G'day all,

I think there is some sort of problem in BOINC, I am using the latest recommended version, 6.10.18.

At first I thought it was a problem with the Einstein@home project, but I have also been having the same issue with some work units from PrimeGrid as well, so it would seem to be BOINC related, rather than project specific.

Here is what happens...

A work unit will appear to start running, and the elapsed time will start counting upwards. However, no progress is made on the progress bar. I left a few of these units running till they accumulated 12 - 18 hours of elepsed time before aborting them.

The next time it happened I looked in the Tas Manager of windows, and the CPU idle time was showing 95%, and the individual processes that are the WU's for the various projects showed 0% CPU.

I was also getting a lot of 'orphaned' conhost processes that were sitting there doing nothing except using up memory.

This is happening on two different machines, so it is not an error with the hardware in one or the other.

The things they have in common are;

Latest nVidia drivers installed, one has a 9400GT, the other a 210 card.

Both have windows 7 ultimate x64. Full editions, not betas or release candidates.

Both have BOINC 6.10.18 installed.

Thats about all they have in common... oh, both have dual CPU's, but on has dual quad cores (8 logical cpsu), the other has dual dual cores (4 logical cpus), and both have a heap of RAM in them.

So, any ideas?

My thinking is that we have a problem with one of the following.... in order if likelihood....

BOINC 6.10.18 software, maybe just the x64 version.

Windows 7 software, no, not a Microsoft basher.

A similar problem happening to two projects at once.


Other people have also reported the problem on the Einstein & PrimeGrid units, in the message boards for each project... so it does not seem to be related to just my systems.

So... anyone? Whats going on???

There have been lots of posts here about problems using Win 7, so perhaps use the Search forums at the top of this page. Also search for the full word (Windows 7).

WCG had last I looked 10,000 Windows 7 hosts that contributed and they get very very few job failure problem reports, mostly on 1 science of 6 active that has a undetermined failure on other windows too. Seems to concentrate most on machines that use hyperthreading i.e. the I7 processor.

I've had my share of Win7 problems with a I7 and GTX 295 but it seems to work ok now.
The latest driver 195.62 seems to be more stable
Using 6.10.18 on Win7 Ultimate X64. Are you using the 64 bit version of BOINC.

But actually there is no real latest driver, it's more like a unified installer. And all cards have different drivers. So the same driver number may work on one, but fail on another.

For the drivers it is catching up with Win 7, it will take some time before all problems are resolved.

For my card there is still a list of know errors to be resolved.... some time hopefully, before Win 8.

Dial up modem?????

What???

People still use them???? ;-)


But seriously.... I had been posting this little problem on a messgae thread at Einstein too, as that is where I was having the most trouble... with Einstein apps.... and they cam up with a soultion to the 0% progress problem.

this link http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=7724 takes you there, and it's a very easy solution, so if you have this problem, give it a go.

Should be easy enough to adapt it for other BOINC projects that have the same trouble too.

Dial up modem?????

What???

People still use them???? ;-)


But seriously.... I had been posting this little problem on a messgae thread at Einstein too, as that is where I was having the most trouble... with Einstein apps.... and they cam up with a soultion to the 0% progress problem.

this link Trouble with 'S5 all-sky GW' - WU takes you there, and it's a very easy solution, so if you have this problem, give it a go.

Should be easy enough to adapt it for other BOINC projects that have the same trouble too.
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Made link active, haven't people learnt how to post Links yet?

Claggy

LOL.... oh dear... apologies. I was in a hurry this morning... didn't even occur to me what I had (or hadn't) done. *blush*

Thanks for the fix to my link for the fix... :-)

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