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Posted 18 Sep 2008 by mitrichr Post: It looks as if I may have solved my particular problems with Rosetta by giving up BOINC screen savers. I switched to standard Windows screen savers and re-attached the three computers which I had been forced to detach from Rosetta. The problem had been that something in Rosetta was rendering the three machines totally useless, pinning the CPU at 100% an generally making me miserable. I would get the machines back by using Task Manager and shutting down the errant application. Once I got rid of the BOINC screen saver, everything seemed to go back too normal. As I said, I re-attached to Rosetta, now about 36 hours ago. No machine has had any problems and I believe that I have results now in all four machines. I do not remember seeing any discussion here or screen savers. Maybe I just missed something. Let me say that I know that there are different philosophical positions on using the screen savers. I favor using them, many of them let me know what is going on in the 10 or so projects to which I am attached with a quick glance at the monitor. Any comments? >>RSM |
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Posted 9 Sep 2008 by mitrichr Post: Not clear on "Leave applications in memory while suspended?". Mine are Yes, should I switch to no and try again? >>RSM |
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Posted 9 Sep 2008 by mitrichr Post: I forgot to note- Sid said earlier that there are only about 10 people complaining among all the folks running Rosetta. That 10 people may represent 10,000 who are having trouble, getting disillusioned and detaching. Not everyone with a problem comes here. Also, seeing all of the technical terminology, many might be put off. >>RSM |
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Posted 9 Sep 2008 by mitrichr Post: [quote]Well good luck with your other projects. I see your also on my second project. [quote] Sorry, I do not understand, what do you mean "...my second project...."? >>RSM |
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(Message 55621)
Posted 8 Sep 2008 by mitrichr Post: Greg- I was forced to detach on three computers, and did so probably about 7-10 days ago. I just could not keep minding Rosetta when I have work to do, stuff to read, or I am out cycling or hiking. That is a burden I can not assume. I have a bunch of projects on which I work, I have a job, etc. I am surprised you are seeing anything current on two machines, except of course that I did not detach as much as 30 days ago. >>RSM |
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Posted 8 Sep 2008 by mitrichr Post: Sid- Please know that I mean no disrespect. My only concern is to be able to run Rosetta on all four of my machines as I did previously. Right now, I have one XP which has had nary a problem and continues to crunch whatever comes from Rosetta. I have an almost identical XP machine and two Core-2-Duo's that are off the project. I think that Rosetta might be the single most important project at BOINC. But I can not leave machines on the project when WU's totally freeze the computer and no other crunching on other projects or other work that I do can not go forward. So, I am going to bow out of the debate. I hope that I will see notice of resolution in the RSS feed so that I can continue work which I deem very valuable. |
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Posted 8 Sep 2008 by mitrichr Post: Greg- Surely, I can not answer your question. But the fact is, my experience is typical. People are experiencing this problem on some machines and not on others, so it seems to me that the problem lies with the project. It behooves the project managers to get this figured out. Rosetta is losing crunchers every day. This is not just a WU freezing or anything like that. When the problem occurs, it freezes the whole computer necessitating a trip to Task Manager to clear out the process. >>RSM so how is it that my single machine with 2 cores and some corsair memroy runs just fine and your multitude of machines does not? |
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Posted 8 Sep 2008 by mitrichr Post: Greg- Surely, I can not answer your question. But the fact is, my experience is typical. People are experiencing this problem on some machines and not on others, so it seems to me that the problem lies with the project. It behooves the project managers to get this figured out. Rosetta is losing crunchers every day. This is not just a WU freezing or anything like that. When the problem occurs, it freezes the whole computer necessitating a trip to Task Manager to clear out the process. >>RSM so how is it that my single machine with 2 cores and some corsair memroy runs just fine and your multitude of machines does not? |
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Posted 7 Sep 2008 by mitrichr Post: With all due respect, this business of checking individual computer symptoms to root out this problem is just so much ca-ca. I am running 8 projects, 9 projects, and 4 projects, respectively, on the computers having difficulty with Rosetta. I suspect that many others experiencing the problems are doing much the same. To suspect any given machine, when all of the other projects on these machines are doing fine, especially and including all those who, like myself, find the screen savers useful, is silly. The problem lies solely with the project. The managers of the project ought to realize this by now, and pull this away. That way, those of us who have been loyally trying to do our best for what is arguably the most important project at BOINC could proceed with this very valuable work. Instead, what they are doing is earning the enmity of some people who will detach and never come back. >>RSM |
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Posted 6 Sep 2008 by mitrichr Post: Those of you who are having problems with minirosetta v1.32 may want to add a description of the machine where you were running it when it had problems in case the problem appears only on specific types of machines. With Rosetta problems,I am running two Core-2-Duo Vista machines with 2 gig of DRAM, and one Intel PIII machine with 512 megs of DRAM. With no problem, one Intel PIII with 512 megs of DRAM. Go figure! >>RSM |
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Posted 4 Sep 2008 by mitrichr Post: Kudos to Jim Clark for simply and eloquently explaining the pain. >>RSM |
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Posted 4 Sep 2008 by mitrichr Post: I don't understand how you guys are getting failures so often. In spite of everything, I do have one machine, a PIII with 512 megs of DRAM and a I gig processor which has kept sailing right along in Rosetta. So, that is compared to my three machines, 2 Core 2 Duo machines and 1 PIII that have failed to run this bugger. I am delighted for those who are having no problems; but you can tell from this thread that things are no going well. >>RSM |
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Posted 3 Sep 2008 by mitrichr Post: [quote]Rest assured that the Project Team does review and react to the posts in these "problems with..." threads. Well, I sure would like to be back crunching for Rosetta. Why can't they take this problem process and put it into Ralph and ask for volunteers? That would let those of us who just want to run WU's not need to constantly baby this thing along. >>RSM |
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Posted 1 Sep 2008 by mitrichr Post: I just re-attached a PIII and a Core 2 Duo, two machines which I had previously used to crunch for Rosetta. They both got WU's within minutes. After the WU started on each machine, I let it run as long as it stayed active. Within about seven minutes, each machine froze. So, I detached both again. >>RSM |
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Posted 30 Aug 2008 by mitrichr Post: So, here is the deal: People are detaching from Rosetta, even though it may be the single most important project at BOINC. We have no choice but to endure these problems, or detach, because this mini runs along with what else is going. Detach this buggy process from the rest of Rosetta, Run it in Ralph@home. Get some volunteers to run it if you can not find the problems in the lab, and let us get back to crunching for Rosetta. If in fact you get it to run properly, put the news in the RSS feed, so we know it is safe to go back in the water. >>RSM |
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Posted 29 Aug 2008 by mitrichr Post: The graphic is freezing, meaning, I assume, that the WU is a dead fish. {...} David- Yes, I know, that was what I had been doing and did not want to. >>RSM |
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Posted 29 Aug 2008 by mitrichr Post: The graphic is freezing, meaning, I assume, that the WU is a dead fish. {...} David- Yes, I know, that was what I had been doing and did not want to. >>RSM |
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Posted 29 Aug 2008 by mitrichr Post: The graphic is freezing, meaning, I assume, that the WU is a dead fish. {...} David- Yes, I know, that was what I had been doing and did not want to. >>RSM |
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Posted 25 Aug 2008 by mitrichr Post:
Which laptop? >>RSM [/quote] Hmmm... maybe it isn't a laptop :D This host: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/show_host_detail.php?hostid=711824 has a T7200 cpu... which I believe it's a mobile CPU. (My laptop came with a T7xxx CPU)[/quote] I have four machines running: Laptop, LaptopII, Desktop, and DesktopII. The T7200 is a 2 gig Core 2 Duo, in LaptopII, one of the machnes which I detached. D= Desktop, a PIII machine which is running Rosetta with so far no problems. But, and this means I am not sure your were responding to me, BOINC has them as I named them above, while I do refer to them in correspondence with my I/T sensei as D, DII, L, and LII. >>RSM |
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Posted 24 Aug 2008 by mitrichr Post: [/quote] BTW, I recommend upgrading your laptop CPU to a 9xxx or 8xxx CPU's with 45nm tech. they run much cooler and WAY faster.[/quote] Which laptop? >>RSM |
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