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Send message Joined: 22 Dec 07 Posts: 51 Credit: 2,405,016 RAC: 0 |
If i take control away from BOINC and babysit my PCs very intensely i can do about 180k credit per day. My actual RAC is about 130k, that means BOINC loses 30% and i still have to babysit. If i let BOINC manage things i hardly believe i could keep half of my RAC. You got THAT right, Crunch3r. Maybe "Self Glorification" should be up near the top of the list as well! ;^). Seejay **Proud Member and Founder of BOINC Team Allprojectstats.com** |
Send message Joined: 27 Aug 07 Posts: 915 Credit: 1,503,319 RAC: 0 |
You all seem to miss the priorities of DA regarding boinc development... 9999. Update video. me@rescam.org |
Send message Joined: 31 Jan 09 Posts: 31 Credit: 69,908,565 RAC: 0 |
Where is the cc_config.xml located. I'm running windows7, have change to Boinc 6.6.20 and catalyst to 9.5 from 9.6. It is running better but still tweaking. |
Send message Joined: 2 Jan 08 Posts: 123 Credit: 69,546,274 RAC: 1,032 |
It's not located anywhere until you create it. You then place it in the same directory as your Application Data. Read this thread for more detail. |
Send message Joined: 17 May 09 Posts: 22 Credit: 161,135,083 RAC: 0 |
I have follying your posts re BOINC issues. the i7s need good control. I have been having the same issue of to many WUS going at the same time, up to 42 on my i7, with only 6 MW moving. Previously had resource allocated 66% MW and 34% WCGrid have now got 11% for MW and the rest to other apps. overflow ploblems have reduced greatly . incoming WUs stay as "waiting to start" instead of running in space. will leave running over night and see what happens. Ross |
Send message Joined: 31 Jan 09 Posts: 31 Credit: 69,908,565 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for the link. That was one thread that I definitely had missed. It was just what I was looking for. Here is a list of some of my hardware and the changes I have made so far. My computer contains i7 core (920) processor, Windows 7 RC, 6 GB of memory, the graphics card is a PowerColor HD 4850 with 1GB of GDDR3 memory. When I installed the 0.19f ATI GPU app I was using Catalyst 9.6 and Boinc ver 6.6.36 but it was not very stable and scheduling was terrible. When MW would crash all I had to do was restart Boinc but to get my other projects to fetch work I would have to suspend projects the other project and reset the project to get work. I changed to Boinc ver 6.6.20 and Catalyst 9.5 and that seem to run better as long as I turned the screensaver off and the power saver option for the monitor. But when the screensaver was on and it crashed I got the blue screen and it restarted when I was using 9.6 MW crashed and boinc had to be restarted. When I change to 6.6.20 I should have run it with Catalyst 9.6 for a couple of days before changing to Catalyst 9.5 instead changing them together. I changed the app info cmd line several times it’s now <cmdline>n1 w1.1</cmdline> and today I change <avg_ncpus>1</avg_ncpus> to 1 from .1 and added cc_config.xlm file and set the number of CPUs to 9. From what I have read on the message boards and the changes I have made, I think it is as stable as it is going to get for right now. |
Send message Joined: 17 May 09 Posts: 22 Credit: 161,135,083 RAC: 0 |
so far so good . Yes I changed to Catalyst 9.5 on advice from others. am using a ATI 4870 x2 today will be the first day on the 12% MW and the rest to WCGID. while I still getting some overflow at least I get plenty of WUs approx 1200000 credits for the day and I have not had to touch the computer will try the edit of the app info file if I have problems down the track. also using BOINC 6.6.3 Ross |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 08 Posts: 25 Credit: 75,915,107 RAC: 0 |
The best I have manage to get with 6.6.36 is download 2 or 3 days work buffer then disable the CPU project mfor more work and select manually 3 wus (but need to be long ones 7 to 50 hours) running and MW on 2 WUs for my quad. Makes around 65000 pts per day MW ATI 4850 + vista + ATI drivers 9.1. No special parameter adjustment exccept n2 for MW. |
Send message Joined: 17 May 09 Posts: 22 Credit: 161,135,083 RAC: 0 |
well 2 days and 120000 to 150000 credits a day later I have changed to climatepredection 6 WUs running and 6 MW running at the same time 12 to 15% resources for MW and the rest to 1 Ap Climatepredecition avering 6000 to 7000 credits per hour run. find it best to leave Boinc Manager alone. haven't worried about debts or changing scripts as yet. Ross |
Send message Joined: 1 Sep 08 Posts: 520 Credit: 302,524,931 RAC: 0 |
The later versions do have severe problems with work fetch -- the latest 'released' version is truly bad. Frankly, all the 6.x iterations have had one issue or another (with 6.4.5 perhaps being the least bad). In setups where I don't have a BOINC supported GPU and am not runnnig Vista/Win7, I go with 5.4.5 as the best choice. The designers really seem to 'know better' than users regarding what needs to be done with the BOINC client. (My preference is cleaner more rational code over feature creap, but what do I know). I have down graded BOINC to 6.4.5 as I think the work fetch and work scheduling does not work appropriately with the post 6.6.20 versions - but then I haven't tried the latest ones with my current set up. |
Send message Joined: 14 Feb 09 Posts: 999 Credit: 74,932,619 RAC: 0 |
I run 6.6.20 on my 2 PC's and 6.6.29 on my Mac, I have not had any problems with resource sharing on any of them. Only the quad has the video card and it runs 4 SETI and 3 MW just fine. |
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