1) Message boards : CMS Application : Does anyone else never restart your machine running CMS? (Message 49799)
Posted 20 Mar 2024 by ace_quaker
Post:
I had the same problem. There is a work-around that appears to work:
Suspend the project before shutting down BOINC, then I can safely turn the computer off. This forces Virtual Machine to first stop processing the task then saves the Virtual Machine so it can restart at a later date or time.

(And I agree with you about wanting native tasks rather than VM -based tasks - life would be a little easier).


Thanks Ill try this next time!
2) Message boards : CMS Application : Does anyone else never restart your machine running CMS? (Message 49798)
Posted 20 Mar 2024 by ace_quaker
Post:
VirtualBox apps keep complex configuration problems away from volunteers who can't deal with them.


All because you didn't install (and configure) a local CVMFS client.



Perhaps the solution is not to require oddball filesystems and configurations from the users? To my knowledge no other project requires this junk. Or if they do, they handle it well like Rosetta so I don't notice it.


As for my errors on windows, I had about 8 tasks fail on lasts nights reboot at roughly 10 hours per task already run. Just like I said. 80 core * hours lost.
3) Message boards : CMS Application : Does anyone else never restart your machine running CMS? (Message 49792)
Posted 20 Mar 2024 by ace_quaker
Post:
When I restart my windows box, it hangs all the VM CMS jobs. 80+ core * hours or more lost each time. Its not like I just hit the power button either, I suspend BOINC, wait a bit, then restart the computer. The restart hangs with virtualbox having a few connections (yeah no shit, all vms show aborted). I then complete the restart ignoring the connections to virtualbox. After the restart, I log in and unsuspend BOINC. Now I get all tasks failing with a red error popup and the tasks show computation error.

I hate virtualbox but all my primary CPU projects are on hiatus so I figured Id give it a whirl. Not impressed. Could we just have native applications?



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