FreeBSD x86 S5R1 App 4.09 available
16 Jun 2006 16:48:48 UTC
Topic 13362
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This is the (first) FreeBSD App for our next analysis run we're currently tansitioning to. Consequently this App is able to process the new S5R1 Workunits as well as the old S4 and comes with an app_info.xml that allows to get both types of work.
The App is available from our Beta Test Page or via the ports collection (thanks, Pav).
A known issue is that the CPU time reporting doesn't work reliably on all machines with all clients. We are working on this.
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FreeBSD x86 S5R1 App 4.09 available
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Looks interesting. From the credits I would think that the WUs are indeed comparable, but 25% sounds to good to be true. Maybe the Linux machine is more busy with something else.
Do you have the opprtunity to compare wall-clock times (could be derived from the BOINC logs)? As I wrote, the FreeBSD App sometimes has trouble in correctly counting the CPU time.
It would be nice to have a time for the Linux App on FreeBSD, I haven't heard of anyone trying this yet. In our DB I also see some OpenBSD machines, I suspect that they run the Linus App, too.
The compat5 hint is based on our experience with the previous FreeBSD App, which was built on FreeBSD 4 and required compat4. It might be that the current one, built on FreeBSD 5.5(pre) runs on FreeBSD 6 without requiring explicit FreeBSD 5 compatibility. But, however, I can't gurantee that this would be true for all future Apps.
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RE: RE: Do you have the
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That depends on the BOINC Client and run-scripts you are using. The standard command-line client that can be compiled from the BOINC CVS tree (and snapshots) has an option -recdirectio that will write stdout and -err logs into the directory where it is started. I don't know much about the setup of the FreeBSD boinc port, just that the actual client is run through scripts. If you're using it, you should ask Pav Lucistnik who maintains the port.
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RE: Forgotten to report:
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Oops. Thank you. Not severe, though. Can anyone using Einstein@Home from the ports have a look if this happens there, too?
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RE: Bernd, any outlook on
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I'm still working on the x86 code. Once this has settled, I'll make a new FreeBSD App.
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RE: Wondering if you can
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No plans yet. And as the development team is pretty busy preparing the new code for the next run, I won't expect anything to be done with the old/current code anymore.
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You'll need a new
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You'll need a new app_info.xml to get S5RI work. It's available here. I have also updated the "Beta Test package". Pav, can you update the one in the ports?
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RE: Thanks and for
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You'll need a new App.
I'm still hunting a rather serious bug in the Linux App, and as long as I haven't found it, I neither have time for other platforms, nor do I dare to further spread this bug (it might be a rather generic Un*x one).
I won't drop FreeBSD support, but I need to finish this Linux issue first.
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see here.
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