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Re: sigificant credit drop - only for me or did someone else see this?

RTS48, the BOINC data directory on MAC should be located at /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/ and then in there should be a projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org directory to create that file in.

Thanks,
armstrdj

Armstrddj,
So far so good - I have put the script in the correct location with the correct file name. All I get now is the message (In my BOINC Notices Tab) Missing <app_config> in app_config.xml

Have you any idea what is going wrong and how I can fix it??

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Re: sigificant credit drop - only for me or did someone else see this?

RTS48:

All I get now is the message (In my BOINC Notices Tab) Missing <app_config> in app_config.xml

What is the exact contents of your app_config.xml?

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Re: sigificant credit drop - only for me or did someone else see this?

You got referred to an old unmaintained document. Go https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration
You need a pure ASCII text editor such as Notepad (read link) as any hidden word processor code will mess things up.

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Re: sigificant credit drop - only for me or did someone else see this?

RTS48:

All I get now is the message (In my BOINC Notices Tab) Missing <app_config> in app_config.xml

What is the exact contents of your app_config.xml?

The exact contents of my app_config.xml file are as follows

<app_config>
<app>
<name>mip1</name>
<max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
</app>
</app_config>

I created it with the Apple Text Edit app and saved as .xml. I have every reason to believe that there are no embedded nasties as in .xml files edited by Word.

SekeRob Looking at the link that you sent me, the only difference I can see with my file is the addition of square ([]) brackets which I thought were only used for commenting out. The original documentation link that I was sent is as follows

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ClientAppConfig

The above link and file contents that I was given came from armstrdj who is a respected WCG Tech.

I'm still getting my error message

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Re: sigificant credit drop - only for me or did someone else see this?

Maybe re=reed my post AND the linked document which IS the maintained document, where more and newer options are offered.

On the square brackets it says quote:Note: Wherever you see square brackets [ ] used in the examples, these are not used. They show additional options. When using the specific piece of code, delete the square brackets, or the option you try to use will be ignored.

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Re: sigificant credit drop - only for me or did someone else see this?

Some remarks:

Although app_config.xml has been created properly with the proposed content and the hosts have been rebooted, it seems that boinc does not really take care of it: at least two hosts compute more than 2 MIP1 WUs simultaneously.
The credit drop is still more than noticeable and the effect remains the same: the CPU (core) temperature decrease significantly during MIP1 processing.

My hosts have still a couple of hundred MIP1 WUs to compute. In the mean time, I deselected again the project, waiting for some improvements.
Cheers,
Yves

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Re: sigificant credit drop - only for me or did someone else see this?

Here's mine, redacted down to just 2 sciences, and it works a treat, created in Notepad, to ensure no hidden code gunk comes along. Think even ending spaces, you cant see, can break the proper reading of a tag.

<app_config>
  <app>
      <name>mip1</name>
      <max_concurrent>4</max_concurrent>
      <fraction_done_exact/>
      <report_results_immediately/>
   </app>
   <app>
      <name>scc1</name>
      <max_concurrent>4</max_concurrent>
      <fraction_done_exact/>
      <report_results_immediately/>
   </app>
<project_max_concurrent>8</project_max_concurrent>
</app_config>

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Re: sigificant credit drop - only for me or did someone else see this?

Hi SekeRob,
I will try the modification you proposed.
Since I directly edited with nano on Linux (notepad++ for Windows) and I did not have any error message regarding app_config.xml, I am a little surprised to notice that boinc ignored the setting.
Cheers,
Yves

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Re: sigificant credit drop - only for me or did someone else see this?

RTS48:

All I get now is the message (In my BOINC Notices Tab) Missing <app_config> in app_config.xml

What is the exact contents of your app_config.xml?

All right, and you still get "Missing <app_config> in app_config.xml". I'm to believe that your file is still out of order. To check this, I've copied your text and saved it to a plaintextfile myself:

$ dd > /tmp/app # Now paste the text and end with a ctrl-D:
<app_config>
<app>
<name>mip1</name>
<max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
</app>
</app_config>
0+6 records in
0+1 records out
93 bytes copied, 2.28761 s, 0.0 kB/s
$ wc /tmp/app
 6  6 93 /tmp/app

So, the file has a size of 93 characters and has 6 lines of text. Could you verify this, RTS48?

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Re: sigificant credit drop - only for me or did someone else see this?

RTS48:

All I get now is the message (In my BOINC Notices Tab) Missing <app_config> in app_config.xml

What is the exact contents of your app_config.xml?

$ dd > /tmp/app # Now paste the text and end with a ctrl-D:
<app_config>
<app>
<name>mip1</name>
<max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
</app>
</app_config>
0+6 records in
0+1 records out
93 bytes copied, 2.28761 s, 0.0 kB/s
$ wc /tmp/app
 6  6 93 /tmp/app

So, the file has a size of 93 characters and has 6 lines of text. Could you verify this, RTS48?

adriverhoef and everyone else
Thanks for your time and effort - you were absolutely right, Text edit app was inserting all sorts of headers which must have confused the hell out of BOINC Manager. In the end I discovered that - if you want plain text only - it is necessary that you use the Format command in Text edit which then and only then saves the file in plain text. I have now 'treated' all 3 of my Macs and so far all seems OK with no error messages. Only time will tell when I start crunching MIP again that only 2 threads operate at the same time.
Big thanks again for helping me out.

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Rod Peel
Santa Cruz
Bolivia
South America

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