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BOINC gone crazy after completing BETA tasks
My system has been working steadily for a long time. Today I received and processed 5 BETA Wu's successfully, all PV. Then the crazy started. Boinc kept asking for more work for the CPU until eventually after receiving 94 new tasks for DSFL the server stopped sending them saying (quite correctly) I would not be able to complete them in time. My settings were for 1 day cache, running 24/7 on a quad.

I am only working on one task at a time. status says "running high priority (1.00 CPUs & 1.00 ATI GPUs). The previously running tasks are all "waiting to run (1.00 CPUs & 1.00 ATI GPUs)"

I rebooted to see if that would clear and set "Run GPU to Never" that just stopped all work. Allowed GPU use and one task is now progressing.

Why does DSFL now want a GPU?
Why only one task?
Why download so many wus?

Any help gratefully received.

My startup message is as follows"


5/09/2012 8:12:12 PM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for windows_intelx86
5/09/2012 8:12:12 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, cpu_sched
5/09/2012 8:12:12 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
5/09/2012 8:12:12 PM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
5/09/2012 8:12:12 PM Running under account User
5/09/2012 8:12:15 PM Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 7]
5/09/2012 8:12:15 PM Processor: 3.00 MB cache
5/09/2012 8:12:15 PM Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 nx lm vmx smx tm2 pbe
5/09/2012 8:12:15 PM OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Home Premium x86 Edition, Service Pack 2, (06.00.6002.00)
5/09/2012 8:12:15 PM Memory: 3.25 GB physical, 6.68 GB virtual
5/09/2012 8:12:15 PM Disk: 465.76 GB total, 161.87 GB free
5/09/2012 8:12:15 PM Local time is UTC +10 hours
5/09/2012 8:12:30 PM ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD5x00 series (Redwood) (CAL version 1.4.1703, 1024MB, 520 GFLOPS peak)
5/09/2012 8:12:36 PM World Community Grid URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 696012; resource share 100
5/09/2012 8:12:36 PM World Community Grid General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 20-Mar-2012 21:16:38)
5/09/2012 8:12:36 PM World Community Grid Host location: none
5/09/2012 8:12:36 PM World Community Grid General prefs: using your defaults
5/09/2012 8:12:36 PM Reading preferences override file
5/09/2012 8:12:36 PM Preferences:
5/09/2012 8:12:36 PM max memory usage when active: 2494.18MB
5/09/2012 8:12:36 PM max memory usage when idle: 2993.02MB
5/09/2012 8:13:04 PM max disk usage: 40.00GB
5/09/2012 8:13:04 PM (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
5/09/2012 8:13:05 PM Not using a proxy
5/09/2012 8:13:05 PM [cpu_sched] suspending GPU activity
5/09/2012 8:21:00 PM [cpu_sched] resuming GPU activity
5/09/2012 8:21:00 PM World Community Grid [cpu_sched] Starting DSFL_00010-46_0000020_0869_2(resume)
5/09/2012 8:21:00 PM World Community Grid Restarting task DSFL_00010-46_0000020_0869_2 using dsfl version 625
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Re: BOINC gone crazy after completing BETA tasks
Think this is better fitting to the GPU support or BETA test forum. This crazy has been reported over at the BOINC developers [First I see it on the WCG forums]. Think a few experienced GPU crunchers can tell you what the escape clause is. Stand by.
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Re: BOINC gone crazy after completing BETA tasks
I tried re-installing BOINC, but the same problems persist. I will close this box down and wait for further advice regarding a fix.
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Re: BOINC gone crazy after completing BETA tasks
This post should be helpful. http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,33769
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Re: BOINC gone crazy after completing BETA tasks
Why does DSFL now want a GPU?
Why only one task?
Why download so many wus?

-- snip from FAHE <Sep 5, 2012 10:46:00 AM> post
Of the three queries above, the first involves a matter which seems to have been resolved. The 2nd and 3rd query may or may not be related. The 3rd query ('Why download so many WUs') is what I'll report about here.

A few hours ago, my Win-machine downloaded so many CPU-based HCC WUs that it triggered my BOINC_v7.0.28 to go into the so-called 'panic-mode': WUs run at 'high priority'. Incidentally, the machine happen to have picked up a lone beta-HCC-GPU_v6.51 WU. Thus, there is apparently still some issue with the downloading of WUs swinging from excess of WUs downloaded to perhaps the over-correction of downloading only one (or in some cases, none) WU.
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Re: BOINC gone crazy after completing BETA tasks
Hello andzgrid,
Thus, there is apparently still some issue with the downloading of WUs swinging from excess of WUs downloaded to perhaps the over-correction of downloading only one (or in some cases, none) WU.
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Right, the recent Beta test was not a fix. Rather, it was run to give additional information to track down a bug.

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Re: BOINC gone crazy after completing BETA tasks
Right, the recent Beta test was not a fix. Rather, it was run to give additional information to track down a bug.

Lawrence
Roger that, Lawrence. Any time I see the known symptoms of the issue surfacing again on my machines, I'll do a post.
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Re: BOINC gone crazy after completing BETA tasks
Hi,
I have a 6 core AMD 1100T running 24/7.
It's set to run GPU WUs and mainly HFCC.

This error has surfaced again on my computer and with a buffer or 0.5days, I have 12 days per core downloaded.
I have stopped the fetching of new tasks, suspended the majority of tasks and will have to abort some as I try to get it out of panic mode.

Any idea what I should do?

Here is where the issue started (I think).

17/10/2012 00:57:13 World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
17/10/2012 00:57:13 World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU
17/10/2012 00:57:14 World Community Grid Restarting task X0960069691442200605191404_1 using hcc1 version 656
17/10/2012 00:57:16 World Community Grid Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
17/10/2012 00:57:16 World Community Grid Message from server: No tasks sent
17/10/2012 00:57:16 World Community Grid Message from server: No tasks are available for The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2
17/10/2012 00:57:16 World Community Grid Message from server: No tasks are available for Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2
17/10/2012 00:57:16 World Community Grid Message from server: No tasks are available for Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together - Phase 2
17/10/2012 00:57:16 World Community Grid Message from server: No tasks are available for Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together - Phase 2 (Type A)
17/10/2012 00:57:16 World Community Grid Message from server: Tasks are committed to other platforms
17/10/2012 00:57:16 World Community Grid Message from server: This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress
17/10/2012 00:58:23 World Community Grid Restarting task E209946_478_C.32.C26H12N2OS3.00847695.4.set1d06_0 using cep2 version 640
17/10/2012 00:58:26 World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
17/10/2012 00:58:26 World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU
17/10/2012 00:58:31 World Community Grid Scheduler request completed: got 26 new tasks
17/10/2012 00:58:34 World Community Grid Started download of X0960069791430200606161747_X0960069791430200606161747.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:34 World Community Grid Started download of X0960069791457200606161746_X0960069791457200606161746.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:36 World Community Grid Finished download of X0960069791430200606161747_X0960069791430200606161747.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:36 World Community Grid Started download of X0960069791458200606161746_X0960069791458200606161746.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:39 World Community Grid Finished download of X0960069791457200606161746_X0960069791457200606161746.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:39 World Community Grid Started download of X0960069791431200606161747_X0960069791431200606161747.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:40 World Community Grid Finished download of X0960069791458200606161746_X0960069791458200606161746.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:40 World Community Grid Started download of X0960069791465200606161746_X0960069791465200606161746.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:41 World Community Grid Finished download of X0960069791431200606161747_X0960069791431200606161747.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:41 World Community Grid Started download of X0960069791462200606161746_X0960069791462200606161746.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:42 World Community Grid Finished download of X0960069791465200606161746_X0960069791465200606161746.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:42 World Community Grid Started download of X0960069791436200606161747_X0960069791436200606161747.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:44 World Community Grid Finished download of X0960069791462200606161746_X0960069791462200606161746.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:44 World Community Grid Started download of X0960069791450200606161746_X0960069791450200606161746.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:45 World Community Grid Finished download of X0960069791436200606161747_X0960069791436200606161747.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:45 World Community Grid Started download of X0960069791438200606161747_X0960069791438200606161747.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:47 World Community Grid Finished download of X0960069791450200606161746_X0960069791450200606161746.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:47 World Community Grid Started download of X0960069791439200606161747_X0960069791439200606161747.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:47 World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
17/10/2012 00:58:47 World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU
17/10/2012 00:58:48 World Community Grid Finished download of X0960069791438200606161747_X0960069791438200606161747.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:48 World Community Grid Started download of X0960069791407200606161746_X0960069791407200606161746.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:49 World Community Grid Finished download of X0960069791439200606161747_X0960069791439200606161747.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:49 World Community Grid Started download of X0960069791408200606161746_X0960069791408200606161746.jp2
17/10/2012 00:58:49 World Community Grid Scheduler request completed: got 6 new tasks


I have about 9hours of gpu tasks lined up

Here are the first few lines of my log

16/10/2012 21:35:31 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.60 for windows_x86_64
16/10/2012 21:35:31 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
16/10/2012 21:35:31 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
16/10/2012 21:35:31 Data directory: E:\BOINC
16/10/2012 21:35:31 Running under account xxxx
16/10/2012 21:35:31 Processor: 6 AuthenticAMD AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T Processor [Family 16 Model 10 Stepping 0]
16/10/2012 21:35:31 Processor: 512.00 KB cache
16/10/2012 21:35:31 Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni cx16 syscall nx lm svm sse4a osvw ibs skinit wdt page1gb rdtscp 3dnowext 3dnow
16/10/2012 21:35:31 OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
16/10/2012 21:35:31 Memory: 8.00 GB physical, 8.19 GB virtual
16/10/2012 21:35:31 Disk: 27.95 GB total, 25.21 GB free
16/10/2012 21:35:31 Local time is UTC +9 hours
16/10/2012 21:35:31 ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD5x00 series (Cedar) (CAL version 1.4.1741, 512MB, 104 GFLOPS peak)
16/10/2012 21:35:31 World Community Grid URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1591245; resource share 100
16/10/2012 21:35:31 World Community Grid General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 12-Oct-2012 08:29:11)
16/10/2012 21:35:31 World Community Grid Computer location: home
16/10/2012 21:35:31 General prefs: using separate prefs for home
16/10/2012 21:35:31 Reading preferences override file
16/10/2012 21:35:31 Preferences:
16/10/2012 21:35:31 max memory usage when active: 4094.76MB
16/10/2012 21:35:31 max memory usage when idle: 7370.57MB
16/10/2012 21:35:31 max disk usage: 10.00GB
16/10/2012 21:35:31 don't use GPU while active
16/10/2012 21:35:31 (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
16/10/2012 21:35:31 Not using a proxy
16/10/2012 21:35:31 World Community Grid Restarting task HFCC_target-10_00563265_target-10_0001_0 using hfcc version 640
16/10/2012 21:35:32 World Community Grid Restarting task SN2S_AAF21679_0000207_0461_0 using sn2s version 620
16/10/2012 21:35:32 World Community Grid Restarting task E209943_550_C.33.C24H10N6OS2.00880348.3.set1d06_0 using cep2 version 640
16/10/2012 21:35:32 World Community Grid Restarting task X0930069250188200606011828_1 using hcc1 version 656
16/10/2012 21:35:32 World Community Grid Restarting task E209946_701_C.31.C23H14N4S2Si2.01029248.3.set1d06_0 using cep2 version 640
16/10/2012 21:35:32 World Community Grid Restarting task E209946_478_C.32.C26H12N2OS3.00847695.4.set1d06_0 using cep2 version 640
16/10/2012 21:40:37 World Community Grid Restarting task X0960069691446200605191404_1 using hcc1 version 656
16/10/2012 21:41:06 World Community Grid Restarting task E209946_478_C.32.C26H12N2OS3.00847695.4.set1d06_0 using cep2 version 640
16/10/2012 21:41:54 World Community Grid Restarting task X0960069691446200605191404_1 using hcc1 version 656
16/10/2012 21:42:09 World Community Grid Restarting task E209946_478_C.32.C26H12N2OS3.00847695.4.set1d06_0 using cep2 version 640
16/10/2012 21:44:17 World Community Grid Restarting task X0960069691446200605191404_1 using hcc1 version 656
16/10/2012 21:44:40 World Community Grid Restarting task E209946_478_C.32.C26H12N2OS3.00847695.4.set1d06_0 using cep2 version 640
16/10/2012 21:46:25 World Community Grid Restarting task X0960069691446200605191404_1 using hcc1 version 656
16/10/2012 21:46:52 World Community Grid Restarting task E209946_478_C.32.C26H12N2OS3.00847695.4.set1d06_0 using cep2 version 640
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Re: BOINC gone crazy after completing BETA tasks
vcd683s, Boinc versions 7 corrects the buffer overload problem.
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Re: BOINC gone crazy after completing BETA tasks
Which is the latest version of BOINC that I should use?
The BOINC website gives me version 7.0.28
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