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Message 31343 - Posted: 10 Jul 2017, 12:36:55 UTC
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I have enabled the virtual machine on my MOBO and reinstalled BOINC and VBox, but I am not getting any tasks. Boinc Mgr registers that I have Vbox installed.
But all I am getting is sixpack tasks. Before I upgraded my system to a whole new MOBO and processor I was getting Vbox tasks.
The value in the XML file is 0. So everything knows that Vbox is present, but does not give me any tasks that use Vbox. Computer was rebooted after installing Vbox.
Any ideas?
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Message 31344 - Posted: 10 Jul 2017, 13:44:52 UTC - in response to Message 31343.  

I have enabled the virtual machine on my MOBO ...

Do you mean, you enabled VT-x/AMD-V in your new BIOS?
You may double check points 2./4./5. of Yeti's checklist.

Which vbox subprojects are enabled in your LHC preferences?
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Message 31345 - Posted: 10 Jul 2017, 15:38:10 UTC - in response to Message 31344.  
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I went through yetis list.
Checked the xml file and that was ok.
AMD-V is enabled. Will check once more. (SVM is enabled)
All applications are enabled.
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Message 31346 - Posted: 10 Jul 2017, 16:06:10 UTC

your Computer shows under details
10 completed CMS-Tasks and 211 completed LHCb-tasks for the past.
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Message 31347 - Posted: 10 Jul 2017, 17:19:50 UTC - in response to Message 31346.  

maeax wrote:
your Computer shows under details
10 completed CMS-Tasks and 211 completed LHCb-tasks for the past.

That was probably before the motherboard change, wasn't it?

greg_be wrote:
All applications are enabled.

You may uncheck all subprojects except Theory (least resources request) to check if the project server's scheduler causes this behaviour.
Did you install the most recent VirtualBox version?
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Message 31348 - Posted: 10 Jul 2017, 17:33:30 UTC - in response to Message 31347.  

maeax wrote:
your Computer shows under details
10 completed CMS-Tasks and 211 completed LHCb-tasks for the past.

That was probably before the motherboard change, wasn't it?
(Look at last 30 days), but that is due to me forgetting to install Vbox after having the system for awhile and then the Win10 upgrade that demolished a bunch of stuff.

greg_be wrote:
All applications are enabled.

You may uncheck all subprojects except Theory (least resources request) to check if the project server's scheduler causes this behaviour.
Did you install the most recent VirtualBox version?

Latest Vbox and Boinc are installed today.
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Message 31349 - Posted: 10 Jul 2017, 17:36:09 UTC - in response to Message 31348.  

maeax wrote:
your Computer shows under details
10 completed CMS-Tasks and 211 completed LHCb-tasks for the past.

That was probably before the motherboard change, wasn't it?
(Look at last 30 days), but that is due to me forgetting to install Vbox after having the system for awhile and then the Win10 upgrade that demolished a bunch of stuff.

greg_be wrote:
All applications are enabled.

You may uncheck all subprojects except Theory (least resources request) to check if the project server's scheduler causes this behaviour.
Did you install the most recent VirtualBox version?

Latest Vbox and Boinc are installed today.


Got to complete a few tasks. Still a few hours.
Changed to Theory only.
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Message 31350 - Posted: 11 Jul 2017, 1:43:00 UTC - in response to Message 31349.  

You will find that with 8GB ram on the 8-core you can run more Theory tasks than you can those CMS tasks at the same time since the CMS take more memory.
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Message 31351 - Posted: 11 Jul 2017, 6:59:46 UTC
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I only have Sixtrack and Theory enabled due to not having enough memory to successfully run the others. Recently I've also only been getting Sixtrack and very few Theory. I think they've been pushing Sixtrack resends to the front of the queue to clear the backlog.
A couple of Theorys have arrived this morning and that backlog looks to be nearly cleared.
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Message 31353 - Posted: 11 Jul 2017, 11:18:46 UTC - in response to Message 31351.  

I only have Sixtrack and Theory enabled due to not having enough memory to successfully run the others. Recently I've also only been getting Sixtrack and very few Theory. I think they've been pushing Sixtrack resends to the front of the queue to clear the backlog.
A couple of Theorys have arrived this morning and that backlog looks to be nearly cleared.


I think that Sixtrack was overiding all the other tasks.
Since I disabled it and used Theory and Atlas and Alice I get vbox tasks now.
Thanks guys for the suggestions.
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Message 31354 - Posted: 11 Jul 2017, 11:24:15 UTC - in response to Message 31353.  

I think that Sixtrack was overiding all the other tasks.
Since I disabled it and used Theory and Atlas and Alice I get vbox tasks now.
Thanks guys for the suggestions.

You may wonder why you don't get ALICE tasks.
This subproject is not yet active.
:-)
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Message 31357 - Posted: 11 Jul 2017, 17:39:21 UTC - in response to Message 31354.  

I think that Sixtrack was overiding all the other tasks.
Since I disabled it and used Theory and Atlas and Alice I get vbox tasks now.
Thanks guys for the suggestions.

You may wonder why you don't get ALICE tasks.
This subproject is not yet active.
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Ahh! well whenever it comes. Right now testing out runs of theory and Atlas. May toss some others in as well later and leave sixpack alone.
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Message 31358 - Posted: 11 Jul 2017, 17:48:46 UTC

sixtrack is now running out of new work at the moment.
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Message 31359 - Posted: 11 Jul 2017, 18:51:17 UTC - in response to Message 31358.  

sixtrack is now running out of new work at the moment.

Off Topic, but 3 hours ago SixTrack

Unsent  In Progress
 927	95102

and now

3932	96651


Both figures increased. New tasks??
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Message 31360 - Posted: 11 Jul 2017, 19:15:30 UTC - in response to Message 31359.  
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CP, good news. 8 hours ago it was more than 20k unsent.
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Message 31370 - Posted: 12 Jul 2017, 23:54:50 UTC

Ok guys...off topic is done.
My problem is solved. So this thread is done.
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