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SMP keeps shutting down...

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I came home tonight and my SMP folder was at 21%..so I check it about an hour later and its still at 21%...

Strange I thought, so I shut it down and restarted it....I look at it a while leter and its at 46%... all looks well, except an hour later, Its still at 46%..so I shut down and restart again.....


I'm looking at the logs, and it says thats its shutdown at user request???....I sure as hell didn't request that...:)

Any ideas what could do this?

This box has been cranking out units for 2 weeks without a hitch....


[21:06:58] Completed 100000 out of 500000 steps (20 percent)
[21:16:36] Writing local files
[21:16:36] Completed 105000 out of 500000 steps (21 percent)

Folding@Home Client Shutdown at user request.

Folding@Home Client Shutdown.
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[18:08:02] Completed 230000 out of 500000 steps (46 percent)
[18:17:39] Writing local files
[18:17:39] Completed 235000 out of 500000 steps (47 percent)


Folding@Home Client Shutdown at user request.

Folding@Home Client Shutdown.
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Killer[MoB];1032066177 said:
is the dos box staying open?
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Yes, its still open....but the client just sits there and the time does not change...thats how I knew it had stopped the last time..and it had been stopped for about 30 minutes according to when the last file was written..
 
The normal cause of that is loss of network connection.

BUT, I have never seen it say:
"Folding@Home Client Shutdown at user request.

Folding@Home Client Shutdown" from losing the network connection. Only after hitting Ctrl-C have I seen that in the log. After losing the network connection, the log file just has the last frame data just like the dos box and it stays that way till you restart the client.
 
Yeah, the "Folding@Home Client Shutdown at user request." is the part that has me stumped....

Its running now and it has been for about 60 minutes..Ill see what happens.....The shitty part is that this machine is unattended from Sunday night at 5PM until Thursday night at about 5 Pm....Its my only SMP rig so when it goes down, It hits me hard..:)
 
Do you have -verbosity 9 set in the shortcut for the SMP client? If not, you may want to do that as it might give you a little more info in regards to what is going on. I can't guarantee it will, but it might. I'm not used to using the Windows SMP version so I'm not 100% sure how it acts. All I know is that I don't generally get anything like that with the Linux SMP.

 
Double check your task scheduler first. Second go in and check your power settings. If you had a bad reboot and the os reverted to an older regestery it is possible somthing is shutting down.

When this happens, in the dos window is the cursor blinking or has it stopped?

Just some odd thoughts;)

 
Are you on a wired or wireless connection ?
Are you on XP or Vista ?

Next time you think it has hung, open "Windoze Task Manager" and check your CPU load.
If its a 0% load and the dos window shows it working then it is probably a network reset.

The client shutdown line is the result of even though the client is not working, it's still open, so it records you shutting it down.

Luck ............ :D
 
Tigerbiten said:
Are you on a wired or wireless connection ?
Are you on XP or Vista ?

Next time you think it has hung, open "Windoze Task Manager" and check your CPU load.
If its a 0% load and the dos window shows it working then it is probably a network reset.

The client shutdown line is the result of even though the client is not working, it's still open, so it records you shutting it down.

Luck ............ :D
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That's correct. when there is a network reset, the client will just hang like that but will still register when you stop the client. Just get Vista and your issues will be gone...

 
Tigerbiten said:
Are you on a wired or wireless connection ?
Are you on XP or Vista ?

Next time you think it has hung, open "Windoze Task Manager" and check your CPU load.
If its a 0% load and the dos window shows it working then it is probably a network reset.

The client shutdown line is the result of even though the client is not working, it's still open, so it records you shutting it down.

Luck ............ :D
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Its a wired connection...and Im on XP Pro...
it seems to be OK now..it ran all night and didn't shutdown....
Ill see what happens...Might have been a network issue, we had an ice storm last week and my ISP has been busy hanging new wires around here ..:)


Xilikon said:
Just get Vista and your issues will be gone...
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Someone get help up to Canada quick, I think Bill Gates is holding a gun to Xilikon's head..:)
 
LOL... I'm just happy with my own copy of Vista (free). However, I don't recommend them for large distribution to businesses still ;)

The thing with Vista is that with the rewritten TCP/IP stack, it's insensitive to networking issues so even if you unplug the network card, the SMP client will still crunch numbers. Other versions of Windows/Linux will always stall the SMP client on any networking issue...

 
Xilikon said:
LOL... I'm just happy with my own copy of Vista (free). However, I don't recommend them for large distribution to businesses still ;)

The thing with Vista is that with the rewritten TCP/IP stack, it's insensitive to networking issues so even if you unplug the network card, the SMP client will still crunch numbers. Other versions of Windows/Linux will always stall the SMP client on any networking issue...

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I actually bought a copy of Vista Home Premium, I'm going to install it on my next rebuild.....
I had it on a system for a while but it didn't play nice with COD-4 and my onboard sound.....rather than trouble shoot it, I took the easy way out and reinstalled XP...:)
 
Xilikon said:
LOL... I'm just happy with my own copy of Vista (free). However, I don't recommend them for large distribution to businesses still ;)

The thing with Vista is that with the rewritten TCP/IP stack, it's insensitive to networking issues so even if you unplug the network card, the SMP client will still crunch numbers. Other versions of Windows/Linux will always stall the SMP client on any networking issue...

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Yes, Xilikon is correct. :eek:

I have 5 SMP boxen, and the Vista machines are stable when there are network issues. I have deliberately unplugged routers and switches to see what problems result.

The Vista boxen just keeps on working. :)
 
With a Quad, the other trick is to run the Linux client inside a couple of VM's.
That way it uses an internal network, not the external one.
A lot more PpD and stable to network outages .......... :cool:

Luck ............ :D
 
I don't normally have a problem with a connection between my PCs and the routers so I don't have a problem with the client stopping because of that. Plus, it may help that I'm running Linux on them instead of Windows. It doesn't seem to throw as bad a fit if something funky happens with the network. It just goes back to business as usual once the problems are worked out.

 
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