First off I'd like the moderators to remove my previous thread which had no utility here. Or not, as you choose:
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=1086

Problem: Every time one of my PCs contacts BOINC in the service of MW@H, MW@H is detached from that host. I have to manually reattach it. The default is daily.

Replies in my previous thread were of the order "try this, try that". I've got better things to do, but first thought I'd give er one more try. Very likely I'm dumb on the intricacies of the grid computing project. But not stupid. I don't have the time to dump time into recalcitrant projects.

So, if MW@H wants the benefit of my quad CUDA farm then someone will have to get it going. Lots of projects to choose from. I like the concept but so far the latest implementation consumes way too much effort.

S@H and Einstein are running just peachy, S@H since 1999. The successful correspondent will tell me what is going on (the engineer in me), and what to do about it (the engineering technician in me). Example from Messages:

8/30/2009 10:29:23 PM Milkyway@home Detaching from project
8/30/2009 10:30:03 PM Fetching configuration file from http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/get_project_config.php
8/30/2009 10:30:04 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:30:08 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:30:20 PM Milkyway@home Master file download succeeded
8/30/2009 10:30:25 PM Milkyway@home Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.
8/30/2009 10:30:25 PM Milkyway@home Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU
8/30/2009 10:30:30 PM Milkyway@home Scheduler request completed: got 2 new tasks
8/30/2009 10:30:30 PM Milkyway@home New computer location: home
8/30/2009 10:30:30 PM Milkyway@home General prefs: from Milkyway@home (last modified 27-Aug-2009 09:11:51)
8/30/2009 10:30:30 PM Milkyway@home Computer location: home
8/30/2009 10:30:30 PM Milkyway@home General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
8/30/2009 10:30:30 PM Reading preferences override file
8/30/2009 10:30:30 PM Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2047.11MB
8/30/2009 10:30:30 PM Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 2047.11MB
8/30/2009 10:30:30 PM Preferences limit disk usage to 7.32GB
8/30/2009 10:30:34 PM Milkyway@home Started download of milkyway_0.20_windows_intelx86__cuda23.exe
8/30/2009 10:30:34 PM Milkyway@home Started download of cudart.dll
8/30/2009 10:30:44 PM Milkyway@home Finished download of cudart.dll
8/30/2009 10:30:44 PM Milkyway@home Started download of cutil32.dll
8/30/2009 10:30:49 PM Milkyway@home Finished download of milkyway_0.20_windows_intelx86__cuda23.exe
8/30/2009 10:30:49 PM Milkyway@home Finished download of cutil32.dll
8/30/2009 10:30:49 PM Milkyway@home Started download of milkyway_0.19_windows_intelx86.exe
8/30/2009 10:30:49 PM Milkyway@home Started download of parameter_222F5_3s.txt
8/30/2009 10:30:52 PM Milkyway@home Finished download of parameter_222F5_3s.txt
8/30/2009 10:30:52 PM Milkyway@home Started download of stars222F5
8/30/2009 10:30:55 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:30:55 PM Milkyway@home Finished download of milkyway_0.19_windows_intelx86.exe
8/30/2009 10:30:55 PM Milkyway@home Started download of de_s222_3s_best_1p_09r_14_search_parameters_155838_1251692733
8/30/2009 10:30:59 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:30:59 PM Milkyway@home Finished download of de_s222_3s_best_1p_09r_14_search_parameters_155838_1251692733
8/30/2009 10:30:59 PM Milkyway@home Started download of de_s222_3s_best_1p_09r_13_search_parameters_156782_1251692885
8/30/2009 10:31:02 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:31:02 PM Milkyway@home Finished download of de_s222_3s_best_1p_09r_13_search_parameters_156782_1251692885
8/30/2009 10:31:05 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:31:08 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:31:12 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:31:18 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:31:23 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:31:34 PM Milkyway@home Finished download of stars222F5
8/30/2009 10:31:36 PM Milkyway@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
8/30/2009 10:31:36 PM Milkyway@home Requesting new tasks for CPU
8/30/2009 10:31:38 PM Milkyway@home Starting de_s222_3s_best_1p_09r_14_155838_1251692733_1
8/30/2009 10:31:38 PM Milkyway@home Starting task de_s222_3s_best_1p_09r_14_155838_1251692733_1 using milkyway version 20
8/30/2009 10:31:47 PM Milkyway@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
8/30/2009 10:31:47 PM Milkyway@home Message from server: No work sent
8/30/2009 10:31:47 PM Milkyway@home Message from server: (won't finish in time) BOINC runs 92.4% of time, computation enabled 100.0% of that
8/30/2009 10:31:56 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:31:59 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:32:03 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:32:06 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:32:08 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:32:11 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:32:14 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:32:17 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:32:47 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:32:50 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:32:51 PM Milkyway@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
8/30/2009 10:32:51 PM Milkyway@home Requesting new tasks for CPU
8/30/2009 10:32:56 PM Milkyway@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
8/30/2009 10:32:56 PM Milkyway@home Message from server: No work sent
8/30/2009 10:32:56 PM Milkyway@home Message from server: (won't finish in time) BOINC runs 92.4% of time, computation enabled 100.0% of that
8/30/2009 10:33:17 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:33:20 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:33:48 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:33:51 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:33:59 PM Milkyway@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
8/30/2009 10:33:59 PM Milkyway@home Requesting new tasks for CPU
8/30/2009 10:34:04 PM Milkyway@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
8/30/2009 10:34:04 PM Milkyway@home Message from server: No work sent
8/30/2009 10:34:04 PM Milkyway@home Message from server: (won't finish in time) BOINC runs 92.4% of time, computation enabled 100.0% of that
8/30/2009 10:34:22 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:34:25 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:34:37 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:34:40 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:35:32 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:35:36 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:37:19 PM Milkyway@home Computation for task de_s222_3s_best_1p_09r_14_155838_1251692733_1 finished
8/30/2009 10:37:21 PM Milkyway@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
8/30/2009 10:37:21 PM Milkyway@home Requesting new tasks for CPU
8/30/2009 10:37:22 PM Milkyway@home Started upload of de_s222_3s_best_1p_09r_14_155838_1251692733_1_0
8/30/2009 10:37:25 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:37:27 PM Milkyway@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
8/30/2009 10:37:27 PM Milkyway@home Message from server: No work sent
8/30/2009 10:37:27 PM Milkyway@home Message from server: (won't finish in time) BOINC runs 92.4% of time, computation enabled 100.0% of that
8/30/2009 10:37:30 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:37:30 PM Milkyway@home Finished upload of de_s222_3s_best_1p_09r_14_155838_1251692733_1_0
8/30/2009 10:38:15 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:38:21 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:39:00 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:39:03 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:39:10 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:39:13 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:40:12 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:40:13 PM Milkyway@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
8/30/2009 10:40:13 PM Milkyway@home Reporting 1 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for CPU
8/30/2009 10:40:14 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:40:18 PM Milkyway@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
8/30/2009 10:40:18 PM Milkyway@home Message from server: No work sent
8/30/2009 10:40:18 PM Milkyway@home Message from server: (won't finish in time) BOINC runs 92.4% of time, computation enabled 100.0% of that
8/30/2009 10:40:20 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:40:23 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:40:28 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:40:30 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:41:34 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:41:37 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:42:21 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:42:23 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:44:00 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
8/30/2009 10:44:02 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
8/30/2009 10:46:54 PM Milkyway@home update requested by user
8/30/2009 10:47:09 PM Contacting account manager at http://bam.boincstats.com/
8/30/2009 10:47:10 PM Account manager: BAM! User-ID: 3911
8/30/2009 10:47:10 PM Account manager: BAM! Host-ID: 161313
8/30/2009 10:47:10 PM Account manager: This host connected 275 times to BAM!
8/30/2009 10:47:10 PM Account manager contact succeeded
8/30/2009 10:47:10 PM Milkyway@home Resetting project
8/30/2009 10:47:11 PM Milkyway@home Detaching from project

Regards
Art

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This sounds like a bug with the BOINC client. I'd try emailing the boinc_dev mailing lists as they really know what's up with the BOINC software, and respond very quickly.

http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev

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It may help a little if we knew the version of Boinc you are using, possibly also the OS you are running (32/64 bit), these may help as a pointer to something.

Rob.

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8/30/2009 10:47:09 PM Contacting account manager at http://bam.boincstats.com/
8/30/2009 10:47:10 PM Account manager: BAM! User-ID: 3911
8/30/2009 10:47:10 PM Account manager: BAM! Host-ID: 161313
8/30/2009 10:47:10 PM Account manager: This host connected 275 times to BAM!
8/30/2009 10:47:10 PM Account manager contact succeeded
8/30/2009 10:47:10 PM Milkyway@home Resetting project
8/30/2009 10:47:11 PM Milkyway@home Detaching from project

Regards
Art

From where are you attaching to MW@h? From BOINC Manager on the computer or from BAM!? If you don't attach it to MW@h from BAM!, BAM! will detach MW@h at any contact your BOINC make to BAM!. That will also be the case for any other projects you attach to from BOINC instead of BAM! Newer versions of BOINC no longer allows you to attach to a project from BOINC Manager if that host is using an account manager like BAM!.

"try this, try that". I've got better things to do, ...

Sounds familiar. But then if we've got better things to do, why do we spend so much time on BOINC with "try this, try that" ?

It's a mystery. But then again, if you want it to work you have to

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