Client stopped crunching -- something strange happened

Hi all,

I cannot explain what happened and why it happend. But it seems that on two Linux machines the client did not eat up CPU time any more?

One machine was this. And here are the last lines of the output:

2005-05-03 09:56:47 [Einstein@Home] Computation for result H1_0905.4__0905.5_0.1_T14_Run2 finished
2005-05-03 09:56:47 [Einstein@Home] Starting result H1_0905.4__0905.5_0.1_T15_Run2_3 using einstein version 4.80
2005-05-03 09:56:47 [Einstein@Home] Started upload of H1_0905.4__0905.5_0.1_T14_Run2_2_0
2005-05-03 09:56:48 [Einstein@Home] Finished upload of H1_0905.4__0905.5_0.1_T14_Run2_2_0
2005-05-03 09:56:48 [Einstein@Home] Throughput 12598150 bytes/sec
2005-05-03 09:56:48 [Einstein@Home] Sending request to scheduler: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
2005-05-03 09:56:49 [Einstein@Home] Scheduler RPC to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi succeeded
adding: H1_0905.4__0905.5_0.1_T15_Run2_3_0 (deflated 63%)
2005-05-04 10:15:27 [Einstein@Home] Computation for result H1_0905.4__0905.5_0.1_T15_Run2 finished
2005-05-04 10:15:27 [Einstein@Home] Starting result H1_0905.4__0905.8_0.1_T14_Run2_4 using einstein version 4.80
2005-05-04 10:15:27 [Einstein@Home] Started upload of H1_0905.4__0905.5_0.1_T15_Run2_3_0
2005-05-04 10:15:29 [Einstein@Home] Finished upload of H1_0905.4__0905.5_0.1_T15_Run2_3_0
2005-05-04 10:15:29 [Einstein@Home] Throughput 736734 bytes/sec
2005-05-04 10:15:29 [Einstein@Home] Sending request to scheduler: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
2005-05-04 10:15:29 [Einstein@Home] Scheduler RPC to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi succeeded
2005-05-04 12:15:23 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
2005-05-04 12:15:23 [---] Suspending computation and network activity - running CPU benchmarks
2005-05-04 12:16:24 [---] Benchmark results:
2005-05-04 12:16:24 [---] Number of CPUs: 1
2005-05-04 12:16:24 [---] 517 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2005-05-04 12:16:24 [---] 1076 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2005-05-04 12:16:24 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks
2005-05-04 12:16:25 [---] Resuming computation and network activity
2005-05-09 12:16:24 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
2005-05-09 12:16:24 [---] Suspending computation and network activity - running CPU benchmarks
2005-05-09 12:17:26 [---] Benchmark results:
2005-05-09 12:17:26 [---] Number of CPUs: 1
2005-05-09 12:17:26 [---] 589 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2005-05-09 12:17:26 [---] 1354 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2005-05-09 12:17:26 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks

Somewhen after 5 hours of work, the client did not get any more CPU time?

There is a second machine with a similar effect.

Both machines run 24/7, they are in my office and sure no one touched them during the weekend. The only thing I have cahnged, was setting back the connection time from 1 day to the usual 0.1 days. I did set this parameter from 0.1 to 1 day at the last weekend during the outage of the scheduler.

I have killed -15 the boic process and restarted it, the einstein cleint seems to eat up CPU time and crunches happy again. I post this because some other guys seem to have a similar effect, or maybe some should check their machines.

Strange!