using a 2 CPU system

Hi Lionel,

Welcome to the Einstein@Home project.

In your general preferences on the website, for the preference on how many processors to use does it say 1 or 2? If it already says 2 then the problem must be something different.

I don't have a box like yours so I'm only guessing that maybe there is a BIOS setup option for enabling the dual cpu functionality. BOINC seems to recognise that you have dual cpu capability and I imagine BOINC would be using both if it were allowed to. For that reason I'm guessing it's either a Windows configuration or a BIOS configuration that needs to be changed. I'm sure someone who owns a similar box will give us the answer shortly.

Are you on dialup? The "Client error" that Kathryn was commenting on is not due to the graphics bug she was mentioning but rather due to:-

You can see these messages for yourself either under the messages tab of BOINC Manager, or in text files "stderrdae.txt" in your BOINC folder, or by going to your account page on the website and clicking on "Computers" -> "Results" -> "ResultID" for the result showing the client error. If you see an error you don't understand you can always look it up in the Unofficial BOINC Wiki. On the main page of the Wiki, you could type in or cut and paste the keywords quoted above. There is a Google search function (top box) or the builtin search function. In this cae I used the second one and got two "Article Title" matches with the first one being the best match. If you click on that first match you will see examples (fully explained) of the sort of circumstances where this error message occurs. Actually the second example shows the error code -200 so it is exactly like your error. The Wiki then shows you a line by line explanation of the full error message that would have appeared in your Boinc Manager window at the time. There is also a link to the "Error Codes" so you can look up exactly what -200 means.

To me, the error message and code is suggesting that there was a break in the downloading of the large data file and this is most likely to occur on dialup where that transfer could take quite a while. The fact that you have a second result depending on the same large data file means that the transfer was eventually completed successfully and you should expect no further -200 Client errors.

No problem, it's a very good way to learn yourself by trying to help others.

I see in another thread that you showed using the search function in the Wiki to find out about CPU efficiency. That's an excellent way to find out yourself and show people how they can find out for themselves. People just don't seem to realise that it actually takes them longer to formulate and post a question than it would to find a correct and comprehensive answer in the Wiki in the first place.

You are hereby appointed as Unofficial Ambassador to the Unofficial BOINC Wiki :). Your job is to keep directing people to the relevant page in the Wiki just as you did with CPU efficiency. Well done!! :).

Edit: Your next assignment is to learn how to use the BBCode tags {url=xxxx} and {/url} to set up clickable links to the page in the Wiki. That really encourages people to go look for themselves. Click here to see examples of what you can do with BBCode. (Note: replace curly braces with square braces to actually use those tags.)

There you go!! See how easy that was :).

Just do an "Update" from your Boinc Manager window for the project on whose website you made the preference change. That should make the 2nd cpu start crunching immediately.