Looking around at SETI, trying to analyse how well the server was performing while the status page was dysfunctional, I came across this user.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=7220378 He (and his - somewhat elderly - computer) have been members for about 3 weeks. He's got a little credit, both at SETI and at Cosmology, so the computer seems to be in working order. But now, every single task - at both projects, today - is failing with Exit status-226 (0xffffffffffffff1e) ERR_TOO_MANY_EXITS (oh, and a few download errors). He seems to be using what was the recommended BOINC at the time (v7.2.39), stock science applications, and I'd be willing to bet default BOINC computing settings. BOINC has just *got* to work for volunteers like that, out of the box - otherwise there's no point. So, as a reasonably experienced "reader of the runes", what can I deduce from the error messages presented that I might possibly pass on in a helpful private message? Er, as it happens, nothing. I'm stuck. Even task http://www.cosmologyathome.org/result.php?resultid=28640358 - which ran for nearly two hours - presents nothing useful in stderr_txt. If we're going to seal the black box, so that no information leaks out to the target "volunteer spare cycles" user, then the onus is on us to make sure it works. First time, every time. Otherwise it's no surprise the number of volunteers goes down, year after year. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
