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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Ever since I bought this new PC I have had some very strange things happening. The most recent is that I stop crunching for several hours and come home and ll the work modules are gone and new ones just starting. When I left 2 hours ago, they all were at or between 60-70% done, and now they have all vanished and new modules begun. None of the work units were tagged as being critical, so I can't understand why they might have been shipped out to others to finish for being gone for only 2 hours. This is now the second time this has happened in the last two days. It's acting like I'm hitting the project reset tab, but I'm not. Any ideas out there why this might be happening? Thanks in advance!
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7655 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Please post the the lines in your event log for when this event has occurred. Post about 15 or 20 before and about that many after. We may be able to see what occurred.
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Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
This is the event log when I fired up my PC when I got home. As you can see, downloading and getting new work units. I don't get why the program is acting like this.
4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.47 for windows_x86_64 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | Running under account Bill 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (driver version 387.95, CUDA version 9.1, compute capability 6.1, 4096MB, 3385MB available, 3207 GFLOPS peak) 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (driver version 387.95, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 4096MB, 3385MB available, 3207 GFLOPS peak) 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | OpenCL: Intel GPU 0: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (driver version 22.20.16.4758, device version OpenCL 2.1, 1489MB, 1489MB available, 230 GFLOPS peak) 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | OpenCL CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz (OpenCL driver vendor: Intel(R) Corporation, driver version 7.5.0.550, device version OpenCL 2.1 (Build 550)) 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | Host name: WINDOWS-PSUL8QL 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | Processor: 12 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz [Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10] 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movebe popcnt aes nx lm vmx smx tm2 pbe 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1: Core x64 Edition, (06.03.9600.00) 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | Memory: 15.82 GB physical, 18.19 GB virtual 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | Disk: 930.46 GB total, 788.60 GB free 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | Local time is UTC -7 hours 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 4466863; resource share 100 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | World Community Grid | General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 01-Apr-2018 10:57:37) 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | World Community Grid | Host location: none 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | World Community Grid | General prefs: using your defaults 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | Reading preferences override file 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | Preferences: 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | max memory usage when active: 12146.11MB 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 14575.33MB 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | max disk usage: 150.00GB 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | don't use GPU while active 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | max download rate: 219996 bytes/sec 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | max upload rate: 85002 bytes/sec 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) 4/2/2018 7:43:22 PM | | Not using a proxy 4/2/2018 7:43:25 PM | | Suspending GPU computation - user request 4/2/2018 7:43:29 PM | World Community Grid | project resumed by user 4/2/2018 7:43:30 PM | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 4/2/2018 7:43:30 PM | World Community Grid | Requesting new tasks for CPU and intel_gpu 4/2/2018 7:43:33 PM | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks 4/2/2018 7:43:35 PM | World Community Grid | Started download of mip1.MIP1_00064464.1 4/2/2018 7:43:35 PM | World Community Grid | Started download of mip1.MIP1_00064464.2 4/2/2018 7:43:47 PM | World Community Grid | Finished download of mip1.MIP1_00064464.1 4/2/2018 7:43:47 PM | World Community Grid | Started download of mip1.MIP1_00064464.flags 4/2/2018 7:43:49 PM | World Community Grid | Finished download of mip1.MIP1_00064464.flags 4/2/2018 7:43:49 PM | World Community Grid | Started download of mip1.MIP1_00064464.fasta 4/2/2018 7:43:50 PM | World Community Grid | Finished download of mip1.MIP1_00064464.fasta 4/2/2018 7:43:50 PM | World Community Grid | Started download of mip1.MIP1_00064464.psipred_ss2 4/2/2018 7:43:51 PM | World Community Grid | Finished download of mip1.MIP1_00064464.psipred_ss2 4/2/2018 7:43:51 PM | World Community Grid | Started download of mip1.MIP1_00064464.cst 4/2/2018 7:43:53 PM | World Community Grid | Finished download of mip1.MIP1_00064464.cst 4/2/2018 7:43:54 PM | World Community Grid | Finished download of mip1.MIP1_00064464.2 4/2/2018 7:58:37 PM | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 4/2/2018 7:58:37 PM | World Community Grid | Requesting new tasks for CPU and intel_gpu 4/2/2018 7:58:39 PM | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks 4/2/2018 7:58:41 PM | World Community Grid | Started download of mip1.MIP1_00064466.1 4/2/2018 7:58:41 PM | World Community Grid | Started download of mip1.MIP1_00064466.2 |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
See how it requests new tasks? I had a full array of work units, none of which were close to being done. It just took those away and set new ones!
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ca05065
Senior Cruncher Joined: Dec 4, 2007 Post Count: 325 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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What does it show in the 'result status' on the website for your units?
Some PCs do have problems with MIP1 work units. I need to close the BOINC client so that all work units are stopped before shutting down the PC. If I do not do this many MIP1 work units fail when BOINC starts again. An alternative is to hibernate the PC instead of shutting down. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Thank you for the insight. I do shutdown BOINC every night, but I guess that's not enough. I wish I understood why it is suddenly behaving this way. This morning when I opened BOINC again, four units had disappeared and replaced with new ones. What's the point of crunching if it just takes work units away before they are finished? I sure hope I don't have to leave my PC on overnight to stop this from happening. If you have any other ideas, please let me know as I'm at an impasse.
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well you didn't answer his question about what the results status page was stating. So, you could start there.
----------------------------------------Then, I would try running a different sub project to confirm whether it is just the MIP1 work units causing you the trouble or not.     |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
According to the results log, every work unit over the last two days is in progress....nothing is finished. That makes sense since the program is causing the units to disappear and be replaced every time I end the program and turn off my PC. So, I'm just wasting electricity to crunch units which will not count at the end of the day. Can you think of anything else that might be the cause of this issue? I'm thoroughly frustrated Thanks in advance! !
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
That would seem to indicate that they weren't deleted otherwise they would be listed as in error status or detached or something to that effect. On the main BOINCMgr screen, there is a button to the left at the top. It toggles between "show all tasks" and "show active tasks" if the button says "show all tasks", click it and it should should all the tasks on your system whether they are running or not. They may give you a hint as to what the problem might be. It sounds like you might not be seeing all the tasks just the active ones. Just a thought
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
That was a great idea Doneske, bur now I'm even more confused. I was able to check for invalid results, results which led to error, or that were processed too late, and aborted. All of those fields were empty. Lots of pending work units though. But why would the work units by cleared out at night when they are not even done, nor even flagged a critical (and thus turned our to others to finish)? The mysteries of BOINC never fail to flummox me!
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