request failed-return value 500

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RE: RE: OK, my time is

Message 20576 in response to message 20575

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OK, my time is good. Do I have this right:
1-Get time of error from my message logs.

2-Go to Bruce's link and match time of entries with my error 500.

After a quick look at those (to me incomprehensible) server logs, I wonder- isn't there some kind of ID in there indicating my case. Trying to match times seems a little indirect. Isnt' my computer tagged?

Brad

You do have an id number for your account. However, I think they pretty much cleaned up all of the personal details (ip addy, etc) to make them "safe" as possible. But I could be wrong.

Kathryn

well I'll start digging.


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Your CPUID (called HOST# in

Your CPUID (called HOST# in the log) is the key you're looking for I think. Notice in the server logs that you get lines like the following example where the CPU whose ID was 453951 downloaded 5 new results:-

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Processing request [USER#130293] [HOST#453951] [RPC#13] core client version 5.2.8
[HOST#453951] [RESULT#11580283 w1_0434.0__0434.4_0.1_T01_S4hD_2] got result
cpu 45172.828100 cpcs 0.001647, cc 74.387866
[RESULT#11580283 w1_0434.0__0434.4_0.1_T01_S4hD_2]: setting outcome SUCCESS
Result is on [HOST#453951]: w1_0783.5__0783.9_0.1_T01_S4hD_1
Result is on [HOST#453951]: w1_0783.5__0783.5_0.1_T02_S4hD_1
Result is on [HOST#453951]: w1_0783.5__0783.6_0.1_T01_S4hD_4
Result is on [HOST#453951]: w1_0783.5__0783.6_0.1_T02_S4hD_1
Result is on [HOST#453951]: w1_0783.5__0783.5_0.1_T05_S4hD_2
sending delay request 61.000000

All you need to do is find every occurrence of your own CPUID in the correct minute log for that minute within which your error 500 occurred. There should be a block of lines that you can easily copy and paste into a message here a bit like the above example.

Please Note
To make the log snippet easier to read, I truncated the leading fields for date, time PID and entry type (normal or debug) from each line.

Also please ask if you're not sure how to make the adjustment for local time/UTC as per Bruce's comment in the "Sticky".

Cheers,
Gary.

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RE: You do have an id

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You do have an id number for your account. However, I think they pretty much cleaned up all of the personal details (ip addy, etc) to make them "safe" as possible. But I could be wrong.

Nope, you're not wrong, you're pretty much spot on. Notice that there are at least three identifying IDs to work with in that log snippet I posted, UserID, CPUID and ResultID. I reckon CPUID would probably be the easiest to work with because if a user had 100 machines, several of them might have reported in that one minute log slice. UserID would find all the entries for all machines. CPUID would find just those for the CPU in question. The only difficulty might be if the series of log events for that CPUID happened to span the minute boundary :).

It'll be interesting to see what Brad comes up with :). As he said, it'll probably be gibberish to us mere mortals but having done the hard work we should be able to get a dev to look a little closer at the problem.

Cheers,
Gary.

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Thanks for your response

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Thanks for your response Gary. I'm working very hard on learning the ins-and-outs of BOINC, and enjoying every minute of it. You are a very good teacher.

Like I've said before, my goal is to be able to give back to the community for all the enjoyment it's given me.

Keep on helping and keep on crunching!

kathryn

Kathryn :o)

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I'm a little dense-where do i

I'm a little dense-where do i find cpuid?


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Take a look in the log

Take a look in the log snippet you posted in your very first message. See it there on line six. Here it is:-

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12/5/2005 7:00:10 PM|Einstein@Home|Computer ID: 465356; location: home; project prefs: default

Your CPUID is 465356.

You can find anybody's CPUID (if they haven't hidden their computers) by clicking on their blue name to the left and "viewing" their computers. You can also get your own through your account page on the website.

Try clicking on Kathryn's nick.

Cheers,
Gary.

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RE: Take a look in the log

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Take a look in the log snippet you posted in your very first message. See it there on line six. Here it is:-
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12/5/2005 7:00:10 PM|Einstein@Home|Computer ID: 465356; location: home; project prefs: default

Your CPUID is 465356.

You can find anybody's CPUID (if they haven't hidden their computers) by clicking on their blue name to the left and "viewing" their computers. You can also get your own through your account page on the website.

Try clicking on Kathryn's nick.

duh


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Brad Lund
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Hello good folks- hope my

Hello good folks- hope my ignorance doesn't become too annoying, but after going blind looking through those logs I have to assume I know nothing. Time questions:

1- Header says my last post was at 11 Dec 2005 18:36:17 UTC, which was 8:36 AM here in Hawaii. So my offset is +10 hrs, correct?

2- Bruce mentions "3 minute latency". Does that mean search for an entry 3minutes later than time shown in my logs? 3min. earliar? 3min. +/-?

Thanks for your patience.
Brad


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No, your offset is -10 hours

No, your offset is -10 hours because 18:36 - 10 = 08:36

OK, now we know your offset and looking at the 500 error in your first post we need to add that time back to your local time to get UTC. OK, I've suddenly woken up to what you mean so yes, I think you are correct. Let's take this entry in your log for starters:-

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12/5/2005 7:07:12 PM|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi failed with a return value of 500

If your computer clock is accurate, the UTC value is 05:07:12 on 12/6/2005. So we go to the server log page and find the folder "2005-12-06 05" which should contain the 5.00am to 6.00am data. In that folder, find the file "2005-12-06 05:07.txt" which should contain the data for that particular minute "07". Your time said 7:07:12pm so if your clock is more than 12 seconds fast the actual server log file you need might be the one for the previous minute.

Your other question about latency (or delay) simply means that it will be three minutes after the event before the corresponding log file will be up on the server. So if you happened to be watching your BOINC Manager messages and see an interesting event go by, you will have to wait 3 minutes before the corresponding server log file is up on the server for view. I don't think that's going to worry us too much.

Now the bad news is that I don't think your computer clock was accurate at the time the log snippet you originally posted was recorded as I can't find "465356" in any log up to +/- 7 minutes of 05:07. Did you perhaps fix your computer clock after that log snippet was recorded? and if so do you remember by how much?

The other thing I've noticed is that the minute logs don't always seem to have the full minute. I've seen examples of small bits of time missing at the start and the end of each minute. Maybe this is an artifact of the log slicing process. If we are unlucky, maybe your bit of the server log just happens to be missing. I'll post a query in Bruce's thread. Hopefully he'll see it.

Cheers,
Gary.

Brad Lund
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I believe my clock has always

I believe my clock has always been right, checked at least half dozen sites today-all confirm. Have checked todays message logs against server logs several times and find nothing. I do see in server logs a "user id" which is different than host id. Maybe thats what I should look for? (84489 on my msg board tag?)

Brad


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