Not everyone has a large cache or a fall back project, so perhaps there are concerns of wasted (idle) CPU time.

I'm crunching Proteins@Home when my cache is empty.

For crunching protien projects when the que is empty of rosetta I find that Tanpaku is better than protiens@home.

protiens@home writes to you hard drive all the time rather than only at the checkpoints like Rosetta and Tanpaku. That had been mentioned at the protiens@home message boards last year and the people running it said that they wanted it that way and run it like that on all there systems. The way it ran raised the temp. of my hard drive a few degrees but I don't remember how much. I would rather not put the added work on the HD. That is only my opinion about why Tanpaku over protiens@home.

Looking for a good backup project, try malariacontrol

---

PUDDIN TAME

fixed. -KEL

---

server lag or something..the files are slow to download or do not download at all.
The other downloads were lagging and only moving at 22Kbps which is unusually slow. Took 13 mins to download 4 files to complete a WU. Not good.

fixed. -KEL

---

server lag or something..the files are slow to download or do not download at all.
I got a .fasta file that is stuck even after a retry and a update command. Its only 111 bytes, so whats up with this? The other downloads were lagging and only moving at 22Kbps which is unusually slow.

fixed. -KEL

heavy traffic/download requests maybe ? :) be patiant.

gj btw, I wasnt avating the servers to return back online today, thougth more of monday morning.

server lag or something..the files are slow to download or do not download at all.
I got a .fasta file that is stuck even after a retry and a update command. Its only 111 bytes, so whats up with this? The other downloads were lagging and only moving at 22Kbps which is unusually slow.

fixed. -KEL

heavy traffic/download requests maybe ? :) be patiant.

gj btw, I wasnt avating the servers to return back online today, thougth more of monday morning.

<-- yeah! bravo to KJ for checking servers on a sunday.

---

There appears to be a number of issues, although downloads seem to be underway again now...

Checkpointing on some workunits is not occurring and average credit per workunit seems to have declined in general.

I'm hoping a new version of the client addresses these and have also deferred work from Rosetta to other projects until resolved.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Actually, I'm leaving BOINC alone, I am just shutting off new work from Rosetta and leaving all my other projects happy.

With the structure of the Rosetta work units, there are a bunch of files downloading (or trying to download) for each work unit. When the download server is sick (or communications from the download server is sick), all of those files get set up for retries (at various times). That can add a LOT to the noise level (for my workstation, for my proxy server and for the Rosetta download server). While some might view the noise and extra traffic as a salubrious event, I just don't see it that way.

Since I have three or more projects on each on my workstations, shutting down new work with Rosetta simply shifts work to other project which are not engaged in DSSSS (Download Server System Stress Syndrome).

Not sure what threshold was crossed in the past several days to suddenly make the problem as bad as it is. I sort of doubt it is an 'incremental workload' issue -- rather I suspect there is something else at play here. Perhaps something similar to issues identified and resolved by both the SETI and Einstein folks earlier this year.

That being said, it sure would be nice to get some description of the detail of the problem, as, encountering the problem, then checking an all green board on server status is just annoying. Sort of like the 'only good news' handling of events in our political process.

People.

Leave BOINC alone.

It will automatically get new work when work is available.

thanks KEL!
Sends a large coffee and donut

---

Thanks KEL!
Sends a large coffee and donut. OOPs. sorry about the double post - only one coffee and donut.

---

i'll pick up the tab on the second one

Thanks KEL!
Sends a large coffee and donut. OOPs. sorry about the double post - only one coffee and donut.

---