Posts by PeteHow

1) Message boards : Number crunching : constant HD activity? (Message 7294) Posted 28 Apr 2005 by PeteHow Post: I commented on this disk activity 2 months ago: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/forum_thread.php?id=1160 Markku Degerholm suggested that since Sixtrack predates BOINC, it does not recognise any BOINC settings. I still find the constant Tick Tick Tick... of the hard drive a little annoying, and wonder if it is adversely affecting the disk's lifetime. Earlier WUs (or is it client?) did not exhibit this characteristic.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Disk access every second (Message 5873) Posted 22 Feb 2005 by PeteHow Post: I notice that while crunching LHC WUs, there is a disk access every single second of every minute, coincident with the Work tab's updates to it's CPU/Progress/Completion times. Seems a bit excessive to me. My disk interval pref is set to the default 60. Is this normal/expected? Athlon XP 2800+, WinXP Home SP2 50/50 share between LHC and CPDN
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Site very slow... Downloads failing (Message 1943) Posted 22 Sep 2004 by PeteHow Post: > I had the same problem but then got a new problem at the same time. The work > unit downloads I had going were timing out / MD5 checksum errors, etc. Next > time I checked, my boinc client started downloading the entire sixtrack_4.45 > executable and .tga files, etc. even though sixtrack_4.45 was active and > crunching another work unit.. Same with me! Exe and TGA tried to download but failed. Boinc even showed 2 LHC@H projects instead of 1 LHC@H and 1 P@H! Shut Boinc down and restarted - now showing correct projects (after a few seconds delay). Transfer tab shows lots of WUs "downloading" but getting nowhere, plus the exe and tga's. Edit - have just noticed that I now have LHC@H files in my P@H project directory. Things have really got screwed up! Not sure what to do next.

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