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B4 you throw in the towel....
It sounds like Choice is not working. Open a command prompt, type choice /? and press enter. It should display the choice help message with all the options available.
If that works then open the .bat file and delete the very first line :@ECHO OFF. Now go to the last line and change the word Exit to Pause and then save the .bat file. Now double click the .bat file to run it.
This edit of the .bat file will allow you to see what it is doing.
:mad: Yeha, that was that Swiss knife that I cut myself with. It seems I am not the only one. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Fire$torm
:) I never could understand that thing but I can program in COBOL, ancient things for an ancient guy. :D
I may have found the problem & am trying it again, I was up making the changes as you were posting that. I looked at the .bat file & I had the wrong Path/Directory for the boinccmd.exe, I changed it to the proper Path & will see what happens when a Wu Hangs. If it works okay I'll set up a couple more Box's but for now have them chewing on the WCG ATI Wu's ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Fire$torm
Sounds good to me Ste\/e.
Btw, for anyone that used to run Donate but stopped because of their server not talking to the wu's, it looks like they found a workaround. Probably using some kind of script to monitor network communications and reset server/network when problems are detected. Basically that end of the project works now, so all you need is set up the reset rule and associated .bat file and you are golden!
@Steve: Could you plz post your Donate app_info.xml file ? I want to try doubling up on my xx70's.
I use a app_config.xml file but you can try & change it to app_info.xml:
<app_config>
<app>
<name>test</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.5</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
<max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
</app>
</app_config>
Thx Ste\/e.
Question: Have you noticed issues with any projects using BOINC 7.0.4x? If not then I'll just go that route and run the app_config.
I haven't really had any problems other than you get the "This Project is not the Highest Priority" Message. I just ignore it & work will Download on the 2'nd or 3'rd try, I haven't run out of work yet & I'm running 7.0.42 & 7.0.44 on all 18 of my Box's ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Fire$torm
I usually run all my Projects at 100 Resource Share, so each Project is not the Highest but it's the same as the others so I get work for any Project that way ...
Haven't had any Wu's hang yet so don't know if the .bat files is working or not, I'll let it run over night & can check the BoincTasks History file in the morn to see if any Hung & got restarted by the .bat file. They should show up as short run Wu's that completed ...
Well that didn't work either, woke up this morning with both Wu's Hung & running yet. One was at 6 Hr's the other at 25 Min's so it just hung ... So now the Problem appears to be that the .bat file won't stop the Wu when it should at 21 Min's ...
I tried that app and gain sometime because I had a better use of CPU and GPU. 54 minutes for 2 WUs so 27 minutes each, very good for my GPU, I was doing must worst before. Thanks STE\/E. =D>Quote:
Originally Posted by STE\/E
Glad it works for you Duke ...
@F$' I'll post my .bat file, can you see anything wrong with it ??? It was suspending the Wu's but not restarting them, then I changed the Path to the boincccmd to the proper Path & now it won't Suspend the Wu's anymore when they reach the Time limit I set. The Path to the .bat file should be okay too, I've checked it several times already ...
:@ECHO OFF
CLS
:BEGIN
E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ nomorework
E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ suspend
CHOICE /N /D Y /T 10
E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ reset
CHOICE /N /D Y /T 15
E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ resume
CHOICE /N /D Y /T 5
E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ allowmorework
E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ update
:END
Exit
:mad: No tasks for Donate at least for me. :p
Hmmmm, looks like you have two sets of problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by STE\/E
1) You have an extra space where it should not be. E:\PROGRAM FILES \ should be E:\PROGRAM FILES\ This error is repeated for all the boinccmd lines.
2) You need to add quote marks to all directory paths. Example: "E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd"
Batch files work at the shell/Command/DOS level and DOS is stupid. It sees any space as an End Of Line so it cuts off the rest of the statement. The quote marks say Hey stupid DOS, these spaces are not "End Of Line", so please keep reading"
All fixed below
Code:
:@ECHO OFF
CLS
:BEGIN
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ nomorework
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ suspend
CHOICE /N /D Y /T 10
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ reset
CHOICE /N /D Y /T 15
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ resume
CHOICE /N /D Y /T 5
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ allowmorework
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ update
:END
Exit
Okay I'll try that, I just copied the .bat files from one of your Quotes, I wondered about the Space & tried it both ways but still didn't work but didn't have the " " so it wasn't going to work ... Thanks
EDIT: No work right now to try the .bat file out ...
Quote:
Originally Posted by STE\/E
You can test the .bat file with another project like MooWrap just to make sure BOINC sees the commands.
For testing with MooWrap
Code:@ECHO OFF
CLS
:BEGIN
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://moowrap.net/ nomorework
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://moowrap.net/ suspend
CHOICE /N /D Y /T 10
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://moowrap.net/ reset
CHOICE /N /D Y /T 15
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://moowrap.net/ resume
CHOICE /N /D Y /T 5
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://moowrap.net/ allowmorework
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://moowrap.net/ update
:END
Exit
Project has work again, I set up a 2'nd Box with the .bat file to try & see if it works for me ...
Project seems to be down again ??? Wu's won't progress & the .bat file still doesn't work on either Box, doesn't stop the Wu's when the Time Limit is reached ... ~X( ... Back the WCG again for those 2 Box's ... :rolleyes:
I got the .bat File to work at least on one Box, trying it on another Box to see if the change I made works on it too ... I added a few minutes to the Time Limit too as I noticed some of the Wu's run a few minutes longer & don't really need to be reset ...
EDIT: I was mistaken, the .bat file is working as it does suspend the Wu & then resume it like it should but for some reason the Wu's revert back to the standard Donate Setting's of running just 1 Wu while the other Wu sit's idle & using the .991 CPU instead of the .5 CPU I have in the app_config file. Also the 1 Wu running runs slower than crap & I have to Exit BOINC & Restart BOINC again to get 2 Wu's running again like they should until another Wu Hangs again ...
Quote:
Originally Posted by STE\/E
OK, I had to make certain assumptions.
*you have your remote systems setup with automatic user login.
*Your remote systems have BOINC set to launch with user login
This version of the .bat file will fix Donate then shut down BOINC and then restart the computer. I had to set it this way as restarting BOINC from within a batch file has weird behavior. The shutdown command has a small popup window (which can be ignored) and is set to restart the system with the default timeout of 30 seconds.
Code:
:@ECHO OFF
CLS
:BEGIN
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ nomorework
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ suspend
CHOICE /N /D Y /T 10
SHUTDOWN /r /f
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ reset
CHOICE /N /D Y /T 5
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ resume
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ allowmorework
"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --quit
:END
Exit
Yes, I get a split second of Power Outage every so often from ThunderStorms rolling thru, maybe once every 6 month's if even that often so I set them up that way as the Box's will power back on almost instantly. I could run UPS Battery Backups & did at one time but the Cost for the UPS's & replacement battery's & the extra heat created by the backups I decided it they just weren't worth it. I wasn't going to lose anything critical so I got rid of them all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fire$torm
Your most recent .bat file works for me, at first it didn't quit do the job as when the Box rebooted only 1 Donate Wu would run when BOINC would start up & it would run real slow like 1 Hr + to run a Wu. The reason for that was because the Wu wouldn't be using any CPU Resources. There would be 8 CPU Wu's running after it rebooted, so I checked the BOINC Event Log to see if the BOINC Manager was seeing the app_config file in the Donate Directory. It was seeing it but was giving a Message about the Donate .exe file not being listed in the config file. So I guess it would revert to the standard Donate settings of running only 1 Wu.
Why it wouldn't use any CPU Resource I don't know because the Standard Donate settings are for it to use .991 CPU. Anywho I took the Config file out & put a app_info.xml file in it's place & now 2 Wu's start up when BOINC restarts again. They also use .5 CPU like the app_info.xml files says to use & run at there normal 18 Min's or so for 2 running. I was getting Wu Error's too when the Box's rebooted, with the new app_info.xml file in place with the Donate .exe listed I don't get the error's.
I also put a Shortcut to the BoincTasks .exe in the Windows Startup Folder so BoincTasks would restart when the Box rebooted. Without the Shortcut BoincTasks won't restart until you do it Manually.
This is the app_info.xml file I'm using if you need it, I guess you could name it app_config.xml, either way it should work:
<app_info>
<app>
<name>test</name>
<user_friendly_name>Donate ATI openCL app_info</user_friendly_name>
</app>
<file_info>
<name>dah618.exe</name>
<executable/>
</file_info>
<file_info>
<name>OpenCL.dll</name>
</file_info>
<app_version>
<app_name>test</app_name>
<version_num>618</version_num>
<platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
<avg_ncpus>0.500000</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>0.500000</max_ncpus>
<flops>1e+11</flops>
<plan_class>opencl_ati_100</plan_class>
<api_version>7.1.0</api_version>
<file_ref>
<file_name>dah618.exe</file_name>
<main_program/>
<copy_file/>
</file_ref>
<file_ref>
<file_name>OpenCL.dll</file_name>
<open_name>OpenCL.dll</open_name>
<copy_file/>
</file_ref>
<coproc>
<type>ATI</type>
<count>0.500000</count>
</coproc>
<gpu_ram>268435456.000000</gpu_ram>
</app_version>
</app_info>
Project back up but now work ATM ...
What files do I need to run the opencl ATI Wu's on my Nvidia Cards. My GTX is taking 30+ Min's to run a Wu now, I know it was taking less than than some time ago but apparently I don't have the right files in the Project directory to run the ATI Wu's. I tried a app file I have but it doesn't work ...
Well, it's been a couple of days and still no work. Now adding to it, the website is missing user stats and server stats. Maybe they are pulling the plug but don't want to admit it...? Time will tell.Quote:
Originally Posted by RSS
That would really annoy me since I was just about to work on getting 10M there. Even tasks that are downloaded can't complete without the server apparently. I had to abort one just now because it's just been wasting crunching time doing nothing and the deadline's been reached.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fire$torm
I hear ya but it looks like they may make a liar out of me..... :P The front page of their site has stats again. Although earlier I still couldn't connect to their server. Anyhoot Keeping my fingers crossed.Quote:
Originally Posted by trigggl
Bump.
Looks like Donate is running better since the server upgrade. I started running it after the Pentathlon and the 1 minute fails haven't surfaced (knock on wood). I have also seen very little of the run-on wu's but my workaround still works flawlessly when it does happen.