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Message 45581 - Posted: 11 Nov 2004, 15:53:52 UTC

Hello!
Something is wrong with me BOINC 4.13 and S@H 4.02
It downloads a file, starts computations and a few seconds later says "finished", uploads amd tries to get next sample ("there is no work.." message from server; client waits for 1 minute and then downloads next sample). Each computation takes about 10 - 20 seconds. S@H server doesn't count results (I thinks results are bad or "empty"). What can be wrong? I'm runnig on MandrakeLinux 10.0, 2.6.3-4mdk kernel. I tried to start Boinc as dedicated user 'boinc' and as root... same problem.
How can I fix this?

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Message 45649 - Posted: 11 Nov 2004, 20:08:16 UTC
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Your result files surely look suspicious.
There's something going wrong:

SETI@home error -11 Unknown error
FPU failure in pulse_find
File: pulsefind.cpp
Line: 314

You might try downloading a boinc client from "http://boinc.us.tt/".
The link isn't working ATM since "home.arcor.de" seems to be down,
but I guess they'll get their act together sooner or later.

P.S:

If you mail me at hjdorn@freenet.de",
I could mail one of my clients over to you.

Regards Hans

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Message 45674 - Posted: 11 Nov 2004, 22:16:34 UTC - in response to Message 45649.  

Thanks for answering my question!
I'm running same version of software (downloaded from official Setiweb page) on my mobile PII machine, and everything is working fine (same version of Linux and kernel). Now I'm wondering why (as shown on my result page) software cannot? detect amount of RAM on my Celeron machine? Maybe there is a hardware / incompatibility problem, or I need some packets / files wchich are not installed on this computer?
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Message 45702 - Posted: 11 Nov 2004, 23:14:25 UTC

Are you overclocking this system? If so, slow it back down.

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Message 45719 - Posted: 12 Nov 2004, 0:14:00 UTC

PC #4 says "Memory -0 MB" on the PC status page. I don't know if that's related to the error but it seems strange.
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Message 47855 - Posted: 19 Nov 2004, 16:33:27 UTC - in response to Message 45702.  

> Are you overclocking this system? If so, slow it back down.
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Thanks for suggestion :)
My computer is now working at normal speed (was: Celeron-366@457 now is 366@366) - amout of memory is "almost" real - says 250 :) (true: 256) but still nothing: error -11 (unknown error).
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Message 47856 - Posted: 19 Nov 2004, 16:37:18 UTC - in response to Message 45719.  

> PC #4 says "Memory -0 MB" on the PC status page.
Thanks!
Yes, it was ?because? system was overclocked - from 66,6MHz to ~83MHz (was fine and never stopped working or restarted, etc.)
Now memory is detected OK but client is still reporting bad results.
What else can be wrong?
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