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crashtech said:
Thought I had LHC working last night, woke up this morning to all LHC tasks reporting something like this:

5/10/2017 4:48:08 AM | LHC@home | task postponed 86400.000000 sec: VM Hypervisor failed to enter an online state in a timely fashion.

Cosmology did the same thing.
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I get the same thing...guessing the VBox isn't set up right. Doing the NON-Vbox tasks.:confounded:
 
There is a newer version of VirtualBox (5.1.22) than is supplied with the current download of BOINC + VirtualBox (5.0.18). The newer version is working, so far...

Edit: Now it would be nice to know why Windows is reporting "virtually" no CPU usage with 8 single thread LHC tasks and one eight thread LHC task running in 7 VMs.

Edit 2: And now at least 6 11 have failed with "Computation Error," this on a stock-clocked Ryzen 1700X. The Event Log only states that they are "finished," which is not helpful.

Edit 3: It looks as though unless I can figure out how to run only the "8 CPU" WUs, I'm going to have to detach this project.
 
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Sorry guys, was running late this morning and didn't get a systems check on my machines. My 280x's are offline for some reason, hope its just a Teamviewer issue, if not I'm losing about 40K points per hour its down. Argh!!!
 
@crashtech, error diagnostics should at least be available after the failed task was reported to the project server. There you might get something if you look at the task details in your results table.

Before upload, it may be possible to inspect logs with the virtualbox manager, as long as the manager still shows you the VM.

In other news, 3200 or 3500 little Einsteins said "hello world" at my place earlier today. (2700 of them had already hatched before the race, the others since beginning of the race.) 800 more are going out now, and then my GPUs will be online normally.
 
[Marathon, Cosmology@Home]

What a waste: camb_legacy has got 50 % error rate due to segfault on Gentoo Linux + dual processor. (But not on Gentoo + single processor, nor on OpenSuse + dual processor.)
 
[Marathon, Cosmology@Home]

VBox 5.0.36 from the repository for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is generally working for me. I get a few error tasks, but not an overwhelming number.

Oddly, VBox 4.2.16 is also working for me on my Windows machine.

Edit: And the same version works on an old Mint Debian install.
 
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It occurs to me that maybe everyone who can do VB apps without a problem should keep doing so, while everyone who's "stopped trying to run Cosmology@Home and LHC@Home for now, too many problems, too little time", should run Yoyo, preferably the ECM app.
 
Ken g6 said:
It occurs to me that maybe everyone who can do VB apps without a problem should keep doing so, while everyone who's "stopped trying to run Cosmology@Home and LHC@Home for now, too many problems, too little time", should run Yoyo, preferably the ECM app.
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Done, sorry to be such a big dummy! 😛

yoyo is not bunkering well, I'll have to see if letting some results go back to the server improves things...
 
crashtech said:
Done, sorry to be such a big dummy! 😛

yoyo is not bunkering well, I'll have to see if letting some results go back to the server improves things...
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I'm sure you're not the only one who couldn't figure out VB. Maybe I'm just lucky because I run a VB VM for work every day.

There might be Yoyo tips and tricks in the FormulaBOINC thread.

Meanwhile, I'm downloading enough Einstein work for 2 3 days, so it'll be more likely to be completed by then.
 
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Ken g6 said:
I figured out why I didn't do ECM last time. The WUs using 1GB RAM were a problem when I only had 4 to use. Now they're not - see my sig. 🙂
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This reminded me to check the current RAM usage. I have some suspended camb_legacy on a 2P box on which I still had "Leave non-GPU tasks in memory while suspended" enabled. I switched that off and resumed+suspended the camb_legacy tasks once more and got some RAM back.
 
@Markfw Your little brown truck driver swing by and say hello yet? I am pretty sure that new card is pregnant, and it can hardly wait to start popping out some little Einsteins!
 
TennesseeTony said:
@Markfw Your little brown truck driver swing by and say hello yet? I am pretty sure that new card is pregnant, and it can hardly wait to start popping out some little Einsteins!
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Not yet. Probably 3 more hours. They come at the end of the day..

But I have a possibly serious problem. This system has a E5-2683, and 16 gig of ram, and 2 x 980TI (which each have 6 gig of their own memory) and memory usage of the system is at 84%, 13.2 of 15.9 physical memory. But I have all these idle tasks waiting on memory !!! And CPU is at only 42% !!

WTF ???????

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