v0.5 is running very nicely on AMD Epyc Milan debian, consistent progress % estimate on all tasks now, they started around 5/10 mn this afternoon and now it's more 35/40 mn, no error and I have a nice little stock (130 tasks for 4 threads) : good job guys !

The task queue has been cut back to 25 instead of 200, but it will take some time for failures to whittle it down.

I have seen similar behaviour with a different MultiCore-Project (MIlkyway) and BOINC-Client 8.2.5

If there is a local app_config.xml, the client uses the configured settings from this. If there is no app_config.xml, the client ignores what on the project-preferences is configured and uses the last config it remembers, regardless of the setting on the project-preferences

Seems to be a bug in client since 8.2.4 and higher

Cheers I think that clears it up :)

Your computer reports 3.79 GB RAM:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/show_host_detail.php?hostid=10846970
This is enough to run XTrack.

ATLAS/CMS/Theory recommend at least 16 GB although they may run with at least 8 GB.

This is the recommended CVMFS starting point:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=5594

This option shouldn't be used (remove it, except if you know exactly why you need it):
CVMFS_CLIENT_PROFILE=single

This is recommended (as a private volunteer you should understand it as a MUST):
CVMFS_HTTP_PROXY="auto;DIRECT"
CVMFS_USE_CDN=yes



As for CVMFS_USE_CDN/Cloudflare/openhtc.io

https://openhtc.io/
openhtc.io is hosted by Cloudflare.
You don't need a Cloudflare account to use it.
openhtc.io distributes CVMFS/Frontier content required by ATLAS/CMS/Theory via a worldwide proxy network (hundreds of Squid proxies).
If you don't use the CDN CVMFS/Frontier get their data via "stratum-one-servers" (only few worldwide).
Getting the data from a CDN proxy close to your location instead of getting it from a stratum-one located far away is usually faster.

Thanks all! I thought we have local problems and not picking up jobs ... they are coming now.

.... Instead, leave it at 100 % and limit the # CPUs via <ncpus>N</ncpus> in cc_config.xml..... or in BoincTasks -> Menu Extra -> BOINC Preference -> On multiprocessor systems, use at most ...... % of the processors

The agent has been restarted. Place bets now on how long it will stay up...

Hello,

I downloaded the script theory-vbox.sh from link https://github.com/seanr22a/LHC-Theory/blob/main/theory-vbox.sh
Then I tried to run it with the following Terminal command:

sh theory-vbox.sh
And I got the following result:

-e

--- LHC Theory - USER ---- 2025-09-24 16:27:48 ------------------------------------------------------

| Events |
Slot Job id Total Processed Remaining Elapsed time Completed % Err
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
theory-vbox.sh: 101: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
Some kind advice would be very appreciated

... What is it about this project's crunching that produces such wildly varying runtimes?...
It's a result of the scientific input which you get (by random) from the backend queues.
More details can be found here:
http://mcplots-dev.cern.ch/
currently in progress:
http://mcplots-dev.cern.ch/production.php?view=revision&rev=2922

je pense que mon ssd est hs car j'ai 2 secteurs réallouer.

I think that my ssd is down because I have 2 sectors reallocated.

The graphs are looking normal again. Thank you!

As mentioned in this thread, we finally have the new Xtrack BOINC application available for beta testing.

Please refer to the Sixtrack/Xtrack forum for further details and feedback discussion. Tasks should hopefully be available by tomorrow.

The LHC@home team

merci pour la réponse rapide mais je vais tester si theory virtualbox fonctionne.
Je vous tiens au courant.

thank you for the quick response but I will test if theory virtualbox works.
I’ll keep you informed.

Well all of mine were working and almost 100 Valids BUT as soon as I am not watching now I am getting that same thing again (same thing with the -dev version)

https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=426291526

LHCb didn't send any BOINC work since end of 2018.
See here:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=4886&postid=37382

The post may include a hint why there is no ALICE BOINC app.

I wonder why it took nearly 1 day and >70 failed tasks to notice something is wrong.

What about the TRIUMF-LCG2?
They run about 90 atlas clients but no valid results for weeks.

Please read the title.
Your issue is definitely not the same as discussed here.
Please open a new thread and don't mix it in here.

Yes.