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:06 2011 | World Community Grid | Started download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_wcgrid.00009.gpf.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:06 2011 | World Community Grid | Started download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_wcgrid.00009.dpf.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:07 2011 | World Community Grid | Finished download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_wcgrid.00009.gpf.gzb Mon Dec 12 08:36:07 2011 | World Community Grid | Finished download of faah26812_ZINC06387495_x3NF6b_00_wcgrid.00009.dpf.gzb Mon Dec 12 16:24:21 2011 | | Running CPU benchmarks Mon Dec 12 16:24:21 2011 | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress Mon Dec 12 16:24:52 2011 | | Benchmark results: Mon Dec 12 16:24:52 2011 | | Number of CPUs: 1 Mon Dec 12 16:24:52 2011 | | 797 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU Mon Dec 12 16:24:52 2011 | | 2446 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU Mon Dec 12 16:24:53 2011 | | Resuming computation |
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Hello schmidtj,
Thank you for all the information. Meko makes a reasonable case for excluding HFCC. Some recent posts that SekeRob has been handling seem to show that if BOINC runs the CPU at less than 100%, it might cause problems with some projects. Or that might be a superstition. Wish I could come up with a brilliant suggestion, but I need a dim bulb icon to show how I actually feel. Keep on crunching! Lawrence |
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Hello schmidtj, I do limit the BOINC agent to 80%. With that limit the internal fan does not run and the Mac stays very quiet. I have excluded HFCC from my projects for now.Thank you for all the information. Meko makes a reasonable case for excluding HFCC. Some recent posts that SekeRob has been handling seem to show that if BOINC runs the CPU at less than 100%, it might cause problems with some projects. Or that might be a superstition. Wish I could come up with a brilliant suggestion, but I need a dim bulb icon to show how I actually feel. Keep on crunching! Lawrence Tnx, J |
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