Posts by jfullaga

1) Questions and Answers : Windows : Disk space used by project - no project tasks running or waiting (Message 101451) Posted 23 Apr 2021 by jfullaga Post: Perhaps this question belongs in a general BOINC forum, I don't know. But I notice that the great majority of the disk space in use by BOINC on my computers (nearly 2 GB on the one where I'm typing) is attributed to Rosetta, but there are no Rosetta tasks running or waiting to start (or waiting to run, or ready to report, or uploading, or downloading...) Is there anything I can do to to free up the space? Is there a way to detect orphanned data on disk if there are tasks running? Does my query belong elsewhere?
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 97142) Posted 2 Jun 2020 by jfullaga Post: Well, I was going to come back and install 7.16.7 this morning, because the other things suggested hadn't done it And I find that I have WUs happily cooking along. so cleasrly the cure wasn't at this end to begin with.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 97099) Posted 1 Jun 2020 by jfullaga Post: Install the new 7.16.7 version of BOINC, even though it is still marked as for testing, It includes a fix for this problem, and the only other change since 7.16.5 is the version number. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php Scroll down if you also want the new Android version, also marked as for testing. Hmmmm, OK. Any idea why it recovered on the one without doing that? I finally connected the old computer to BOINCstatBAM!, but I couldn't re-attach the project through there, either. But here's where it gets really weird: I COULD then attach the project through BOINC Manager. BUT: Once again, things are just "downloading," never downloaded. Maybe I'll try 7.16.7 tomorrow.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 97096) Posted 1 Jun 2020 by jfullaga Post: My newer/faster computer which does NOTHING but Rosetta ran out of work for about a day with uploads/downloads pending. Somehow it was resolved without action on my part. My other computer which is shared between me and Rosetta still has uploads and downloads supposedly in flight. I got a notice suggesting to remove the project and re-add it with the corrected (HTTPS) URL. I removed it, but now attach fails.
5) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : so sorry (Message 96325) Posted 10 May 2020 by jfullaga Post: You'd be better of keeping the default Target CPU runtime, and figuring out what is using all the CPU time on your AMD system- almost half if it's CPU time is spent doing things other than processing Rosetta work. One of your Valid tasks- Name r4k_21113_fold_SAVE_ALL_OUT_919395_1108_0 Run time 14 hours 5 min 13 sec CPU time 7 hours 55 min 43 sec On a lightly used system,. the difference between CPU time & Runtime for an 8 hour Task, should be around 4min. So something else is using a lot of CPU time. Multiple Rosetta tasks are running concurrently. If that's not what should be happening, where can I change that?
6) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : so sorry (Message 96324) Posted 10 May 2020 by jfullaga Post: No, one machine (the older an slower one) is doing nothing else for about 12 hours a day, and usually over 50% (often waaaaay over) on Rosetta tasks for 12. The faster computer is doing nothing else 24 hours a day.
7) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : so sorry (Message 96321) Posted 10 May 2020 by jfullaga Post: No, the other solution that i pointed out & you seem to have missed is that you can set the Target CPU Runtime to a value that is less than the 8 hour default, and set a very small cache size (with more than one project, no cache is best). And you can change the settings on your system so Rosetta is able to do more work while the system is running without impacting on it's general performance/responsiveness. I read that but can't find anywhere to set Target CPU Runtime. I'm lost. I've been running BOINC for, gee, a lot of years, and Rosetta for a few. The last couple of months I've been running only Rosetta tasks, and I've added a much faster computer. But I feel bad about having to abort tasks, or having them miss deadline because they are waitig to start. Edited to add: I found it. Set it to 6 hours. Min queue set to .3, amx additional to .7. Let's see hw this works.
8) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : so sorry (Message 96320) Posted 10 May 2020 by jfullaga Post: Is that true? lately some tasks (maybe one in 10, or one in 15) come in with reasonable estimated times, and as they run the time remaining keeps increasing! If I don't abort them, they keep running. And I start missing deadlines on ones that haven't even started yet. I just aborted one which started off estimated 8 hours. It had been running for 20 hours, and the estimated time remaining was 35 hours? What do we do about that?