Posts by AMusingFool

1) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Unable to get new tasks (Message 97570) Posted 24 Jun 2020 by AMusingFool Post: Forgot to mention that computer statistics (from the web page) does show a 'last contact' that seems to show that the rosetta server has acknowledged the request.
2) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Unable to get new tasks (Message 97569) Posted 24 Jun 2020 by AMusingFool Post: Hi, I've been running rosetta for years without problems, but a new linux (ubuntu) box is having problems. After running just fine for a week or so, I have been unable to get new tasks for several days. Just did "boinccmd --get_messages" Not going to dump the whole thing, but the bottom part (after, perhaps importantly, removing and re-adding the project), shows a bunch of "Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU" "Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks" "No tasks sent" Not sure how to debug whatever is going on, so would love to hear any suggestions. And FWIW, my other computers running rosetta (one an older ubuntu box, the other a mac) continue to run just fine. Thanks, Dave Clemmer
3) Message boards : Number crunching : various systems and credit (Message 52526) Posted 16 Apr 2008 by AMusingFool Post: Just in case anyone cares, renice'ing the rosetta programs in linux seems to've made a very large difference in credit. However, it seems not to've made any difference at all under OSX (intel or PPC). Kind of weird.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : various systems and credit (Message 52365) Posted 10 Apr 2008 by AMusingFool Post: Thanks for the pointers. I found out that the CPU was running at far less than top speed (less than half, actually)... After some poking around, I discovered how to fix that. I also poked around with renice-ing boinc. It didn't do much until I renice'd the actual rosetta applications themselves (since they default to a nice level of 19, does anyone who knows python know how to change that?). I still need to see if renice'ing will do anything on the macs.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : various systems and credit (Message 52311) Posted 7 Apr 2008 by AMusingFool Post: So, I've only been running things (I think, despite what it says about my start time) since the new credit system went into effect, so I think that's not part of the issue. However, the first machine I put this on was a windows XP laptop. The units I was running were generally around 10k seconds time, claiming 40-45 credits per unit, and being granted 10-15% more credits than that per unit. The next machine was a MacBook Pro, with a CPU only a hair slower than the XP box (2.16GHz vs 2.33GHz of the same make and model CPU). It gets around 15-20 credits claimed per unit (of ~10k second units), and is granted 10-15% less credits per unit. I was wondering if there was a heavy windows bias, just based on that, but now I know there definitely is. The reason is that I installed ubuntu on the XP box, and it's now getting 25-30 credits per unit (but still being granted less than that). So it would appear that the windows client is faster than the linux client, which is faster than the mac client. So I was just wondering if anyone in the know would like to comment on that. (All of this is done with the generic client on each machine, if anyone's wondering.) Thanks.