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1) Message boards : Number crunching : Opteron 280 crashes - linux (Message 23131)
Posted 12 Jun 2006 by Profile old_user175
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Are you actually using that computer???

I kept having this problem and now take regular backups of the BOINC folder.

I had a -161 error which manifested at the same time I was viewing a Real Video on the BBC News website.

Someone suggested it might be something to do with graphics card even though I didn\'t have the screensaver graphics running.

I reckon it\'s either that or memory related.....if something hogs the memory or cpu long enough to cause the fatal error.

I suggest you take backups if poss. Suspend the task, exit BOINC and create a backup (I just zip the folder), then restart BOINC and resume the project......2 minutes tops.


Using it \"some\" - the problem is the app won\'t even accually start - it loads, then just sits there.
no cpu time at all.
every other project runs like a racehorse.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Opteron 280 crashes - linux (Message 23116)
Posted 12 Jun 2006 by Profile old_user175
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dual/dual Op 280\'s on FC4 (smp)
2GB memory, 578GB raid drivespace

hadxxxx5.0x refuses to run - error -161
running fine again on the Op 248\'s and Op 250\'s

any ideas?
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Too much Credits granted ? (Message 6218)
Posted 19 Nov 2004 by Profile old_user175
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PFFFFT!!!!
Looks like I got robbed for 100,000 points... I'd really like to know what the heck is "up"
4) Message boards : Number crunching : A headsup... (Message 5260)
Posted 12 Oct 2004 by Profile old_user175
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BTW - nice charts
Seeing the same thing after a nice recovery in RAC after a big drop. could it be more complex models or "end of phase 3" increased resolution (longer worktimes) ??

JSC aka Xcamel
Team Weather CPUnderground
5) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : sig test (Message 4834)
Posted 30 Sep 2004 by Profile old_user175
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one more
6) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : sig test (Message 4833)
Posted 30 Sep 2004 by Profile old_user175
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me too..
7) Message boards : Number crunching : RAC dropping like a (Message 4773)
Posted 29 Sep 2004 by Profile old_user175
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What is up with the slow downward slide of the RAC?? I saw this a few times in beta/boinc/seti and thought it was all fixed...

Any ideas???

JSC aka Xcamel
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Installing new CPU (Message 4772)
Posted 29 Sep 2004 by Profile old_user175
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I've upgraded several boxes over time and have had no problems.. an OS change, now that's an issue....
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Performance/MIPS (Message 3195)
Posted 7 Sep 2004 by Profile old_user175
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You describe the long and the short of it willy1. It doesn't matter if it's linux or windoze anymore, the benchmarks are equally bad. "Good enough" as John mentioned was supposed to be a very short-term bugfix, which has now turned into what seems a long term feature. Even true smp benches worse than a single proc mb of equal power. If you "roll your own" boinc_client, you'll gain some on the FP bench, and little or nothing on the INT bench. And yes it DOES have a direct effect on how much credit you claim and have granted, because credit is calculated on time-to-complete vs your benchmark.

FWIW

JSC aka Xcamel


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10) Message boards : Number crunching : IRC reminder (Message 3085)
Posted 5 Sep 2004 by Profile old_user175
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General meeting/chat area for cpdn/boinc is at irc.freenode.net channel #cpdn - open discussion - boinc (beta &amp; cpdn) platforms, crunching, teams etc.

JSC aka Xcamel


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11) Message boards : Number crunching : Performance/MIPS (Message 2615)
Posted 2 Sep 2004 by Profile old_user175
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This has been an ongoing issue with boinc since last year when the benchmarking models changed. some rather powerful cpu's benchmark very badly, especially with HT enabled for both the windows and linux platforms. I resigned myself to the fact that ssl will not address the issue, and has no apparent desire to change it. I have a dual P4 3.06GHz xeon running Linux.latest.smp with HT enabled. The benchmark(s) look like a pIII on a bad day. Solution: Disable HT, reboot, benchmark, reboot, enable HT, and start your model run. As long as you don't change boinc client rev in the process, your machine won't re-bench on restart, so you're good-to-go, so to speak. Also, the self-built boinc_client weighs in at only 5.6mb whereas the "stock client" unzips to something like 8.9 mb as an execuable. You can tweak boinc_client with processor specific optimizations all you want, but it won't make the client apps (hasum etc.) run any faster in the long run. FWIW - YMMV.

JSC aka Xcamel
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12) Message boards : Number crunching : Client performance (Message 1517)
Posted 23 Aug 2004 by Profile old_user175
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Switched Kahuna from HT to real dual (dual 2.8GHz xeons)

was 7.15 +/- (4 models)

now 3.0 even (2 models)

1GB memory

JSC aka Xcamel &gt;&gt; Team Weather CPUnderground &gt;&gt; BOINCing since 2/2003


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13) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : Public Betatest ? (Message 1516)
Posted 23 Aug 2004 by Profile old_user175
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The trick is not to let 500,000 people join up on the same day and end up "JQ'd" (old beta joke)
like SSL did - that was a **really big** mistake.

JSC aka Xcamel &gt;&gt; BOINCer since 2/2/03


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14) Message boards : Number crunching : Running multiple projects. (Message 1515)
Posted 23 Aug 2004 by Profile old_user175
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Running 4.03.latest here/now - no problems encountered - execpt for the never ending boffed benchmark story.


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15) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Platform Statistics (including CPDN stats) (Message 1476)
Posted 22 Aug 2004 by Profile old_user175
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Very nice indeed!

JSC aka Xcamel &amp; Team Weather CPUnderground
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16) Message boards : Number crunching : Heavy Hard Drive Fragmentation Caused By CPDN (Message 1420)
Posted 21 Aug 2004 by Profile old_user175
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And if you plan on running multiple models with SMP, be perpared to give up about 5 GIG of disk space..
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17) Message boards : Number crunching : CPDN Stats Graphic Service (Message 1395)
Posted 21 Aug 2004 by Profile old_user175
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or not...
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18) Message boards : Number crunching : CPDN Stats Graphic Service (Message 1394)
Posted 21 Aug 2004 by Profile old_user175
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I hate testing these things...
http://boinc.mundayweb.com/cpdn/stats.php/userID:55/trans:off/.png
19) Message boards : Number crunching : WEB Page, new features with error messages (Message 1388)
Posted 21 Aug 2004 by Profile old_user175
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I think it looks great with the "latest trickle" info at the bottom - whomever - great job!
20) Message boards : Number crunching : bad linux performance (Message 1349)
Posted 20 Aug 2004 by Profile old_user175
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all my linux boxes have between 512mb and 2gb of regular memory - FC2 installs without a swap file by default..

it's the processor performance I'm complaining about - swap memory does nothing for that. only some optimization of the client to utilize smp/HT will help


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