Killer WU

Anonymous
12 Jan 2005 18:09:07 UTC
Topic 10679
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    With the new apps and workunits we currently get quite a lot of errors (>50%) because of downloading problems. Apparently the 4.13 client starts a Result before all necessary files have been downloaded correctly. No wonder when it affects all Results that are sent out for a workunit. This should be back to normal soon when all the files have reached the computers, but for now it seems we have to live with it. We, the e@h and the BOINC teams are currently tracking this down.

    So for short it's not the WU that is wrong but the client. It seems to show up more frequently with the larger files and thus longer download times of the new WUs, though.

    BM

    Will H
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    Killer WU

    12 Jan 2005 19:28:08 UTC
    Message 168
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      The fact you are using an Alpha version which hasn't been properly tested with EAH (AFAIK) or all other projects means that it could be other issues relating to the client that are non project specific :)

      If you really want to use the Alpha version, you may as well keep it up-to-date - http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_4.58_windows_intelx86.exe :)

      [img]http://boinc.mundayweb.com/one/stats.php/userID:5/trans:off/.png[/img]

      Bernd Machenschalk
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      Just to say: The bug is still

      12 Jan 2005 22:41:12 UTC
      Message 169
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        Just to say: The bug is still chased, not fixed yet, so all 4.x clients around should still have it. The 4.13, however, in addition has a similar error causing upload failures - this one has been fixed at early december, so the 4.58 shouldn't have at least the latter one.

        BM

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        Bernd Machenschalk
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        > Edit: One more crashed just

        12 Jan 2005 22:52:17 UTC
        Message 170
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          > Edit: One more crashed just now, after 20000 seconds of processing -
          > http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu//workunit/306886

          Thanks for reporting this - this seems to be a different problem. I'll look into it.

          BM

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          Bruce Allen
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          Please see the news item that

          13 Jan 2005 8:48:34 UTC
          Message 171
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            Please see the news item that I just posted on the Einstein@Home front page. David Anderson has just found and fixed the bug in the BOINC core client that was causing our download problems. A new core client should be available soon that will fix this, once and for all.

            Bruce

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