Boinc on your home server?

  • Hi everyone!
    I was wandering if I'm the only one that is thinking to install boinc on my home server since al 99% of the time is in idle.
    I already have it on my computer desktop, and I think that it would be cool to have it on the other computer too.
    Of course I won't give it too much CPU (20%/30%, not more), but it still something!


    for who doesn't know Boinc: here's a link to the project I like: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

    Intel G4400 - Asrock H170M Pro4S - 8GB ram - Be Quiet Pure Power 11 400 CM - Nanoxia Deep Silence 4 - 6TB Seagate Ironwolf - RAIDZ1 3x10TB WD - OMV 5 - Proxmox Kernel

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  • Sadly I didn't had time for my NAS in this few months :(
    The installation is easy, but I don't know how to control how much resource give to boinc. I would like it to stay between 10 and 20% of CPU.

    Intel G4400 - Asrock H170M Pro4S - 8GB ram - Be Quiet Pure Power 11 400 CM - Nanoxia Deep Silence 4 - 6TB Seagate Ironwolf - RAIDZ1 3x10TB WD - OMV 5 - Proxmox Kernel

  • Thanks! I'll give it a try ASAP.

    Intel G4400 - Asrock H170M Pro4S - 8GB ram - Be Quiet Pure Power 11 400 CM - Nanoxia Deep Silence 4 - 6TB Seagate Ironwolf - RAIDZ1 3x10TB WD - OMV 5 - Proxmox Kernel

  • Here is how I got mine working
    had to plug away to get it to work...but it is crunching WU


    From this site:https://unix.stackexchange.com…ros-and-cons-of-ia32-libs
    sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 <- to add multiarch capability
    sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 <- install the i386 libs for processing WU, without it, BOINC and Seti@home fails instantly


    from this website: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC#Linux
    sudo apt-get install libstdc++6 libstdc++5 freeglut3


    it gives replacement packages, install them


    install BOINC as the page above


    sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager


    sudo chown -R boinc:boinc /var/lib/boinc-client
    sudo chown boinc:boinc /usr/bin/boinc
    sudo chown boinc:boinc /usr/bin/boincmgr
    sudo chown boinc:boinc /usr/bin/boinccmd


    make sure you edit
    /var/lib/boinc-client/remote_hosts.cfg
    with the ip of the computer that will be remotely controlling the instance on the server
    and edit /var/lib/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg
    with a password (doesn't have to be uber strong unless you want it to be, mine is 123)


    To manually attach to a project
    boinccmd --project_attach <url> <key of your account>




    https://boinc.netsoft-online.c…150e4ff014f12199a6&html=1

  • Hi everyone - WarHawk8080 it looks like you are running it native as opposed to under Docker, I have an oDroid XU4 and it is running OMV v4(.x) but I am having a whale of a time translating "raw" Docker config into OMV Docker? TechnoDadLife, I've watched all your tutorials on pretty much every OMV Docker thing you've done but I can't get this one to stick. Any ideas, ladies and gents? Thanks so much

  • Hi everyone - WarHawk8080 it looks like you are running it native as opposed to under Docker, I have an oDroid XU4 and it is running OMV v4(.x) but I am having a whale of a time translating "raw" Docker config into OMV Docker? TechnoDadLife, I've watched all your tutorials on pretty much every OMV Docker thing you've done but I can't get this one to stick. Any ideas, ladies and gents? Thanks so much


    No need to translate. You can also run the commands from CLI. You can also use docker-compose.The container will be visible afterwards in the Docker-gui plugin.

    Ah you are correct BTech...I am running it natively forgive me for not mentioning that it is not running in a docker


    And thank you macom for translating it for being able to run in a docker (I didn't run mine in a docker because I don't know docker all that well[but running it as a non-root user "boinc" user seems ok])

  • No need to translate. You can also run the commands from CLI. You can also use docker-compose.The container will be visible afterwards in the Docker-gui plugin.

    For me the docker compose fails or get stuck at ..


    22-Jan-2020 21:54:19 [---] Setting up GUI RPC socket
    dir_open: Could not open directory 'slots' from '/var/lib/boinc'.


    Any luck getting past this?


    Here is my compose file:

  • Hi, there's an official docker client container on github: here


    The Docker Compose file is towards the end:

    I have not tried on OMV because it is on my backup server, but on Unraid it works perfectly.

  • Hi, there's an official docker client container on github: here


    The Docker Compose file is towards the end:

    I have not tried on OMV because it is on my backup server, but on Unraid it works perfectly.

    I tried this if you look above. I need to see it working on OMV with any modifications you made.

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