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Send message Joined: 11 Jun 07 Posts: 9 Credit: 1,888,183 RAC: 296 |
Hi- For a long time I have run climate prediction tasks but for the last month or so I don't have any. I checked the status and it seems the servers are up and running. Any idea of why not tasks are being downloaded to run on my Mac (Mac Pro, Lion 10.7.2)? Here is the response I get when I send and update to the project via BOINC: Tue Jan 31 19:23:23 2012 | climateprediction.net | update requested by user Tue Jan 31 19:23:25 2012 | climateprediction.net | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Tue Jan 31 19:23:25 2012 | climateprediction.net | Not reporting or requesting tasks Tue Jan 31 19:23:28 2012 | climateprediction.net | Scheduler request completed Thanks, Don |
Send message Joined: 5 Sep 04 Posts: 7629 Credit: 24,240,330 RAC: 0 |
Your computer isn't asking for climate work, so it doesn't need any. You're running several projects, so perhaps BOINC is in 'pay back time' after running a lot of the long climate models. And you seem to be crashing a lot of them. Try only running the shorter regional models while there's plenty of them. Backups: Here |
Send message Joined: 11 Jun 07 Posts: 9 Credit: 1,888,183 RAC: 296 |
Thanks for your quick reply Les. I have no clue why they were crashing, I guess I have been a bad person. 8-) Seriously I have been running climate models for a couple/three years now with no problems until the last year or so. Any ideas why there3 are crashes? How can I tell if a climate model is a shorter regional model or not? Do I have control over what kind of models are downloaded for my computer to work on? |
![]() Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 1496 Credit: 95,522,203 RAC: 0 |
In the blue list on the left, go to Your account/Preferences for this project/scroll to your computer assignment (Default/Home/School/or Work), go to the bottom of that block and click Edit preferences. There is a selection list. Click to add or subtract task types; Regional models are PNW/EU/SAF. Click Update preferences at the bottom of the page. (This is a server update, so no necessity for updating boinc, as with other changes.) Please read the boinc 6.12.26 Sticky at the top of the MAC section of the Board. "We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo Greetings from coastal Washington state, the scenic US Pacific Northwest. |
Send message Joined: 11 Jun 07 Posts: 9 Credit: 1,888,183 RAC: 296 |
Thanks, I selected only regional models to run now. We'll see how this goes. FYI, I had already read and followed the 6.12.26 Sticky a while back, first the "reset project" and then the "detach/attach". Neither seemed to have worked. |
![]() Send message Joined: 16 Jan 10 Posts: 1082 Credit: 7,542,552 RAC: 5,024 |
Don, Another thing to try is to reduce the number of times the models are suspended. A number of the errored tasks on your machine have numerous suspends, which can cause problems - particularly with the longer HADCM3N tasks. The most likely reason for the large number of suspends is a default BOINC setting in the 'processor usage' section of the BOINC Manager preferences. Have a look at the entry that starts 'while processor usage is less than': the default is 25% - setting it to 0% stops BOINC suspending so often. The default setting is intended to make BOINC as unobtrusive as possible, but for most people that protection is more trouble than it's worth. (The tasks still run at low priority, so shouldn't interfere with normal activity.) Iain |
![]() Send message Joined: 1 Aug 10 Posts: 2 Credit: 686,856 RAC: 0 |
Since I have upgraded to 7.0.25 on my Mac, none of my projects fetch WUs automatically as they used to do. My preferences are the same, ie Max work buffer set to 2 days, there are only a few projects currently running with a small number of WUs that I had to fetch by Updating manually. Any ideas? |
![]() Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 1283 Credit: 15,824,334 RAC: 0 |
Since I have upgraded to 7.0.25 on my Mac, none of my projects fetch WUs automatically as they used to do. My preferences are the same, ie Max work buffer set to 2 days, there are only a few projects currently running with a small number of WUs that I had to fetch by Updating manually. Any ideas? 7.0 has some major changes to the way the BOINC client operates which haven't been widely publicised.
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![]() Send message Joined: 1 Aug 10 Posts: 2 Credit: 686,856 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for the help. I had never set the minimum work buffer before, it was always zero. Now I have set it to 1 day and the max is set to 2 days. It works fine now. Thanks again! |
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