Posts by Heffed

61) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Hosts with large queues holding up credits (Message 2291) Posted 25 Sep 2004 by Heffed Post: I think S@H has trained people to be paranoid. They've started hording WUs to keep their machines busy during the frequent outages. This is simply unnecessary now if you attach to multiple projects. Especially if you attach to CPDN. It's totally feasible now to run a small cache and always have plenty of work to do. :)
62) Questions and Answers : Windows : Project name changed in Project List, duplicates other project (Message 2191) Posted 24 Sep 2004 by Heffed Post: > But I actually thought BOINC was another project done at Berkerely, I know > SETI@home have a close relationship with BOINC people. They are one and the same. The S@H team developed (is developing) BOINC.
63) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC b0rking on multiple projects (Message 2190) Posted 24 Sep 2004 by Heffed Post: > I have told the BOINC devs about the problem, and they have identified the > problem and are working on a fix. It seems that if two connections to > different projects happen at the same time, BOINC gets confused and can copy > the name of one of them into the other. Thanks John. :) You can also tell them it does more than copy the name. It starts downloading files into different projects folders. (after hijacking the name)
64) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC b0rking on multiple projects (Message 2109) Posted 23 Sep 2004 by Heffed Post: > I had LHC taking over one of my computers. I did the following things and it > cleared up. > > 1) restarted computer > 2) looked at client_state.xml and the acount*.xml files. They seemed to have > the right information except the name of the projects was LHC. > 3) restarted client > 4) restarted computer again > Still showing LHC on most projects at this point. > 5) updated all the projects showing LHC. > > It seems to be working fine now (about 2 hours later). When it first happened to me, I also looked at the client_state.xml and it looked like the project name was the only thing affected. I manually renamed S@H (which thought it was Pirates) and thought all was good. Then when S@H tried to return a result, I got an error saying it couldn't recognize the app version. So all might not be well, have you returned any results? <a> [/url]
65) Questions and Answers : Windows : Project name changed in Project List, duplicates other project (Message 2108) Posted 23 Sep 2004 by Heffed Post: > What is Pirates? Is it a valid BOINC project? When I saw the postings refering > to "Pirates" I figured it was a BOINC hijacking by hackers. Pirates is a test bed for Einstien@Home. http://pirates.vassar.edu/
66) Questions and Answers : Windows : Project name changed in Project List, duplicates other project (Message 2044) Posted 23 Sep 2004 by Heffed Post: > I am not saying do not post these problems here but the Boinc devs need to > know about this more than the LHC devs, has anybody told them about this? There are posts on the S@H board as well. Like this one that even links to this thread. How close they watch the boards I couldn't say... <a> [/url]
67) Questions and Answers : Windows : Project name changed in Project List, duplicates other project (Message 2015) Posted 23 Sep 2004 by Heffed Post: > [Edit] > Now re-attached to all three projects: CPDN, Pirates, LHC. We'll see what > happens. I've been attached to my six original projects now for almost 4 1/2 hours, and all seems good. I really think it had something to do with LHCs connection problems. When it was occurring, BOINC would try to contact LHC and basically hang the client for a couple minutes waiting for a reply. No other projects could communicate when this happened. A manual update would do nothing. (first thing I tried when S@H thought it was Pirates) > @Heffed > Indeed, major flaw to allow this kind of coruption. It's bad for both the > user and the other projects. I am just astonished that it could happen. I would have thought such a thing would be an obvious issue to safeguard.
68) Questions and Answers : Windows : Project name changed in Project List, duplicates other project (Message 2007) Posted 23 Sep 2004 by Heffed Post: I got another Pirates as well, but tried changing the project name back in the client_state.xml. I thought it worked, but when trying to report a result back to S@H, it couldn't recognize the app version, even though it was correct in the c_s.xml file. So I restored a four day old c_s.xml file and reset Pirates and S@H. (the apparent projects with issues) Then within an hour, all six of the projects I'm attached to thought they were LHC! I restored the older file again and detached from LHC, and reset the other projects. All is functioning well at this point. (it might be worthwhile to know that LHC was having major connection issues at the time) I'm attached again to LHC since others were reporting things seemed to be functioning again. All seems normal, but this hiccup trashed over 200 hours of work for CPDN alone. More counting the other projects. I suspect the problem was with LHC, (because the connection issues started right before the first problem arose) but I'm somewhat appalled that cross project havoc can be wreaked in this manner... There needs to be checks in place to insure this can not happen again. <a> [/url]
69) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC b0rking on multiple projects (Message 2004) Posted 23 Sep 2004 by Heffed Post: > It is worth noting that the problem was VERY reproducable until I deleted the > LHC and Pirates folders from the BOINC\|PROJECTS folder. I don't think Pirates had anything to do with it, even though the first symptom I saw was S@H thinking it was Pirates. I restored a 4 day old client_state.xml file and started again, within an hour or so, LHC was listed as all six projects I'm attached to! I restored the older file again and detached from LHC. All was good. I'm attached to LHC again and all seems good, but I'd like to hear from the project leaders what was up. I lost over 200 hours worth of work for CPDN. I don't mind if a beta project has issues within the project, but if the mayhem can span projects, that's not cool at all... <a> [/url]
70) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC b0rking on multiple projects (Message 1963) Posted 23 Sep 2004 by Heffed Post: LHC appears to be wiping out all other projects. I reverted to a 4 day old client_state.xml file and detached from LHC, all is cool. <a> [/url]
71) Message boards : Number crunching : Site very slow... Downloads failing (Message 1931) Posted 22 Sep 2004 by Heffed Post: I noticed too. When S@H started doing this, it tanked shortly after. I wonder if LHC is about to go down? <a> [/url]

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