Einstein was my work horse project. Now I'm not getting any more work packets. Started about a week ago. Any one know why? I would really like to keep working it.
Einstein was my work horse project. Now I'm not getting any more work packets. Started about a week ago. Any one know why? I would really like to keep working it.
There are quite a lot of potential reasons, so more info is needed to narrow it down to a specific reason.
Are there any unusual messages displayed on the "Messages" tab of the BOINC_manager GUI ?
Are you also crunching for some other BOINC projects beside Einstein@Home. If one of those was off-line for some time, BOINC would now try to "pay pack the debt" that accumulated when E@H was allowed to run although it really was that other project's turn.
Einstein was my work horse project. Now I'm not getting any more work packets. Started about a week ago. Any one know why? I would really like to keep working it.
There are quite a lot of potential reasons, so more info is needed to narrow it down to a specific reason.
Are there any unusual messages displayed on the "Messages" tab of the BOINC_manager GUI ?
Are you also crunching for some other BOINC projects beside Einstein@Home. If one of those was off-line for some time, BOINC would now try to "pay pack the debt" that accumulated when E@H was allowed to run although it really was that other project's turn.
Einstein was my work horse project. Now I'm not getting any more work packets. Started about a week ago. Any one know why? I would really like to keep working it.
There are quite a lot of potential reasons, so more info is needed to narrow it down to a specific reason.
Are there any unusual messages displayed on the "Messages" tab of the BOINC_manager GUI ?
Are you also crunching for some other BOINC projects beside Einstein@Home. If one of those was off-line for some time, BOINC would now try to "pay pack the debt" that accumulated when E@H was allowed to run although it really was that other project's turn.
My G5 imac is not getting any work either. I was running a beta 4.29 version of the app. When my last work unit finished I did not get a new WU. Actually, that was probably a good thing. I see a new 4.34 app is out so I downloaded it. 4.29 was kind of a slow poke; good thing they replaced it already.
I run SETI also. I have the resource share 80 einstein and 20 seti. Seti is running fine. I didn't see anything on the SETI boards about any downtime so I wouldn't think BOINC is letting SETI "catch up". I hope I get a new Einstein WU so I can see if 4.34 is an improvement over 4.29.
I did start some new projects that are WAY behind my others. Perhaps the manager is trying to even things out. That's fine if that's the case.
Can you please tell us the current list of your projects and what their respective resource shares are, thank you. It seems likely that BOINC has decided to run your new projects for a bit and give EAH a rest. It would also be helpful to know approximately how many hours per day that your machine runs and what your "connect to network every X days" preference is set to.
As you are running fairly long results at the moment, it is possible with the reduced resource share for EAH that BOINC might think that there is a risk of not being able to complete a result within the deadline. If that were the case you would see some comment from BOINC on your messages tab of Boinc Manager.
... I didn't see anything on the SETI boards about any downtime so I wouldn't think BOINC is letting SETI "catch up".
You don't need Seti to have a problem for it to need to "catch up". Perhaps BOINC has been favouring EAH in order to meet a deadline and now it is favouring Seti until the debts balance.
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I hope I get a new Einstein WU so I can see if 4.34 is an improvement over 4.29.
According to this report already in, you will enjoy quite a speedup :).
I just thought of something that I guess could make BOINC think SETI needs some extra time. Occasionally I will set SETI to "wont get new tasks" when I want Einstein to get extra time. Will that make BOINC think that SETI is getting "cheated" and therefore BOINC will force Einstein to take a rest?
Humm, that didn't work, I don't know how to make my stats pop up the way you do.??
You can use
[ img ]http://some.web.site/pic.jpg[ /img ] to display an image (without the extra spaces within the brackets [ ].
In your Account preferences, you can define a "signature" to go under each of your postings so you don't have to insert it manually over and over again.
Humm, that didn't work, I don't know how to make my stats pop up the way you do.??
You can use
[ img ]http://some.web.site/pic.jpg[ /img ] to display an image (without the extra spaces within the brackets [ ].
In your Account preferences, you can define a "signature" to go under each of your postings so you don't have to insert it manually over and over again.
Edit:
To display the amount of "debt" for each project, you can do the following in a Terminal window:
and check how many CPUs (= CPU cores) BOINC is allowed to use at the same time. You've got a dual core CPU, but I think the default setting is 1 (use only one core at a time). Since BOINC will only use otherwise idle CPU cycles, it's quite OK with respect to other stuff you want to do on your Mac if you allow both cores to crunch, unless you are concerned about your BOINC projects eating up too much RAM if two run in parallel (E@H is quite OK but I don't know about yor other projects).
Running Mac - Not getting anymore work?
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There are quite a lot of potential reasons, so more info is needed to narrow it down to a specific reason.
Are there any unusual messages displayed on the "Messages" tab of the BOINC_manager GUI ?
Are you also crunching for some other BOINC projects beside Einstein@Home. If one of those was off-line for some time, BOINC would now try to "pay pack the debt" that accumulated when E@H was allowed to run although it really was that other project's turn.
CU
BRM
RE: RE: Einstein was my
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http://www.boincstats.com/signature/user_1124084.gif
test, to see if stats pop up with post :-)
I did start some new projects that are WAY behind my others. Perhaps the manager is trying to even things out. That's fine if that's the case.
RE: RE: RE: Einstein
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Humm, that didn't work, I don't know how to make my stats pop up the way you do.??
My G5 imac is not getting any
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My G5 imac is not getting any work either. I was running a beta 4.29 version of the app. When my last work unit finished I did not get a new WU. Actually, that was probably a good thing. I see a new 4.34 app is out so I downloaded it. 4.29 was kind of a slow poke; good thing they replaced it already.
I run SETI also. I have the resource share 80 einstein and 20 seti. Seti is running fine. I didn't see anything on the SETI boards about any downtime so I wouldn't think BOINC is letting SETI "catch up". I hope I get a new Einstein WU so I can see if 4.34 is an improvement over 4.29.
RE: I did start some new
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Can you please tell us the current list of your projects and what their respective resource shares are, thank you. It seems likely that BOINC has decided to run your new projects for a bit and give EAH a rest. It would also be helpful to know approximately how many hours per day that your machine runs and what your "connect to network every X days" preference is set to.
As you are running fairly long results at the moment, it is possible with the reduced resource share for EAH that BOINC might think that there is a risk of not being able to complete a result within the deadline. If that were the case you would see some comment from BOINC on your messages tab of Boinc Manager.
Cheers,
Gary.
RE: ... I didn't see
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You don't need Seti to have a problem for it to need to "catch up". Perhaps BOINC has been favouring EAH in order to meet a deadline and now it is favouring Seti until the debts balance.
According to this report already in, you will enjoy quite a speedup :).
Cheers,
Gary.
I just thought of something
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I just thought of something that I guess could make BOINC think SETI needs some extra time. Occasionally I will set SETI to "wont get new tasks" when I want Einstein to get extra time. Will that make BOINC think that SETI is getting "cheated" and therefore BOINC will force Einstein to take a rest?
RE: Humm, that didn't
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You can use
[ img ]http://some.web.site/pic.jpg[ /img ] to display an image (without the extra spaces within the brackets [ ].
In your Account preferences, you can define a "signature" to go under each of your postings so you don't have to insert it manually over and over again.
CU
BRM
RE: Humm, that didn't
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You can use
[ img ]http://some.web.site/pic.jpg[ /img ] to display an image (without the extra spaces within the brackets [ ].
In your Account preferences, you can define a "signature" to go under each of your postings so you don't have to insert it manually over and over again.
Edit:
To display the amount of "debt" for each project, you can do the following in a Terminal window:
grep project_name /Library/Application\\ Support/BOINC\\ Data/client_state.xmlreturns a list of projects, e.g.
[pre] climateprediction.net Einstein@Home [/pre]Then,
returns the debt for the projects in the order given above.
[pre] -7.519225 1489.122603 7.519225 -1489.122603 [/pre]High debt values (much higher than the ones I got) can cause one project to give way to others.
Can you tell us your debt values?
CU
BRM
Oh, one other thing worth
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Oh, one other thing worth mentioning:
You might want to review your preferences settings
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/prefs.php?subset=global
and check how many CPUs (= CPU cores) BOINC is allowed to use at the same time. You've got a dual core CPU, but I think the default setting is 1 (use only one core at a time). Since BOINC will only use otherwise idle CPU cycles, it's quite OK with respect to other stuff you want to do on your Mac if you allow both cores to crunch, unless you are concerned about your BOINC projects eating up too much RAM if two run in parallel (E@H is quite OK but I don't know about yor other projects).
CU
BRM