| Subject: Re: BOINC for Linux |
| From: Colin Jones |
| Date: 13/07/2004, 21:05 |
Hiya Martin 53N 1W.
In <news:KsWIc.696$nh7.323@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net> you wrote:
Take a look at:
http://www.davidzilch.co.uk/boincstat/
Oh God! Seems I need to install the libxml2 libraries. I've yet to get
something successfully compiled under Debian :/
Well it compiled, but now I need to look deeper into linking the
libraries so it can run ;)
and try it in a second terminal window.
I have mine set to 5 days, but it's only downloaded one unit so far. I
was expecting about 8 the rate this one works.
Why so long?
I've been using Classic SETI for over three years now. In that time I've
noticed a few times where it's been sat idle because it can't return/fetch
new units. I alleviated this with SETI Spy and SETI Driver (Windows). I'm
just mirroring what I did for Classic.
The boinc seti splitters are having a hard time of things. Everyone
wanting a huge hord of WUs exacerbates the problem.
I've noticed it doesn't request new units until it's run out so it's
probably not worth it anyway. Will set them down when I get a chance.
A small-ish cache will speed up the processing for everyone. To avoid
any idle time if the setiboinc servers go offline, just subscribe to a
second project. They must have set small defaults of 0.1 to 1.0 days for
some reason...
This computer (XP - 1.8GHz) does about 5-6/day. The server (Linux -
500MHz) does less than 2.
At the moment, they'll likely be frequently rejigging the servers and so
some down time is to be expected. When things settle, then outages
should become shorter and rarer. Worst case should then be no more than
a two day outage should things go wrong over a weekend.
It's getting much better already :)
Good point. Will have to take it off root at the earliest opportunity.
Also set up a dedicated user for your dist comp projects to 'firewall'
them off your main account. You can use group permissions to look in to
see what is happening for stats & progress.
That wouldn't take too much trouble ;)
I wonder what the "remote access" is that boinc has as a startup
option... Any tools for utlising it?
Not a clue.