Posts by SteveTheCynic

1) Message boards : Questions : Why does Science United keep removing my statically-configured projects from BOINC Manager? (Message 1456) Posted 1 Dec 2022 by SteveTheCynic Post: OK, but where do I find that control? (I'm on Windows, if that affects anything.)
2) Message boards : Questions : Why does Science United keep removing my statically-configured projects from BOINC Manager? (Message 1453) Posted 28 Nov 2022 by SteveTheCynic Post: Why does Science United keep removing my statically-configured projects from BOINC Manager? I think that's clear enough, but... * I configure, say, Rosetta, as an "Add Project..." in BOINC Manager, and it will be there doing work for a while, and then it's gone from the list. * I presume that Science United is the guilty party, since I can't imagine why BOINC Manager would remove projects all by itself. * I might be wrong. Can anyone shed any light on this? Thanks -- Steve
3) Message boards : Questions : How do I block a specific project? (Message 877) Posted 25 Oct 2021 by SteveTheCynic Post: Sorry about the delay getting back here. Yes, thanks, that was it. For some reason, I mis-read something and thought those were links to the projects rather than to the Science United settings for the projects. Ugh. Definitely a PEBKAC problem.
4) Message boards : Questions : Windows 11, alternative data directory, getting the Invalid GUI RPC password error. Help? (Message 860) Posted 15 Oct 2021 by SteveTheCynic Post: A little more on the system: big fat fast i9 CPU, RTX 2080 Ti GPU Lots of RAM. Logging in to the system on an Active Directory domain user that's in the Local Administrators group. C: is an SSD, and N: is a pair of spinning rust disks in NTFS striped Dynamic Disk configuration. Boinc is installed on C:, but its data directory is configured to be on N:, in "N:\BOINC Data". Anyone telling me not to have spaces in the directory name will be ignored because the default location has spaces in its name. Anyway, it's fine for a while after I delete gui_rpc_auth.cfg from "N:\BOINC Data", but suddenly, in the middle of the day (er, while I'm not there, duh), it will lose track of the password, and pop a dialog box reporting that it has an invalid GUI RPC password. If I shut everything down (including killing 36 tasks via Task Manager (er, yes, it's a fat CPU)), and delete gui_rpc_auth.cfg, it creates a new one, and works fine for a few days. BOINC Manager is the latest one available. Any hints on how to fix this? (Is it a permissions problem on the data directory?)
5) Message boards : Questions : How do I block a specific project? (Message 855) Posted 13 Oct 2021 by SteveTheCynic Post: I've done this in the past for Cosmology@Home, which (at the time) would block all cores/threads of my CPU and not actually compute (really, Task Manager would report 0% CPU used, or near to it). Maybe that's been fixed, maybe it hasn't, but whatever. I want to block Amicable Numbers because it posts a bazillion tasks that use all 36 CPUs (yeah, I'm rich, I can afford an i9 10980XE), and therefore blocks all other tasks (which isn't very amicable...) (sorry). However, I don't want to block other mathematics projects, so I can't just block mathematics in general. So how do I mark Amicable as "excluded"? (And how do I unmark Cosmology to see if they've fixed the problem?)