Posted 3337 days ago by
Euphoriabuzz
Aha ... So there's a file permissions problem then. Do you switch users on that machine, or log off at all? Did you install BOINC to be shared by all users or just the user that installed it? Maybe you did a service install?
Ok so no other users on this pc, guest account is switched off also, no need to log out or switch user. Not a service install.
so maybe when the project switches slots something goes wrong with creating a new one.
aha, we go back to the slot problem. I tend to agree with you here ChertseyAl but am yet to work out why it only happens sometimes, I wonder if the time allowed for this function to happen is not quite long enough so when the new WU tries to use the slot, it appears as if it is still used by the previous WU as it has not emptied quickly enough.
Perhaps it might be simpler for you to build a Wilson cloud chamber and just look at the pretty streaks that appear. Old-skool FTW ;)
In the spirit of kit making here is one I knocked up using my sons bicycle pump and an old eye solution bottle lol
Posted 3337 days ago by
Euphoriabuzz
Is anyone running a similar set up to this please as I really need help as to why my WU's keep over running and failing. I am constantly having to reset the project by totally removing it from BOINC and starting afresh, as once one WU has failed all others after that also fail.
18/03/2015 15:45:57 | | CAL: ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 7500/7600/8500/8600 series (Devastator) (CAL version 1.4.1848, 512MB, 480MB available, 1080 GFLOPS peak)
18/03/2015 15:45:57 | | CAL: ATI GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (CAL version 1.4.1848, 2048MB, 2015MB available, 1620 GFLOPS peak)
18/03/2015 15:45:57 | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 7500/7600/8500/8600 series (Devastator) (driver version 1642.5 (VM), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1642.5), 512MB, 480MB available, 1080 GFLOPS peak)
18/03/2015 15:45:57 | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (driver version 1642.5 (VM), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1642.5), 2048MB, 2015MB available, 1620 GFLOPS peak)
18/03/2015 15:45:57 | | OpenCL CPU: AMD A8-6600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (OpenCL driver vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., driver version 1642.5 (sse2,avx,fma4), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1642.5))
18/03/2015 15:45:57 | | Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD A8-6600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics [Family 21 Model 19 Stepping 1]
18/03/2015 15:45:57 | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes f16c syscall nx lm avx svm sse4a osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 tce tbm topx page1gb rdtscp bmi1
for more details please see this thread
Posted 3337 days ago by
Euphoriabuzz
lol,good plan, but I thought they would have noticed all the aborted or failed WU's and I did contact szopler directly- is it safe for my pc to try debug mode, I don't know what it does though?
I had an email off the project (automated) telling me my sensor is not responding and to check the connection, hahahahaha. That must have been generated when I deleted the project folder from the Boinc projects directory.
Posted 3337 days ago by
Euphoriabuzz
Ok so I do get an error message in the event log regarding deletion of r@h files stating that boinc is unable to remove ??.xml.?? then when a new wu comes it mentions something about being unable to download r@h?? as it already exists.
I have put question marks as I deleted the project and re installed it so that particular message is not there for me to read right now.
As I run so many projects the second suggestion would involve me having to suspend all projects at the same time or set to 'no new task' and wait until all my current wu's have finished, but I have wu's in queue up to 20th April deadline so that will take a while. I am not prepared to cancel my current queue of wu's as I have some from projects that I hardly ever receive from so wish to crunch those while I can. I would then have to allow new task one by one for each project as opposed to stopping them one by one.
Of course, even if I find that this project is in fact conflicting with another, the total lack of project admins communication means that it will probably never be resolved. I am more inclined however, to think it is to do with my APU which you pointed out was not being used by anyone else on this project as a project conflict would likely be affecting other users also and it seems to only be me with this issue, or perhaps others have just given up waiting for an answer. !!!!!!
I do appreciate the continued help and suggestions though, thanks guys.
Posted 3339 days ago by
Euphoriabuzz
Regarding the credit awarded, it's relevant to ''run time secs'' of the wu not the cpu time. There is no change in that if you go back through my list of tasks you will see that all wu that go over 7300 run time get awarded the higher credit. These vary through the day and not all tasks receive the higher credits as you can see below from my list of the last few tasks my pc has done, I think this is probably normal.
Work unit Run time(sec) CPU time(sec) Credit
4609479 4590195 --- --- ---
4607139 4587855 --- --- ---
4606757 4587473 - 7,239.48 - 0.23 - 12.51
4606399 4587115 - 7,311.93 - 0.22 - 12.64
4606021 4586737 - 7,301.07 - 0.23 - 12.61
4605673 4586389 - 7,303.29 - 0.22 - 12.63
4605303 4586019 - 7,291.94 - 0.44 - 12.53
4604905 4585621 - 7,252.23 - 0.75 - 12.52
4604525 4585241 - 7,219.01 - 0.31 - 12.48
4604113 4584829 - 7,255.02 - 0.33 - 12.53
4603705 4584421 - 7,232.22 - 0.44 - 12.50
4603284 4584000 - 7,325.34 - 0.25 - 12.64
4602910 4583626 - 7,237.73 - 0.33 - 12.51
4602540 4583256 - 7,240.25 - 0.27 - 12.50
4602172 4582888 - 7,249.44 - 0.17 - 12.52
4601818 4582534 - 7,253.33 - 0.19 - 12.52
4601420 4582136 - 7,323.71 - 0.20 - 12.66
4601084 4581800 - 7,266.40 - 0.22 - 12.56
4600754 4581470 - 7,199.38 - 0.31 - 12.47
4600371 4581087 - 7,292.06 - 0.30 - 12.61
Posted 3339 days ago by
Euphoriabuzz
OK so it wasn't AVG, I have just cancelled a 12 hr unfinished WU . Not been on pc today until 10.15 pm so it is not a programme I am using during the day that is causing the issue.
Posted 3342 days ago by
Euphoriabuzz
So, it was running along nicely and now once again it has hit a snag, it seems to run fine in 'slot 0' but when that changes as it did today to slot 15, the WU's just run over time to double expected time or longer. Can anyone tell me how to resolve this issue?
I am removing AVG.
Posted 3343 days ago by
Euphoriabuzz
Thanks, malawarebytes is the one I uninstalled, typical. I shall see how it goes and add removing avg to my list of 'things to try'. At the moment it seems to have settled. I have said that several times before so am not confident it is resolved yet.
USBDeview is one Gary also recommended to me on here. I have had another look and nothing untoward seems to be going on.
It could be that the WU's that don't work are just not compatible with my APU.
So we three shall keep pressing and guessing until the project owner can have a look and see if he can work out what the issue is.
Posted 3344 days ago by
Euphoriabuzz
Gary, the comment you are referring to I believe was someone who had set their WU to something like 20 hrs and the comment was that it should be shorter due to the stderr not being able to hold all the relevant info for them to sort their particular error out .
ChertseyAl - I am on a wired connection and also run many projects, I turned wuprop off though as a possible culprit along with srbase as they just happened to be running when r@h was having issues. The 'stuck' Wu's have now been cleared and are marked as ''abandoned'' (which is a new one on me and made me laugh).
This project does not seem to pick up on the fact that I have a graphics card as well as my APU and I wonder if that is not helping.
I am also getting this
Radac $Rev: 585 $ starting...
Could not find any of the devices listed in sensors.xml: Device communication error
sensors.xml: 7 nodes found
Found sensor [unknown version 609 (2,61)]
is this normal? I have no idea.
Also :
Radac $Rev: 585 $ starting...
Unhandled Exception Detected...
- Unhandled Exception Record -
Reason: Breakpoint Encountered (0x80000003) at address 0x74F73226
Engaging BOINC Windows Runtime Debugger...
BOINC Windows Runtime Debugger Version 6.11.4
there is obviously a lot more to that stderr message.
If this problem continues I will change time of WU's to 30 mins as you suggest. I am loathe to remove my AV as this is my main pc. Is there a different one I should be using? I did have Mcafee as part of my BT subscription but that has recently been cancelled, hence the 'free' version of AVG on my machine.
Many thanks to both of you for your continued interest and patience.
Posted 3344 days ago by
Euphoriabuzz
I also notice it is using more than one slot, it seems to switch between 6 and 0, is this normal, I thought projects stayed on the same slot? I have an stderr file that I copied also. I wont post it as of yet as it is of course rather long. If this will help work out the problem let me know and I will post it.