Posts by DALTON

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Minirosetta v1.40 bug thread (Message 57034) Posted 17 Nov 2008 by DALTON Post: Actually what the problem is that when the WU gets to 10ish minutes to go it actually isn't doing any work it is just stuck. I've had a WU get to the 9 minute 56 second mark and just get stuck there. The longest I've had it get stuck is close to 18 hours and if BOINC get restarted it will go all the way back to 45 minutes and a then only take about 2 1/2 hours to complete after that. And there are alway a lot of lock file errors or watchdog reset errors. And not all have this problem. I've had several Rossetta Mini finish without getting stuck at just under 10 minutes and I can't remember see a beta have problems getting stuck. The description by Sid Celery sounds very accurate to me. I've currently got a Mini work unit at 6 hours (3 hours default) and as he says it's still on the first model and ticking up nicely. No problem at all. If you've got lock file errors I'd hazard a guess that it's not ticking up at all on the CPU Time side. That's the issue. Forget anything to do with the remaining time because that's only ever a complete guess - as likely to be wrong as right. When you get other errors, the WU falls back to its last save position or the start of the current model within the WU. Maybe it sorts itself out by doing that and that's why it completes quickly after that. Just my 2cents