Posts by ChinookFoehn

21) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit limits apparently exist ... (Message 5933) Posted 4 Nov 2008 by ChinookFoehn Post: Regarding flocking to the project These are statistics, gleaned a few moments ago, from BOINCstats. Active BOINC user in the last 60 days: 321,562 using 561,867 hosts Of these, those who calculate for MilkyWay in the last 60 days: 3,276 using 8,574 hosts. Only 1.019% of users calculate for MilkyWay Only 1.526% of computers calculate for MilkyWay It can not even be unreasonably argued that people are flocking to MilkyWay to earn credits. -ChinookFÃ¶hn
22) Message boards : Number crunching : Seized Router & Credit Limit (Message 5930) Posted 4 Nov 2008 by ChinookFoehn Post: Yes you may. I'll definitely take a look at it but the critical matter is that it must support the WII WiFi or I'll never hear the end of it. Thanks for the link. -ChinookFÃ¶hn
23) Message boards : Number crunching : Seized Router & Credit Limit (Message 5925) Posted 4 Nov 2008 by ChinookFoehn Post: Thanks. As I suspected. As for firmware upgrade... When it was just Linksys, things were better but now that it is owned by Cisco... Any way, there are several known problems which Linksys neither addresses nor replies to. I can only hope that there will be another update issued soon but I won't hold my breath. I suspect they have abandoned support on the router as I and, from what I have read, many other can not get a reply from Linksys support regarding the problems. A shame as Linksys used to be a nice company to deal with. Eventually I will buy another router but not this year and not until I find one that I can restrict Ethernet access to as I can with WiFi (only permit access to those MAC addresses I have entered). -ChinookFÃ¶hn
24) Message boards : Number crunching : Seized Router & Credit Limit (Message 5921) Posted 4 Nov 2008 by ChinookFoehn Post: We have a Linksys 350N router which seizes often - but it recognises the kid's WII. It happened overnight, yet again, where nothing could be uploaded/downloaded - whether BOINC or e-mail. So, upon getting up, I had to turn the router off and on and then go through the computers to get BOINC to Do Network Communication. This meant that tasks, instead of uploading onesies, twosies, overnight, then uploaded in a large group such as 36 at once. Whereas had everything been normal, the limit may not have been reached but now... I assume then these "large" uploads trigger the credit limit? ***** I do wish to add this is an interesting project especially the fora which, unintentionally, provide much amusement. Anyway thanks to the administrators for maintaining it well and the communication. My thanks also to Milksop at Try. Ganz toll was Sie fÃ¼r uns getan haben. -ChinookFÃ¶hn
25) Message boards : Number crunching : updated granted credit (Message 2780) Posted 24 Mar 2008 by ChinookFoehn Post: ...Erm, you've got me with that stat. Boincers are up about 1.2million IIRC. MW is nowhere near that. You post all the time at BOINCstats and yet you don't bother looking at the detailed statistics? As of a moment ago, there are listed 315 724 active users in the last 30 days. Many of these would do have split CPID so it is only a rough, over-estimate. As for computers, active is at 560 978. Given the numerous duplications of computers this is a huge over-estimatation. The largest, so-termed server-farms, mostly seem to be Einstein project-based... Link to these 'facts' please? Go into the BOINCstat statistics for the users with most credits and see how many of the top users are university-based for Einstein. ... extreme minority when viewed as a percentage of users. So, a significant percentage is now a minority. I'm struggling here ... As is evident If they leave... so what? There will still be 300,000+ users doing calculations with more than 300,000 computers connected.... Ah, I can see where you've gone wrong. You're talking bollocks. How many BOINCers are there? How many crunch this project? Crikey, that was hard work. Al. Evidently it is such for you.
26) Message boards : Number crunching : updated granted credit (Message 2770) Posted 24 Mar 2008 by ChinookFoehn Post: ... There are many more who crunch for the credits than those who do it only for the science and they are usually the ones who have the large farms.... I think this is very debatable and incorrect. The overwhelming majority do not care for credits. The overwhelming majority, 300,000+ users, never read any of the fora, never post. That they may monitor credits with their BOINC Manager is then something done as an intellectual exercise or as game/race amongst themselves not as is discussed-without-end by the same credit-hungry that tend to post the same whines in all the fora of all the projects. The largest, so-termed server-farms, mostly seem to be Einstein project-based and most certainly do not do calculations for credit as they only do Einstein calculations. As for others... they may do many calculations, they may have a significant percentage of the work calculated, but they are in the extreme minority when viewed as a percentage of users. If they leave... so what? There will still be 300,000+ users doing calculations with more than 300,000 computers connected. Perhaps some projects will see a slow-down in calculations but the work will still be completed.
27) Message boards : Number crunching : Poll: How much credit do you think is fair? (Message 2742) Posted 24 Mar 2008 by ChinookFoehn Post: Take .....the number of grains of sand in all the beaches of a world multiply the numbers of worlds with beaches (Milky Way only) divide ...by the number of star systems having planets with beaches (Milky Way only) multiply by the number of active users registered with the project divide ...by the number of active computers registered with the project divide ...by the seconds required to do the calculation divide ...by the BOINC user credit gripe constant
28) Questions and Answers : Web site : Website problem? (Message 2120) Posted 8 Mar 2008 by ChinookFoehn Post: After hours of not being able to report, was able to as of several minutes ago but now receive the following: 08/03/2008 09:36:26\|Milkyway@home\|Sending scheduler request: Requested by project. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 08/03/2008 09:36:31\|Milkyway@home\|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 08/03/2008 09:36:31\|Milkyway@home\|Message from server: Server error: can't attach shared memory
29) Questions and Answers : Windows : Windows Vista update & BOINC 5.10.28 possible error (Message 1028) Posted 12 Dec 2007 by ChinookFoehn Post: I was required to re-boot for an update, forgot to exit boinc and when the reboot was complete, all my Milkyway units (not-running) and my CPDN (running)generated client-errors. No other units, runing or not, were affected.

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