Posts by RAW

1) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Signal 10, zip error (Message 13060) Posted 2 Jun 2005 by RAW Post: > I wonder if it is the way the client is trying to zip the file and submit it > after it is completed. I have many iterations of this error but it looks to me > as if whatever my boinc_4.19_ppcG5 client is trying to do in terms of zipping > is not working. Is this 4.19 client looking for a specific zip app somewhere? > > Here is an example of my error message. It is like Karl's. > > 4.19 > process got signal 10 > > 3 > 10 > > zip warning: Too many open files > zip warning: could not open for reading: 24g4ba.ph34c10.x2.nc > zip warning: zip file empty > zip I/O error: Too many open files > > zip error: Temporary file failure (zixaciuv) > exactly the same thing for me. This is from the terminal window that I saved when I completed my first project, about a month ago. At the end of a long list of adding files, this is how it ends: adding: 1retba.ph32c10.x2.nc (deflated 8%) adding: 1retba.ph33c10.x2.nc (deflated 8%) adding: 1retba.ph34c10.x2.nc 2005-05-05 02:37:31 [climateprediction.net] Unrecoverable error for result 1ret_400103021_0 (process got signal 10) 2005-05-05 02:37:31 [climateprediction.net] Unrecoverable error for result 1ret_400103021_0 (process got signal 10) and the stderr out says: 4.19 process got signal 10 3 10 zip warning: Too many open files zip warning: could not open for reading: 1retba.ph34c10.x2.nc zip warning: zip file empty zip I/O error: Too many open files zip error: Temporary file failure (ziFfyJtV) The list of zipped files that are still sitting in the project's folder ends with 1retba.ph34c10.x2.nc.zip, but that file is empty (4 Kb). It is followed by 1retba.ph36c10.x2.nc (there is no .ph35c10). In the dataout folder, there is 1retaa.pc.8yac sitting on top, followed by what seems to be the next files in line for zipping: 1retba.ph37c10.x2.nc, 1retba.ph38c10.x2.nc etc. It is clear that this is an systematic error in the zip procedure on the Mac, because it's always around the same file (###.ph34c10.x2.nc or ###.ph35c10.x2.nc) that things stop working. Is the procedure opening, but not closing files as it zips along, hitting an upper limit to the number of open files? Going on the number of zip-files produced, this must be arount 240. It also surprises me that the zip procedure seemingly has deletedthe original files before it was even done with all the work. Or is that because the files that were zipped were open when the error occurred, and were lost? On a more practical side: are our results still usable, without the two files that are missing (###.ph34c10.x2.nc and ###.ph35c10.x2.nc, in my case)? Could we send them manually? If all Mac-users are experiencing this problem, than CP is losing 2% of its data, and lots of valuable CPU time. Personally, I don't care about getting credits, I care about supplying useful results to a useful project. If no solution is found for this problem, I could just as well stop participating, which I will now do as soon as my current project nears completion. Or at least make a copy of the original files in dataout before zipping starts. I'll also post a warning on the MacNN-forum, maybe some geek over there can help the programmer solve this.
2) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Trickles not accounted for (Message 11981) Posted 21 Apr 2005 by RAW Post: Since a few days, my latest trickles no longer appear on my account page. The last one dates back to Monday 18 April at 11:00 UTC, while I produce about one every day. The information seems to arrive at the server all right, this is an example of a trickle that was sent yesterday: 2005-04-20 16:15:28 [climateprediction.net] Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi 2005-04-20 16:15:28 [climateprediction.net] Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded But this isn't translated to credit on my account page. Are there more people with this problem, or is it just me? (I'm starting to suspect the 10.3.9 update I did last Monday...)
3) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : how to prevent computer from downloading new model (Message 11277) Posted 22 Mar 2005 by RAW Post: I'm running cp on two different machines, and the older one (an early PowerMac G4) is quite slow. So slow that I don't want to continue using it for cp after I've finished the current model. This is still going to take some time (months, probably: after nearly two months of continuous calculations, it's now in April 1817...), but I would like to know beforehand how to prevent it from downloading a new model once the results from the first are uploaded. This is because the Getting Started section clearly states: "However, please try to finish your experiment once you have downloaded it - do not download the package just to see what it looks like. This constraint is necessary to preserve the scientific validity of the project as partially completed experiments cannot currently be passed on or evaluated." The machine is on a network, so it has a permanent connection to the internet.
4) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : viz: illogical behaviour of arrow keys (Message 11023) Posted 17 Mar 2005 by RAW Post: I am running hadsm3viz_4.03_powerpc-apple-darwin, and I noticed very illogical behaviour of the arrow keys. When the up key is used, the observer's point of view moves northward (and the globe turns towards the south). So if everything would be logical, when the left key is used, the user would expect to see the point of view move to the left, so westward. But no, it's actually the globe that starts turning westward, so the point of view goes the other way, towards the east!Due to this inconstistency in arrow use, I keep systematically hitting the wrong key to move east or west...
5) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Control-C : timesteps lost (Message 9064) Posted 10 Feb 2005 by RAW Post: I use ^C to stop running the climate prediction model, but I noticed that when I start it up again, the TS counter is set back by about 80 timesteps. Is there a way to quit and save all timesteps calculated thus far? RAW 400 MHz PowerMac G4, 1.33 MHz PowerBook G4, OS X 10.3.7