Problem with switching mid WU failing 90-100% of work

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Aaron Finney Send message Joined: 8 Oct 05 Posts: 52 Credit: 109,589 RAC: 0	Message 8330 - Posted: 4 Jan 2006, 6:46:41 UTC Last modified: 4 Jan 2006, 6:47:04 UTC Whenever BOINC switches between projects, and pauses a workunit, sometimes the WU gets a computation error. It's repeatable, but doesn't happen every time. It will fail 90-100% of all workunits before they are complete. This problem appears only with Rosetta on my machines. ID: 8330 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 815 Credit: 1,812,737 RAC: 0	Message 8332 - Posted: 4 Jan 2006, 6:51:28 UTC Yes, there is a bug being hunted as we type ... You can avoid it in MOST cases by setting "Leave applications in memory" to YES, and updating the project. ID: 8332 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Aaron Finney Send message Joined: 8 Oct 05 Posts: 52 Credit: 109,589 RAC: 0	Message 8338 - Posted: 4 Jan 2006, 7:36:09 UTC - in response to Message 8332. Last modified: 4 Jan 2006, 7:36:58 UTC Yes, there is a bug being hunted as we type ... You can avoid it in MOST cases by setting "Leave applications in memory" to YES, and updating the project. Yeah.. I can't do that.. too many machines, not enough seperate preferences. :( ID: 8338 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Tern Send message Joined: 25 Oct 05 Posts: 575 Credit: 4,494,611 RAC: 615	Message 8339 - Posted: 4 Jan 2006, 7:41:51 UTC - in response to Message 8338. Yeah.. I can't do that.. too many machines, not enough seperate preferences. :( It's a global change; applies to all your computers. Unless you have some with less than 512MB of RAM, it will improve performance on all projects, without affecting anything else. Even in the case of "less than 512" (I have 384 on one) unless there are a _lot_ of projects on that host, it won't bother anything. ID: 8339 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote