As Rosetta and Climate Prediction are both out of work, yesterday I added TN-Grid to my main PC as a backup project to WCG.

It worked quite happily (took over all 12 cores in an effort to get the work done up to match its resource share) and I processed 58 WUs with no errors.

Then, sometime between 19:00 and 20:00 this evening with no intervention on my part, the resource share showing in BoincMgr changed from 100 to 0, all of the WUs changed to waiting and WCG took over.

After some discussions of the TN-Grid forum I'm coming to the conclusion that the problem lies within Boinc. All of the parameters within both TN-Grid and BAM have a valid resource share, the resource share shown in the /var/lib/boinc-client/account_****_XML file is 100 but the value in the client_state file is 0.

So, first question is "is this a problem that's been seen before" and the second question is "can anyone explain the route by which the resource share gets into the client_state file" - am I looking in the right place?

To add some context, I'm running Boinc 7.16.6 (or 7.17.0, depends where you look) under Ubuntu 18.04 on computer :-

https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/show_host_detail.php?hostid=60043

Make sure you're looking at the correct location or venue, that you didn't set one up for that computer that differs.

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Make sure you're looking at the correct location or venue, that you didn't set one up for that computer that differs.

Depending where I look the location is either default or, somewhat randomly, school. Since I discovered this I’ve set up a profile for school and done an update on the project.

I also found that bam holds a resource share at both the project level and by host within project. The latter was unset so I’ve set it and done both an update project and a resynchronise with bam.

What worries me is that the boinc project config file (my assumption) /val/lib/boinc-client/account-***.xml holds 100 which matches the projects setting but that the working set (again my assumption) in client-state is zero which would put the disconnect within boinc.

OK, I’m still confused but the problem has resolved itself overnight with the resource share bein downloaded from TN-Grid default profile.

Why the delay I don’t know, it now updates immediately if I change it in TN-Grid and do update which it wasn’t yesterday.

Me sleeping always helps with other people's tech problems. :)

Me sleeping always helps with other people's tech problems. :)

Sleeping on a problem always helps lol

Thank you :-)

OK, I’m still confused but the problem has resolved itself overnight with the resource share being downloaded from TN-Grid default profile.

Why the delay I don’t know, it now updates immediately if I change it in TN-Grid and do update which it wasn’t yesterday.

More confusion, the resource share has changed again, this time taking the value from the BAM host within project level. It would appear that sync with account manager does not update this value but the 6 hourly refresh does???