No Credits
5 Mar 2005 22:23:34 UTC
Topic 188290
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Hello,
I calculated some workunits in the last couple of days and still got 0 credits from them. So I believe that something is going wrong.
Look at http://einsteinathome.org/account/tasks
I turn off my computer each night. So the calc progess was stopped and restarted. Is that a problem?
Then I found some error messages in the result. For example:
http://einsteinathome.org/task/1451176
shows this messages:
4.24
APP DEBUG: Application caught signal 2
Resuming computation at 592/49407/53906
APP DEBUG: Application caught signal 15
detected finished Fstat file - skipping Fstat run 1
Resuming computation at 4141/293928/296717
APP DEBUG: Application caught signal 2
detected finished Fstat file - skipping Fstat run 1
Resuming computation at 5310/369614/377804
APP DEBUG: Application caught signal 2
detected finished Fstat file - skipping Fstat run 1
Resuming computation at 27756/1808840/1809018
Fstats.Ha: bytecount 1194271 checksum 57388792
Fstats.Hb: bytecount 2020841 checksum 97094601
So Sirs. Could you please help me? :)
Yes, I read the other threads and the FAQ too. Especially that thread with "No credit for 4 successfully computed units". But I'm not sure what the answers really meant.
That are my simple questions:
Is it ok to turn off the computer (Suse Linux with an init script from the boinc project) while the computer is still working on a unit?
Is something broken with my computer/software so that the results are really bad?
Can I go on without any changes and in the future will everything be fine?
Thank You
Regards
No Credits
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The messages that you have do not mean that there is a problem with your computer.
Most likely, you're simply having the same problem a lot of linux users are having with the results being marked "invalid". Look at this thread for some more info on it.
The developers are working on it, but in short it seems the validator is being too strict when comparing the results between linux and windows. In all of your cases, the credit was granted to the windows systems - so likely it's just the same problem they already know about.
As far as turning the system off, that's not a problem as long as boinc gets stopped before the system goes down - either by the script or by pressing ctrl-c.
Darren
> Is something broken with my
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> Is something broken with my computer/software so that the results are really
> bad?
Probably not.
> Can I go on without any changes and in the future will everything be fine?
They are rewriting the validator so until that is done all your results are likely to be marked as invalid. Really a great shame since you have a nice looking comp.
While you are waiting, why don't you find the thread about running the Windows client under WINE on Linux. Do a keyword search for WINE and you are bound to find all the good info on how to do it. There have been reports of big decreases in crunching times which is an added bonus.
Cheers,
Gary.