Posts by WildKard

1) Questions and Answers : Windows : Stuck at 100%, still Running, high priority. (Message 20453) Posted 20 Sep 2008 by WildKard Post: One other thing... whatever\'s going on with the sixtrack_4.67_windows_intelx86.exe , it seems to occasionally cause Windows to play the Error Sound Event. However I have no messages on screen or in the BOINC messages area to give me any more information. I\'ve checked the computer\'s event log and there\'s nothing in there either. A also think I should mention that BOINC\'s running in a protected account mode, which means the exe is running as it\'s own limited user: boinc_project. (I think this is something new with 6.2.x). That might be a reason I\'m not getting an error pop-up.
2) Questions and Answers : Windows : Stuck at 100%, still Running, high priority. (Message 20434) Posted 20 Sep 2008 by WildKard Post: Again same symptoms as above: the computer\'s been left alone for 40+ minutes without any discernible change to the progress bar or the CPU time values. Er.. that is to say 40+ minutes for each WU. it\'s probably longer than that, but 40 minutes is what I\'m able to confirm with no other CPU activity (however it is set to RUN ALWAYS so it could be longer). CPU time listed on BOINC for these units is less than 10 minutes altogether.
3) Questions and Answers : Windows : Stuck at 100%, still Running, high priority. (Message 20433) Posted 20 Sep 2008 by WildKard Post: I\\\'ve reset the project at least once since my last post. LHC has been quiet but finally two more WUs have come down the pipe and these ones are getting stuck within the first 10%, rather than waiting until reaching the end of the file. Again same symptoms as above: the computer\\\'s been left alone for 40+ minutes without any discernible change to the progress bar or the CPU time values. The process manager reports sixtrack_4.67_windows_intelx86.exe using 0% cpu and the System Idle Process in the 90% range. This makes 1 success and 3 stuck WUs.
4) Questions and Answers : Windows : Stuck at 100%, still Running, high priority. (Message 20388) Posted 16 Sep 2008 by WildKard Post: The only thing I could suggest would be to try upgrading to the latest 6.2.18 client. I don\\\\\\\'t think it\\\\\\\'s helped other people, but you never know. Michael Okay, I\\\'ve done this and am now running 6.2.18. It hasn\\\'t helped. I gave up on expecting this result to finish properly and decided that maybe the best thing to do was reset the specific computation/task. Unfortunately I messed up on this and ended up causing the task to end with a Compute Error (is this better than a result that hangs indefinitely? I don\\\'t know. At least this way the server gets contacted I guess). At the moment there is no more work available from the project so I will just have to wait and see what the future brings. I notice looking at the two tasks I have assigned that many other hosts are reporting one kind of error or another, so perhaps these issues are not isolated to myself. I\\\'ve got a 50% success rate myself :P 3 other BOINC projects active on this computer and reporting no issues. Note: LHC Message Board doesn\'t seem to like my single apostraphe key.
5) Questions and Answers : Windows : Stuck at 100%, still Running, high priority. (Message 20338) Posted 14 Sep 2008 by WildKard Post: Are you using a 6.2.x client? A number of people have had this problem with the version 6 clients. The answer seems to be to downgrade back to 5.10.45. Hope this helps Michael Yes, it\\\'s the 6.2.17 client. Interesting to note it\\\'s a version problem. However, since I\\\'m running other projects I really don\\\'t want to go through the trouble of downgrading... also I\\\'ve personally found the 6.2.x series to be more sensitive and intelligent when it comes to determining idle time and running the cpu processing. I have however got ONE lhc@home unit completed and reported (so I have 1 thing that my new project contribution works on it\\\'s own)... I did this by suspending the \\\'problem WU\\\' and the other one worked just fine. This one however continues to display the same behavior. Interestingly although it shows 100%, resuming it from suspension sends the progress meter down to 95% where it begins climbing back up to 100%. Once there however it continues to hang. Currently I am just running LHC@Home on the one machine.
6) Questions and Answers : Windows : Stuck at 100%, still Running, high priority. (Message 20301) Posted 13 Sep 2008 by WildKard Post: Same problem here. This is my first LHC@Home unit so I don\'t have any \"it worked before\" to benchmark against. As I\'m writing this the work unit has been at 100% for 1hr 20mins and does not seem to be using any CPU usage on the WindowsXP task manager. However nor is it completing the task and other BOINC projects are waiting for it to finish. I suppose if I has multiple processors I might not have even noticed this.

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