NEW: MAC OSX TEST APPLICATION FOR EINSTEIN@HOME
17 Jun 2005 10:39:18 UTC
Topic 11351
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Ok, ok - the 0.11 still suffers from the hang problem. We already made some suggestions to David Anderson to fix this completely, but he is the one in charge to fix this. We're waiting for that and will make a new App asap.
For the time being I suggest you quit and restart BOINC if you observe a hang. Enable the screensaver only if you can remotely log into the machine and kill a hanging einstein (kill -QUIT) process if necessary.
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NEW: MAC OSX TEST APPLICATION FOR EINSTEIN@HOME
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As I will be travelling the next week, I have a smal script running in a terminal:
while sleep 43200 ; do for i in `ps aux | grep -v grep | grep einstein | awk '{print $2}'`; do kill -QUIT $i; done; doneThis kills the running einstein processes every 12 hours, regardless of hanging or not. Einstein should then be restarted by the client, just giving a message "exited with zero status but no finished file". Adjust the sleep time so that normally a single Result isn't interrupted more than one time.
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Good news. David Anderson
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Good news. David Anderson has just checked in fixes to the BOINC API library that should (once and for all) get rid of these problems. Bernd is on a transatlantic airplane right now; so it may take us a few days to get a new test app build ready.
Bruce
RE: RE: Good news. David
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You don't need a new BOINC client or client manager. You need a new Einstein@Home application. As soon as it's ready, I'll post something to this thread. But it will take a few days.
Bruce
There are a number of points
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There are a number of points in the current WUs that are particulary sensible to this bug. You'll see them as 0%, 49.5%, 99% and 100% progress.
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David Anderson has fixed the
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David Anderson has fixed the BOINC API library bug that was causing unpredictable hangs in test app version 0.11. Bernd has build version 0.12 and I have done some very minimal testing (both Bernd and I are traveling right now, which make it hard to be thorough). Please download it from the app test page. Please continue to report success or problems with the Mac OS X test app to this discussion group thread.
Good point. I'm moving the
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Good point. I'm moving the old posts to this new thread. Keep posting here.
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Bernd, It might be a good
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Bernd,
It might be a good idea to start a new thread for every new test application. This was in fact the way I originally planned to run the threads for app testing, although I may not have made that clear you or Bruce.
The app testing is of course your area and you are welcome to handle the threads however you want.
I think that the boundaries
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I think that the boundaries between the beta Apps are not very clear, at least not for the series of Mac Apps we needed to put up.
Your approach, makes sense in cases like the Linux one, where the beta status of the last App now officially has ended, we now have a period without active Beta App and the next Linux Beta will be something "completely new". But as we've seen, Beta Test sometimes doesn't go that smooth.
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Can anyone report on the
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Can anyone report on the performance of the 0.12 test app with older (eg, 4.19) core clients? If all continues to go well I think I may soon switch the 0.12 test app to being the standard Mac OS X app.
Bruce
Snake Doctor: This sounds
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Snake Doctor: This sounds like the suspend problem which is probably still present in the SETI App.
Bruce, Shaktai: I just switched my Mac mini to the old 4.19 client. We should have some results by tomorrow.
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