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RicktheBrick
Senior Cruncher Joined: Sep 23, 2005 Post Count: 206 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I have a 4 core computer that only got 4 results today even though it was on 24 hours. So I went to the last 14 days and found that I am getting around 63% of real time or about 33 days when if the computer was active in all 4 cores I should be getting around 56 days. When I checked I found that computer had 2 results waiting to be reported and only 3 active work units. One core was not being used. Losing about 20 days of cpu time in the last 14 days is not very efficient if the computer was left on most of that time. I do not want to constantly check my computer as I would think that it should be done automatically. I did updated that computer so it would report those 2 results and get another work unit but I do not believe that I should have to do that. I do not use this computer for anything else.
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Former Member
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First 30 or so lines of messages, from startup to start of processing.
any errors listed in msg tab type of wu you are trying to do |
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RicktheBrick
Senior Cruncher Joined: Sep 23, 2005 Post Count: 206 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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The computer is running Ubuntu 12:10 and boinc 7.0.27. I do not get messages anymore on it even if I hit shift-cntrl-m. I do get some days where the total cpu time is close to 4 days but most are not even 2 days.
03/01/2013 0:000:12:39:37 1,505 2 02/28/2013 0:003:14:50:48 11,501 14 02/27/2013 0:000:19:30:38 2,742 4 02/26/2013 0:003:09:43:16 11,015 14 02/25/2013 0:001:16:37:27 5,863 9 02/24/2013 0:002:22:57:51 9,615 13 02/23/2013 0:001:15:32:21 5,668 9 02/22/2013 0:002:12:35:45 8,939 15 02/21/2013 0:002:17:37:01 9,666 14 02/20/2013 0:003:22:11:18 13,863 21 02/19/2013 0:003:05:50:08 10,313 13 02/18/2013 0:001:23:31:50 6,412 9 02/17/2013 0:001:20:14:41 6,634 12 02/16/2013 0:001:23:22:08 6,843 10 Every time I do look the work units are taking less than 7 hours to complete so the only thing I can think of is that I am not getting enough work units to keep the computer busy all the time. |
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Coleslaw
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fredski actually meant the Event Log. In newer clients you go to Avanced View. Then at the top under Advanced, there is an Event Log. Click it and copy the first 30 or more lines from it. This will show us what settings you are using in general and also give us clues to what is going on.
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Former Member
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Hello RicktheBrick,
Just make sure that BOINC is trying to run on all 4 cores. check the website and your computer preferences. If so, what is running on your computer instead? As you must know by now, reports will be returned in 24 hours at most. So ignore that stupid and irritating BOINC message. It has no practical effect. Look at My Grid and the graphical bar chart way down the page. When did your CPU hopurs drop? What did you do about then? Lawrence |
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RicktheBrick
Senior Cruncher Joined: Sep 23, 2005 Post Count: 206 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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faah38343_ ZINC22326702_ xPR_ wC6_ 11_ 1ref9_ 00_ 0-- rickthebrick Valid 02/03/13 03:29:16 02/03/13 21:38:26 7.81 / 8.02 140.7 / 128.7
X0900119720229201004190851_ 1-- rickthebrick Valid 01/03/13 14:39:18 01/03/13 23:24:12 2.45 / 2.52 68.8 / 67.4 faah38334_ ZINC05883708_ xPR_ wC6_ 11_ 1ref9_ 02_ 0-- rickthebrick Valid 01/03/13 13:37:58 02/03/13 06:42:03 7.27 / 7.50 132.2 / 121.1 These are from results status. They look to me to tell me that for the first there was over 18 hours between receiving the work unit and sending it back. That could explain why I am getting so little returns. I got 4 for today. Even if I averaged 7 hours per result, I should be getting 13 results a day(96/7). 96 hours because I have a 4 core computer running 24 hours. I have 19 pending validation but since this computers has been running for over 5 years now I do not see why that should matter. If all 19 were valid instead, I would get a normal output for the last two day(9 plus the 19 or 28 or 14 a day. Running a computer 24 hours and getting only 4 results is not worth the cost of the electricity. Looking back at my results, I can see a definite downward turn after November 3rd of last year. |
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Former Member
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your cpu time/etime numbers look good, 7.81/8.02 faah=97.38%, 2.45/2.52 hcc=97.22%, 7.27/7.5 faah=96.93% or an average of 97.17%. This translates to 3 days, 21 hours, 17 min, 10 sec per day.
----------------------------------------Now with a little info we can figure out why you are only getting 4 wu a day. based on the little info you have given up, there is no reason. Please post the BOINC event log from this machine. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Mar 3, 2013 5:50:20 AM] |
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RicktheBrick
Senior Cruncher Joined: Sep 23, 2005 Post Count: 206 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | No usable GPUs found
Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | Config: GUI RPC allowed from: Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | A new version of BOINC is available. <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php>Download it.</a> Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1409990; resource share 100 Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | World Community Grid | General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 04-Nov-2012 21:22:05) Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | World Community Grid | Host location: none Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | World Community Grid | General prefs: using your defaults Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | Reading preferences override file Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | Preferences: Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | max memory usage when active: 1505.02MB Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | max memory usage when idle: 2257.53MB Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | max disk usage: 10.00GB Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 50 % Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | Not using a proxy Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | World Community Grid | Restarting task qn817_00008_15 using hpf2 version 640 in slot 2 Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | World Community Grid | Restarting task qn824_00055_15 using hpf2 version 640 in slot 0 Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | World Community Grid | Restarting task qn829_00016_16 using hpf2 version 640 in slot 1 Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:58:33 AM EST | | Running CPU benchmarks Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:58:33 AM EST | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:59:04 AM EST | | Benchmark results: Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:59:04 AM EST | | Number of CPUs: 4 Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:59:04 AM EST | | 2268 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:59:04 AM EST | | 12806 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:59:05 AM EST | | Resuming computation I do not think you will find anything useful since this problem is not only with this computer. I have been checking all my computers today and to my surprise I have these results for the last 30 days. 4 core computer with a working gpu 1451 6 core computer with a ssd 1047 6 core computer 409 4 core computer 409 4 core computer with ssd 291 As you can see the 4 core computer is doing the same as the 6 core computer even though I am usine the 4 core computer over 6 hours a day. I watch netflix on it. The 4 core with ssd is the one I am complaining about but the 6 core computer is worse since it does not do any better than a 4 core computer. I believe that since we have started using the gpu wcg can not keep up with the downloads and uploads and there are a lot of computers that are not being provided with enough work. |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | No usable GPUs found Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | Config: GUI RPC allowed from: Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | A new version of BOINC is available. <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php>Download it.</a> Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1409990; resource share 100 Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | World Community Grid | General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 04-Nov-2012 21:22:05) Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | World Community Grid | Host location: none Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | World Community Grid | General prefs: using your defaults Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | Reading preferences override file Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | Preferences: Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | max memory usage when active: 1505.02MB Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | max memory usage when idle: 2257.53MB Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | max disk usage: 10.00GB Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 50 % Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | | Not using a proxy Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | World Community Grid | Restarting task qn817_00008_15 using hpf2 version 640 in slot 2 Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | World Community Grid | Restarting task qn824_00055_15 using hpf2 version 640 in slot 0 Tue 05 Mar 2013 07:45:04 AM EST | World Community Grid | Restarting task qn829_00016_16 using hpf2 version 640 in slot 1 Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:58:33 AM EST | | Running CPU benchmarks Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:58:33 AM EST | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:59:04 AM EST | | Benchmark results: Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:59:04 AM EST | | Number of CPUs: 4 Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:59:04 AM EST | | 2268 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:59:04 AM EST | | 12806 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:59:05 AM EST | | Resuming computation I do not think you will find anything useful since this problem is not only with this computer. I have been checking all my computers today and to my surprise I have these results for the last 30 days. 4 core computer with a working gpu 1451 6 core computer with a ssd 1047 6 core computer 409 4 core computer 409 4 core computer with ssd 291 As you can see the 4 core computer is doing the same as the 6 core computer even though I am usine the 4 core computer over 6 hours a day. I watch netflix on it. The 4 core with ssd is the one I am complaining about but the 6 core computer is worse since it does not do any better than a 4 core computer. I believe that since we have started using the gpu wcg can not keep up with the downloads and uploads and there are a lot of computers that are not being provided with enough work. The bold text means that if you use more than 50% of the CPU for non-boinc related tasks(such as netflix) it will suspend computation until it goes below 50% again. If I were you, I would set that to 0. Use throttle for the temps if you wish. Also not sure what you mean with WCG not providing users with enough work since the start of GPU computing. Whenever I ask for more work, I get it. I use a buffer and so far haven't seen anyone complaining. ![]() - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz [Edit 1 times, last edit by Falconet at Mar 6, 2013 5:44:54 PM] |
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RicktheBrick
Senior Cruncher Joined: Sep 23, 2005 Post Count: 206 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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There would be no time the computer was using more than 50% of the cpu since I do not use it for anything. One of the other 4 core computers that does not have a ssd and I do use it a lot has 409 results compared to the 291 results it has. I did change that field but that would not explain why the one 6 core computer does more than twice the other one. Would a ssd be that much faster? The one 6 core computer does have 6 Gbytes of ram memory vs the other with one with 3 Gbytes. I would think that 3 Gbytes of memory would be enough to run 6 work units so I would hope there would not be any memory swapping with the hard drive. Just look at the stats for total results and they have more than doubled for some days and are at least 50% more for almost all the the other days before October of last year. That must mean that there is a lot more downloading and uploading now. Since the gpu units are being returned at a much faster pace I would think that wcg would give them priority. I am just looking for an explanation of these results and a lack of bandwidth or server power seems to me to be a valid explanation and if that is true than leaving a computer on 24 hours is a waste of electricity.
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