I have two download tabs for Einstein for whatever reason. One is one minute ahead of the other and whenever I pause one they both pause. Any Ides?
You should look again at the tab heading. In my BOINC manager there are Projects, Tasks, Transfers, Messages, Statistics and Disks tabs.
You should have 1 entry in the Projects tab (Einstein) and 3 resp. 4 entries in the tasks tab, 2 of which should have "Running" status and the rest "Ready to start" (or "Waiting to run").
The Transfer tab should only have entries when tasks are up- or downloading.
Gruß,
Gundolf
Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)
I have two download tabs for Einstein for whatever reason. One is one minute ahead of the other and whenever I pause one they both pause. Any Ides?
Your question doesn't make any sense to me, I'm sorry. As Gundolf mentions, there are no tabs in BOINC Manager that are called "download tabs". Also, what do you mean by "one is one minute ahead of the other"??
By looking at your account information, you appear to have two seemingly identical computers registered with the project. one has 4 tasks assigned to it while the other has 3. Do you actually have two identical machines or have you somehow managed to do a double installation on the one physical host? Perhaps your "two download tabs" actually means "two separate installation folders"?
Please describe what you have done as fully as possible so that we can work out exactly what the problem is. If you really have only one machine you will need to get rid of the duplicate installation.
Okay I don't have two machines so apparently I have managed to get two task folders. What I see are two of the same applications running at the same time.
The elapsed time on one of the two is two minutes higher than the other. Also this uses 100% of my computer at all times, I thought it was only supposed to work when my computer was not in use.
Okay I don't have two machines so apparently I have managed to get two task folders. What I see are two of the same applications running at the same time.
Your machine is a dual core so it is quite normal to see two copies of the science application running simultaneously. I presume you are using something like Windows task manager to see this? If so, that is perfectly OK.
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The elapsed time on one of the two is two minutes higher than the other.
That is also perfectly normal and nothing to concern yourself with.
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Also this uses 100% of my computer at all times ...
It might appear that way (when nothing else is running) but BOINC is very good at getting out of the way and releasing the CPU the moment something else needs to run. BOINC runs the science apps at the lowest possible priority (in the background) so under normal conditions, if you have a job in the foreground that needs immediate response, you will get immediate response and not see any significant delay.
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I thought it was only supposed to work when my computer was not in use.
Only if you set your preferences that way. If you go to the website and login, you will get to your account page. There you will find links for adjusting all your preferences. You will also find links to view your computers and all the tasks that have been assigned to them. On the bottom of your computers page you will find a link that will allow you to merge duplicate hosts. It would be worthwhile to see if you can merge your two separate registrations through that link.
At the moment the website shows that you have two separate registrations, both of which have tasks assigned. Only one is actually crunching and so far you have completed and returned 4 tasks. The other one is showing no signs of activity. It would be interesting to see if the merge function will allow you to clean up the problem. You need to go and have a good browse around and then come back and ask any questions you might have. The "Getting Started" forum is a good place to ask.
Okay I don't have two machines so apparently I have managed to get two task folders. What I see are two of the same applications running at the same time.
The elapsed time on one of the two is two minutes higher than the other. Also this uses 100% of my computer at all times, I thought it was only supposed to work when my computer was not in use.
As Gary said Boinc runs at the lowest priority of anything on your computer, tasks are assigned priorities so important ones happen sooner than less important ones. Anyway Boinc is also designed to use all unused cpu time, based on your settings again as Gary said, but basically at the default settings your cpu will be at 100%, 100% of the time. This is not a bad thing, cpu's are designed to be run like that. They are just machines, machines do not get tired so running them at 100%, 100% of the time is okay. What Boinc does is if you click to open the internet on your machine while Boinc is running, Boinc gives up cpu time, since opening the internet is a higher priority than running Boinc, and then when the internet is open Boinc takes back some of that time until the computer wants it back again, maybe to open your mail program, play a game, etc. This goes on thousands, maybe even millions, of times a second in your pc and is pretty seamless to us users.
Mostly the newer versions of Boinc get better but as with all programs there have been some setbacks. I like version 6.2.19 for Windows but do have a couple of my pc's running 6.4.5. My Vista machine for example did not like 6.2.19, so I uninstalled it and then went to 6.4.5 when it came out. 6.4.5 has the advantage of being able to use your video card, if it is of a certain type, so you can crunch for those projects that have that available. Right now there are only a few projects Seti, Milky Way and GPU Crunching that have that as an option. They also require a fairly new video card that most of us do not have by default. Here is a list of the NVidia cards http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn_products.html. Other projects are working on the software so we can crunch using the video cards for them too. Video cards put out alot more work in a shorter time but can only do a certain kind of work, so it won't work for all projects.
Two download tabs.
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You should look again at the tab heading. In my BOINC manager there are Projects, Tasks, Transfers, Messages, Statistics and Disks tabs.
You should have 1 entry in the Projects tab (Einstein) and 3 resp. 4 entries in the tasks tab, 2 of which should have "Running" status and the rest "Ready to start" (or "Waiting to run").
The Transfer tab should only have entries when tasks are up- or downloading.
Gruß,
Gundolf
Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)
RE: I have two download
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Your question doesn't make any sense to me, I'm sorry. As Gundolf mentions, there are no tabs in BOINC Manager that are called "download tabs". Also, what do you mean by "one is one minute ahead of the other"??
By looking at your account information, you appear to have two seemingly identical computers registered with the project. one has 4 tasks assigned to it while the other has 3. Do you actually have two identical machines or have you somehow managed to do a double installation on the one physical host? Perhaps your "two download tabs" actually means "two separate installation folders"?
Please describe what you have done as fully as possible so that we can work out exactly what the problem is. If you really have only one machine you will need to get rid of the duplicate installation.
Cheers,
Gary.
Okay I don't have two
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Okay I don't have two machines so apparently I have managed to get two task folders. What I see are two of the same applications running at the same time.
The elapsed time on one of the two is two minutes higher than the other. Also this uses 100% of my computer at all times, I thought it was only supposed to work when my computer was not in use.
RE: Okay I don't have two
)
Your machine is a dual core so it is quite normal to see two copies of the science application running simultaneously. I presume you are using something like Windows task manager to see this? If so, that is perfectly OK.
That is also perfectly normal and nothing to concern yourself with.
It might appear that way (when nothing else is running) but BOINC is very good at getting out of the way and releasing the CPU the moment something else needs to run. BOINC runs the science apps at the lowest possible priority (in the background) so under normal conditions, if you have a job in the foreground that needs immediate response, you will get immediate response and not see any significant delay.
Only if you set your preferences that way. If you go to the website and login, you will get to your account page. There you will find links for adjusting all your preferences. You will also find links to view your computers and all the tasks that have been assigned to them. On the bottom of your computers page you will find a link that will allow you to merge duplicate hosts. It would be worthwhile to see if you can merge your two separate registrations through that link.
At the moment the website shows that you have two separate registrations, both of which have tasks assigned. Only one is actually crunching and so far you have completed and returned 4 tasks. The other one is showing no signs of activity. It would be interesting to see if the merge function will allow you to clean up the problem. You need to go and have a good browse around and then come back and ask any questions you might have. The "Getting Started" forum is a good place to ask.
Cheers,
Gary.
RE: Okay I don't have two
)
As Gary said Boinc runs at the lowest priority of anything on your computer, tasks are assigned priorities so important ones happen sooner than less important ones. Anyway Boinc is also designed to use all unused cpu time, based on your settings again as Gary said, but basically at the default settings your cpu will be at 100%, 100% of the time. This is not a bad thing, cpu's are designed to be run like that. They are just machines, machines do not get tired so running them at 100%, 100% of the time is okay. What Boinc does is if you click to open the internet on your machine while Boinc is running, Boinc gives up cpu time, since opening the internet is a higher priority than running Boinc, and then when the internet is open Boinc takes back some of that time until the computer wants it back again, maybe to open your mail program, play a game, etc. This goes on thousands, maybe even millions, of times a second in your pc and is pretty seamless to us users.
Mostly the newer versions of Boinc get better but as with all programs there have been some setbacks. I like version 6.2.19 for Windows but do have a couple of my pc's running 6.4.5. My Vista machine for example did not like 6.2.19, so I uninstalled it and then went to 6.4.5 when it came out. 6.4.5 has the advantage of being able to use your video card, if it is of a certain type, so you can crunch for those projects that have that available. Right now there are only a few projects Seti, Milky Way and GPU Crunching that have that as an option. They also require a fairly new video card that most of us do not have by default. Here is a list of the NVidia cards http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn_products.html. Other projects are working on the software so we can crunch using the video cards for them too. Video cards put out alot more work in a shorter time but can only do a certain kind of work, so it won't work for all projects.
Good luck and happy crunching!!!