[Dorset] BOINC Manager Not Loading Anymore

2020-03-31 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, Can anyone tell me how to debug this problem that has just started in the past few days? As you know from my previous postings, I installed BOINC on 25th March. At the same time I installed BOINC Client and BOINC Control and this allowed me to launch BOINC Manager to setup the

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Manager Not Loading Anymore

2020-03-31 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday, 31 March 2020 12:39:07 BST Terry Coles wrote: > Does anyone have any ideas what might have happened or how I can go about > finding ot the cause? I've actually just discovered the problem. In the man page for boincmgr it gives an autostart switch (-a) which: 'Tells the BOINC

Re: [Dorset] Donating computing power

2020-03-31 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 30/03/2020 22:01, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: > On 30/03/2020 15:59, Tim Waugh wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 14:51, Patrick Wigmore wrote: >> >>> I thought I'd told it to abort the current tasks before shutting it >>> down, but I've since found they sitll show as "In progress" on my >>>

Re: [Dorset] Donating computing power

2020-03-31 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 31/03/2020 13:54, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > On 30/03/2020 22:01, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: >> On 30/03/2020 15:59, Tim Waugh wrote: >>> On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 14:51, Patrick Wigmore wrote: >>> I thought I'd told it to abort the current tasks before shutting it down, but

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-31 Thread Andrew
On 31/03/2020 23:24, Patrick Wigmore wrote: Meanwhile, it looks the Rosetta@home job queue has run completely dry and my machine has run out of jobs to process, though over a million jobs are still being processed by other clients. From here:

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-31 Thread Patrick Wigmore
I just read this document about Science United: https://scienceunited.org/doc/implementation.pdf Comparing BOINC's credit system to Science United's, it provides some insight into another reason why credit for BOINC tasks may not appear instantly: > BOINC has a sophisticated credit system for