Posts by adrianxw

21) Message boards : Number crunching : Long work units. (Message 747) Posted 10 Apr 2020 by adrianxw Post: I think, in fact, am sure, you misunderstand me. I WANT a long work unit, but just one. I have set already 1 CPU.
22) Message boards : Number crunching : No work? (Message 717) Posted 3 Apr 2020 by adrianxw Post: I have re-enabled the project on both my machines, which have both completed wu's from here in the past. I saw the new work and assumed it would download some as normal, but, as yet, I have not recived any units.
23) Message boards : Number crunching : Long Wus and checkpoint (Message 698) Posted 21 Mar 2020 by adrianxw Post: I have not yet received a "long" work unit on either of my machines.
24) Message boards : Number crunching : Long work units. (Message 696) Posted 18 Mar 2020 by adrianxw Post: Question about the new long work units that are coming, I have set my preferences to use 1 CPU. What I want, is one work unit. What I don't want is eight work units crunching for days in one CPU each. Is this correct, if not, how do I acheive what I want?
25) Message boards : Number crunching : Monster wu (Message 207) Posted 23 Oct 2019 by adrianxw Post: >>> we think something goes wrong at your side Maybe you do, but I find it very odd that none of the other projects on here are having any issues with VBox. I had set no new tasks, and will now remove the project from this machines portfolio, I had not added it to any others. Good luck.
26) Message boards : Number crunching : Monster wu (Message 88) Posted 9 Oct 2019 by adrianxw Post: The work unit with 4.5 days of crunching aborted. I have deleted the others here and am leaving. >>> 32892 20227 52 4 Oct 2019, 19:34:16 UTC 9 Oct 2019, 13:45:10 UTC Error while computing 388,706.57 258.86 Look at the elapsed time and the CPU time values, as I have said before, there is something seriously wrong here.
27) Message boards : Number crunching : Monster wu (Message 86) Posted 9 Oct 2019 by adrianxw Post: ... and this morning, it has just 2 seconds left to run... elapsed is 4.12.00.01. I've set no new tasks and have suspended the other work units you have sent. There is something wrong here. Looking at my task manager, I cannot see it using any CPU, but can see that I only have six BOINC tasks running. I have suspended the task. I want to KNOW if the damn thing is actually acheiiving anything. As soon as I suspended it, other BOINC tasks started running, and my CPU became 100% busy again.
28) Message boards : Number crunching : Monster wu (Message 79) Posted 8 Oct 2019 by adrianxw Post: ...and at bedtime tonight the work unit is still going, with 6 seconds left... it has just passed 4 days elapsed CPU time now 99.998% done!
29) Message boards : Number crunching : Monster wu (Message 75) Posted 8 Oct 2019 by adrianxw Post: >>> computation time estimations are crazy sometimes They sure are! When I went to bed last night, the work unit I was watching had just over a minute left to run, but that was dropping VERY slowly. This morning, it had 18 seconds left to run, and now, perhaps six hours later, it shows 15 seconds remaining. Still, it is running, and there is loads of time before the deadline. I'm glad it is a 4GHz i7 though.
30) Message boards : Number crunching : WU failures (Message 61) Posted 7 Oct 2019 by adrianxw Post: The failing tasks have, until today, failed after less than a minute, but today, I have had two work units that failed after several hours of crunching.
31) Message boards : Number crunching : WU failures (Message 35) Posted 4 Oct 2019 by adrianxw Post: I have not had a reply from Will yet, but he may simply be away. I'll hold that matter open. The failing tasks fail very quickly, I hope there is something in the error log there that helps. Feel free to ask if there is something I can do to help, and there are lots of us.
32) Message boards : Number crunching : WU failures (Message 14) Posted 4 Oct 2019 by adrianxw Post: >>> dsgdb9nsd_nwchem,bath01,000007288,nwchem,1569028807 That one failed after less than a minute. It has failed on every machine that it has been sent too. The end status is a helpful: Exit status 0 (0x00000000) >>> 2019-10-03 19:07:29 (25304): Successfully started VM. (PID = '26680') 2019-10-03 19:07:29 (25304): Reporting VM Process ID to BOINC. 2019-10-03 19:07:34 (25304): Guest Log: BIOS: KBD: unsupported int 16h function 03 2019-10-03 19:07:34 (25304): Guest Log: BIOS: AX=0305 BX=0000 CX=0000 DX=0000 2019-10-03 19:07:34 (25304): Guest Log: vgdrvHeartbeatInit: Setting up heartbeat to trigger every 2000 milliseconds 2019-10-03 19:07:34 (25304): Guest Log: vboxguest: misc device minor 59, IRQ 20, I/O port d020, MMIO at 00000000f0000000 (size 0x400000) 2019-10-03 19:07:34 (25304): VM state change detected. (old = 'poweroff', new = 'running') 2019-10-03 19:07:39 (25304): Guest Log: vboxsf: g_fHostFeatures=0x1 g_fSfFeatures=0x0 g_uSfLastFunction=20 2019-10-03 19:07:44 (25304): Preference change detected 2019-10-03 19:07:44 (25304): Setting CPU throttle for VM. (100%) 2019-10-03 19:07:44 (25304): Setting checkpoint interval to 600 seconds. (Higher value of (Preference: 60 seconds) or (Vbox_job.xml: 600 seconds)) 2019-10-03 19:07:46 (25304): VM is no longer is a running state. It is in 'poweroff'. 2019-10-03 19:07:46 (25304): VM state change detected. (old = 'running', new = 'poweroff') 2019-10-03 19:07:46 (25304): Powering off VM. <<< Perhaps interesting, not all machines it has been sent to have exited in the same way. One is "Error while computing" this one has an "Intel_mt", those showing "Validate error" have "vbox_t1". Other work units have run to completion, returned and validated. I will leave the project enabled on this machine for the time being at least, as it does not seem to be wasting too much crunching time.
33) Message boards : Cafe : Welcome onboard ! (Message 2) Posted 3 Oct 2019 by adrianxw Post: Generally, the site address, (to enable people to add the project), appears on the first page, so people don't have to look for it. I'm still checking the boincstats inclusion procedure, there has been no reply to my request yet, early days though.

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