Posts by Ananas

1) Message boards : Number Crunching : BOINC on ARM devices? (Message 9174)
Posted 152 days ago by

Ananas

Here's one more : Correlizer

2) Message boards : Pirate Talk : Tribute to Pippi's dad (Message 9081)
Posted 597 days ago by

Ananas

Seeräuberhauptmann Fabian

English intro (well, somehow English), German pirate song

3) Message boards : Help! : Validation (Message 7088)
Posted 2001 days ago by

Ananas

In cases like this - or when I join from work where I usually don't query my private mails - I just go to the cookie file of my web browser and take that auth entry from there.

4) Message boards : Help! : New Host entry after each contact to scheduler (Message 2675)
Posted 2727 days ago by

Ananas

There has been one interesting effect with FaD (which uses cURL) on Linux.

Using the program's proxy setup, the protocols (FaD dumps the HTTP headers) looked as if it didn't even try to authenticate - it did access the proxy though.

Using no proxy setup I got the expected errors.

Using the same environment variables that wget knows did try proxy but did not try to authenticate either. The interesting part here is, that the program hasn't been thought to use environment variables - so it might be necessary to tell cURL not to check the environment in order to make the program settings work or make it check only the environment and ignore the program settings.

It's very likely that the BOINC problems with Squid/Auth are close related.

5) Message boards : Help! : New Host entry after each contact to scheduler (Message 2649)
Posted 2729 days ago by

Ananas

*sigh* much work and 4.19 isn't as bloated as later versions - plus I prefer to have control over the scheduling, the new scheduler encroaches into things I prefer to keep in my hands.

I'm not sure if it would be a good idea anyway, they changed the firewall/proxy handling to cURL lately and some of my boxes are behind a Squid with auth - others have trouble with this and I didn't bring other DC programs using cURL through this Squid either so far (wget works though, it uses cURL)

A team mate already gave up trying to bring 5.3.x through a Squid/auth.

I don't think it's a version problem, no trouble with other projects using 502 or 503 on server side.

It's not really a problem for me if I cannot attach - I run without graphics so I'm not too helpful for screensaver developement anyway.

6) Message boards : Help! : New Host entry after each contact to scheduler (Message 2644)
Posted 2729 days ago by

Ananas

This is the condition for this error - just in case you didn't keep the ancient source ;-) :

http_op.http_op_state == HTTP_STATE_DONE (not so bad)
http_op.http_op_retval != 0 (this must be the failure detection)
log_flags.sched_ops = true (well, that's only for printing out the message)

I didn't find a flag to force logging of http_op_retval, later clients seem to have it :-/

I'm not using a proxy btw., connection through a Barricade router with builtin ADSL modem

p.s.: Cori, who started this thread, is probably using the same ISP, it's the most used one here in germany.

p.p.s.: I already had this box attached, through exactly the same network config, but decided to detach it when I found zillions of ghost WUs in my result list.

7) Message boards : Help! : New Host entry after each contact to scheduler (Message 2643)
Posted 2729 days ago by

Ananas

3 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms 217.0.72.50
4 131 ms 131 ms 132 ms 62.156.131.182
5 133 ms 134 ms 135 ms so-6-0-0.gar1.Washington1.Level3.net [67.29.172.1]
6 142 ms 132 ms 144 ms ae-32-56.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.68.121.190]
7 137 ms 140 ms 147 ms ae-1.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.132.30]
8 140 ms 136 ms 149 ms ae-3.ebr2.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.132.94]
9 138 ms 134 ms 137 ms ae-22-56.car2.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.68.97.181]
10 136 ms 135 ms 134 ms pos15-0-nycmnyrdc-rtr1.nyc.rr.com [24.29.113.157]
11 135 ms 139 ms 137 ms pos15-0-nycmnyrdc-rtr1.nyc.rr.com [24.29.113.157]
12 139 ms 139 ms 140 ms 24.164.160.41
13 147 ms 149 ms 142 ms 24.164.160.136
14 158 ms 149 ms 154 ms cpe-204-210-158-6.hvc.res.rr.com [204.210.158.6]

The times are not bad, 14 hops isn't a lot either. Berkeley's Galileo is nearly twice the distance (time-wise) and 14 hops too but works fine.

A big ping (1200 bytes) has quite good response times of ~ 230ms

The web browser never had any timeouts on the site either.
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The strangest thing is, that I always get a sched_reply which looks normal and contains the new HostID. CC 4.19 just won't use it

8) Message boards : Help! : New Host entry after each contact to scheduler (Message 2636)
Posted 2730 days ago by

Ananas

*sigh* I give up, I tried several MTU sizes from 1500 down to 1000 but no change so this is probably not the reason.

It gives me a sched_reply with a fresh Host-ID on each contact but CC 4.19 still insists "no scheduler responding".

I didn't have that on any other project server, including vassar.

9) Message boards : Help! : New Host entry after each contact to scheduler (Message 2612)
Posted 2731 days ago by

Ananas

Pirates@Home - 2006-01-26 08:25:34 - Host ID not assigned yet
...
--- - 2006-01-26 08:25:38 - Insufficient work; requesting more
Pirates@Home - 2006-01-26 08:25:38 - Requesting 146479 seconds of work
Pirates@Home - 2006-01-26 08:25:38 - Sending request to scheduler: http://pirates.spy-hill.net/cgi-bin/scheduler
Pirates@Home - 2006-01-26 08:25:41 - Scheduler RPC to http://pirates.spy-hill.net/cgi-bin/scheduler failed
Pirates@Home - 2006-01-26 08:25:41 - No schedulers responded
Pirates@Home - 2006-01-26 08:25:41 - Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds

It still added one ID on this attempt, but only one, before, it has been 2 quite often.

So it's basically the same missing handshake ACK that creates those phantom WUs, that get assigned but never arrived.

The time values are CET, the host that has been created on this first attempt is 18668.

It did create a new sched_reply.xml file btw., it looks OK too,I hve no idea why the BOINC client doesn't use it.

Unfortunately it didn't fix the problem, just the "new hosts creation rate" dropped. I wonder why the communication fails so often, even though the transferred data seem to arrive.

10) Message boards : Help! : New Host entry after each contact to scheduler (Message 2606)
Posted 2731 days ago by

Ananas

I can imagine where it comes from :

The first scheduler (pirates.spy-hill.net/cgi-bin/scheduler) contact nearly always fails although there seems to be a scheduler listening.

It goes to the second scheduler (pirates.spy-hill.net/cgi-bin/cgi) immediately and receives a new ID, not knowing that the first scheduler created a new ID for the same machine too.

Sometimes both scheduler contacts fail, both create an ID but the reply never arrives and the BOINC client will continue asking for an ID.

I get failed scheduler contacts very often here, some assigning work that never arrives, some for receiving an ID that never arrives.

Is there a way to increase the debug output of CC 4.19 so I can check what happens? No paket monitor available so that is not an option ;-)

edit : could it be a DSL problem with the Max. MTU size ?

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