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Send message Joined: 1 Feb 05 Posts: 2 Credit: 82,174 RAC: 0 |
I'm very disappointed with the linux client. I don't reboot my system many times, but more than one a month for sure. Almost every time I reboot (even with a clean "kill pid" before shutdown) i lost all my model work. Since it takes something like a month to complete a model, I fell like I will never contribute to this project. Some work should be done by the project developers in order to prevent so much loss of work, I believe that many people is in my situation. Thanks and best regards, Joao Simoes |
Send message Joined: 17 Aug 04 Posts: 753 Credit: 9,804,700 RAC: 0 |
You can be reassured that lots of other people use Linux for CPDN, and very successfully. I suspect that your problem is not caused by rebooting, but by closing the program. How do you shut down your system? |
Send message Joined: 4 Sep 04 Posts: 61 Credit: 80,585 RAC: 0 |
Make sure that you kill the BOINC client and not any of the tasks running under it. If you kill CPDN's task, you will surely lose work. CPDN runs a monitor under BOINC that handles the interprocess comms and ensures safe shutdown of the project. A "kill pid" works fine for this. |
Send message Joined: 1 Feb 05 Posts: 2 Credit: 82,174 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for the help, it looks like the problem was that boinc created all it's configuration and xml files under the folder where I started it. Now I allways run boinc with "cd /boinc && boinc" and it works just fine. Thanks! Joao |
Send message Joined: 17 Apr 05 Posts: 1 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
I am running BOING under Linux from the command line. If i terminate the program with CTRL+C is all the work lost ? |
Send message Joined: 7 Aug 04 Posts: 2183 Credit: 64,822,615 RAC: 5,275 |
> I am running BOING under Linux from the command line. > If i terminate the program with CTRL+C is all the work lost ? > > Nope, that is the standard way to shut it down when running from a terminal window. It results in a clean shutdown of the app. |
Send message Joined: 2 Nov 04 Posts: 1 Credit: 112,145 RAC: 0 |
> You can be reassured that lots of other people use Linux for CPDN, and very > successfully. > > I suspect that your problem is not caused by rebooting, but by closing the > program. How do you shut down your system? > I run it on 2 Linux systems and I have no issues. I reboot regularly (one is my desktop PC, one is my server) |
Send message Joined: 16 Sep 04 Posts: 2 Credit: 765,509 RAC: 0 |
> You can be reassured that lots of other people use Linux for CPDN, and very > successfully. Yes, many of us do and without issues... I get more grief from my naff Win2k build on my laptop at work than I've even done from my [various] linux [distros] at home and at work (using RedHat ES3, and Slackware 9.0 & 10.0 without trouble). All CPDN clients seem to like saving work alter a multiple of ?x144 TS steps - are you sure that your processor is fast enough to get this far between reboots (should be unless it's a very old 486 or 386 processor) regards, Mark |
Send message Joined: 5 Sep 04 Posts: 7629 Credit: 24,240,330 RAC: 0 |
Alessandro Bernardini is using a "Genuine Intel Pentium II (Deschutes)". He's had no trickles since he posted. Isn't that a rather old, slow machine? |
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