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#3316
Beta Testing / Re: BT 0.47
April 04, 2010, 11:58:36 PM
Quote from: glennaxl on April 04, 2010, 11:09:15 PM
Tasks percentage is quite off. BT says 2.626% while BM says 0%


On purpose a lot of users sort on Percentage.
When percentage is 0, and that's almost impossible after more than 2 minutes for a 98 minutes run.
The percentage is the time left / elapsed time and that's about as good a guess as .....
#3317
Translations / Re: New parts to translate
April 03, 2010, 11:41:56 PM
V 0.48

<GroupViewTasks>
   <StatusDownloadError>   Download error      </>
</GroupViewTasks>
#3318
Beta Testing / Re: BT 0.47
April 03, 2010, 11:28:40 PM
Quote from: jjwhalen on April 02, 2010, 05:26:49 PM
Quote from: fred on April 01, 2010, 11:18:02 PM
Ok I made a note.
They stay that way until the project is updated & the client reports them as download error. But when does the download error appear, when the project refreshes of when BoincTasks refreshes.

Any task with Status "Downloading" but Progress %=100.00 is suspect, since they are mutually exclusive.  Also the color is the "Ready to report" instead of the "Upload/Download."  The download failure is confirmed by looking at the client's message stream.  The task never indicates on the BT Tasks tab with an error status but continues to shpw as above.  When the project is Updated the task disappears from the Tasks tab.  In the project server's database it shows up as a download error.
I will change the following: When status is downloading and % = 100 then status is download error with the error color.
#3319
Beta Testing / Re: BT 0.47
April 02, 2010, 09:28:15 PM
Quote from: jjwhalen on April 02, 2010, 09:05:09 PM
Quote from: fred on April 02, 2010, 07:32:59 PM
Hmm, somethings are handled a bit strange. I've never seen a download error, so it will be difficult to test. But I will take a closer look at it.

I tried reproducing the problem by aborting downloads in progress, but these are handled differently (as aborted by user).  I also analyzed the BT History for the past couple of weeks and didn't find any listings for these WUs at all, either correctly or incorrectly annotated.  Which is to say:

  • Einstein task AND [download error or something similar]
  • Einstein task AND [Reported: OK] [Elapsed time at zero or unbelievably short]
The only Einstein tasks in my History looked like they ran an appropriate ET and completed normally.

Apparently this condition must be triggered by a CRC mismatch on a result's component file or some such.  I wish I could remember the Status listing for this in BOINCManager, but I can't.  That would probably tell us what the XML from the client actually says.  I'll fool around with pulling the (network) plug during a download and see what I can come up with.  PrimeGrid has some (sieve) applications that use really long input data files, and it shouldn't be too much trouble to break one of them during download.

Best wishes.

They are probably never really considered tasks as they never arrived on you computer.
The problem is that the BOINC client doesn't report a status in this case.
When I'm back I will try to simulate an error.
#3320
Beta Testing / Re: BT 0.47
April 02, 2010, 09:15:37 PM
Quote from: Corsair on April 02, 2010, 08:12:33 PM
still afloat in Venice, supposed to go on shore leaves on Monday/Tuesday.

this version, but I think is a bug from BOINC

Starting BOINC client version 6.10.36 for windows_intelx86

now I could only run in one computer, as I have no network here on board, just only the laptop.

I always run BT and sometimes I run together the BOINC Manager, sometimes happens that BOINC manager stopped working and not crunching at all, saying something that not connected. ?? if I run only BT use not to have this fix.

6.10.36 is no longer the default download version It had a couple of bugs so they are back to 6.10.18.
But what happens as I'm using 6.10.36 here on my LT without any problems.
Does BOINC Manager loses connection and BT not?
#3321
Beta Testing / Re: BT 0.47
April 02, 2010, 07:32:59 PM
Quote from: jjwhalen on April 02, 2010, 05:26:49 PM
Quote from: fred on April 01, 2010, 11:18:02 PM
Ok I made a note.
They stay that way until the project is updated & the client reports them as download error. But when does the download error appear, when the project refreshes of when BoincTasks refreshes.

Any task with Status "Downloading" but Progress %=100.00 is suspect, since they are mutually exclusive.  Also the color is the "Ready to report" instead of the "Upload/Download."  The download failure is confirmed by looking at the client's message stream.  The task never indicates on the BT Tasks tab with an error status but continues to shpw as above.  When the project is Updated the task disappears from the Tasks tab.  In the project server's database it shows up as a download error.
Hmm, somethings are handled a bit strange. I've never seen a download error, so it will be difficult to test. But I will take a closer look at it.
#3322
Beta Testing / Re: BT 0.47
April 02, 2010, 07:20:33 PM
Quote from: wicked on April 02, 2010, 05:17:45 PM
I have six computers that I'm monitoring.

OK, I renamed HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\eFMer\BoincTasks\sorting key and looks like the crash went away. Both of them so I can now have history enabled again (which gave me back my number of tasks in Projects like you promised). Awesome, thanks for helping! Do you want the sorting registry key contents?
The keys would be nice to have, probably something is out of range.
I will add some additional checking.
#3323
Beta Testing / Re: BT 0.47
April 02, 2010, 03:57:11 PM
Quote from: wicked on April 02, 2010, 10:42:17 AM
Quote from: fred on April 01, 2010, 11:11:38 PM
The Task column in projects is linked to the history tab. History should be enabled for this to work.

Ah! That'll explain it since I just disabled history. Thanks. :)

Quote from: fred on April 01, 2010, 11:11:38 PM
1) Is there anything in the transfer.
2) Did you reboot your computer?

1) Yeah, I have pending Uploads in my Tasks tab. First Seti@Home Beta and now FreeHAL.
2) I've rebooted after BoincTasks update due to other patches.

Hmm, now I seem to also get a crash every time something is uploaded and History is enabled. It might be somehow related to the same crash when going to Transfers-tab.
I will take a look, with the dump file I can see the exact location, sot that should be possible to fix.
How many computers do you have enabled?
Close BT and remove the sorting HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\eFMer\BoincTasks\sorting , just delete the sorting folder sorting. This will delete all sorting entry's as this is something that's close to the error.
#3324
Beta Testing / Re: BT 0.47
April 02, 2010, 02:25:53 AM
Quote from: wicked on April 01, 2010, 03:05:35 PM
Hi,

Here's the details for the crash (I have an User Mini Dump File collected by WER that I can send if you want to look over it yourself):
Mailing me the dump file would be nice.
B#O#I#N#C AT efmer.com
Remove the # and AT is @
#3325
Beta Testing / Re: BT 0.47
April 01, 2010, 11:18:02 PM
Quote from: jjwhalen on March 31, 2010, 10:48:05 PM
I forgot to mention (from a previous version):

On the Tasks tab, failed downloads (checksum error or whatever), go to Progress %=100.00 & assume the "Ready to report" color.  They continue to show status "Downloading" instead of an appropriate error status & the "Error" color :(  They stay that way until the project is updated & the client reports them as download error ::)

I was reminded of this because Einstein has been having server problems lately, with periods of extremely slow (and a few broken) downloads.
Ok I made a note.
They stay that way until the project is updated & the client reports them as download error. But when does the download error appear, when the project refreshes of when BoincTasks refreshes.
#3326
Wish List / Re: Minor feature request
April 01, 2010, 11:16:12 PM
Quote from: jjwhalen on April 01, 2010, 09:36:43 PM
Request you add the BOINC website homepage to the BT Help pulldown menu.
Done
#3327
Beta Testing / Re: BT 0.47
April 01, 2010, 11:11:38 PM
Quote from: wicked on April 01, 2010, 03:05:35 PM
Hi,

Upgraded to 0.47 this other day. Now the new Tasks column in Projects tab is blank. Also, I get a persistent crash whenever I try to go to Transfers tab. Here's the details for the crash (I have an User Mini Dump File collected by WER that I can send if you want to look over it yourself):

The Task column in projects is linked to the history tab. History should be enabled for this to work.
I will try to find the error, looks like an invalid read attempt.

1) Is there anything in the transfer.
2) Did you reboot your computer?
#3328
Beta Testing / Re: BT 0.47
March 30, 2010, 10:57:52 PM
Quote from: glennaxl on March 29, 2010, 04:13:51 PM
1st:
Task -> Status: It doesn't show waiting for memory but instead it will show waiting to run.

2nd:
History: If you change the computer name, it will create a new file (by design as stated in the FAQ), thus losing your history. Can it be made that the history stayed intact after rename?
1 Added to the list.
2 I will change this as on the todo list, but it's a bit complicated and I will wait, until I rewrite the computer part as a tab.
#3329
Beta Testing / Re: BT 0.47
March 29, 2010, 01:00:01 AM
Quote from: jjwhalen on March 29, 2010, 12:11:31 AM
Regarding:
Quote(Fixed) Some projects with low CPU use the CPU% was not correct. (FreeHAL, v0.46 PrimeGrid's AP26 Search (cuda23) v1.01)

I can confirm that with Primegrid's AP26 Search (cuda23) v1.01, BT 0.47 does indeed show CPU % during the run in the range 0.05x~0.07x% ;D  There is still no () CPU time in the ET field.  But that's understandable since you appear to be set up to display time as xxd,HH:MM:SS, and not fractions of a second.  This is also consistent with BOINCManager, which doesn't display fractional CPU time either.  They probably never thought it would be necessary.

Once again Fred, thanks for the attention to detail (and while on vacation to boot)8)
Great, because it's a bet harder for me to test.
I could add some digits, but that would make everything less readable.
But if there is a request I could make that optional.
#3330
Beta Testing / Re: New Version
March 28, 2010, 09:16:22 PM
V 0.47

(Changed) Use another way to get the user folder, like: "c:\users\xx\appdata\roaming".
(Changed) The non combined mode is now no longer selectable. Read FAQ for more info.
(Fixed) The follow selected tasks will now follow the task and the computer name, instead of only the task name. This prevents selected filtered tasks from switching computer
(Fixed) Task view: Sometimes when there are filtered tasks of the same application and the same tasks number. Selection will switch from one to another. Like from 23 suspended to 23 waiting to run.
Now uses one Task inside the filter to check if it's still the right filtered group.
(Fixed) Some projects with low CPU use the CPU% was not correct. (FreeHAL, v0.46 PrimeGrid's AP26 Search (cuda23) v1.01)