Hello, I am new to this program. I started it two nights ago after seeing it in action on a Global Warming special. I installed it and started it running. After waking up in the morning, I came in and checked and it only showed an hour completed, not the eight that I expected. So I let it continue all day yesterday and it had about 16 hours when I went to bed last night. When I woke up this morning, I looked at the model and it was claiming only an hour again! Was is going on? It seems to work fine through the day but not overnight? Any suggestions, I really want to help the project, but I\'m not going to keep my computer running 24/7 if it isn\'t going to work. Thanks

Look in the preference of boinc or climateprediction. Maybe is there a time specified, on which the projects are not running

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There are no time restrictions at all in the preferences. Any other ideas? And if it was a time restriction issue, wouldn\'t it still pick up from the last spot instead of reverting back to 1 hour completed? Thanks

Which Boinc version do you use?

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Jord.

Your model is crashing, and you\'re getting a new one.
(If you write down the longish name of the wu in Tasks, and compare it the next day, you\'ll see that it\'s a different name.)

An overnight crash sounds like you have a virus checker running then.
Some of these do nasty things to the model, such as locking files before checking; if the model can\'t use the file when it wants to, it crashes.
And some checkers are finding \'false positives\' in files and deleting them without asking first.

The advice is to use the options in the virus checker to exclude all of the folders and files, starting from BOINC.
There will be 2 types of scan: manual and scheduled.

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Backups: Here

Hi Camaro

It would be a good idea to go to the \'Here\' link in Les\'s signature. (It leads to a different cpdn forum, but that doesn\'t matter as everyone can read it. If you want to post there, you\'ll need to register separately.)

I would suggest reading the following:

*In the README about about running the model, the top tips

*In the README about avoiding model crashes, item #5 by Mike

*When you\'ve got your model running properly, look at the README about backups (Les\'s manual method is the simplest). Backing up regularly means that if your model does crash, you can restore the backup and continue with the same model.

*Don\'t despair about a few model crashes in the first few days. The crashed models go back into the pool and are sent out again, so no harm\'s done. In addition, distributed computing is very different from anything we\'ve ever previously used our computers for.


I\'ve now looked at your computer details and model details, of which there isn\'t much to show yet. Computer specs are fine, no problem there. But a crashed model does show

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/result.php?resultid=6493014

and I\'d guess that the \'scan - boinc_lockfile\' message does indeed mean that your scan caused the crash. You\'ll either have to exclude the whole boinc folder from all scans, or scan manually after exiting from boinc.

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Thanks all, that makes sense since my virus scanner does go in the middle of the night. I\'ll disable the scan and look into backing up the data daily. Thanks again.

Rather than disabling the virus scan, see if you can add the Boinc directories into the antivirus\'s \'exclusions\' list (i.e., the list of folder which don\'t get virus scanned).

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