Perhaps one should blame suspend on >20% load default setting. too many suspends lead to task computational error you describe. Not wise defaults.
Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:05:22 +0000 (GMT) от Richard Haselgrove <[email protected]>: >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. _______________________________________________ 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.
