Posts by sombraguerrero

1) Message boards : News : Outage notice (Message 99601) Posted 7 Nov 2020 by sombraguerrero Post: WCG ARP units can get upwards of about 3/4 of a Gigabyte when they're fresh, possibly closer to a Gig at points. So it's not too much for most modern systems to handle, but it's enough that most people probably wouldn't want more than one. Rosetta units do tend to stay pretty steadily in the lower hundreds of Megabytes. It's just a question of knowing how much RAM you have and whether or not you tend to need RAM for a lot of other things.
2) Message boards : News : Outage notice (Message 99388) Posted 24 Oct 2020 by sombraguerrero Post: That makes sense in the context of the stats then. I guess i was just making assumptions based on past experience. I thank you for the input, sir!
3) Message boards : News : Outage notice (Message 99386) Posted 24 Oct 2020 by sombraguerrero Post: It does distribute it evenly if you never touch anything, hehe. I only ever do have one gpu wu running at one time, so that's not too much of an issue. I think it's just surprised me over time how little Rosetta yields for the default duration it's expected to cycle. I also find the way the Boinc projects handle the resource share settings a little too arbitrary, but everyone has their own sweet spot, I suppose. In my case, even with the hour allocation set lower, I always get assigned really long running Rosetta units and I honestly would rather spend that time on other projects anyway, now that I've been tracking stats for a good while.
4) Message boards : News : Outage notice (Message 99384) Posted 23 Oct 2020 by sombraguerrero Post: Several types of work units have some conflict with each other, so that running them together slows down the total output. I can't plan on how to juggle that with Rosetta. To this point, I feel like Rosetta is more than a bit hoggish at times of the resource share, in spite of the client purportedly distributing the work load evenly. All other project WUs seem quite outnumbered and overpowered when Rosetta is active on my box.
5) Message boards : News : Outage notice (Message 99373) Posted 22 Oct 2020 by sombraguerrero Post: Oh I have, but because outages really just leave the data stale, quite often, I'd rather modify the consumption than stop it altogether, especially when it comes to spanning multiple projects. The point I'm trying to make with this is that there are legitimate reasons for wanting to know if a project is actually in a fail state. Most of the time, they aren't, but it's nice to know when they are.
6) Message boards : News : Outage notice (Message 99371) Posted 22 Oct 2020 by sombraguerrero Post: I have an ETL I run on my stats data to do my own stuff with it, for fun, and for education.
7) Message boards : News : Outage notice (Message 99369) Posted 22 Oct 2020 by sombraguerrero Post: Oh, I do multiple projects, to be clear, but I still like to know when one is going to be legitimately down so I can adjust some related processes I have.
8) Message boards : News : Outage notice (Message 99365) Posted 22 Oct 2020 by sombraguerrero Post: I think distributive computation projects have become commonplace enough now that they're starting to take up residence in the collective psyche. Especially right now with the pandemic, it's easy to start viewing something like this as just a part of your daily routine. People don't like having their routines disrupted and so when they are, they want justification for it as they would for anything else. I think that's what people get lost in. It's also easy to get lost in the stats competition as something much simpler and possibly more concrete to some than the underlying science. It is a really good metric for certain aspects of system performance, but I think it's important to have a balance between that and healthy reverence for the larger purpose. I appreciate the stats as a data point. I even preserve them beyond the XMLs so I can record them over broader history, but I mostly like to think of it in terms of, "My computer's on all the time right now anyway. Might as well do the most good I can with the cycles." I for one enjoy the science, but I also think I just appreciate being kept informed enough to know that there isn't a technical difficulty preventing work from coming, because if I know that, I can plan to do other things.