Posts by SteveK

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Rosetta WU staying in memory when preempted... (Message 1764) Posted 26 Oct 2005 by SteveK Post: Well, I just joined this project on 20 October 2005 and I've had four errors, out of nine work units. The jury's still out on the two units in progress. I'm running Boinc 5.2.2. I've had two errors and one abort with the 4.77 application and one error with the 4.78 application. The abort was on a unit that hung at 83.3 percent complete, no matter how many times I stopped the core client and application. I've tried warm boots, cold boots and nothing would get the stuck unit to take off. The other three errors appeared to be pauses, in the Boinc manager, to switch to Einstein, when the fatal errors occurred in Rosetta. I was not keeping the application in memory during switches. There's nothing special about the two boxes I'm running: 1.7Ghz & 1.8Ghz P4's running XP Home edition, SP2 with all current updates. They run Einstein & SETI just fine. I think this is a worthwhile project, and I will gladly donate my computer's idle time, but I would like to see a little better MTBF on the work units. Steve