Posted on 01/03/2006 7:46:46 PM PST by Klutz Dohanger
Bump to read later.
Console. I think it's called.
I don't have that one so I'm not gonna be much help. Sorry.
I don't have that one so I'm not gonna be much help. Sorry.
Can you help pbrown?
That's ok, thanks anyhow. :-)
Lewis and Short suggests "complicare". "Complico, ergo sum"?
Little do they know I plan to casually stop buy the office and visit the lovely and gracious Mrs Drango this week . and while there I will ask her if I can add the folding program to her 'puter. I say we reach 500 in 5 days!
No prob - the Perseus project is invaluable for refreshing those twenty year old memories of Latin class :)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?lang=Latin
"When taking my computer repair classes, my instructor taught us that the damage comes from turning the computer on and off. The surge of power is very destructive to the 'puter. Think of a light bulb. When does it fail? When you first turn it on and the rush of electricity frys the filament. Same concept in a computer.
Many geeks and many large corporations leave the 'puter on for that reason. "
True - and for maximum longevity - keep in mind that elecrtical power is not "clean" - it's not a steady 110 volts - there are spikes and surges and transient events that happen every day (think of a lightening strike nearby as a big one) - filter these out from your primary power input and your equipment will run happily for a long, long time. As with most electronic devices the cheapest is not always up to the job.
You can open that file and scroll down toward the end where the most recent entries will be found. In my old logs from a previous run of the console I found lines like this:
[12:53:15] Completed 1926 out of 2116 steps (91)
[12:53:15] Writing local files
[13:08:34] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[13:22:29] Completed 1947 out of 2116 steps (92)
[13:22:29] Writing local files
[13:37:50] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[13:51:44] Completed 1968 out of 2116 steps (93)
[13:51:44] Writing local files
[14:07:02] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[14:22:20] Completed 1990 out of 2116 steps (94)
[14:22:20] Writing local files
[14:37:39] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[14:51:35] Completed 2011 out of 2116 steps (95)
[14:51:35] Writing local files
[15:06:51] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[15:20:44] Completed 2032 out of 2116 steps (96)
[15:20:44] Writing local files
[15:36:03] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[15:49:59] Completed 2053 out of 2116 steps (97)
[15:49:59] Writing local files
[16:05:17] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[16:19:09] Completed 2074 out of 2116 steps (98)
The lines with information about "completed" steps will give you an idea how far along you are in the process. For example, step 2074 out of 2116 is about 98% complete. You can also look at the time stamps to determine how quickly each part of the WU is processed (I think time stamps are in GMT... may not reflect your local time.)
But they looked at me like I was a troglodyte and they dragged out the IMac manual and found some obscure line that said to turn off their computer when not in use. That became the gospel and to this day their computer goes on/off about 6-7 times every day.
Glad to have you on board. Happy Folding!!!
I lost two WUs last night, and one yesterday morning. Each WU was being processed on a different machine. None of the machines were scheduled to run any sort of maintenance. One WU was 35 hours into processing, another was 10 hrs. They're just gone. Here's what I saw in the log:
Highly annoying. These are running on machines with UPS power. The uptimes of these systems are generally measured in weeks and months.[17:59:04] CoreStatus = 0 (0) [17:59:04] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x0 [17:59:04] Deleting current work unit & continuing... [17:59:21] - Preparing to get new work unit... [17:59:21] + Attempting to get work packet [17:59:21] - Connecting to assignment server [17:59:27] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.139). [17:59:27] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [17:59:27] Loaded queue successfully. [17:59:29] + Connections closed: You may now disconnect
Reading the earlier threads, a number of people lost data. It seems XP released a security patch last night and forced a reboot on all computers. Gotta think that's the common denominator.
My boxes are all running Linux. I don't have a single Windows box booted. I really do not believe it's an instability in the machines. The systems were still running, and appeared to be stable when I found them. I've run other software for weeks on end with these machines, and have never experienced this sort of problem.
Dang. Sunspots? Yeah, sunspots is my second guess.
I suspected shared objects. Two of the machines are several years old, and have not been patched in a while. However, the other machine was fully patched within the past week or so. None of the machines are running the beta version of F@H.
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