G3 iMac Failing All WUs

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noderaser Send message Joined: 24 Dec 08 Posts: 88 Credit: 1,496,863 RAC: 0	Message 728 - Posted: 25 Dec 2008, 18:54:36 UTC I have a 350 MHz G3 iMac that is failing all of its work units... Does Enigma require AltiVec? Click Here to see My Detailed BOINC Stats ID: 728 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

noderaser Send message Joined: 24 Dec 08 Posts: 88 Credit: 1,496,863 RAC: 0	Message 729 - Posted: 26 Dec 2008, 5:44:21 UTC - in response to Message 728. At any rate, I've suspended new Enigma work on this host... Haven't gotten a result from my G4 yet, to see if it's a PPC thing. My Intel Mac (MacBook Pro) seems to be returning valid results, but both the BOINC manager and website WU info show CPU time of 0. Also, progress in BOINC manager remains at 0 until the unit is done, when it naturally reports 100%. Click Here to see My Detailed BOINC Stats ID: 729 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

TJM Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 25 Aug 07 Posts: 843 Credit: 267,994,998 RAC: 0	Message 731 - Posted: 31 Dec 2008, 10:03:24 UTC - in response to Message 728. I have a 350 MHz G3 iMac that is failing all of its work units... Does Enigma require AltiVec? I think it should run on G3, but the app is quite old and it was never fully tested. At any rate, I've suspended new Enigma work on this host... Haven't gotten a result from my G4 yet, to see if it's a PPC thing. My Intel Mac (MacBook Pro) seems to be returning valid results, but both the BOINC manager and website WU info show CPU time of 0. Also, progress in BOINC manager remains at 0 until the unit is done, when it naturally reports 100%. The Mac wrapper has a lot of minor bugs, the source was fixed (I think) and I've added progress indicator, but I don't have a Mac, so I have to find someone who will compile sources. M4 Project homepage M4 Project wiki ID: 731 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Ageless Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 07 Posts: 104 Credit: 155,932 RAC: 0	Message 739 - Posted: 6 Jan 2009, 7:35:05 UTC - in response to Message 731. Something for Dotsch, perhaps? ;-) Jord. BOINC FAQ Service. ID: 739 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

TJM Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 25 Aug 07 Posts: 843 Credit: 267,994,998 RAC: 0	Message 741 - Posted: 6 Jan 2009, 17:05:38 UTC I think that Dotsch either forgot about me, or didn't read my mail or PM here :-D M4 Project homepage M4 Project wiki ID: 741 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

MB Atlanos Send message Joined: 14 Sep 07 Posts: 10 Credit: 36,546 RAC: 0	Message 744 - Posted: 7 Jan 2009, 22:35:28 UTC Last modified: 7 Jan 2009, 22:36:33 UTC My 350 MHz G3 iMac with Panther 10.3.9 shows the same behavior. WUs are finished few seconds after start, but are invalid with "process got signal 5" see: http://www.enigmaathome.net/show_host_detail.php?hostid=6100 A G4 Mac Mini with Tiger 10.4.11 has no problems, exept the missing progress indicator and CPU time = zero of the Mac-wrapper. ID: 744 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Dotsch Send message Joined: 14 Sep 07 Posts: 10 Credit: 199 RAC: 0	Message 746 - Posted: 8 Jan 2009, 4:56:11 UTC - in response to Message 741. I think that Dotsch either forgot about me, or didn't read my mail or PM here :-D I am very sorry, I have not sawn your mail. - I will compile the new application. ID: 746 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

MB Atlanos Send message Joined: 14 Sep 07 Posts: 10 Credit: 36,546 RAC: 0	Message 760 - Posted: 17 Jan 2009, 14:17:27 UTC - in response to Message 746. I think that Dotsch either forgot about me, or didn't read my mail or PM here :-D I am very sorry, I have not sawn your mail. - I will compile the new application. Good news. @TJM: When can we try the new Mac app? ID: 760 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

MB Atlanos Send message Joined: 14 Sep 07 Posts: 10 Credit: 36,546 RAC: 0	Message 1471 - Posted: 27 Dec 2009, 0:41:30 UTC Any news from a working MacOS X app? ID: 1471 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

noderaser Send message Joined: 24 Dec 08 Posts: 88 Credit: 1,496,863 RAC: 0	Message 1472 - Posted: 27 Dec 2009, 4:26:11 UTC Things still seem to be "working" on G4/Intel for me. There is something wrong with the time estimations for the currently running session, which is documented somewhere in another thread. Click Here to see My Detailed BOINC Stats ID: 1472 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

TJM Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 25 Aug 07 Posts: 843 Credit: 267,994,998 RAC: 0	Message 1473 - Posted: 29 Dec 2009, 1:16:15 UTC Last modified: 29 Dec 2009, 1:19:01 UTC The app itself works, the wrapper is the real problem here. It does not read CPU time correctly, this causes minor display bug on the site (0 CPU time shown on workunit/result pages), but also decreases the Task Duration Correction Factor slowly and affects client's job queue (especially after the TDCF drops to very low value). Unfortunately I'm unable to fix this bug, my knowledge about MACs is close to none and I don't have any machine to compile/debug the wrapper. Building the wrapper on Mac isn't that easy, a few users already tried and failed - it requires the BOINC API so basically all the libraries from BOINC source tree have to be compiled first. M4 Project homepage M4 Project wiki ID: 1473 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

noderaser Send message Joined: 24 Dec 08 Posts: 88 Credit: 1,496,863 RAC: 0	Message 1596 - Posted: 8 May 2010, 6:54:43 UTC Still no joy for G3s. Click Here to see My Detailed BOINC Stats ID: 1596 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote