1) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Forum signature and profile ignore & in IMG tags (Message 18733)
Posted 18 Dec 2007 by PaperDragon
Post:

http://www.funkymonkey.org/boinc/sig2.php?lhc=75&toprac=5

The image above should show 5 project lines to cut down on the size of the image (so it doesn't take over everyone's screens). It's ignoring the & and anything that follows so it doesn't see &toprac=5.


What is actually happening is the & gets converted to &

So lhc=75&toprac=5 becomes lhc=75&toprac=5. What the script is seeing is 'amp', and not 'toprac=5'.

I have come across this before in other PHP driven systems. When you try to pass one PHP parameter through a PHP driven system it works fine; but passing two or more parameters, the & characters get converted and so will not work.
2) Questions and Answers : Windows : runing boinc minimized? (Message 18727)
Posted 17 Dec 2007 by PaperDragon
Post:
You need to start boinc manager with the /s option.

For example:

"c:\\program files\\boinc\\boincmgr.exe" /s


the startup commend is likely in the 'Alluser' profile.T
3) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Why does the screensaver spend too % of CPU time ? (Message 18709)
Posted 15 Dec 2007 by PaperDragon
Post:
That is the trade off between running the BOINC project screen saver, or switching to the the 'blank' screen saver.

Any sceen saver is going to take time away from the actual project calculations; and this time can be very significant. This is way a lot of serious BOINC crunchers will switch the screen saver to the 'blank' one. There are those people who run BOINC for the graphics, in which case they accept reduced work unit availability.
4) Questions and Answers : Preferences : number of task to download (Message 18708)
Posted 15 Dec 2007 by PaperDragon
Post:
The only practical way to lower cache is to change the value in 'Connect to network about every xxx days'; but this will effect all projects and cause more frequent connects.

You could try lowering the share value. If it is set at 100, try lowering it to 50. But this has the effect of doing less work for the project.
5) Questions and Answers : Windows : runing boinc minimized? (Message 18707)
Posted 15 Dec 2007 by PaperDragon
Post:
Select BOINC manager

Then press ctrl-W.


That will get rid of the task bar entry, but keep the system tray icon.
6) Questions and Answers : Sixtrack : Some pending wus with zero claimed credits... (Message 18528)
Posted 2 Nov 2007 by PaperDragon
Post:

Thanks and is there a reason for wus waiting to pend for a long time...


I have lots of WUs less than .01. (IE, .00245...) Any work unit that needs more than 2 decimal places for rounding, seems to go into permament pending.
7) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Why can't I get any work? (Message 18380)
Posted 26 Oct 2007 by PaperDragon
Post:
Everyone is limited to 4 work units a day / per cpu. When I look at your results page, I see 4 results for today. You will get 4 more tomorrow. This was done so everyone could get a share of the results, and not only the people with large queues.
8) Questions and Answers : Windows : Project URL (Message 16614)
Posted 24 Mar 2007 by PaperDragon
Post:
Well if you find your way to the web site, your have the URL for attaching to BOINC. It is normally the same as the web site, so the address is in the address bar.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Please make me the Founder (Message 14978)
Posted 4 Oct 2006 by PaperDragon
Post:
Another thought. You have been made founder of this team name in other projects. If in other projects the original founder's email is a free service like hotmail, they are normally deleted after a period of inactivity. In which case you should be able to use the email address to change the founder to yourself.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : CPU Quota when no work. (Message 13224)
Posted 31 Mar 2006 by PaperDragon
Post:
Just done some calculations. I have 6 projects on this machine. Add all the shares togather they come to 182; broken down as follows:

84 + 21 + 21 + 21 + 21 + 14 = 182. (LHC@home is one of the 21's)

Precentages are:
46.153 + (11.538 * 4) + 07.692 = 99.999

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Now if we remove on of the 21 (for when LHC has no work) we get 161 total share:

84 + 21 + 21 + 21 + 14 = 161

Percentages are:

52.173 + (13.043 * 3) + 08.695 = 99.997

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As can be seen, on my machine, the project share, with no work, was just removed for the total combined shares and recalculated. This information came from BOINCview.

So it is as the last poster said, it is spread according to the shares you have set up.
11) Questions and Answers : Windows : i can't conect to localhost (Message 13075)
Posted 20 Mar 2006 by PaperDragon
Post:
The localhost connection is correct. BOINC is actual two programs. One program(boinc.exe), responsible for work unit control running in the background. Another program(boincmgr.exe,) which is the user interface. The localhost connection you are seeing is the 'user interface' program talking to the 'work unit' conrol program.



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