I can confirm, that the latest wrapper version fixes the problem with
the stupid cpu_time.
yoyo

Rom Walton schrieb:
> There was a bug or two in previous versions of the wrapper which lead to
> incorrect cpu time reports.  The latest versions of the wrapper should
> resolve those bugs.
>
> See:
> http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/WrapperApp#
>
> For the latest version of the wrapper which should report correct cpu
> time.
>
> ----- Rom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Vinsen
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 9:48 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [boinc_dev] Enormous numbers in cpu_time
>
> I'm developing a BOINC project to calculate Spectral Energy
> Distributions for Astronomy images, but need some advice on tracking
> down an annoying little bug. We are currently testing the application
> out using AWS to host it. The project uses the BOINC wrapper to wrap
> some Fortran77 code. Essentially it processes a number of pixels one at
> a time. Credit is assigned on the number of pixels process as it uses a
> simple "brute force" model fitting approach.
>
> The project is up and running on 32/64 bit Windows, OS X, and
> 32bit/64bit Linux. Occasionally I am getting absolutely stupid cpu_time
> values as shown below:
>
>
>
> mysql> select userid, name, cpu_time,claimed_credit, granted_credit from
>
> mysql> result;
> +--------+----------------------------------+--------------+------------
> ----+----------------+
> | userid | name                             | cpu_time     |
> claimed_credit | granted_credit |
> +--------+----------------------------------+--------------+------------
> ----+----------------+
> |      1 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu31_0   |     677466.6 |
> 0 |             27 |
> |      1 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu31_1   |       681845 |
> 0 |             27 |
> |      1 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu31_2   |     680222.4 |
> 0 |             27 |
> |      1 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu9_0    |       698966 |
> 0 |              0 |
> |      3 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu12_2   | 1.218908e254 |
> 0 |              1 |
> |      1 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu377_0  | 1.553102e254 |
> 0 |             39 |
> |      1 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu108_0  | 1.553102e254 |
> 0 |             49 |
> |      4 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu13_1   |  2.71667e254 |
> 0 |             34 |
> |      4 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu707_1  |  9.07193e216 |
> 0 |              2 |
> |      4 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu96_0   |     337490.8 |
> 0 |             10 |
> |      1 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu96_1   |     322856.6 |
> 0 |             10 |
> |      1 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu96_2   |     326189.8 |
> 0 |             10 |
> |      1 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu74_0   |     305999.3 |
> 0 |             10 |
> |      1 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu74_1   |     306578.1 |
> 0 |             10 |
> |      4 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu588_0  |     934082.2 |
> 0 |             49 |
> |      4 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu588_1  |       929387 |
> 0 |             49 |
> |      4 | GI3_050001_NGC628_0001__wu588_2  |       918652 |
> 0 |             49 |
>
>
> Some of the cpu numbers are greater than 1e216 - which are silly
> numbers. Could someone point me in the right direction to debug this?
>
> The odd thing is the same client can run the job twice and one run is
> fine, whilst the next gives the stupid values. I've seen it happen on OS
> X, 32 & 64 bit windows. Not linux yet, but I only have one test client
> at the moment there
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards
> Kevin
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