David Bass 2002-08-13 11:02:00 | I'm using Win98 with an NTL cable modem and frequently (don't know whether it's all the time) I find my machine unresponsive after a night or so processing. When I reboot (or very occasionally after frenetic keyboard bashing everything comes back to life), I find that the results.txt file is at 99k (recently renamed to the curious hash-like filename), but not apparently sent. I rename the file back to results.txt and manualsend, and everything is fine. Incidentally, manualsend appears to crash if it cannot find a results.txt file. I'm using Norton Personal Firewall (2001 edition) which explicitly is set to allow ftp. I'll switch off autosend, but this makes the project noticeably higher maintenance. |
Pascal 2002-08-13 11:53:50 | I know, that products of Norton change many things in your operating system. And because of that I don't use them. Being in your place I would deactivate the auto-send procedure and send the results manually. I've made good experience with that. I'm using Windows 98 SE as OS and Another Task Manager to push the priority a little bit on my two machines. ___________________________ 1: Athlon TB-C, 1.2 GC/s, 256 MB DDR-RAM, Erazor x², ADSL-Flatrate, NIC Intel, Win 98 SE Mainboard MSI-6380 Rev. 1 2: Pentium III, 600 MC/s, 256 MB RAM, NIC Intel, Win 98 SE |
Stephen Brooks 2002-08-13 12:35:54 | quote: This was a symptom of using version 4.21a. If you're using that, do upgrade to 4.21b, which has had a bug with the sending fixed. "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
David Bass 2002-08-13 16:13:19 | quote: OK - 4.21b has much longer simulation run times than 4.21a because it's producing higher percentages. I guess I'll just have to sit and wait to see whether the problem is gone. Thanks for the quick response. |
HETTATLONGUN 2002-08-13 17:10:04 | Check your Norton's permissions to access the 'Net. I use Tiny Personal Firewall. Every time I start a new muon1 revision, I have to babysit the thing through the first connection. After that, it connects ok. Ahh, morning....Nothing like a good cigar, a cup of coffee and the sound of hot shell casings hitting the deck....HETT[TEP] |
AySz88 2002-08-13 20:05:31 | I've got two of these wierd numbers-and-dashes files, but they have these really long entries that don't make sense; not like the ones I saw before in results.txt. Where should I send them, if at all? |
Stephen Brooks 2002-08-14 02:22:30 | Evidently AySz88 has not had his WeetaBix this morning. |
HETTATLONGUN 2002-08-14 04:34:21 | AySz88, those are result.txt files that were not sent. Rename them back to result.txt and then click on manualsend. Ahh, morning....Nothing like a good cigar, a cup of coffee and the sound of hot shell casings hitting the deck....HETT[TEP] |
AySz88 2002-08-14 08:33:39 | Okay, I've done so already. Should I assume that there's more parameters being optimised in the program now? |
HETTATLONGUN 2002-08-14 12:08:17 | Yup. Ahh, morning....Nothing like a good cigar, a cup of coffee and the sound of hot shell casings hitting the deck....HETT[TEP] |
David Bass 2002-08-14 15:43:19 | Sadly, things are no different. I may have to catch it in the process of sending automatically to make this work. Ah, well. Switch to manualsend and just bonk on the button every now and again. |