I have been downloading the Rosetta software since Einstein@Home has been experiencing problems with their new R2 jobs and for some reason I can get several work units on my initial download on my slower machines running at between 1.1 and 1.6 MHz. However on my Athlon 64 XP 3400 I only recieved 2 jobs and am currently out of work and cannot seem to find a way to download more. Under general default settings I have it set to connect every 10 days (and have tried other numbers) with the "turnaround" set at 10 hours in the Rosetta preferences. Any ideas?

Gary

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I have been downloading the Rosetta software since Einstein@Home has been experiencing problems with their new R2 jobs and for some reason I can get several work units on my initial download on my slower machines running at between 1.1 and 1.6 MHz. However on my Athlon 64 XP 3400 I only recieved 2 jobs and am currently out of work and cannot seem to find a way to download more. Under general default settings I have it set to connect every 10 days (and have tried other numbers) with the "turnaround" set at 10 hours in the Rosetta preferences. Any ideas?

Gary

Try resetting to "connect every 1 day" or .5 days. That should force the software to at least query the server for you more often. Once you get BOINC "trained" on how fast this machine processes Rosetta wu's, you can nudge the "connect to" back up to get larger caches.

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128MB RAM probably isn't enough for Rosetta. Unfortunately BOINC only looks at total RAM and not available RAM I believe.

Make sure the % memory to use when computer is in use/not in use are both set to 100% - that might help... And try setting 'Run always' in BOINC manager.

HTH
Danny

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I have been downloading the Rosetta software since Einstein@Home has been experiencing problems with their new R2 jobs and for some reason I can get several work units on my initial download on my slower machines running at between 1.1 and 1.6 MHz. However on my Athlon 64 XP 3400 I only recieved 2 jobs and am currently out of work and cannot seem to find a way to download more. Under general default settings I have it set to connect every 10 days (and have tried other numbers) with the "turnaround" set at 10 hours in the Rosetta preferences. Any ideas?

Gary

Try resetting to "connect every 1 day" or .5 days. That should force the software to at least query the server for you more often. Once you get BOINC "trained" on how fast this machine processes Rosetta wu's, you can nudge the "connect to" back up to get larger caches.

I'm completely lost. The only place I can change how often I make contact with the server is in general preferences, which has a default, home, school, and work. I first tried just setting the default number to .5 with no results, and then set all 4 of them to 1 day. Nothing. And another thing I could never figure out are these home, school, work, settings. I have more than 3 machines and they are all in one location, so using the default in General Preferences should work, I think. Not. I've been running everything set to 10 days for a couple of years while I have been running Einstien@home and it always seemed to give me just enough work that I had time to finish before they "expired", now I don't know what the heck I've got!

Gary

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I'm completely lost. The only place I can change how often I make contact with the server is in general preferences, which has a default, home, school, and work. I first tried just setting the default number to .5 with no results, and then set all 4 of them to 1 day. Nothing. And another thing I could never figure out are these home, school, work, settings. I have more than 3 machines and they are all in one location, so using the default in General Preferences should work, I think. Not. I've been running everything set to 10 days for a couple of years while I have been running Einstien@home and it always seemed to give me just enough work that I had time to finish before they "expired", now I don't know what the heck I've got!

Gary

I've gotta say i'm not keen on the Home/work/school setup of BOINC - I much prefered UD's setup back in the old days of Think - don't know if they changed it. I use Boincstats BAM now so I can create unique profiles for each computer where necessary, but you can't change the Rosetta specific settings through that unfortunately.

As for your problem, once you've changed the settings on the website you've got to hit 'Update' under the Projects tab in BOINC Manager.
Did you do that?

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