My machine seems to be having troubles with crunching ABC WUs. Out of three that have been returned so far, two have had errors, another one was validated. These are the machine's tasks: http://abcathome.com/results.php?hostid=64997 It's running Fedora 8 x86_64 on a Core 2 Duo clocked at 2.53GHz and 2GB of DDR3 RAM. Both WUs have quit with SIGSEGVs. Anyone have an idea what's going on?
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My machine seems to be having troubles with crunching ABC WUs. Out of three that have been returned so far, two have had errors, another one was validated. These are the machine's tasks: http://abcathome.com/results.php?hostid=64997 It's running Fedora 8 x86_64 on a Core 2 Duo clocked at 2.53GHz and 2GB of DDR3 RAM. Both WUs have quit with SIGSEGVs. Anyone have an idea what's going on?
Boinc Wiki says"
"ERR_FILE_TOO_BIG -131
One of the output files is bigger than the maximum set by the project for upload.
BOINC will not try to upload this file.
Solution: Go to the project's forums and report this behavior."
You have done the reporting part!
When was the last time you turned your pc off? I had some of these errors and turning the pc off for about an hour seemed to fix the problems.
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/ It may be a batch of bad wu's. I have something similar on http://abcathome.com/results.php?hostid=64801 and http://abcathome.com/results.php?hostid=59329
It may be a problem with multiple projects as I am converting those machines over from a different project and may not have selected "keep applications in memory when suspended" on those machines when the errors occurred.
/ I could believe it was a batch of bad WUs. The machine was on for about a hour before the errors occurred. I also set suspended applications to be kept in memory, as I read that that fixed some problems before. The next two WUs are in the pipeline at 32% and 16%, we'll see how they go.
/ Thanks for reporting the errors and please keep an eye on this. If there are any more errors please let me know, I'll look into it.
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/ Thanks for reporting the errors and please keep an eye on this. If there are any more errors please let me know, I'll look into it.
I haven't seen anything more yet, but I enabled the keep applications in memory option, and my Linux 64 box has been booted into XP over the past few days to clear out another cache of work. I'll keep an eye on it.
EDIT: 5 more WUs just returned, all valid. Whatever it is seems to have either disappeared or was related to memory suspension. BTW, I do not have CPU throttling enabled.
/ I subscribed to this project today (at work). So far my system is reporting 13 computation errors out of 13 units.
The system is a pentium 4 running ubuntu linux (8.04). Please let me know if there is any diagnostic information required and I will append it tomorrow when I get back to the office.
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I subscribed to this project today (at work). So far my system is reporting 13 computation errors out of 13 units.
The system is a pentium 4 running ubuntu linux (8.04). Please let me know if there is any diagnostic information required and I will append it tomorrow when I get back to the office.
Do you have this problem in other projects too?
Perhaps could be some issues with damaged RAM.
/ I subscribed to this project today (at work). So far my system is reporting 13 computation errors out of 13 units.
The system is a pentium 4 running ubuntu linux (8.04). Please let me know if there is any diagnostic information required and I will append it tomorrow when I get back to the office.
Did you tell your IT folks that you were doing this? You may need permissions to let it do what it needs to do. I checked the latest unit and it had lots of errors in it.
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/ No problems with einstein@home. I found the "retain in memory" option and I'm trying that although I would prefer not to have to pin memory in that way.
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No problems with einstein@home. I found the "retain in memory" option and I'm trying that although I would prefer not to have to pin memory in that way.
It doesn't actually "pin" memory. If that ram is needed, it will cache that data on the HD.
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/ I would like to report that I am experiencing a lot of this computation errors too
my results:
http://abcathome.com/results.php?userid=23669
ciao
/ The retain in memory option appears to have solved the problem
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I would like to report that I am experiencing a lot of this computation errors too
my results:
http://abcathome.com/results.php?userid=23669
ciao
Have you tried leaving apps in memory?
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/ The retain in memory option appears to have solved the problem
Good, I wish it were a default instead of having to check it when people subscribe to more than one project per machine. It would solve alot of problems. The checkpointing seems to need some tweaking, that is what is supposed to pick right up where you left off when you come back to a project after switching.
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/ I would like to report that I am experiencing a lot of this computation errors too
my results:
http://abcathome.com/results.php?userid=23669
ciao
Have you tried leaving apps in memory?
Yes since yesterday, I will check the next results to see if it is working.
/ I still have this -131-errors... we're wasting power here ^^
/ I still have this -131-errors... we're wasting power here ^^
Have you selected "leave applications in memory when suspended" in your preferences?
Remember there are 2 ways to select it:
1) If you adjust that setting in your website preferences then you need to click "Update preference" on the web page and then select that project in BOINC manager and click "Update". If you do not do all that then the setting will not take effect.
2) If you select it in your preferences in BOINC manager then you also have to click Advanced -> Read Local Prefs File to make the setting take effect.
/ Yes, it is turned on, but I actually use this computer and shut it down every night, so it seems to me it doesn't make any sense to turn it on. Futhermore, I use all of the available memory for foreground-programs, so it will cache to HD anyway.
/ ...but I actually use this computer and shut it down every night...
That'd be why. Shutting it down flushes the memory, while most people on here will leave their computers running 24/7. ABC apps really need some better checkpointing... If you guys need help, I'd be glad to oblige.
/ KTF,
If ABC is the only project that gives you problems then detach it for now. The current run is nearly done and they have said there will definitely be a new app for the next run. Perhaps their new app will work better for you.
/ Okay, I'll detach for now :) I'll be back soon ^^
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Have you tried leaving apps in memory?
Yes since yesterday, I will check the next results to see if it is working.
My last results are ok with the keep in memory option enabled
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Have you tried leaving apps in memory?
Yes since yesterday, I will check the next results to see if it is working.
My last results are ok with the keep in memory option enabled
For some reason that seems to do the trick a lot of the time.
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