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Message 2640 - Posted 2 Mar 2007 5:41:44 UTC
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My WinXP AMD machine is getting the "committed to other platforms" message. The shared memory page says 6 % (56 WU) are unassigned. I've tried updating the shared memory page and the timestamp at the bottom goes up by a minute, but it keeps saying unassigned 6 % and my WinXP AMD machine keeps getting the "committed to other platforms" message. Is there some other platform limit in action here ?

The WIN / AMD machine does already have 8 WU. It's on a modem and is set for 1.7 days of work so it doesn't run out. It does a WU in about 3 Hours + 1 or 2 Minutes.

It's Machine # 1096 .

From the machines stats page:

Average turnaround time 1.57 days
Maximum daily WU quota per CPU 50/day
Results 267
Number of times client has contacted server 1737

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Message 2649 - Posted 2 Mar 2007 18:52:54 UTC - in response to Message ID 2640 .

My WinXP AMD machine is getting the "committed to other platforms" message. The shared memory page says 6 % (56 WU) are unassigned. I've tried updating the shared memory page and the timestamp at the bottom goes up by a minute, but it keeps saying unassigned 6 % and my WinXP AMD machine keeps getting the "committed to other platforms" message. Is there some other platform limit in action here ?

The WIN / AMD machine does already have 8 WU. It's on a modem and is set for 1.7 days of work so it doesn't run out. It does a WU in about 3 Hours + 1 or 2 Minutes.

It's Machine # 1096 .

From the machines stats page:

Average turnaround time 1.57 days
Maximum daily WU quota per CPU 50/day
Results 267
Number of times client has contacted server 1737

-- David

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That is interesting and I did not expect this to happen. Will investigate on this issue.

Is the "My WinXP AMD machine" the same machine as "The WIN / AMD Machine"?

If it is did you notice how long did it take to get the work?
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Message 2667 - Posted 4 Mar 2007 19:57:45 UTC - in response to Message ID 2649 .

My WinXP AMD machine is getting the "committed to other platforms" message. The shared memory page says 6 % (56 WU) are unassigned. I've tried updating the shared memory page and the timestamp at the bottom goes up by a minute, but it keeps saying unassigned 6 % and my WinXP AMD machine keeps getting the "committed to other platforms" message. Is there some other platform limit in action here ?

The WIN / AMD machine does already have 8 WU. It's on a modem and is set for 1.7 days of work so it doesn't run out. It does a WU in about 3 Hours + 1 or 2 Minutes.

It's Machine # 1096 .

From the machines stats page:

Average turnaround time 1.57 days
Maximum daily WU quota per CPU 50/day
Results 267
Number of times client has contacted server 1737

-- David

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That is interesting and I did not expect this to happen. Will investigate on this issue.

Is the "My WinXP AMD machine" the same machine as "The WIN / AMD Machine"?

If it is did you notice how long did it take to get the work?


It's the same machine. Sorry for the confusion. On D@H I have 3 machines:

WinXP Pro - Intel Celeron 2.3Ghz - 1.5GB Ram
WinXP Home - AMD Sempron 3100+ (Socket 754) - 1.25GB Ram
Linux Ubuntu 6.10 - AMD Sempron 2500+ (Socket A) - 1 GB Ram

The WinXP Pro machine has the 56k modem and is setup for internet connection sharing. The WinXP home and the Ubuntu Linux machine are using DHCP and the WinXP Pro machine acts as a NAT router.

The problem was on the "WinXP Home - AMD Sempron 3100+" machine. While it was asking for work, I reloaded the shared memory status page a few times and noticed that the time stamp at the bottom of the webpage was incrementing by exactly 1 minute (hh:mm:02). I let it ask for work 4 or 5 times and then I suspended network activity. I'm on a modem so I don't have an always on connection. It was probably a few hours before I connected it again.

There used to be a 4th machine but it ran RHEL3 and would never work even with the ulimit fix. RHEL3 is a 2.4.x Linux kernel with a bunch of stuff that was backported to it. The RHEL3 machine is going away this month, anyway.

HTH,

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Message 2669 - Posted 4 Mar 2007 20:59:32 UTC - in response to Message ID 2667 .

My WinXP AMD machine is getting the "committed to other platforms" message. The shared memory page says 6 % (56 WU) are unassigned. I've tried updating the shared memory page and the timestamp at the bottom goes up by a minute, but it keeps saying unassigned 6 % and my WinXP AMD machine keeps getting the "committed to other platforms" message. Is there some other platform limit in action here ?

The WIN / AMD machine does already have 8 WU. It's on a modem and is set for 1.7 days of work so it doesn't run out. It does a WU in about 3 Hours + 1 or 2 Minutes.

It's Machine # 1096 .

From the machines stats page:

Average turnaround time 1.57 days
Maximum daily WU quota per CPU 50/day
Results 267
Number of times client has contacted server 1737

-- David

EDIT: Fix BBCode


That is interesting and I did not expect this to happen. Will investigate on this issue.

Is the "My WinXP AMD machine" the same machine as "The WIN / AMD Machine"?

If it is did you notice how long did it take to get the work?


It's the same machine. Sorry for the confusion. On D@H I have 3 machines:

WinXP Pro - Intel Celeron 2.3Ghz - 1.5GB Ram
WinXP Home - AMD Sempron 3100+ (Socket 754) - 1.25GB Ram
Linux Ubuntu 6.10 - AMD Sempron 2500+ (Socket A) - 1 GB Ram

The WinXP Pro machine has the 56k modem and is setup for internet connection sharing. The WinXP home and the Ubuntu Linux machine are using DHCP and the WinXP Pro machine acts as a NAT router.

The problem was on the "WinXP Home - AMD Sempron 3100+" machine. While it was asking for work, I reloaded the shared memory status page a few times and noticed that the time stamp at the bottom of the webpage was incrementing by exactly 1 minute (hh:mm:02). I let it ask for work 4 or 5 times and then I suspended network activity. I'm on a modem so I don't have an always on connection. It was probably a few hours before I connected it again.

There used to be a 4th machine but it ran RHEL3 and would never work even with the ulimit fix. RHEL3 is a 2.4.x Linux kernel with a bunch of stuff that was backported to it. The RHEL3 machine is going away this month, anyway.

HTH,

-- David



OK thanks for clarify on that, tomorrow we have a meeting I will make sure we discuss this issue. According to what I know, and I am far from being a BOINC expert, when a machine requests work it start to check the replicas available in the shared memory and if it is taken by another HR class it increases the infeasibile count and goes to the next one, if there is the same result for all the replicas in the shared memory the message of there is work but it is com... is sent.

I will check the cgi log to see if I can find something suspicious, do you remember by any chance when this happened?
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Message 2671 - Posted 5 Mar 2007 4:16:24 UTC - in response to Message ID 2669 .

I will check the cgi log to see if I can find something suspicious, do you remember by any chance when this happened?


I'm sorry, I don't remember. It's been a hectic few days. If it repeats, I'll note the time for you.

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