Rosetta at home: Are all of you running a optimised client?

Smoke

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Please tell us where to get it and how to install it. :)
 

TAandy

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Just copied the optimized boinc.exe into the boinc folder and run cpu benchmarks.
Completion times are now longer for my XP2600 than they are for the XP1900;
1 hour 27 mins and 1 hour 20 mins respectively for Rosetta WU's.
Not exactly sure what the 2600's time were originally but they were less than the 1900's

Edit: Damn, this sites slow again tonight :|
 

TAandy

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While I'm at it,
I've a Rosetta WU thats taken 5 and a half hours to reach 1%, anyone else had one like this, and did you dump it?
 

Rattledagger

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Originally posted by: Freewolf
If not you should be.

Rosetta@home doesn't have an optimized application, so do you mean users should run a BOINC-client that gives artificially inflated benchmark, and therefore gives too much credit? :frown:



Andy, results being stuck on 1% is one of the bugs still present in Rosetta@home, so just kill it.
 

BadThad

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OK, this project is starting to T me off. Just checked one of my clients and it wasn't running with the message "not enough disk space allocated". I changed my preferences when I started the project to 1GB max, how much freaking disk space do they want? I believe the default was like 5GB, which, IMO, is a LOT to ask of a DC project.

On another client, I keep getting a pop-up from the tray icon that says "BOINC needs to perform some maintenance, bla bla bla. Click here and....". Why is it asking me ANYTHING? I want it to be totally automatic and seemless. The service installs seem to be fine, but the standard install is prompting for action, I can't have that at all.

Between that and the need for 5GB of disk space, I dunno about this project. :|
 

BlackMountainCow

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Yip, R@H demands a high ammount of HD space ... BUT ... it doesn't use it! I've got 7 days worth of cached WUs on my X2 3800+ ; around 120 WUs. They use 23 MB right now. So just set the value to 5 GB, it will never use it anyway - at least from what I can see right now.

:thumbsup:
 

rise

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Originally posted by: TAandy
While I'm at it,
I've a Rosetta WU thats taken 5 and a half hours to reach 1%, anyone else had one like this, and did you dump it?

yes, like RD said, kill da bum.

i haven't had one since someone suggested changing my preference to "keep work in memory" or something like that. its in the preferences and the default is "no". changing to yes solved my problems.
 

Crazee

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Originally posted by: BadThad
OK, this project is starting to T me off. Just checked one of my clients and it wasn't running with the message "not enough disk space allocated". I changed my preferences when I started the project to 1GB max, how much freaking disk space do they want? I believe the default was like 5GB, which, IMO, is a LOT to ask of a DC project.

On another client, I keep getting a pop-up from the tray icon that says "BOINC needs to perform some maintenance, bla bla bla. Click here and....". Why is it asking me ANYTHING? I want it to be totally automatic and seemless. The service installs seem to be fine, but the standard install is prompting for action, I can't have that at all.

Between that and the need for 5GB of disk space, I dunno about this project. :|


Like BMC says it asks for it but it doesn't use it. I have had similar numbers to his.
 

Freewolf

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Originally posted by: Rattledagger
Originally posted by: Freewolf
If not you should be.

Rosetta@home doesn't have an optimized application, so do you mean users should run a BOINC-client that gives artificially inflated benchmark, and therefore gives too much credit? :frown:



Andy, results being stuck on 1% is one of the bugs still present in Rosetta@home, so just kill it.

Don't know about that RD but I know I'm getting a lot less failed work units with the optimized BIONC client which is why I'm running it. Thw work units are taking longer but at least they aren't getting to ninty percent and failing like they was. I hadn't even noticed it until I installed it on another slower computer and saw it was getting more work done than my the first machine I put it on.
bty wouldn't that kinda be a form of cheating ? I thought BOINC was designed so you couldn't cheat?
 

BadThad

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What about this?

On another client, I keep getting a pop-up from the tray icon that says "BOINC needs to perform some maintenance, bla bla bla. Click here and....". Why is it asking me ANYTHING? I want it to be totally automatic and seemless. The service installs seem to be fine, but the standard install is prompting for action, I can't have that at all.
 

Smoke

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Originally posted by: BadThad
What about this?

On another client, I keep getting a pop-up from the tray icon that says "BOINC needs to perform some maintenance, bla bla bla. Click here and....". Why is it asking me ANYTHING? I want it to be totally automatic and seemless. The service installs seem to be fine, but the standard install is prompting for action, I can't have that at all.

Might be that "hijack" virus I was working on. :p :D lol

I've tried the opt version and one thing seems to have been fixed straight away. The blank BOINC Manager screen opened only momentarily and then disappeared just the way it should. That has been an irksome malfunction on just about everyone of my installs.
 

BadThad

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Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
Me neither. All I ever get is "BOINC is connecting to the internet" or "BOINC needs to connect"

Jez, how did I get so lucky. Well, I went to options and changed it from "automatically detect network...." to "Use my LAN". Let's see if that helps on this machine.
 

BadThad

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Originally posted by: Smoke
Originally posted by: BadThad
What about this?

On another client, I keep getting a pop-up from the tray icon that says "BOINC needs to perform some maintenance, bla bla bla. Click here and....". Why is it asking me ANYTHING? I want it to be totally automatic and seemless. The service installs seem to be fine, but the standard install is prompting for action, I can't have that at all.

Might be that "hijack" virus I was working on. :p :D lol

I've tried the opt version and one thing seems to have been fixed straight away. The blank BOINC Manager screen opened only momentarily and then disappeared just the way it should. That has been an irksome malfunction on just about everyone of my installs.

Is that why I'm not getting any credit on my boinc account and your numbers are going so high? LMAO I KNEW IT! lol Dasm email attachments from Smoke! :p

What is the "blank" boinc manager screen?

 

emjem

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Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
Yip, R@H demands a high ammount of HD space ... BUT ... it doesn't use it! I've got 7 days worth of cached WUs on my X2 3800+ ; around 120 WUs. They use 23 MB right now. So just set the value to 5 GB, it will never use it anyway - at least from what I can see right now.

:thumbsup:


Well, I've got four crunchers that have been running FaD with 2 gig hard drives. Boinc doesn't like them at all so they're shut down.

FaD was trouble free while Boinc is like S@H -- lots of technical monkey business going on.

What really peed me off is that I ran uninstall on one of the crunchers, only to discover that most of the files weren't removed from my hdd -- and when I tried to delete them manually 2 could not be deleted. Well I did get rid of them eventually but I just don't feel like giving up control of my system to a bunch of university weenies. Uninstal mean UNINSTAL, not "uninstall EXCEPT for ...................."!
 

emjem

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Yeah, and where do I go to see MY results? I'm crunching on BadThad's 'team'/account. In S@H I had results for my PCs locally. I don't see anything in Boinc that's tracking my output. Kind of frustrating to not see results for each PC.
 

emjem

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Oh, and I don't see any place to set hdd space allocation. Maybe I'm riding on BadThads settings?