SETI gave me similar instability issues on my old AMD K-6,2 350's... They would constantly download 26 Hour WU's and at 15 Hrs the computers would error out... (BOINC 5.4.9 and 5.15 WU's...) So, I gave up on the K-6,2's and shut them down. I have to wait until I get some available free standing cash that I can upgrade my entire Network with. (Well, 4 out of the 5 Computers; anyway. The three K-6,2's and the P3-600 must go - when I have the cash...)DanceswithWerewolves(DWW) wrote:I've got a wu that is at 131:51 and no end to it in site, this is apparently a normal occurance as far as the size of the units go. Be aware if you don't have a stable system the longer it crunches the more likely instability may cause errors in the work. Also, it seems to help update the %done progress counter to completely stop, unload and restart boinc. I did this for another reason and noticed it jump from 40% to 60% on the restart.
Restarting the machine accomplishes the same thing if you are running as a service.
I've been lucky thus far in the area of stability, my p4s have no bandwith compared to the wide FBS's of the Core2 Duo's that are out there now but even with the generic ram that I have I am not getting bit errors it is just slow. I get maybe one or two bad validations a month and I can live with that since I won't be upgrading these particular machines. I would really like one of the Xeon's with the 1333 buss but sadly still more than $700 US just for the CPU so I wait both for the price to come down and for one of the MB manufactures to make a desktop MB for this application. I wouldn't mind being able to do 200 plus wu's a day.TimeLord04 wrote:SETI gave me similar instability issues on my old AMD K-6,2 350's... They would constantly download 26 Hour WU's and at 15 Hrs the computers would error out... (BOINC 5.4.9 and 5.15 WU's...) So, I gave up on the K-6,2's and shut them down. I have to wait until I get some available free standing cash that I can upgrade my entire Network with. (Well, 4 out of the 5 Computers; anyway. The three K-6,2's and the P3-600 must go - when I have the cash...)DanceswithWerewolves(DWW) wrote:I've got a wu that is at 131:51 and no end to it in site, this is apparently a normal occurance as far as the size of the units go. Be aware if you don't have a stable system the longer it crunches the more likely instability may cause errors in the work. Also, it seems to help update the %done progress counter to completely stop, unload and restart boinc. I did this for another reason and noticed it jump from 40% to 60% on the restart.
Restarting the machine accomplishes the same thing if you are running as a service.
It's just the standard weekly downtime. It should fix itself in an hour or two.yeababy wrote:ok so its the estimated work time got it, cheers
hey is anybody else having problems uploading data to seti at moment, thinking its a server issue or something I cant get into their website either at moment
24/10/2006 20:40:38|SETI@home|Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
24/10/2006 20:41:06|SETI@home|Started upload of file 17my03aa.13679.16208.790908.3.196_0_0
24/10/2006 20:41:28|SETI@home|Temporarily failed upload of 17my03aa.13679.16208.790908.3.196_0_0: http error
24/10/2006 20:41:28|SETI@home|Backing off 1 minutes and 0 seconds on upload of file 17my03aa.13679.16208.790908.3.196_0_0
24/10/2006 20:41:38|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
24/10/2006 20:41:38|SETI@home|Reason: To report completed tasks
24/10/2006 20:41:38|SETI@home|Reporting 1 tasks
24/10/2006 20:42:04|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: server returned nothing (no headers, no data)
24/10/2006 20:42:04|SETI@home|Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
Yeah, i have a machine crunching this and at 70 hours, it has managed 2%. So this is a 6 month job at 24*7 +- however reports are made incrementally, so you will get credit and progress every few days (which is promising) however yes, you need a stable machine (in the sense that it will be online for at least 6 months++) to finish an entire work unit.Bird-Dog wrote:The Climate prediction models report ever model year and there are 160 years in each model. It took me 49hrs to do one year so a complete model would have taken me just under 8000hrs. Unless you have a fast computer think again. Have a read of there message boards and see if you can find a computer with the same spec as yours to give you an idea. Mine errored out after 90 odd hours, in a way I`m glad, with 1 computer I would have had to drop all projects to finish it.
