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

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?

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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.

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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

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I am running BOING under Linux from the command line.
If i terminate the program with CTRL+C is all the work lost ?

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> 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.

> 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)

> 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

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?