Only four quotas a day
17 Feb 2009 1:52:58 UTC
Topic 194200
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I have a HP computer with an Intel Core 2 with quad core and Vista 64 and 4GB of memory all running Einstein at home in the background but I notice that I have received a message that says I have reached my daily quota of 4. According to common questions that quota can be stuck maybe.
With a processor this powerful it does not make me happy when 3 of the cores are not being used. Anyway to reset this so I get as many as I can handle?
Only four quotas a day
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See http://einsteinathome.org/node/194197
Team Linux Users Everywhere
RE: I have a HP computer
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I guess you would have worked out by now that the reduction in your daily quota was due to the fact that a large number of tasks were failing on your computer, most likely as a result of some misconfiguration of file ownership and/or permissions. As you are now successfully crunching lots of tasks, you have obviously sorted this out.
If you followed the link given by Michael, you will have seen that you were not alone with this problem - whatever it actually turned out to be. It would be very helpful and much appreciated if you could post back here with the details of what exactly the problem was and how you solved it. I would like to make that information available to the other person (and anybody else) having the same problem. The Cafe is not the best place for technical issues to be discussed so if you can give us more information, I'd like to shift the whole thread over to one of the technical boards where it would be more readily available to those looking for answers.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Cheers,
Gary.
RE: I have a HP computer
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I've applied a massive amount of fan cooling power and a core temp monitor program. My quad core and system was running hot, but after opening the case and applying some beautifully LED lite fans to help the cooling, I'm not sending any errors to the server. I keep receiving new work at a high rate. Check your success rate. And if you find errors check your core temps. You might need some fans on this processor hog program. It may have exceeded the cooling needs of previous programs. It will use 100% of your power available. I've never seen this much processsor consumsion on my system before. David...
RE: RE: I have a HP
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This is what Boinc does, uses 100% of your cpu, releasing only enough so you can whatever else you want to do, read emails, play games, whatever, then taking back whatever it can to keep the cpu at 100% 100% of the time. You will notice all projects doing this, it is by design.
One thing to keep track of, since you seem comfortable poking around inside the box, is dust. Get yourself a can of compressed air and use it occasionally to blow the fan blades clean.
Go to your account. Then
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Go to your account. Then select preferances and edit. Here you can change the number of CPU's and the percentage of their use. Mine is set at sixteen even though I only have 4 core (quad). The program utilizes 100% of all 4 core's unused CPU power. Also mostly I have Boinc running while I sleep and no other major process's running. As far as your CPU power, this program generates alot of heat, so to prevent errors being reported back to Boinc I have external fans. I'm using an Nvidia 9800 GX2 video card that produces high temps on my system chip, but haven't noticed the program using the dual GPU's for processing other than screen saver graphics. I originally solved this apparent factory defect of the Nvidia 9800 GX2 graphics card with the XFX Nforce SLI Ultra motherboard's overheating problem by installing extra fans on an open housing. Not sure what the XFX Nforce motherboard manufactor has done about this heat problem, but I'm at full extreme power with 2 gig DDR3 mem. A tremendious amount of flawless work is being reported at a phenominal rate back to boinc which continues to have 4 inprogress and 4 ready to start data packs. By just using my computer at night while I sleep I manage to complete about 12 data packs a day. And I always use the Boinc "snooze" option before I shutdown so I can cool down my system. I hope this helps you, it certainly works for me. David...