Posts by Dayle Diamond

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Canceled Work Units by Server (Message 2194) Posted 28 Sep 2023 by Dayle Diamond Post: Here's another task, it has yet to run and I will manually cancel it. Currently it's _4, after two invalid and two valid results. Yet it was sent to my queue and never retracted. https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/workunit.php?wuid=10869867
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Canceled Work Units by Server (Message 2192) Posted 21 Sep 2023 by Dayle Diamond Post: Thank you, but unfortunately whatever happened may be more endemic. My computer regularly connects to the server, and, just in case, I forced an update before making my post.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Canceled Work Units by Server (Message 2190) Posted 20 Sep 2023 by Dayle Diamond Post: I'm getting work that's been validated for days, but it's NOT getting cancelled by the server. https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/workunit.php?wuid=10610647
4) Message boards : Cafe : Why DENIS? (Message 2182) Posted 16 Sep 2023 by Dayle Diamond Post: I'm another World Community Grid volunteer. I keep this project at 1 priority & the grid at 100. The outages have been frequent enough to help both projects.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Invalid task (Message 2065) Posted 13 Apr 2023 by Dayle Diamond Post: I ran two Windows Updates recently, so my computer restarted twice. I'm looking at over 50 Validation Inconclusives, with 4 tasks already marked as Invalid. Otherwise my computer is reliable. So something is still wrong with checkpointing. The task resumes, but the answer is wrong.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Stats not uploading (Message 2054) Posted 2 Apr 2023 by Dayle Diamond Post: I'm getting storage server errors, maybe it's related.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Very long wus (Message 961) Posted 20 Jul 2016 by Dayle Diamond Post: And my tasks were on BOTH Windows 10 and Windows Vista (don't ask ><).
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Very long wus (Message 928) Posted 17 Jul 2016 by Dayle Diamond Post: I went ahead and let a lot of them just run to their natural completion. Got home, and the ones that finished just restarted from the beginning. They are checkpointing, they now have a much longer ETA. The longest is 628 days. I'm going to have to cancel a LOT of work before it gets back to the server. Between the ones that just finished and rolled over and the ones I'm canceling because they're in the same batch and probably about to roll over, I've wasted 12 days, 16 hours and 14 minutes of CPU time. Admins - if you are going to release long unstable work units, the very least you can do is communicate with your volunteers. This is insulting.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Very long wus (Message 917) Posted 16 Jul 2016 by Dayle Diamond Post: Okay, mine are averaging 16 hours each at this point and haven't finished. There's another thread showing somebody getting 'CPU time exceeded' with 24 hours of work. Admins, do I cancel or what? At this point, 183 CPU hours of work are up for grabs.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Very long wus (Message 912) Posted 16 Jul 2016 by Dayle Diamond Post: On my 4930k, I've got a bunch of WU's, with some on their 10th hour, and only a third completed. Steady state 8000.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Error: Finish File Present Too Long (Message 417) Posted 29 Aug 2015 by Dayle Diamond Post: Updating to the new version of BOINC did nothing. Several hours of crunching a day are being tossed out the window. It's 90 degrees where I live. So DENIS is going to 0 priority until version 1.06 or whenever this is solved.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Error: Finish File Present Too Long (Message 413) Posted 25 Aug 2015 by Dayle Diamond Post: It was released as the recommended version...today. What a scold! When I posted that, it hadn't been released. 7.4.42 must be such an old version. Moreover, where in the release notes does it say anything about slot directory bugs getting fixed? [/quote]
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Error: Finish File Present Too Long (Message 408) Posted 23 Aug 2015 by Dayle Diamond Post: Thanks for your feedback. Can you please recommend a set of parameters that you think will work? Currently I'm switching between applications every 70 minutes. Minimum work buffer is .1 days, maximum additional buffer is another .1 days. There is no CPU time restriction. As for the newest BOINC Beta, I would not feel comfortable switching to that if it might disrupt my other tasks.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Error: Finish File Present Too Long (Message 372) Posted 30 Jul 2015 by Dayle Diamond Post: Still getting them. A lot of these happen when I'm nowhere near the computer to close or open the application.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Formula BOINC (Message 329) Posted 5 Jul 2015 by Dayle Diamond Post: I've never seen this project lack for work units, the server is constantly creating more tasks from the previous results. I expect this would be a fine candidate to be listed on your website.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Error: Finish File Present Too Long (Message 164) Posted 3 May 2015 by Dayle Diamond Post: Once in a blue moon, I'll get a task that errors in "finish file present too long". If I recall correctly, I've had this happen on another BOINC project, where the calculation became larger than the maximum upload size. However, this task completed on other computers, so possibly my computer was in error. http://denis.usj.es/denisathome/workunit.php?wuid=1130197 Hope this helps! Stderr output <core_client_version>7.4.36</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ <stderr_txt> Operation time:300000.000000 Diferential Time:0.002000 Frequency:50 Initial Time:299000.000000 03:24:14 (9408): called boinc_finish(0) </stderr_txt> <message> finish file present too long </message> ]]>
17) Message boards : Science : Work Planning (Message 161) Posted 1 May 2015 by Dayle Diamond Post: Thank you for your quick response. I hope that this stress test is giving you an excellent preview. As a laymen, I'm a little nervous about your answer. Aleatory simulations rely on random number generators to make the work units, right? So the work could go on indefinitely? You seem to be proposing unlimited work for a project, but you're not sure about your goals or methodology?
18) Message boards : Science : Work Planning (Message 159) Posted 30 Apr 2015 by Dayle Diamond Post: We seem to be churning through every task in the queue within a day. I would love to get the big picture of how much work this project needs.