Work unit stuck?

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[BAT] tutta55 Send message Joined: 5 Apr 07 Posts: 11 Credit: 11,175,619 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 5490 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 10:10:00 UTC Last modified: 11 Jan 2009, 10:10:32 UTC I have a work unit that stays at 48.352%. CPU time is already at 9h26 and counting, which is at least double as much as usual. Time to completion counts UP as well. This is the WU http://www.gpugrid.net/workunit.php?wuid=156801 What to do? Wait? Abort? BOINC.BE: For Belgians who love the smell of glowing red cpu's in the morning Tutta55's Lair ID: 5490 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Stefan Ledwina Send message Joined: 16 Jul 07 Posts: 464 Credit: 298,573,998 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 5491 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 10:41:52 UTC - in response to Message 5490. I never had a stuck WU, but have you already tried to stop and re-start BOINC? Or reboot the computer and see if it continues to crunch? pixelicious.at - my little photoblog ID: 5491 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

[BAT] tutta55 Send message Joined: 5 Apr 07 Posts: 11 Credit: 11,175,619 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 5493 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 11:22:01 UTC - in response to Message 5491. I never had a stuck WU, but have you already tried to stop and re-start BOINC? Or reboot the computer and see if it continues to crunch? I already tried stop/restart. Now I also did a reboot. The situation has remained the same. CPU time counting up, but % not moving. ID: 5493 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

[BAT] tutta55 Send message Joined: 5 Apr 07 Posts: 11 Credit: 11,175,619 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 5494 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 11:54:31 UTC I finally aborted the WU. There are some strange messages in the error log. A whole series of "MDIO ERROR: illegal value: incorrect value for stepnum". Maybe that can tell the devs something? ID: 5494 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

ignasi Send message Joined: 10 Apr 08 Posts: 254 Credit: 16,836,000 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 5517 - Posted: 12 Jan 2009, 9:18:22 UTC - in response to Message 5494. I finally aborted the WU. There are some strange messages in the error log. A whole series of "MDIO ERROR: illegal value: incorrect value for stepnum". Maybe that can tell the devs something? Seems to be quite random error as it's been already finished successfully. Thanks though, ignasi ID: 5517 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

[BAT] tutta55 Send message Joined: 5 Apr 07 Posts: 11 Credit: 11,175,619 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 5560 - Posted: 13 Jan 2009, 0:07:46 UTC - in response to Message 5517. I finally aborted the WU. There are some strange messages in the error log. A whole series of "MDIO ERROR: illegal value: incorrect value for stepnum". Maybe that can tell the devs something? Seems to be quite random error as it's been already finished successfully. Thanks though, ignasi I can't say for sure, since I only noticed late that %done stopped moving, but I think it happened after a reboot of the system. I suspect that resuming the work unit has made it gone wrong. ID: 5560 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

[BAT] tutta55 Send message Joined: 5 Apr 07 Posts: 11 Credit: 11,175,619 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 5665 - Posted: 16 Jan 2009, 9:10:24 UTC It happened again. A work unit with % done stuck: http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=218594 This time I am sure it happened after a stop/restart. I had to reboot after a Windows update. After that the WU's % done stopped moving. The error log contains "MDIO ERROR: illegal value: incorrect value for stepnum" again. I have the impression something can go wrong when resuming a WU. Not in all cases though, most of the times WU's resume normally. ID: 5665 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1958 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 5789 - Posted: 19 Jan 2009, 21:06:28 UTC - in response to Message 5665. Do you suspend the WU or you just reboot the machine while the app is running? The state might get corrupted in the last case. gdf ID: 5789 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote