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1) Message boards : Number crunching : Badge upgrades thread (Message 9528)
Posted 6 Jan 2023 by Thyme Lawn
Ameren UE forced smart meters on all of us and we had to pick rate plans.

I got this Ultimate Savers with 4.1 cents/KWh off-peak but 31 cents from 6-8am and 6-8pm.
My electric bill is slightly lower this winter but the 2x per day down times is a strain.
Wish BOINC just easily supported more than 1 pause period per day.
Instead have to dual install or use VM's.

You could always remove your pause period and set up a scheduled task to disable boinc for your expensive periods using boinccmd. As you're running Windows, you'd need to set the following batch job to run at 0555 and 1755 in the task scheduler (includes 5 minutes before and after your expensive period to make a generous latency allowance and cater for the remote possibility of some clock drift):

cd {your boinc program directory}
.\boinccmd --set_run_mode never 7800
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Finished file present too long (Message 9291)
Posted 6 Sep 2022 by Thyme Lawn
I can't offer any thoughts on what might be causing the problem, but I can explain the sequence of events which lead to it happening.

The last thing an application does before terminating is call a BOINC API function which creates a "boinc_finish_called" file in its slot directory.

The BOINC core client detects the presence of that file and waits for the application process to end, killing it and generating that message if it is still running after 5 minutes.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Why do wuprop tasks fail with Computation error after power failure? (Message 9286)
Posted 31 Aug 2022 by Thyme Lawn
I can't offer a definitive answer, but one possibility is that a write to the slot directory's checkpoint file was in progress when the power failed. That could result in a startup crash if the program doesn't include a mechanism for handling corrupt/incomplete checkpoint files.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 9229)
Posted 14 Jul 2022 by Thyme Lawn
There is a new app with work: Beta of DENIS-myocyte

But hours seem to be added to an old app: Beta version of the DENIS Myocyte software for validation

I know it is an old app, because I already had 30k hours. If this new app is not going to get it's own new star, there is no point in running it.

It's the same application name, but a different version number. WUProp counts hours based on the application name.

In client_state.xml, the relevant parts from the application versions are:

<app_name>DENIS_Myocyte_Beta</app_name>
<version_num>101</version_num>
<file_ref>
<file_name>DENIS_Myocyte_Beta_1.01_windows_x86_64</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>

for the previous "Beta version of the DENIS Myocyte software for validation" and

<app_name>DENIS_Myocyte_Beta</app_name>
<version_num>8</version_num>
<file_ref>
<file_name>DENIS_Myocyte_Beta_0.08_windows_x86_64</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>

for "Beta of DENIS-myocyte".

All that's happened is that Jesús has given the new version a different name, presumably because the previous validation phase has been completed, although it is strange to have the version number going from 1.01 to 0.08.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Android App Versions (Message 8353)
Posted 27 Sep 2021 by Thyme Lawn
Has anyone been able to figure out the changes that are blocking wuprop so it can get fixed?

The relevant stderr output lines for a couple of failure cycles in a failed Android task are:

<core_client_version>7.18.1</core_client_version>
01:20:17 (15127): Mise en veille (derniere requete date de moins de 30 secondes
01:20:17 (15127): can't connect to Unix domain socket
01:20:17 (15127): Erreur reception active_result
01:20:46 (15127): Erreur reception build.prop
01:21:17 (15127): Mise en veille (derniere requete date de moins de 30 secondes
01:21:17 (15127): can't connect to Unix domain socket
01:21:17 (15127): Erreur reception active_result
01:21:46 (15127): Erreur reception build.prop

The specific problem is the "can't connect to Unix domain socket" line. Domain sockets allow data exchange between processes running on the same system, and my guess is WUProp uses a domain socket to collect information about the other tasks from the Boinc client.

Core client versions 7.16.* don't have that problem, so it must be related to the changes in Android Release 7.18.1. The change most likely to have caused this is the one allowing remote monitoring of Android clients (Android remote monitoring #1699), in particular #4233: Remote monitoring: Enable remote monitoring in client and Manager and the related #4231: Remote monitoring: Add checkbox 'Enable Remote Monitoring'.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Badge upgrades thread (Message 7669)
Posted 24 Dec 2020 by Thyme Lawn
@Zombie, I clicked on your hours and the graph is empty.

Did your app count break the graph making code or did you stop allowing export or something?


What graph? Link?

This one (on the "Total hours" number).

The box for the graph has been drawn with 1,000,000 hours on the Y-axis and 660 applications on the X-axis but there's nothing plotted inside the box. You're now up to 662 applications, suggesting that 660 is a hard limit and exceeding it breaks the graph.

Here's my graph for comparison.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Database error (Message 6789)
Posted 4 Aug 2019 by Thyme Lawn
BoincTasks tells me that the ghost task on my computer (data_collect_v4_1560683402_721376_0) was successfully reported at 04:22:57 UTC on 03/08/2019 (3 hours after it was completed):

Project: WUProp@Home
Application: 4.20 data_collect_v4 (nci)
Name: data_collect_v4_1560683402_721376_0
Elapsed time: 06:00:07 (00:00:34)
Completed: 03/08/2019 02:21:47
Reported: 03/08/2019 05:22:57
Status: Reported: OK
8) Message boards : Number crunching : WUProp Have A New Project URL? 's' added to http. (Message 5819)
Posted 7 Dec 2017 by Thyme Lawn
The debug shows that the scheduler request is being sent to the non-secure site.

The source for http://wuprop.boinc-af.org supplies the non-secure scheduler URL in the following lines:

<!-- <scheduler>http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/wuproj_cgi/cgi</scheduler> -->
<link rel="boinc_scheduler" href="http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/wuproj_cgi/cgi">

and the source for https://wuprop.boinc-af.org supplies the secure scheduler URL in the following lines:

<!-- <scheduler>https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/wuproj_cgi/cgi</scheduler> -->
<link rel="boinc_scheduler" href="https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/wuproj_cgi/cgi">

Whichever of those pages was accessed should be saved in the master_wuprop.boinc-af.org.xml file in the BOINC data directory. The supplied scheduler URL is stored in the project's section in client_state.xml (which contains <scheduler_url>https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/wuproj_cgi/cgi</scheduler_url> on my system).

Below is what I get for a successful request to the secure site:

07/12/2017 18:35:58 | WUProp@Home | update requested by user
07/12/2017 18:35:59 | | [http] HTTP_OP::init_get(): https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/notices.py?userid=****&auth=****
07/12/2017 18:35:59 | | [http] HTTP_OP::libcurl_exec(): ca-bundle set
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Trying 79.137.13.209...
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Connected to wuprop.boinc-af.org (79.137.13.209) port 443 (#3675)
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: ALPN, offering http/1.1
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Cipher selection: ALL:!EXPORT:!EXPORT40:!EXPORT56:!aNULL:!LOW:!RC4:@STRENGTH
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: successfully set certificate verify locations:
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: CAfile: C:\Program Files\BOINC\ca-bundle.crt
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: CApath: none
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Certificate Status (22):
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: ALPN, server did not agree to a protocol
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Server certificate:
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: subject: CN=wuprop.boinc-af.org
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: start date: Oct 30 22:30:27 2017 GMT
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: expire date: Jan 28 22:30:27 2018 GMT
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: subjectAltName: wuprop.boinc-af.org matched
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: SSL certificate verify ok.
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: GET /notices.py?userid=1164&auth=1164_bae99e4a39142664c265be80318d15ab HTTP/1.1
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Host: wuprop.boinc-af.org
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_x86_64 7.8.3)
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept: */*
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Language: en_GB
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:36:00 GMT
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Server: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian)
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Expires: "Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:36:00 GMT"
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Last-Modified: "Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:36:00 GMT"
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Vary: Accept-Encoding
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Encoding: gzip
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Length: 220
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Connection: close
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Type: application/xml
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server:
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Closing connection 3675
07/12/2017 18:36:00 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS alert, Client hello (1):
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | Not requesting tasks: non CPU intensive
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] HTTP_OP::init_post(): https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/wuproj_cgi/cgi
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] HTTP_OP::libcurl_exec(): ca-bundle set
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: Hostname wuprop.boinc-af.org was found in DNS cache
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: Trying 79.137.13.209...
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: Connected to wuprop.boinc-af.org (79.137.13.209) port 443 (#3676)
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: ALPN, offering http/1.1
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: Cipher selection: ALL:!EXPORT:!EXPORT40:!EXPORT56:!aNULL:!LOW:!RC4:@STRENGTH
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: successfully set certificate verify locations:
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: CAfile: C:\Program Files\BOINC\ca-bundle.crt
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: CApath: none
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Certificate Status (22):
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: ALPN, server did not agree to a protocol
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: Server certificate:
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: subject: CN=wuprop.boinc-af.org
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: start date: Oct 30 22:30:27 2017 GMT
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: expire date: Jan 28 22:30:27 2018 GMT
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: subjectAltName: wuprop.boinc-af.org matched
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: SSL certificate verify ok.
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: POST /wuproj_cgi/cgi HTTP/1.1
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Host: wuprop.boinc-af.org
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_x86_64 7.8.3)
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Accept: */*
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Accept-Language: en_GB
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Content-Length: 9578
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Expect: 100-continue
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: We are completely uploaded and fine
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:36:01 GMT
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: Server: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian)
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: Vary: Accept-Encoding
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: Content-Encoding: gzip
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: Content-Length: 858
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: Connection: close
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: Content-Type: text/xml
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server:
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: Closing connection 3676
07/12/2017 18:36:01 | WUProp@Home | [http] [ID#1] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS alert, Client hello (1):
07/12/2017 18:36:02 | WUProp@Home | Scheduler request completed
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Missing hours (Message 5764)
Posted 16 Nov 2017 by Thyme Lawn
Is something not working on the server?

Probably work on server, as I noticed that I had 23messages on one Linux system this morning from the WUProp server all at 09:35 telling me the same thing; WUProp@Home: Notice from Boinc. This project is using an old URL. When convenient, remove the project, then add http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/
That's the non secure URL!

It definitely looks looks like a server problem caused activity hours accumulation to stop yesterday.

I can only select activity on my W10 i7 system up to 10:33:06 on 15 Nov 2017, with the 6 hour period before then giving the expected 48 hours for 8 cores. A task was reported and validated at 10:31:17 and the system's "Last day" activity is non-existent despite 4 tasks being reported and validated since then.

I'm attached to the https URL and the BOINC event log doesn't have any "old URL" notices, so that can be discounted as a possible explanation.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 5164)
Posted 29 May 2017 by Thyme Lawn
cpdnboinc Weather At Home 2 (wah2) 10,270.13 10,270.13
cpdnboinc UK Met Office HadAM3P-HadRM3P Pacific North West 4,089.85 4,089.85
cpdnboinc UK Met Office HadCM3 short 3,190.80 3,190.80
cpdnboinc Weather At Home 2 (wah2) (region independent) 226.45 226.45

Why?


And now I have new hours on climateprediction (the correct one) plus all these old hours under the incorrect one. I note that ALL the cpdnboinc hours are 'red', indicating over-30-days, even hours earned yesterday.

Hope this isn't like vlhcathome-dev where a month later I was still dragging around all the obsolete named apps... although this seems to have been fixed just as the cpdnboinc thing showed up!

All of the CPDN applications where the project name had changed to cpdnboinc have now reverted back to climateprediction.net, with the hours being correctly accumulated:

climateprediction.net Weather At Home 2 (wah2) 21,758.63 21,655.82
climateprediction.net UK Met Office HadAM3P-HadRM3P Pacific North West 6,727.27 6,727.27
climateprediction.net UK Met Office HadCM3 short 2,161.50 2,161.50
climateprediction.net Weather At Home 2 (wah2) (region independent) 145.12 145.12
11) Message boards : News : New URL (Message 5064)
Posted 10 May 2017 by Thyme Lawn
You can stop BOINC, copy the account_wuprop.boinc-af.org.xml file from one of your other systems and restart BOINC. That will cause BOINC to use the authenticator in the file to automatically reconnect to the project.

If the system you copy from isn't connected to the https site you'll need to change all occurrences of "http:" to "https:" in the file before restarting BOINC.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 5038)
Posted 7 May 2017 by Thyme Lawn
DENIS@Home

Carro et al. New Model

Windows, Linux and Mac

It looks like a very limited batch of work has been issued (I picked up one yesterday, none are ready to send at the moment)
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Project URLs (Message 5036)
Posted 7 May 2017 by Thyme Lawn
It is a closed project.

The 7 volunteer participants were personally invited by the CPDN project administrators based on their long history of interaction and problem identification/analysis on the main CPDN project.

The project tests new application versions and new sets of model parameters submitted by researchers around the world before they are released to the main project. The project has been running for 15 months and has a very high model failure rate. I've run 756 tasks (with 322 of them failing), submitting an outcome report to the project team for all of them (occasionally with a very time consuming analysis of a SysInternals Process Monitor log).

When the project started I sent Sebastien a PM asking him to maintain the project's closed status by excluding it from WUProp monitoring, but he didn't do that.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : [Ω] New / Intermittent applications - NOT! (Message 4408)
Posted 10 Nov 2016 by Thyme Lawn
Applications are reported as active based on the information in a reported WUProp task.

I'm guessing that the WUProp server flags an application as inactive when no host has reported any work done for it within a given period of time. Slow hosts (particularly those which only run BOINC for short periods) can have tasks which timed out on the project server many days ago and because BOINC doesn't need to report or request work the host doesn't know that the task has been cancelled. Any work done on such a task will cause application time to be reported to WUProp, which the server interprets as the application becoming active.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Request change to default sort order on account page. (Message 4049)
Posted 23 Jul 2016 by Thyme Lawn
There seems to be s difference between the My Account & the User ID pages.
http://wuprop.boinc-af.org//home.php My Account link. This is the same link for everyone.
http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/show_user.php?userid=5087 My User ID link. Your User ID will be different.
For me. The My Account page works fine & shows the updated layout.

I'm seeing 2 different versions of the My Account page (Firefox, Windows 10).

Using the "Your Account" button in BOINC Manager or the "My Account" links on the home page and at the bottom of each page the page opens at http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/home.php and I get the following:


With the extra '/' before home.php (http://wuprop.boinc-af.org//home.php, as posted by HAL9000) I get the following:
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Task running for over 26 hours after clock change (Message 3483)
Posted 4 Dec 2015 by Thyme Lawn
I've just spotted that one of my computers has been running a WUProp task for over 26 hours, stuck at 91.135%.

Checking back through the BOINC event log and the NTP log file it looks like I had a rogue NTP clock update yesterday which caused the date to jump forward 3 months for less than 30 seconds. The WUProp task checkpointed once during that period but hasn't made another one since the time was corrected.

Restarting BOINC caused the elapsed time to wind back to its previous checkpoint value of 5:27:00 but the task still made no further checkpoints.

I dug a bit deeper and the problem appears to be the contents of the checkpoint file in the slot directory:

329
1457016105
1449134076

The second line converts to UTC time 14:45:31 on 3rd March 2016.
The last line converts to UTC time 09:14:36 on 3rd December 2015.

At the same time the checkpoint file on my other computer contained:

11
1449237710
1449237110

The second line converts to UTC time 14:01:50 on 4th December 2015.
The last line converts to UTC time 23:51:50 on 4th December 2015.

To test if the checkpoint file was the problem I stopped BOINC, changed the second line to the current time_t value and restarted BOINC. Checkpoints started being made again and the task was reported 33 minutes later, albeit with 24 hours of missing data (task 53970364).
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Waiting to acquire lock (Message 3324)
Posted 18 Oct 2015 by Thyme Lawn
Weird, never seen this before, the Wu Prop Wu remains in a Waiting to aquire lock stage ... ???

10/17/2015 1:18:20 PM | WUProp@Home | task postponed 600.000000 sec: Waiting to acquire lock

The first thing a BOINC task does when it starts is open and lock the file "boinc_lockfile" in its allocated slot directory. This prevents another task from using the same slot until the lock is released.

The only time I've seen this was after a task failed to stop running when BOINC was shut down (that was years ago; the way BOINC terminates tasks has been improved massively singe then). When BOINC is restarted it reallocates the slot and the new task finds itself locked out.

It could also happen without atopping BOINC if a task notifies BOINC that it has finished but it continues running.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 3262)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Thyme Lawn
The application Weather At Home 2 (wah2) with MOSES II throughout and TRIFFID Europe 2 on CPDN Beta has been renamed as Weather At Home 2 (wah2) (the application is now being used for multiple regions, with the current test being for South Asia).
19) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 3242)
Posted 10 Sep 2015 by Thyme Lawn
Sorted and corrected it is! 26.53 hours... I'm impressed. Many,many thanks for doing this. Looks like Thyme will be pleased now too with 74.8 hours.

Indeed I am (my total is higher than I expected because I forgot to include 22 hours for unreported completed tasks). Thanks Sebastien :)
20) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 3240)
Posted 10 Sep 2015 by Thyme Lawn
I see the app Gravitational Wave search S6Bucket Follow-up #3 in the Active projects last 24 hours list but i have been running it the last 12 hours and nothing is showing in my account.

It's listed now, but it looks like the hours reported before it was added haven't been counted. Neil is currently listed with 2.77 hours and I have 17.1; I reckon my total (from the 18 WUProp tasks reported since I downloaded my first S6Bucket Follow-up #3 task) should be a bit under 45 hours.

If S6Bucket Follow-up #3 had those 27 hours it would have been odds on to gain me my second star here, but CPDN WAH2 could now take the honours :)


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