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RTS48
Veteran Cruncher Bolivia Joined: Aug 2, 2009 Post Count: 1353 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I live in a city where 'Brown Outs' are relatively frequent and sometimes they cause a premature shutdown of my iMac. Generally BOINC recovers well and continues on its merry way. However occasionally it gets its Bytes in a twist and produces one or two WUs with errors. OK I hear you say, a small loss and I agree. However from that point onwards, despite having produced hundreds of thousands of valid results from this iMac alone, I go through three of four days of punishment where a large proportion of my results languish in PV jail. I really don't understand this knee jerk reaction from BOINC
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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The "knee jerk" reaction is a mechanism to ensure computational integrity. If the brown out had caused some inadvertent hardware problem or corruption, this mechanism would catch that. It does need a relatively few work units to return to the status of reliable. However, if there was some problem caused by either hardware or software corruption, the data returned would be suspect and the unreliable status thus would continue until the problem was fixed.
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I'd suggest to use some UPS for Mac, so that it can get properly shut down when the grid fails. ;)
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RTS48
Veteran Cruncher Bolivia Joined: Aug 2, 2009 Post Count: 1353 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Looks like I'm back on target with only 8 WUs in PV jail - ah well let's wait for thenext 'BO' I have tried a UPS but as far as protecting me is concerned, UPS might stand for Useless Piece of S***
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Rod Peel
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