Posts by cmodyssey

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it possible to process jobs with 360MB of RAM (Message 70668) Posted 30 Jun 2011 by cmodyssey Post: Hi, Thank you to everyone for your replies. It all makes a lot more sense now. My virtual server provider will be upgrading my RAM to 480MB in mid July, so I'll see if I get some jobs once that happens. Thanks again, Richard.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it possible to process jobs with 360MB of RAM (Message 70662) Posted 29 Jun 2011 by cmodyssey Post: No not that particular group of messages it isn't, line #218 means some are too close together, meaning you are requesting new tasks too close to the last time you asked and the Project Server is automatically slowing you down, no hammering on the door to get in! Line #254 means the Server itself is down for maintenance, meaning no one gets in! As for low memory it will probably get units but they would process sooooo ssllooww that it may not be worth it! I just checked one of my machine and each unit is taking about 130,000k of memory and then Boinc itself takes another 10,000k or so. That is written kind of funny but probably means 130meg and 10meg so I could be mistaken. Hi mikey, Thanks for taking a look, I have taken another look at messages and below are the ones that have appeared since my last posting. Do you know what else could cause me being sent no work? Thanks, Richard. 259: 25-Jun-2011 09:21:13 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 260: 25-Jun-2011 09:21:13 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 261: 25-Jun-2011 09:21:15 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 262: 25-Jun-2011 09:21:15 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 263: 25-Jun-2011 21:09:21 (low) [] Running CPU benchmarks 264: 25-Jun-2011 21:09:21 (low) [] Suspending computation - running CPU benchmarks 265: 25-Jun-2011 21:09:53 (low) [] Benchmark results: 266: 25-Jun-2011 21:09:53 (low) [] Number of CPUs: 1 267: 25-Jun-2011 21:09:53 (low) [] 1287 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 268: 25-Jun-2011 21:09:53 (low) [] 3120 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 269: 25-Jun-2011 21:09:54 (low) [] Resuming computation 270: 26-Jun-2011 00:36:05 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 271: 26-Jun-2011 00:36:05 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 272: 26-Jun-2011 00:36:09 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 273: 26-Jun-2011 00:36:09 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 274: 26-Jun-2011 06:11:59 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 275: 26-Jun-2011 06:11:59 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 276: 26-Jun-2011 06:12:07 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 277: 26-Jun-2011 06:12:07 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 278: 27-Jun-2011 03:55:40 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 279: 27-Jun-2011 03:55:40 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 280: 27-Jun-2011 03:55:43 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 281: 27-Jun-2011 03:55:43 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 282: 27-Jun-2011 13:33:23 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 283: 27-Jun-2011 13:33:23 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 284: 27-Jun-2011 13:33:27 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 285: 27-Jun-2011 13:33:27 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 286: 28-Jun-2011 03:04:10 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 287: 28-Jun-2011 03:04:10 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 288: 28-Jun-2011 03:04:16 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 289: 28-Jun-2011 03:04:16 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 290: 28-Jun-2011 05:38:29 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 291: 28-Jun-2011 05:38:29 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 292: 28-Jun-2011 05:38:32 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 293: 28-Jun-2011 05:38:32 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 294: 28-Jun-2011 14:35:58 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 295: 28-Jun-2011 14:35:58 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 296: 28-Jun-2011 14:36:00 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 297: 28-Jun-2011 14:36:00 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 298: 29-Jun-2011 00:34:59 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 299: 29-Jun-2011 00:34:59 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 300: 29-Jun-2011 00:35:07 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 301: 29-Jun-2011 00:35:07 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 302: 29-Jun-2011 16:32:24 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 303: 29-Jun-2011 16:32:24 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 304: 29-Jun-2011 16:32:30 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 305: 29-Jun-2011 16:32:30 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it possible to process jobs with 360MB of RAM (Message 70658) Posted 28 Jun 2011 by cmodyssey Post: Hi, I am trying to process using a virtual server that only has 360MB of memory assigned to it. Would this be the cause of my BOINC not being given any work units? Below is a sample of messages. Thanks in advance. 209: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:39 (low) [rosetta@home] update requested by user 210: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:41 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. 211: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:41 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 212: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:44 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 213: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:44 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 214: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:50 (low) [rosetta@home] update requested by user 215: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:50 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. 216: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:50 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 217: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:52 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 218: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:52 (low) [rosetta@home] Message from server: Not sending work - last request too recent: 8 sec 219: 24-Jun-2011 21:44:57 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 220: 24-Jun-2011 21:44:57 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 221: 24-Jun-2011 21:45:00 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 222: 24-Jun-2011 21:45:00 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 223: 24-Jun-2011 21:49:07 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 224: 24-Jun-2011 21:49:07 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 225: 24-Jun-2011 21:49:09 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 226: 24-Jun-2011 21:49:09 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 227: 24-Jun-2011 21:53:11 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 228: 24-Jun-2011 21:53:11 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 229: 24-Jun-2011 21:53:14 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 230: 24-Jun-2011 21:53:14 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 231: 24-Jun-2011 21:58:22 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 232: 24-Jun-2011 21:58:22 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 233: 24-Jun-2011 21:58:24 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 234: 24-Jun-2011 21:58:24 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 235: 24-Jun-2011 22:09:43 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 236: 24-Jun-2011 22:09:43 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 237: 24-Jun-2011 22:09:45 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 238: 24-Jun-2011 22:09:45 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 239: 24-Jun-2011 22:35:37 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 240: 24-Jun-2011 22:35:37 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 241: 24-Jun-2011 22:35:39 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 242: 24-Jun-2011 22:35:39 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 243: 24-Jun-2011 22:42:52 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 244: 24-Jun-2011 22:42:52 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 245: 24-Jun-2011 22:43:00 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 246: 24-Jun-2011 22:43:00 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 247: 24-Jun-2011 23:37:43 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 248: 24-Jun-2011 23:37:43 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 249: 24-Jun-2011 23:37:45 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 250: 24-Jun-2011 23:37:45 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 251: 25-Jun-2011 03:46:53 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 252: 25-Jun-2011 03:46:53 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 253: 25-Jun-2011 03:46:59 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 254: 25-Jun-2011 03:46:59 (low) [rosetta@home] Message from server: Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance 255: 25-Jun-2011 04:47:04 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 256: 25-Jun-2011 04:47:04 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 257: 25-Jun-2011 04:47:07 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 258: 25-Jun-2011 04:47:07 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent
4) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Only ever been given one work unit (Message 70639) Posted 25 Jun 2011 by cmodyssey Post: Usually if disk space or time estimates or other factors were a problem, you would see a more specific message. The other problem often encountered is that other projects are running and BOINC does not REQUEST more work.. but you case specifically shows "Requesting new tasks". Are you running other BOINC projects? What is Rosetta's resource share? What version of BOINC are you running? I see your machine has 360MB of memory?? I suppose it is possible that most of the current work units require 512. You might post to the Number Crunching board and see if others have ideas. It is more widely viewed. Hi Mod.Sense, Thanks for your help. I am not running any other BOINC projects. Please see my preferences settings for Resource share and graphics below. The version of BOINC I have is 6.10.58 i686-pc-linux-gnu Yes, my machine currently has 360MB of RAM, it's a virtual server. It's due to have it's memory upgraded to 480MB of RAM. If there are no clues in this post, I'll contact the the Number Crunching board. Please could you let me know if my problem is at that stage yet. Thanks, Richard. Resource share If you participate in multiple BOINC projects, this is the proportion of your resources used by Rosetta@home 100 Is it OK for Rosetta@home and your team (if any) to email you? Emails will be sent from Rosetta/BOINC Admin ; make sure your spam filter accepts this address. yes Should Rosetta@home show your computers on its web site? yes Default computer location --- Percentage of CPU time used for graphics 10 Number of frames per second for graphics 10 Target CPU run time not selected
5) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Only ever been given one work unit (Message 70637) Posted 25 Jun 2011 by cmodyssey Post: Well, you are getting the message indicating the scheduler request completed... so you don't have a network problem. You settings look reasonable. The project has loads of work units ready to go.... Have you tried updating since the June 6th date shown? Hi Mod.Sense, Thanks for your reply. I ran the command "./boinccmd --project http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ update" twice for good measure last night. I've just taken a look at the messages from that point on and they are below. Do you have any other ideas that I can try please? Thanks, Richard. 209: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:39 (low) [rosetta@home] update requested by user 210: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:41 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. 211: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:41 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 212: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:44 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 213: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:44 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 214: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:50 (low) [rosetta@home] update requested by user 215: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:50 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. 216: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:50 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 217: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:52 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 218: 24-Jun-2011 21:40:52 (low) [rosetta@home] Message from server: Not sending work - last request too recent: 8 sec 219: 24-Jun-2011 21:44:57 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 220: 24-Jun-2011 21:44:57 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 221: 24-Jun-2011 21:45:00 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 222: 24-Jun-2011 21:45:00 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 223: 24-Jun-2011 21:49:07 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 224: 24-Jun-2011 21:49:07 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 225: 24-Jun-2011 21:49:09 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 226: 24-Jun-2011 21:49:09 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 227: 24-Jun-2011 21:53:11 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 228: 24-Jun-2011 21:53:11 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 229: 24-Jun-2011 21:53:14 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 230: 24-Jun-2011 21:53:14 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 231: 24-Jun-2011 21:58:22 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 232: 24-Jun-2011 21:58:22 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 233: 24-Jun-2011 21:58:24 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 234: 24-Jun-2011 21:58:24 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 235: 24-Jun-2011 22:09:43 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 236: 24-Jun-2011 22:09:43 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 237: 24-Jun-2011 22:09:45 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 238: 24-Jun-2011 22:09:45 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 239: 24-Jun-2011 22:35:37 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 240: 24-Jun-2011 22:35:37 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 241: 24-Jun-2011 22:35:39 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 242: 24-Jun-2011 22:35:39 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 243: 24-Jun-2011 22:42:52 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 244: 24-Jun-2011 22:42:52 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 245: 24-Jun-2011 22:43:00 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 246: 24-Jun-2011 22:43:00 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 247: 24-Jun-2011 23:37:43 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 248: 24-Jun-2011 23:37:43 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 249: 24-Jun-2011 23:37:45 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 250: 24-Jun-2011 23:37:45 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 251: 25-Jun-2011 03:46:53 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 252: 25-Jun-2011 03:46:53 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 253: 25-Jun-2011 03:46:59 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 254: 25-Jun-2011 03:46:59 (low) [rosetta@home] Message from server: Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance 255: 25-Jun-2011 04:47:04 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 256: 25-Jun-2011 04:47:04 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 257: 25-Jun-2011 04:47:07 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 258: 25-Jun-2011 04:47:07 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent
6) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Only ever been given one work unit (Message 70630) Posted 23 Jun 2011 by cmodyssey Post: Hi, Would anybody be able to help me with a problem with BOINC on a Linux server please? I'm a newbie to it. I installed it on my Linux server and it seemed to process one work job and now all I get is as follows: 159: 06-Jun-2011 08:54:07 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 160: 06-Jun-2011 08:54:09 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 161: 06-Jun-2011 08:54:09 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 162: 06-Jun-2011 16:06:10 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 163: 06-Jun-2011 16:06:10 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 164: 06-Jun-2011 16:06:15 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 165: 06-Jun-2011 16:06:15 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent 166: 06-Jun-2011 19:11:46 (low) [rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 167: 06-Jun-2011 19:11:46 (low) [rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks 168: 06-Jun-2011 19:11:48 (low) [rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 169: 06-Jun-2011 19:11:48 (medium) [rosetta@home] Message from server: No work sent The contents of my global_prefs.xml file is: <global_preferences> <source_project>http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/</source_project> <source_scheduler>http://srv4.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi</source_scheduler> <mod_time>1307223489</mod_time> <run_if_user_active/> <idle_time_to_run>3</idle_time_to_run> <suspend_if_no_recent_input>0</suspend_if_no_recent_input> <cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>60</cpu_scheduling_period_minutes> <work_buf_min_days>0</work_buf_min_days> <work_buf_additional_days>0.25</work_buf_additional_days> <max_cpus>16</max_cpus> <cpu_usage_limit>100</cpu_usage_limit> <disk_interval>60</disk_interval> <disk_max_used_gb>20</disk_max_used_gb> <disk_max_used_pct>50</disk_max_used_pct> <disk_min_free_gb>10</disk_min_free_gb> <vm_max_used_pct>75</vm_max_used_pct> <ram_max_used_busy_pct>50</ram_max_used_busy_pct> <ram_max_used_idle_pct>90</ram_max_used_idle_pct> <max_bytes_sec_down>0</max_bytes_sec_down> <max_bytes_sec_up>0</max_bytes_sec_up> </global_preferences> The project status is all OK http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah_status.php Does anybody have any ideas what could be wrong please? Thanks in advance, Richard.