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    Install Docker if you have problems with the Cosmology VMs

    While investigating the problems with my Cosmology VMs I discovered that they were all Docker-related.


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    So what is it and how do you use this Docker? I d/l and installed it but Cosmo is still as slow as a dog.

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    VMs are always slow it seems (I have a Rosetta VM running for more than two days and the VM itself reports that it hasn't run 12 minutes yet...),
    but the name of the app is: camb_boinc2docker (vbox64_mt), so something tells me that Docker is involved.
    Installing it solved for me -for Cosmology@Home- the VM Hypervisor sh!t that accompanies vbox apps...
    If you check the output of a completed WU you'll see Docker files and settings getting mentioned several times.

    BTW: the Cosmology VMs run pretty fast (4 min. on a Ryzen 3 3100 under Linux, 25 min. on a Linux AM1 system, 34 min. on a Windows AM1 system) when compared to Rosetta Python ones (I have two of 3 days and counting -and already over time 20 hours, respectively 1 day)....
    Last edited by Dirk Broer; 11-27-2021 at 10:01 AM.


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    We're doing great at Cosmology at the moment! We'll pass LinusTechTips_Team in Cosmology@Home marathon-wise on 27/11/2021 15:00 (CET) and, since they do not participate in this sprint, we close the gap with LinusTechTips_Team with an additional 10 or 12 points. Meisterkuehler.de Team and Crunching@EVGA arent sitting on their hands though, and passed us again after being overtaken.
    Last edited by Dirk Broer; 11-27-2021 at 09:21 PM.


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    This -in a part of the Stderr output message- is what makes me think Docker is needed

    2021-11-28 17:57:47 (1610381): Guest Log: 00:00:00.000133 main OS Product: Linux
    2021-11-28 17:57:47 (1610381): Guest Log: 00:00:00.000151 main OS Release: 4.1.19-boot2docker
    2021-11-28 17:57:47 (1610381): Guest Log: 00:00:00.000163 main OS Version: #1 SMP Sun Apr 17 19:40:54 UTC 2016
    2021-11-28 17:57:47 (1610381): Guest Log: 00:00:00.000176 main Executable: /sbin/VBoxService
    2021-11-28 17:57:47 (1610381): Guest Log: 00:00:00.000176 main Process ID: 839
    2021-11-28 17:57:47 (1610381): Guest Log: 00:00:00.000177 main Package type: LINUX_64BITS_GENERIC
    2021-11-28 17:57:52 (1610381): Guest Log: Linking /etc/docker to /var/lib/boot2docker for persistence
    2021-11-28 17:57:52 (1610381): Guest Log: Waiting for Docker daemon to start...
    2021-11-28 17:57:54 (1610381): Guest Log: REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
    2021-11-28 17:57:54 (1610381): Guest Log: Running boinc_app...
    2021-11-28 17:57:54 (1610381): Guest Log: Importing Docker image from BOINC...
    2021-11-28 17:57:57 (1610381): Guest Log: Prerun diagnostics...
    2021-11-28 17:57:57 (1610381): Guest Log: REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
    2021-11-28 17:57:57 (1610381): Guest Log: marius311/camb_boinc2docker 1.0.0-slim f383d587a9c8 5 years ago 128.1 MB
    2021-11-28 17:57:57 (1610381): Guest Log: CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
    2021-11-28 17:57:57 (1610381): Guest Log: 136.9M /var/lib/docker

    The computer in question ran 317 VM tasks during the sprint, of which only two errored out.
    Last edited by Dirk Broer; 11-28-2021 at 06:45 PM.


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