LHC@home

Hi,
I could not find a topic about Gurumediation. So, lets start it here.
One of my pc's has constant error with atlas jos i.e. gurumeditation. have you seen similar, and how I should troubleshoot this forward? PS I've 2 other pc's with the same sw conf and they are fine. HW is of course different. Below is one such error log:

2022-02-12 09:49:43 (6672): Status Report: Elapsed Time: '6000.000000'
2022-02-12 09:49:43 (6672): Status Report: CPU Time: '22504.296875'
2022-02-12 11:29:49 (6672): Status Report: Elapsed Time: '12000.000000'
2022-02-12 11:29:49 (6672): Status Report: CPU Time: '49497.281250'
2022-02-12 13:09:55 (6672): Status Report: Elapsed Time: '18000.000000'
2022-02-12 13:09:55 (6672): Status Report: CPU Time: '76492.125000'
2022-02-12 14:50:03 (6672): Status Report: Elapsed Time: '24000.000000'
2022-02-12 14:50:03 (6672): Status Report: CPU Time: '103467.453125'
2022-02-12 16:30:10 (6672): Status Report: Elapsed Time: '30000.000000'
2022-02-12 16:30:10 (6672): Status Report: CPU Time: '130308.265625'
2022-02-12 18:10:20 (6672): Status Report: Elapsed Time: '36000.946377'
2022-02-12 18:10:20 (6672): Status Report: CPU Time: '157015.593750'
2022-02-12 19:28:03 (6672): VM is no longer is a running state. It is in 'GuruMeditation'.
2022-02-12 19:28:03 (6672): VM state change detected. (old = 'Running', new = 'GuruMeditation')
2022-02-12 19:28:03 (6672): Powering off VM.
2022-02-12 19:28:03 (6672): Deregistering VM. (boinc_400ffc08596d1a2b, slot#0)
2022-02-12 19:28:31 (6672): CreateProcess failed! (299).
2022-02-12 19:28:31 (6672): Removing network bandwidth throttle group from VM.
2022-02-12 19:28:36 (6672): CreateProcess failed! (299).
2022-02-12 19:28:37 (6672): Removing VM from VirtualBox.
2022-02-12 19:28:42 (6672): CreateProcess failed! (299).
2022-02-12 19:28:47 (6672): Virtual machine exited.
19:28:57 (6672): called boinc_finish(0)

</stderr_txt>
<message>
upload failure: <file_xfer_error>
<file_name>9J8MDmFIhc0nsSi4apGgGQJmABFKDmABFKDmNv0VDmABFKDmshBo1m_1_r1819161101_ATLAS_result</file_name>
<error_code>-240 (stat() failed)</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
</message>
]]>

Gurumediation is a serious VM error, its been in my experience that VirtualBox isn't install properly

Ok - what is weird here is that some atlas jobs go thru but some do not. Anyway, I will limit cpu number and reinstall virtualbox once again ...

And the resolution in case someone else is stumping into teh same issue:
Apparently my pc has more cpu's per mem for Atlas job i.e. 8vcpu vs 8gb ram. When I limited atlas job to use only 4vcpu's the problem disappeared.
Case closed.
Br Pekka

Thanks Pekka for reporting the cause and the solution.