einstiein & BOINC is not doing anything
14 Nov 2006 23:15:41 UTC
Topic 192067
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BOINC has been running einstein and seti jobs since I signed up about 10 days ago. Today BOINC stopped running the einstein jobs. I tried killing and re-starting the BOINC client and re-setting the project but neither fix the problem. BOINC continues to run seti jobs just fine.
Can anyone clue me on what the problem may be with einstein?
BOINC is unning on Fedora Core 2.
Below is a portion of the log:
Tue 14 Nov 2006 11:32:46 AM EST||Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
Tue 14 Nov 2006 11:32:46 AM EST||libcurl/7.15.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8a zlib/1.2.3
Tue 14 Nov 2006 11:32:46 AM EST||Data directory: /home/jack/BOINC
Tue 14 Nov 2006 11:32:46 AM EST||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Tue 14 Nov 2006 11:32:46 AM EST||Memory: 1010.64 MB physical, 1.40 GB virtual
Tue 14 Nov 2006 11:32:46 AM EST||Disk: 2.88 GB total, 1.68 GB free
Tue 14 Nov 2006 11:32:46 AM EST|SETI@home|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 2845114; location: home; project prefs: default
Tue 14 Nov 2006 11:32:46 AM EST|Einstein@Home|URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID: 790252; location: ; project prefs: default
Tue 14 Nov 2006 11:32:46 AM EST||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
Tue 14 Nov 2006 11:32:46 AM EST||Local control only allowed
Tue 14 Nov 2006 11:32:46 AM EST||Listening on port 31416
Tue 14 Nov 2006 12:22:49 PM EST|SETI@home|Started download of file 10jn03aa.8062.17970.367302.3.57
[snip]
Tue 14 Nov 2006 12:22:52 PM EST|SETI@home|Backing off 3 hours, 44 minutes and 46 seconds on download of file 10jn03aa.8062.17970.367302.3.57
Tue 14 Nov 2006 01:28:58 PM EST|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
Tue 14 Nov 2006 01:28:58 PM EST|Einstein@Home|Reason: To report completed tasks
Tue 14 Nov 2006 01:28:58 PM EST|Einstein@Home|Reporting 1 tasks
Tue 14 Nov 2006 01:29:03 PM EST|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request succeeded
Tue 14 Nov 2006 01:32:06 PM EST|SETI@home|Started download of file 10jn03aa.8062.13744.403388.3.84
Tue 14 Nov 2006 05:31:47 PM EST|SETI@home|Throughput 309 bytes/sec
Tue 14 Nov 2006 05:56:35 PM EST||Rescheduling CPU: project reset by user
Tue 14 Nov 2006 05:56:35 PM EST|Einstein@Home|Resetting project
Tue 14 Nov 2006 05:56:35 PM EST||Rescheduling CPU: exit_tasks
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Tue 14 Nov 2006 05:31:47 PM EST|SETI@home|Throughput 309 bytes/sec
Tue 14 Nov 2006 05:56:35 PM EST||Rescheduling CPU: project reset by user
Tue 14 Nov 2006 05:56:35 PM EST|Einstein@Home|Resetting project
Tue 14 Nov 2006 05:56:35 PM EST||Rescheduling CPU: exit_tasks
einstiein & BOINC is not doing anything
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The important parts of the log are missing...
My opinion is:
You are running 2 projects.
When running more than one project, Boinc distributes the CPU to the projects in time slices. You can define (in the general preferences) how long these slices are. The standard length of a time slice is 60 minutes.
You can also define a ressource share to split the CPU between the projects.
Assumed you define Seti = 100 and Einstein = 100 both projects will get the same amount of CPU.
Now what happened:
Tue 14 Nov 2006 12:22:49 PM EST|SETI@home|Started download of file 10jn03aa.8062.17970.367302.3.57
Boinc started to download a Seti file
Tue 14 Nov 2006 12:22:52 PM EST|SETI@home|Backing off 3 hours, 44 minutes and 46 seconds on download of file 10jn03aa.8062.17970.367302.3.57
...but failed and will try again in 3 hours...
Tue 14 Nov 2006 01:28:58 PM EST|Einstein@Home|Reporting 1 tasks
An Einstein WU was finished and reported, so Boinc tried to download a Seti WU
Tue 14 Nov 2006 01:32:06 PM EST|SETI@home|Started download of file 10jn03aa.8062.13744.403388.3.84
Tue 14 Nov 2006 05:31:47 PM EST|SETI@home|Throughput 309 bytes/sec
It took Boinc 4 hours to download this file (with 309 bytes/sec!). During this time no project at all was processed.
And when the download was finished Seti still has to get its time slice of the CPU - so Seti started processing its WU.
25 minutes later you restarted Einstein - but the CPU is still dedicated to Seti.
Resetting the project causes Einstein to download a new data file which will take hours to download (at a rate of 309 bytes/sec.)
During this time only Seti will be processed!
Normally you can leave Boinc alone, it will do its job and run both (or more) projects and will grant the CPU to the projects according to the ressource shares you define.
Udo
