1) Message boards : LHCb Application : Low CPU usage (Message 28105)
Posted 13 Dec 2016 by Sunny129
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LHCb have at least 50% failure rate for me too.

I have to wonder why this is the case for you when, for me, the failure rate is 100%. I mean if most (virtually all) LHCb errors are due to the fact that there are no simulation jobs waiting to be executed at that particular moment in time (and the problem therefore truly is a server-side issue, not a host issue), then everyone should be experiencing almost identical failure rates regardless of the sizes of their DC farms...and yet that's not the case.
2) Message boards : LHCb Application : Exit init failure (Message 28089)
Posted 9 Dec 2016 by Sunny129
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This is what I see in my stderr output when I get the "206 (0x000000CE) EXIT_INIT_FAILURE" error:

2016-12-08 23:53:39 (6752): Guest Log: [INFO] LHCb application starting. Check log files.
2016-12-08 23:53:39 (6752): Guest Log: [DEBUG] HTCondor ping
2016-12-08 23:53:39 (6752): Guest Log: [DEBUG] 0
2016-12-09 00:03:49 (6752): Guest Log: [ERROR] Condor exited after 616s without running a job.
2016-12-09 00:03:49 (6752): Guest Log: [INFO] Shutting Down.
2016-12-09 00:03:49 (6752): VM Completion File Detected.
2016-12-09 00:03:49 (6752): VM Completion Message: Condor exited after 616s without running a job.


So basically this is not a host problem, but rather just a result of a host looking for a certain type of when its not available server-side? It still seems strange that every one of my LHCb tasks has erred out this way for several days straight now. According to the server status page, LHCb tasks are available...perhaps that's why Toby suggested that this is a communications issue and not the server actually being out of LHCb work?
3) Message boards : News : CERN AFS problems (Message 26864)
Posted 11 Oct 2014 by Sunny129
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^ well it looks like that failed SETI@Home upload was just a glitch b/c the file uploaded without a problem 2 minutes after the first attempt.

regarding LHC@Home, i'm relieved that i'm not the only one getting the "LHC@home 1.0 | Server can't open log file (../log_boinc05/scheduler.log)" message...i.e. glad its a server issue and not an issue with my particular host.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't get tasks... (Message 26188)
Posted 24 Jan 2014 by Sunny129
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yup, ~12,000 tasks "ready to send" the last time i looked yesterday...now its up to ~37,000...and i haven't gotten a single new task since the problems started. i suppose that's better than getting work w/ a 100% inconclusive rate. i'm standing by in the mean time...
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't get tasks... (Message 26168)
Posted 23 Jan 2014 by Sunny129
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A few reasons for that.
The Tasks Ready to Send is not a "live" number. It could be 15 or 20 minutes out of date when you see it, and all the tasks could be gone by then.

i don't think this is the issue considering the number of "tasks ready to send" continues to grow...not to mention that the server can't distribute ~12,000 tasks in only 15-20 minutes.

They could be assigned to a particular OS. eg. they might be for Linux or Mac only so Windows computers will not get any work even though available tasks are still showing.

is there a BOINC event log entry specific to this, b/c the only type of event log entry i'm seeing is:

1/23/2014 8:59:41 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | Requesting new tasks for CPU
1/23/2014 8:59:43 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
1/23/2014 8:59:43 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | No tasks sent

10 Min. ago I had the same prob! then all of a sudden I began to get new WU. @ 32 per download for a total of 246 in about 5 min. Now I'm back to ( no tasks sent) Go figure! The server stats still look the same. Pick

what kind of hardware do you have that would allow you to DL 246 tasks before you reach your max allowed cache (in only 5 minutes no less)?...a quad socket mobo w/ 8-core/16-thread CPUs? or is it another server hiccup that allowed you to DL several times the amount of your max allowed cache?
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Upload Errors (Message 26147)
Posted 22 Jan 2014 by Sunny129
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1/22/2014 11:51:26 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance


seems like standard maintenance to me...wonder why others are getting the "Server can't open log file (../log_boinc05/scheduler.log)" message instead...
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Upload Errors (Message 25992)
Posted 23 Oct 2013 by Sunny129
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Thanks, Henry. But I remain unconvinced. The mounting and cumulative secondary indicia betray their indifference.


True but the inverse cubic relationship between the tertiary and quaternary indicia indicates a Hall-Witherspoon cognitive field is distorting the secondary indicia so those should be ignored according to the Framstein protocol, no?

ROFL...i'm glad some of us are able to maintain a sense of humor :-)
8) Message boards : LHC@home Science : LHC Moving Magnets In One Minute (Message 25693)
Posted 23 Aug 2013 by Sunny129
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very cool :-)
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Out of work? (Message 25692)
Posted 23 Aug 2013 by Sunny129
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yeah, your Pentium 4 chip is a bit behind the times, and that may be an understatement.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Upload Errors (Message 25535)
Posted 2 May 2013 by Sunny129
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uploads are working again...thanks for the fix.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : 13-14 Feb 2012 - WU restart - but some short-lived (Message 25434)
Posted 14 Feb 2013 by Sunny129
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don't get too excited yet. remember, only 5 days ago Eric said that we might not see new work for a whole week or two. now perhaps he got his analysis done early and tasks are back. then again, it could just be a short injection of test tasks again. i wouldn't be surprised if the "ready to send" queue on the server runs dry again before we start seeing new tasks on a regular basis again...
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Running out of WUs (Message 25144)
Posted 23 Jan 2013 by Sunny129
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i'm back up and running again...i suppose i should wait at least 24 hours after the server first runs dry b/c chances are that the server won't stay dry that long...
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Running out of WUs (Message 25141)
Posted 22 Jan 2013 by Sunny129
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the server has been dry since this morning, and my hosts' queues are running dry. any word on when the next batch of work will be coming down the pipeline?
14) Message boards : News : First tests 2013 (Message 25109)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Sunny129
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I got 12 task, each ran 4 to 10 seconds and showed 100% completed. Something wrong with them, or just a test? Thank you.

yeah those are normal...its just part of the test run.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Running out of WUs (Message 25024)
Posted 21 Dec 2012 by Sunny129
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yeah, i'm having problems getting Einstein@Home Gravitational Wave work for the CPU too right now...and errors are starting to show up at Test4Theory@Home too. so i find myself in unfamiliar territory - i'm having to run a CPU project that i've never run before...looks like i'm going to try my hand at World Community Grid until things get back to normal here, @ Einstein, and @ Test4Theory.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Running out of WUs (Message 25013)
Posted 18 Dec 2012 by Sunny129
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no, work has not really been generated regularly for almost a month now. there are quite a few hosts out there w/ older CPUs, which is why the total number of "tasks in progress" dwindles so slowly. there was a test run of tens of thousands of tasks that went out a week or two ago, but those got snatched up before any of my hosts noticed. the current "tasks in progress" are the remainder of that test run. who knows when another batch of test units will get sent out, let alone when the problem will get fixed. in the mean time, i'm crunching Einstein@Home on the CPU and just waiting for LHC work to become available...
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Running out of WUs (Message 25000)
Posted 10 Dec 2012 by Sunny129
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well some hosts definitely got some work, b/c even though "tasks ready to send" is back down to 0, "tasks in progress" went from ~300 to 36.721 over the past 5 hours. hopefully this is the start of things getting back up and running...
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Running out of WUs (Message 24999)
Posted 9 Dec 2012 by Sunny129
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With 2631 taks ready to sent (when I start writing that, probably will have changed by the time I post), it is "back in business" here too.

we'll see...i have yet to get any of those 2631 tasks, and currently the server is telling my hosts that there are 0 tasks to send...
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Running out of WUs (Message 24933)
Posted 5 Nov 2012 by Sunny129
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well the server dried up sometime last night...when shall we expect more work?

TIA,
Eric
20) Message boards : LHC@home Science : The LHC on the BBC. (Message 24932)
Posted 5 Nov 2012 by Sunny129
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thanks for the link!


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