1) Message boards : General Discussion : Tasks or no Tasks (Message 8075)
Posted 19 days ago by Crystal Pellet
Post:
I had run 8 Theory a couple days ago on the 8 thread host but at the same time the server claimed I also had these other 5 Theory tasks.
It happened to me last October, but not with Theory, but with 5 Xtrack beam simulations.
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/results.php?hostid=4600&offset=20&show_names=0&state=6&appid=
2) Message boards : Theory Application : Why is there no native_theory on this project? (Message 8067)
Posted 28 Apr 2023 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Or even vbox64_theory for linux?
On the production server there is:

Platform: Linux running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU Version: 300.07 (vbox64_theory)
3) Message boards : ATLAS Application : ATLAS vbox and native 3.01 (Message 8046)
Posted 25 Mar 2023 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
I looked in details at the logs of this task and it looked like it took 8 or 9 minutes to get going full steam. But still it could be that the initialisation phase is indeed longer in this new software.
Much longer init phase on my fastest cruncher.
Now it's far over 30 minutes. In production the workers are on full steam after 6 minutes.
4) Message boards : ATLAS Application : ATLAS vbox and native 3.01 (Message 8015)
Posted 21 Mar 2023 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
I got a 500 events task on my dual core / 4 threaded laptop.
I configured it to run a 4 core VM with 3500 MB RAM.
Swap so far used 'only' 1024kB. After 2 hours uptime 49 events out the 500 are ready.
Host's VBoxHeadless.exe cpu-priority set to below normal, but of course laptop gets a bit sluggish.
5) Message boards : ATLAS Application : ATLAS vbox and native 3.01 (Message 8010)
Posted 21 Mar 2023 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
I had 16 dual core tasks, running 8 concurrently. VM setup to use 3500MB RAM.
15 of them did not use swap at all. 1 used 8 kByte of the swapping page.
I want to try to do this with 4-core tasks, but no tasks available.
6) Message boards : ATLAS Application : vbox console monitoring with 3.01 (Message 7996)
Posted 20 Mar 2023 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
The readable text is showing this:
7) Message boards : ATLAS Application : vbox console monitoring with 3.01 (Message 7992)
Posted 20 Mar 2023 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
The monitoring is not working very well.
I'm running a dual core VM, 4800 MB RAM
Only 1 worker is displayed (I also see only 1 python process almost 200% CPU)
Total number of events is displayed (50)
already finished, mean, min, max, estimated time left is not displayed and every 60 seconds several lines of text are flashing (not readable) and cleared.
Worker 1 Event showing showed 2nd, 4th and then 3th event ?? for this worker took ### s (### is changing now and then e.g. 421)

My differencing file 900MB

Edit picture and no swap used, but initial setup etc lasted over 30 minutes.
Flashing text:
8) Message boards : ATLAS Application : ATLAS vbox and native 3.01 (Message 7982)
Posted 20 Mar 2023 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
I would prefer quick tasks. Not because of the size of the HITS-file.
The problem with ATLAS- (and CMS-) tasks is that they don't allow longer suspended periods.
Not all users have fast machines with a lot of cores running 24/7.
They are already happy when they can run a dual-core ATLAS-task during their daily machine uptime.
9) Message boards : Sixtrack Application : Xtrack beam simulation (Message 7941)
Posted 10 Mar 2023 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Aborted the resends I got. They are running endless.
I let one run overnight: https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3191964
10) Message boards : ATLAS Application : ATLAS vbox v.1.27 (Message 7907)
Posted 8 Dec 2022 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
I had two errors this morning.
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3162937
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3162961
I found in VBox media the parent VDI with a connected child with a yellow rectangle and exclamation mark.
The child however already left the home from his slot #1 last night at 1:15:58 UTC, but the shadow was still there.
I remove the shadow from VBox media and the next first task went fine.
Part of an error result:
2022-12-08 11:29:45 (15424): Adding virtual disk drive to VM. (ATLAS_vbox_1.27_image.vdi)
2022-12-08 11:29:52 (15424): Error in deregister parent vdi for VM: -2135228404
Command:
VBoxManage -q closemedium "D:\Boinc1/projects/lhcathomedev.cern.ch_lhcathome-dev/ATLAS_vbox_1.27_image.vdi" 
Output:
VBoxManage.exe: error: Cannot close medium 'D:\Boinc1\projects\lhcathomedev.cern.ch_lhcathome-dev\ATLAS_vbox_1.27_image.vdi' because it has 1 child media
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE (0x80bb000c), component MediumWrap, interface IMedium, callee IUnknown
VBoxManage.exe: error: Context: "Close()" at line 1862 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp
11) Message boards : News : Server Release 1.4.0 (Message 7904)
Posted 2 Dec 2022 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
And now we are at 1.4.1.
The messages sorting issue in the Message boards reported here,
seems only related to the 'News' section.
12) Message boards : ATLAS Application : ATLAS vbox v.1.18 (Message 7884)
Posted 17 Nov 2022 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Yesterday the tasks used the new wrapper v26206 as announced, but were still running the old version 1.17 of the application.

Today the new application 1.18-vdi was downloaded.
13) Message boards : News : Server Release 1.4.0 (Message 7883)
Posted 16 Nov 2022 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Get this line

set_cached_data(): can't open ../cache/f2/server_status.php_job_status

on top of the Server status page.
14) Message boards : News : Server Release 1.4.0 (Message 7871)
Posted 10 Nov 2022 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
When forum posts selected to sort newest first, the newest post is shown below the previous (older) post.
15) Message boards : ATLAS Application : ATLAS vbox v.1.17 (Message 7867)
Posted 8 Nov 2022 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
@Laurence and/or David,

Any plans to update vboxwrapper to the official released version 26206 here at dev and production?
16) Message boards : CMS Application : New Version 60.68 (Message 7850)
Posted 4 Nov 2022 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
A new CMS version was deployed this morning.
No new files were downloaded to my system.

What is the difference to the previous version?

Is it more than avoiding requesting multiple idtokens?
17) Message boards : CMS Application : New Version 60.67 (Message 7847)
Posted 3 Nov 2022 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
I tested 1 CMS-task v60.67 and that returned fine. https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3136136
Combination BOINC 7.20.2 and VBox 7.0.2
Somewhere in the middle of the task, I suspended the task a few minutes, where the state was saved to disk.
Towards the end one task-suspend with keep in memory active.

Nothing to do with this vboxwrapper, but I noticed that Vbox7 keeps the used harddisks in the VirtuBox.xml file even after a reboot and no BOINC-VMs in use.

    <MediaRegistry>
      <HardDisks>
        <HardDisk uuid="{6f08958e-7bfd-4804-8dd7-c7b4408cb126}" location="D:/Boinc1/projects/lhcathome.cern.ch_lhcathome/ATLAS_vbox_2.02_image.vdi" format="VDI" type="MultiAttach"/>
        <HardDisk uuid="{997e0796-142b-4278-9763-0bceb3ac71bc}" location="D:/Boinc1/projects/lhcathomedev.cern.ch_lhcathome-dev/ATLAS_vbox_1.17_image.vdi" format="VDI" type="MultiAttach"/>
        <HardDisk uuid="{dae25e8f-de18-4971-b11c-eca764ede402}" location="D:/Boinc1/projects/lhcathome.cern.ch_lhcathome/CMS_2022_09_07_prod.vdi" format="VDI" type="MultiAttach"/>
        <HardDisk uuid="{8fb925ef-3497-4bfb-88e3-bbab2930787f}" location="D:/Boinc1/projects/lhcathomedev.cern.ch_lhcathome-dev/CMS_2022_09_07.vdi" format="VDI" type="MultiAttach"/>
      </HardDisks>
18) Message boards : ATLAS Application : ATLAS vbox v.1.17 (Message 7832)
Posted 21 Oct 2022 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Tested 1 ATLAS-task with the newest VirtualBox version 7.0.2:
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3126629
19) Message boards : General Discussion : Xtrack beam simulation (Message 7831)
Posted 20 Oct 2022 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
I got this afternoon 5 Xtrack beam simulation tasks. All 5 resends - https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/results.php?hostid=4600&offset=0&show_names=0&state=0&appid=16
Tasks are not shown in BOINC's tasks list. This is what is shown in BOINC's log:
598	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:00:50	Requesting new tasks for CPU	
599	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:00:52	[error] Can't parse file info in scheduler reply: file name is empty or has '..'	
600	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:00:52	Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks	
601	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:00:52	Project requested delay of 61 seconds	
602	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:00:52	[error] State file error: missing file ../xboinc_input.bin	
603	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:00:52	[error] State file error: missing input file ../xboinc_input.bin	
604	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:00:52	[error] Can't handle task Xtrack_3838109_1664549883.039677 in scheduler reply	
605	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:00:52	[error] State file error: missing task Xtrack_3838109_1664549883.039677	
606	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:00:52	[error] Can't handle task Xtrack_3838109_1664549883.039677_2 in scheduler reply	
607	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:00:54	Started download of xboinc_011-windows_x86_64.exe	
608	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:00:59	Finished download of xboinc_011-windows_x86_64.exe	
620	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:05	Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.	
622	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:05	Requesting new tasks for CPU	
623	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:07	[error] Can't parse file info in scheduler reply: file name is empty or has '..'	
624	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:07	[error] Can't parse file info in scheduler reply: file name is empty or has '..'	
625	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:07	Scheduler request completed: got 2 new tasks	
626	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:07	Project requested delay of 61 seconds	
627	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:07	[error] State file error: missing file ../xboinc_input.bin	
628	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:07	[error] State file error: missing input file ../xboinc_input.bin	
629	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:07	[error] Can't handle task Xtrack_3838316_1664550120.666061 in scheduler reply	
630	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:07	[error] State file error: missing file ../xboinc_input.bin	
631	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:07	[error] State file error: missing input file ../xboinc_input.bin	
632	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:07	[error] Can't handle task Xtrack_3838326_1664550122.364841 in scheduler reply	
633	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:07	[error] State file error: missing task Xtrack_3838316_1664550120.666061	
634	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:07	[error] Can't handle task Xtrack_3838316_1664550120.666061_2 in scheduler reply	
635	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:07	[error] State file error: missing task Xtrack_3838326_1664550122.364841	
636	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:19:07	[error] Can't handle task Xtrack_3838326_1664550122.364841_2 in scheduler reply	
637	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:24	Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.	
638	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:24	Requesting new tasks for CPU	
639	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:25	[error] Can't parse file info in scheduler reply: file name is empty or has '..'	
640	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:25	[error] Can't parse file info in scheduler reply: file name is empty or has '..'	
641	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:25	Scheduler request completed: got 2 new tasks	
642	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:25	Project requested delay of 61 seconds	
643	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:25	[error] State file error: missing file ../xboinc_input.bin	
644	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:25	[error] State file error: missing input file ../xboinc_input.bin	
645	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:25	[error] Can't handle task Xtrack_3838302_1664550118.050580 in scheduler reply	
646	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:25	[error] State file error: missing file ../xboinc_input.bin	
647	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:25	[error] State file error: missing input file ../xboinc_input.bin	
648	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:25	[error] Can't handle task Xtrack_3838322_1664550121.701115 in scheduler reply	
649	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:25	[error] State file error: missing task Xtrack_3838302_1664550118.050580	
650	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:25	[error] Can't handle task Xtrack_3838302_1664550118.050580_2 in scheduler reply	
651	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:25	[error] State file error: missing task Xtrack_3838322_1664550121.701115	
652	lhcathome-dev	20 Oct 17:34:25	[error] Can't handle task Xtrack_3838322_1664550121.701115_2 in scheduler reply
20) Message boards : ATLAS Application : ATLAS vbox v.1.17 (Message 7827)
Posted 19 Oct 2022 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
I tested several tasks. Not sure what problem should be solved.
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/results.php?hostid=4547&offset=0&show_names=0&state=0&appid=5
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/results.php?hostid=4600&offset=0&show_names=0&state=0&appid=5
On host id 4547 I had three errors. 1 was part of the first 5 tasks starting at once. On that task I got a popup of a vboxheadless.exe application error.

With 2 other tasks I tested the netwoork connection problem by interrupting my internet when starting an ATLAS task.
I got Testing CVMFS .... of course without response. The tasks keep on running endless.
After connecting to the internet again also nothing positive happened / tasks keep on running doing nothing.
So I suspended the tasks, removed the saved states, rebooted the VMs and saved the state after over 5 minutes of runtime.
Then I resumed the tasks in BOINC again.
1 task got the same VBoxHeadless application error as above and the other was canceled by the server although running well.


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