Fluffers (nice to see you BTW - How are things?) I thought I had better tell you I did a test firing of the evil engine last weekend and I am re-arming! As we speak a new generation of electronic hardware is being delivered to castle nec (Here in sunny Wallia) ~ So you lot had better keep a careful eye in your rearview mirror because soon you are going to be totally trampled -So trampled your trampling will become legendary in the history of DC.
heheheheeeee hahahahaha hohohohoohoooo! etc!
This world is ours! - There's no room for meeesians!!

Thanks Scribe.

I read the links you supplies, as well as doing some browsing before I found your post. ;)

I have gone into preferences, and set my target runtime to the highest - 1 day.

Probably won't see any difference for a day or two, maybe Monday or Tuesday I can report that I'm using less bandwidth to do as much or more work.

I certainly hope that David and crew are considering a change to compression methods - Gzip looks like it is probably the best solution to that specific problem.

It's still not clear to me how that CPU runtime thing will reduce bandwidth - I'm off to read some more, lol

It is designed to allow you to run any particular WU for a longer time. So instead of downloading say 10 WUs to get 4 days work, you could download a single WU and run it for 4 days. The bandwidth of any single WU is the same, you just have to download fewer of them.

Maybe this cruncher that can be of help ?

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=121407

He is doing wonders with einstein cod.

Anders n

I can only think that it doesn't like the FreeBSD OS, as this computer has done 0 succesfull results.

I looked on Boincstats here and there are no FreeBDS OS stats for rosetta@home.

And unfortunatly with the trouble of possible cheating, they aren't going to release the code for sometime, so you won't be able to compile a specific app for you setup :(

Crunch somthing else with this machine :) or complain bitterly on the Number Crunching thread, that way they may compile it for you.

If someone has got this going under FreeBSD post a how to will ya ?

FYI, I've just aborted a WU () stuck at 1% after 175K seconds

Name: PRODUCTION_ABINITIO_RANDOMFRAG_1vcc__309_441
WU: 9337995
ResultID: 11582797

Some of the PRODUCTION_ABINITIO work units take a long time to pass 1%. In some cases over 4 1/2 hours on a reasonably fast machine. Before aborting them and loosing ALL the time spent, you should check the graphic display and make certain it is not actually running. In many cases these work units take well over 700,000 steps to complete a single model. The work unit will look hung until between model completions. IF it is hung you can usually preserve some of the time spent on running it by restarting boinc. This will in most cases cause the work unit to run successfully to completion.

The project team is aware of this and they are making an adjustment in the WUs to fix the problem. But it will take a few days to two weeks for the old work units to run through the system.