[beadman]

Anyone using the new BOINC 5.8.11 yet? I notticed a few problems with it on some PCs in the SETI forums.

beadman

[Knightrider]

Yep. I lost some wu's after installing it, on both the Mac and the PC. Also, it would connect to server but kept coming back with 'no work from server' when they they had bundles of work. They (sah) have been having some drawn out server connection problems, and I thought it might be that. I re-booted both machines and that seems to have cleared it, and its running ok. So I'm not sure what's up.

K.

[arkayn]

I have it installed on all 3 of my machines right now, but I have not connected to SETI yet.

Most likely will not connect until tomorrow evening as my computers were off all day due to a 2 hour power outage while I was at work.

[Knightrider]

Boinc is up to 5.8.12

The fault I had with 5.8.11, I also get on 5.8.12. I think I have tracked it down to preference settings. Below is from my win PC, but I was getting it on my Mac (5.8.11) as well, and for the same reason.

Leave applications in memory while suspended?
(suspended applications will consume swap space if 'yes') yes

15/02/2007 11:19:36||Running CPU benchmarks
15/02/2007 11:19:37||Suspending computation - running CPU benchmarks
15/02/2007 11:20:38||Benchmark results:
15/02/2007 11:20:38|| Number of CPUs: 2
15/02/2007 11:20:38|| 2477 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
15/02/2007 11:20:38|| 5204 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
15/02/2007 11:20:39||Resuming computation
15/02/2007 11:20:56|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user
15/02/2007 11:20:56|SETI@home|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks)
15/02/2007 11:21:01|SETI@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 507]
15/02/2007 11:21:01||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2007-02-15 11:18:46)
15/02/2007 11:21:01||Host location: home
15/02/2007 11:21:01||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
15/02/2007 11:21:01||Reading preferences override file
15/02/2007 11:21:01|SETI@home|Deferring communication for 11 sec
15/02/2007 11:21:01|SETI@home|Reason: requested by project

Leave applications in memory while suspended?
(suspended applications will consume swap space if 'yes') No


15/02/2007 11:23:47||Running CPU benchmarks
15/02/2007 11:23:48||Suspending computation - running CPU benchmarks
15/02/2007 11:23:49|SETI@home|Task 06jn00aa.11712.18049.829832.3.120_1 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
15/02/2007 11:23:49|SETI@home|If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.
15/02/2007 11:23:49|SETI@home|Task 16no03ab.2259.17778.604804.3.252_2 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
15/02/2007 11:23:49|SETI@home|If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.
15/02/2007 11:24:49||Benchmark results:
15/02/2007 11:24:49|| Number of CPUs: 2
15/02/2007 11:24:49|| 2477 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
15/02/2007 11:24:49|| 5187 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
15/02/2007 11:24:50||Resuming computation

K.

[arkayn]

I have mine set to no and do not get that error.