Posts by Donald Schuck
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(Message 8140)
Posted 17 Nov 2023 by Donald Schuck Post: There used to be a limit of 1000 light points in each work unit. Apps for some OSs got upgraded to handle more (Windows, Unix). Other apps have not yet been upgraded. I know macOS has the same issue. |
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(Message 7890)
Posted 8 Sep 2023 by Donald Schuck Post: bump. This is still happening and I haven't seen any engagement. Anybody out there that can look at lc > 1000 errors for MacOS & linux? I'm seeing tons of Computation Errors. |
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(Message 7848)
Posted 13 Jul 2023 by Donald Schuck Post: I dug a bit deeper, and these lc > 1000 errors have been reported before, back in March 2020, but for Windows. Per Georgi Vidinski https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/show_user.php?userid=372356 in this message, https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=788&postid=6507 In first case, where WU have been reported with the following error: * Error: Number of lc points is greater than POINTS_MAX = 1000 This is due to slightly different structure inside the newly generated WUs after new sources of data were added in the last months. We already started procedure of applying a bugfix for it. SSE2 applications are next in the list. A later message says: As of yesterday almost all CPU related Windows x64 Period search applications has been updated with applied bugfix about the 'MAX_POINTS' issue, except the 'sse2' application. |
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(Message 7847)
Posted 13 Jul 2023 by Donald Schuck Post: bump. This is still happening and I haven't seen any engagement. |
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(Message 7845)
Posted 5 Jul 2023 by Donald Schuck Post: Bump. This is for lots (if not all) Mac OS systems on this project. When I scroll through the list of top contributing systems, all the Mac models are showing this same error for about 1/2 of the CPU tasks. |
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(Message 7843)
Posted 30 Jun 2023 by Donald Schuck Post: I am running with a 2020 iMac using an Apple Silicon M. I have the most current macOS 13.4.1(22F82). Since this is being reports on different hardware but similar up to date MacOS, I suspect the issue may lay in how Astroid@Home is working with the latest MacOS update since the issue appeared. immediately following my installing the latest update. I'm also seeing the same behavior on my 2011 iMac running Mac OS 10.13.6. Same percentage of failures with the same message in the stderr output. |
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(Message 7835)
Posted 27 Jun 2023 by Donald Schuck Post: Error is: Estimated computation size 1,380,023 GFLOPs If you look at the Task details, you can see the stderr text, which shows the same error that I'm seeing on my Macs. Here's the link to the latest errored task from your Mac Pro. https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/result.php?resultid=386275105 Scroll to the bottom to see the stderr text coming back from the task. I'm hopeful that this comment in the stderr can help the developers determine what's going on: Error: Number of lc points is greater than POINTS_MAX = 1000 FWIW, this behavior (high percentage of errors and the specific lc points message) are also showing up on Android devices. |
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(Message 7834)
Posted 27 Jun 2023 by Donald Schuck Post: I'm not sure if the OP's issue is age of the hardware or software. I'm seeing ~ 60% failure rate on tasks on my two Mac computers. One is old (2011 i5) and one is new-ish (2020 M1). Both are running > 10.5. The stderr readout always shows: <![CDATA[ <message> process exited with code 2 (0x2, -254)</message> <stderr_txt> Error: Number of lc points is greater than POINTS_MAX = 1000 </stderr_txt> ]]> I have not seen any errors on my Windows Laptop. (2018 i5). |
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(Message 7833)
Posted 27 Jun 2023 by Donald Schuck Post: I'm not at all familiar with Mac OS version numbering but I have a hunch your OSX is too old. Almost every BOINC project website has a page named Applications which lists the platforms the project supports and the name and version of the application they send to each platform. The home page typically has a link to Applications. Please don't confuse Darwin 9.8 with OS 10.4 or 10.5. They are not related in the way that you think. Darwin 9 *is* OS 10.5. Darwin is the underlying UNIX code and MacOS refers to the UI riding on top of it. |
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(Message 7830)
Posted 25 Jun 2023 by Donald Schuck Post: Your computation error looks to be the same as mine. I dug down into the latest one reported by your machine and it shows the same text in the stderr output. Look at the list of your tasks, then filter for errors, then select the task number on the left, and you'll see the "detailed" error info at the bottom. https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/result.php?resultid=386114042 |
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(Message 7826)
Posted 21 Jun 2023 by Donald Schuck Post: I'm new to Asteroids@home but not necessarily new to BOINC. Roughly 50% of my tasks are erroring out with "Error: Number of lc points is greater than POINTS_MAX = 1000" I see this on both my M1 Macbook Air and my (ancient) i5 iMac. I haven't seen it yet on my i5 Windows laptop, but I just started crunching Asteroids on it the other day. Any ideas on solutions or further troubleshooting would be appreciated! |