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Message 29301 - Posted: 13 Oct 2006, 19:08:34 UTC

Rosetta has all the sudden accumulated a huge sum of long term debt. Round 18.5 million secs, or around 215 CPU-days.

I've tried to reset the project, no luck.

Rosetta shares the resources with other projects like this:

Rosetta - 30
Einstein - 20
QMC - 10
mFluids - 4

As you can see on my stats below Rosetta is no where near having a 215 day-debt to pay off.

Any thoughts on this?
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Message 29302 - Posted: 13 Oct 2006, 19:54:28 UTC
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Did some looking around and found BoincDV that allows you to view and reset your debts.

An alternative but tougher way is to edit your client_state.xml file and look for lines that contain

<long_term_debt>xxxxx.xxxxx</long_term_debt>


You can reset the numbers in those lines to 0. You need to stop BOINC before you do this though and there is a chance of messing up the file, so you may want to have a backup.
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Message 29306 - Posted: 13 Oct 2006, 21:50:20 UTC

Tried to reset the debt to 20, but it bumped right up to 3.5 million when I started BOINC again.
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Message 29308 - Posted: 13 Oct 2006, 22:07:26 UTC - in response to Message 29306.  
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Tried to reset the debt to 20, but it bumped right up to 3.5 million when I started BOINC again.

Reset the LTD for EACH project. LTDs' are offsetting. I.E they all add up to zero. If you only changed one, itmight explain it. there is an LTD for each one.

That's why BoincDV is good, it resets them all
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Message 29312 - Posted: 13 Oct 2006, 23:28:17 UTC - in response to Message 29308.  

Tried to reset the debt to 20, but it bumped right up to 3.5 million when I started BOINC again.

Reset the LTD for EACH project. LTDs' are offsetting. I.E they all add up to zero. If you only changed one, itmight explain it. there is an LTD for each one.


Oh yeah. Hadn't figured that one out, but it worked. I had LHC attached but suspended because of the low amount of work. Guess it must have been it that screwed the scheduler around.
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Message 29314 - Posted: 14 Oct 2006, 0:28:34 UTC

Suspended projects shouldn't increase/decrease LTD. However, it will float with respect to the others. In newer boinc versions a setting "no new work" won't accumulate debt if the project has NO work, but will if it does. (I think I got this right).

There have been reports of MASSIVE requests for work, and I'm just wondering????
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Message 29728 - Posted: 21 Oct 2006, 0:25:24 UTC - in response to Message 29306.  

Tried to reset the debt to 20, but it bumped right up to 3.5 million when I started BOINC again.

Try setting it to about the median of the other projects (which should be moderately large negative numbers.

I have seen the jump before, but I cannot seem to figure out where it could be going wrong.


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