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Advanced view does not update progress correctly

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CPU:Phenom ii X6 1055T (O.C. to 3GHz)
MEM:4GB
HDD:SATA 2TB
S/W:
O/S: Ubuntu 15.04 (AMD64)
BOINC 7.4.42 (Installed from Ubuntu Software Center)

After a day of run, I found curiouce behaviors on BOINC manager TASKS tab.
1) Only top 5 task's progess are updated realtime. To update the bottom one task, I need to switch to other tab once and back to TASKS tab. While progress update is stopped, the task is correctly running with consuming 100% of the core power.

2) On completion of a task, the line showes the status as "Running" and "Progress" as 100% with no Elaps tic. Nothing more occres. If I click on any other tab and come back to TASKS, Statsus is correctly updated to "Ready to report". At this timing the bottom one not updated automatically comes normal realtime updating.

Some othere starange behaviours have observed thouth, above 2 are most obviouce. Stopping O.C. did not help at all.

There is no specific reason to choose Ubuntu 15.04. Just because it was there as the latest official release. BOINC 7.4.42 is the standerd release for Ubuntu 15.04 according to the web docs.

I know if I use Ubuntu 12.04 and BOINC 7.2.xx there may be no problem which I have used long time on a Core2 duo machine.

My current concern is too small memory. I will try to add 8GB of memory when the queue comes dried up.

the reason for I have opened this thread is to get any suggestion for the issue. If nobody have any idea, I will back to Windows7 which is originally installed on the machine.

Thank you. Kiyo.

[May 4, 2015 9:42:43 AM]

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Re: Advanced view does not update progress correctly

Hi Kiyo,

The BOINC behaviour you are describing is caused by the version of BOINC that you are running. The latest versions do not update the taks progress percentage for all running tasks properly. I tried that version and went back to version 7.2.42. It works like you would expect. I am running Ubuntu 15.04 with BOINC 7.2.42 and it works fine.

Hope that helps.

[May 4, 2015 1:00:18 PM]

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Re: Advanced view does not update progress correctly

Had 7.4.42 [compiled by LocutusofBorg, the Debian package maintainer] and now 7.5.0 on 14.04.02 LTS and see/seen nothing of the sorts. Maybe this will help to force the hand on screen updating: Create an app_config.xml file in the WCG project folder and for each application insert a set of tags that includes <fraction_done_exact/>. This tag ensures that the time the task has run and the percent shown is used to compute a closer time to complete [does not work for CEP2!]

<app_config>
   <app>
      <name>cep2</name>
      <max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
   </app>
   <app>
      <name>mcm1</name>
      <fraction_done_exact/>
   </app>
   <app>
      <name>ugm1</name>
      <fraction_done_exact/>
   </app>
   <app>
      <name>oet1</name>
      <fraction_done_exact/>
   </app>
   <app>
      <name>fahv</name>
      <fraction_done_exact/>
   </app>
</app_config>

Manual for more instructions: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Cc_config.xml [See app_config.xml section].

When done, restart client or read in config. Certainly if not helping the screenupdating you will get better completion times.

[May 4, 2015 3:30:44 PM]

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Re: Advanced view does not update progress correctly

Thank you, Rob.

I will try tomorrow because it is more than one hour passed the mid night here in Japan and I'm still struggling with downloading the WU's.

Thanks. Kiyo.

[May 4, 2015 4:25:44 PM]

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Re: Advanced view does not update progress correctly

I have created /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org$ as Rob said but nothing has happened. The issue still persists.

My next choice will be to downgrade to 7.2.42 or restore Windows 7.

Kiyo.

[May 6, 2015 8:37:14 AM]

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Re: Advanced view does not update progress correctly

Sekimoto, you did load in the config or restarted the client? Plz try 7.5.1 64 bit http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_7.5.0_windows_x86_64.exe + http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc.040515.x86.zip [Major menu and preferences overhaul]. If it persists [on > 4 threads concurrent], will report it to the Alpha mail list. Don't know if this is a BOINC Manager GUI issue or the core client. If you see same by running BOINCTasks [Don't normally use BM here], then it would be in the core client area.

I'm running 7.5.0 on an 8 core and still do not see it... all lines have a second by second update [Percentage and Time Remaining wont necessarily, but eventuall all do]. ATI display, latest drivers.

[May 6, 2015 9:08:38 AM]

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Re: Advanced view does not update progress correctly

Rob,

The links that you sent are for Windows versions. Where can we get the versions for Linux?

Thanks

[May 6, 2015 5:37:13 PM]

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Re: Advanced view does not update progress correctly

Hhhhm, yes, right, only the LocutusofBorg ppa offers a 7.5.0 build [with wxWidgets 3.0.2... Berkeley does not. Get it here: https://launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/ubuntu/locutusofborg-ppa [He's trusted, in my book]

[May 6, 2015 5:46:12 PM]

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Re: Advanced view does not update progress correctly

Thank you for your advice, Rob.

I have folllwed the instruction but failed to update the boinc to 7.5.0 from PPA by getting following messages.

W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net vivid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 1BCB19E03C2A1859
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-daily/ppa/ub...ain/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-daily/ppa/ub...main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

It seems I am something wrong with GPG key installation. I have tried 3 times without any success.

I had been working with Red hat and SuSE for long time so not have good knowledge with DEB.

Could you support me a bit? Kiyo.

[May 12, 2015 1:57:54 PM]

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Re: Advanced view does not update progress correctly

http://askubuntu.com/questions/127326/how-to-fix-missing-gpg-keys

Mine I've actually set to auto-update [Google on how to]

[May 12, 2015 2:02:10 PM]

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