Posts by Penguirl

1) Message boards : Beta Testing : New application! (Message 10205)
Posted 1419 days ago by Penguirl

I have another work unit that appears to be doing the same thing. It ran up to 15% in a few hours, now it's seemingly stuck at 15% after 12 hours. I am going to abort it and take my G5 off the beta program until there is a fix.

2) Message boards : Beta Testing : New application! (Message 10199)
Posted 1420 days ago by Penguirl

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3) Message boards : Beta Testing : New application! (Message 10198)
Posted 1420 days ago by Penguirl

It looks like this work unit had similar issues. No mention of permission errors but it failed to detect a heartbeat several times before erroring out. Both are on my 06/2005 G5 2.0 DP.

(edit) And this work unit also errored out on my G5 Power Mac. I don't see any bad work units for either of my G4s, is there a particular issue with the PPC970?

4) Message boards : Beta Testing : New application! (Message 10197)
Posted 1420 days ago by Penguirl

This work unit stopped progress at about 12%, I paused and continued it in hopes it would finish but at 59:41 (elapsed, not CPU) I aborted it. It was about 8 hours past due at that time and still at 12% completed.

5) Message boards : Beta Testing : New application! (Message 10148)
Posted 1431 days ago by Penguirl

A status update:

The plan is to wait until the weekend, and then analyze the timing results from all returned workunits. Hopefully a pattern will emerge in the running times, so that we can fix the expected run time of new workunits.

After that, I'll re-generate a set of new workunits for the beta test with the new heuristics. From the current results, it looks like I should make them a lot shorter than they are now. Does 2 or 4 times as short sound reasonable to you?

Will doing this cause BOINC to simply DL more WUs causing effectively the same situation?

6) Message boards : Beta Testing : New application! (Message 10144)
Posted 1431 days ago by Penguirl

I am having to abort lots of WUs for the beta app because the actual runtime is so much longer than the estimated runtime. Is there any way either the deadlines can be extended or the estimated runtime be made more accurate?

7) Message boards : Beta Testing : New application! (Message 10133)
Posted 1437 days ago by Penguirl

Elapsed time in BOINC manager should be correct but estimated time to completion can be way off. ;-)

Only other scenario I can think of is that the wall-clock time needed for the WUs was for some reason much higher than the CPU time.
Hm... did you run some AQUA mt-WUs on that host, too?

No, I'm not familiar with AQUA mt, do they have a PPC Mac application?

8) Message boards : Beta Testing : New application! (Message 10131)
Posted 1437 days ago by Penguirl

Elapsed time in BOINC manager should be correct but estimated time to completion can be way off. ;-)

Only other scenario I can think of is that the wall-clock time needed for the WUs was for some reason much higher than the CPU time.
Hm... did you run some AQUA mt-WUs on that host, too?

No, I'm not familiar with AQUA mt, do they have a PPC Mac application?

9) Message boards : Beta Testing : New application! (Message 10129)
Posted 1437 days ago by Penguirl

Your task finished faster than mine. Compare the times.

I guess I've been reading the times wrong. BOINCManager said I had 40 hours on each of my first two work units, but the two results I've finished were about 15.5 and 17.75 hours according to the results. Is BOINCManager really that far off in it's elapsed time calculations?

10) Message boards : Beta Testing : New application! (Message 10116)
Posted 1439 days ago by Penguirl

I ran a new one, with the *much* faster app 1.02. It validated.

http://abctest.math.leidenuniv.nl/abcbeta/result.php?resultid=6715

Credits are still much less than claimed.

It looks to me like you finished the wu in 19 hours, is that correct? If so, I wonder why mine are running slower on a faster G5.

I don't know if I'm reading it right but I think maybe your G5 is only running BOINC whereas mine is multi-tasking (this is my primary GP Mac)?

The first wu finally finished, slow and like zombie 67's wu less credit than claimed: http://abctest.math.leidenuniv.nl/abcbeta/result.php?resultid=6675 Second wu still in progress.

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