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[MortenS]

Server status says: Up, out of work...

They need to put out new work units, I guess.

[Tormod]

I got "Can't attach to project" when I tried from my PC - both for Rosetta and LHC. But the messages list says it's fetched the config. Maybe I should just leave it on for the night and see what happens.

[MortenS]

Have you set up an account at their website? Or set it up from the project manager?

http://lhcathome.cern.ch/create_account_form.php

[Tormod]

Yeah, that's how I do it with all the projects.

[MortenS]

hmm...and you can log in on their website, but not via the the manager?

[MortenS]

I just tried to attach to them, and I got connected to them...no work thoughl.

[Southtown]

I made a Hypography team for the Seasonal Attribution Project at climateprediction.net which comes with pretty steep hardware reqs. =\

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[alexander]

just put up my third system on this

this one is nix, and its supposed to run transparently (shhh)

my biggest problem is that on nix, boinc has not provided a way to limit cpu usage, and for me, it's a big deal, when i am installing it on a future router....

i think i may have found a solution though

//cpulimit.c
/**
* Simple program to limit the cpu usage of a process
*
* Author: Angelo Marletta (marlonx80@hotmail.com)
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>

//pid of the controlled process
int pid;

//SIGINT signal handler
void quit(int sig) {
//let the process continue if it's stopped
kill(pid,SIGCONT);
exit(0);
}

int main(int argc, char **argv) {

if (argc!=3) {
fprintf(stderr,"Usage: %s {pid} {max cpu percentage}n",argv[0]);
exit(1);
}
pid=atoi(argv[1]);
int limit=atoi(argv[2]);
if (limit>100 || limit<0) {
fprintf(stderr,"limit must be in the range 0-100n");
exit(1);
}
//if possible renice this process, so it has more responsiveness
if (setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS,getpid(),-20)!=0) {
printf("Warning: cannot renice.nTo work better you should run this program as root.n");
}
signal(SIGINT,quit);

//time quantum in microseconds
int period=100000;
struct timespec twork,tsleep; //time to work, and time to sleep
twork.tv_sec=0;
twork.tv_nsec=period*limit*10;
tsleep.tv_sec=0;
tsleep.tv_nsec=period*(100-limit)*10;

while(1) {
if (kill(pid,SIGSTOP)!=0) break;
nanosleep(&tsleep,NULL);
if (kill(pid,SIGCONT)!=0) break;
nanosleep(&twork,NULL);
}

perror("kill()");
exit(1);
}

[alexander]

(note, for some insane reason VB blocks anything with a $ in front of it... so i HAD to not use the code tags)

Here's what i did so far to get limiting, working:

after following the normal installation steps do the following:

copy the code above into limiter.c file in wherever your BOINC directory is.

compile it:

gcc limiter.c -o limiter

now lets go and edit an init.d script:
nano -w /etc/init.d/boinc

first, you will see a lot of defined values. Take a moment and add one more to it

MAX_FREQ=60

now go to section that says

echo -n "Starting BOINC client as a daemon: "
su $BOINCUSER -c "$BOINCEXE $BOINCOPTS" >>$LOGFILE 2>>$ERRORLOG &
sleep 1
PID=`pidof -s -x -o $$ -o $PPID -o %PPID $BOINCEXE`
if [ $PID ]; then
[ -d $LOCKDIR ] && touch $LOCKDIR/boinc



add this just after that line

# rather dirty way of doing this
./limiter $PID $MAX_FREQ &


this will start the limiter when you start the service

now only to kill it when you are done

go to section that says:


cd $BOINCDIR
if [ ! -f lockfile -a ! -f $LOCKDIR/boinc ] ; then
echo -n "BOINC is not running (no lockfiles found)."
echo_success
else
echo -n "Stopping BOINC client daemon: "
killproc $BOINCEXE && echo_success || echo_failure
# clean up in any case
rm -f $BOINCDIR/lockfile
rm -f $LOCKDIR/boinc


now lets add one more line to it

killall limiter


save, restart service, do a ps -ef f, make sure limiter is in there, do a top, to make sure that whatever boinc is doing, it is not exceeding whatever max percent utilization, and we are in game

[alexander]

just outcomputed T in the einstein project and i have over 8000 credit pending

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