We're #200 @ Rosetta@Home, improving the world!

[Umfriend]

Uhm, that actually sounds like a fantastic idea! Wonder how it goes.

[J1NG]

The USB3 Flash drive (Corsair Voyager GT 16GB USB3) is working a treat. I'm experienced zero slowdowns since the change. No stuttering, no stalling, no waiting of anything.

Others in partially similar boat (don't want Boinc on your SSD) can try this out too if they want. Although your mileage may vary a tiny bit if you use or have lots of USB stuff plugged in.

J1NG

[Umfriend]

Flabbergasted I am, why did not I think of this....?

[J1NG]

OK, with what I do and what I may need the system for during a normal day, 5 active threads is the best I can keep the Boinc process going at. I could put it to 6, but Boinc's very weird threshold for when to stop the whole Boinc process kicks in far too easily at 6 threads on this system. So keeping it at 5 until I can find an effective way to keep Boinc running and not put everything on hold when it "thinks" that there's not enough process (when it's just cycling through the cores and actually has plenty of CPU time available).

I could just manually activate each core I suppose, but takes a rather long period of time to accomplish every time I need to do it, and sometimes time is of the essence (and a net connection too when it goes out). So I'd rather not rely on manual control of an automatic process every time (which I'd need to return back at some point too).

So for now, 5 threads for Boinc here. Should be providing some 800+ average credits.

J1NG

[SitFlyer]

With SUMMER HEAT all my meager production will become zero

[Umfriend]

Understandable. What are temps a CPU should be able to endure for like ages? My server CPU is getting warmer, 48C now so I would think that that is very comfortable but is. I would think that it should run for years and years even when exposed to max temps of about 67.4C (or is it 100C when I measure through CPUID and look at the Core temps?)

Meanwhile, Marshmallowman became a Rosette Credit Millionaire!! Congrats! Thanks!

Zokes will become a double millionaire today, wow!

[Umfriend]

Uhm, it seems box! has left the building already :-( He! Whassup box!?

[Marshmallowman]

cheers, coldest time of the year here...so my room heaters are crunching at nice steady rate.

[Umfriend]

Time for a little update

As we're mingling with the real players, progress is going slower. We're #179 as of this writing and #83 by RAC.

The Fallen are now a majority: 6 out of 14 members are still crunching away with Zokes being the biggest daily contributor and Nicram still #1 by total credit. Would love to see some of us return and/or join.

[VJ]

I had to disable my client, as the computer was getting impossible to work on. Not sure why, but it may be heat related. For now, I've stopped crunching while I need the computer, as otherwise BOINC is really causing delays and irresponsiveness. I forgot to switch it back on before the weekend. I've now set it in computing preferences, so I should be contributing again soon.

[Umfriend]

Have you tried limiting the number of cores it'll use? How do the delays and irresponsiveness manifest themselves? Has it become worse over time?

[VJ]

Have you tried limiting the number of cores it'll use?

Yes, but no avail.

How do the delays and irresponsiveness manifest themselves? Has it become worse over time?

System becomes fully unresponsive for several minutes: larger programs take minutes to launch, smaller programs launch very slowly. Getting to taskmanager also takes a long time, and it does not reveal much. Only the mouse moves at normal speed (although sometimes not smoothly).

It seems to happen when the system swaps from BOINC to other processes, regardless of how many cores BOINC is set to use or which CPU percentage. In my current situation, developping in Java and compiling things, this is particularly annoying: editor works fine, but sometimes it needs more resources (I suspect during autocompile or some other background things that suddenly trigger the swapping), after which the whole system becomes unresponsive for anywhere between 1-10 minutes. I'm currently refactoring a big program, and probably it triggers more background things in Eclipse, due to many changing dependencies.

[Umfriend]

Obviously this should not happen and I assume you experience no such issues when BOINC is not running. If you feel like it you might want to study resmon.exe and post at the Rosetta and/or BOINC fora. The only thing I can think of is that when BOINC offloads due to a rise in resource-demand, it causes a lot of I/O operations with a lot of small files being written. In fact, a nice experiment might be to transfer all BOINC datafiles (and perhaps programfiles as well) to a USB memory stick and see if the situation improves. My C:\ProgramData\Boinc folder is just 1GB in size but contains over 6,000 files...

[VJ]

My BOINC folder is nearly 2 GB and contains over 13000 files... The computer is at my office, and was bought on a limited budget (which probably is reflected in all the components).

I will leave it for now, with BOINC scheduled to run only at night, and if possible I will check it later. But we are preparing for a hectic month of September, so no time for such things now...

[Umfriend]

A quick update, we're #170! We're #68 by RAC. Zokes is steadilly crunching like crazy on just one machine. I had the good fortune of having replaced HDDs by SSDs on two PCs that I maintain for my wife's business and, well, now that these boot like crazy I re-installed BOINC on those as well as on the new lappy of my youngest daughter. I was eyeing to regain my #1 spot again but, and I have mixed feelings about this , Nicram had done something as well that increased his output considerably. Marshmallowman is well over a million credits now but with summer approaching I'm not sure how he'll do in a few months. VJ is building a new rig that will, at least, run BOINC for a while to test and it should help him to become a millionaire soon.

Sitflyer fell off the wagon apparantly which is a shame because he was a very very steady contributor (Sitflyer, what happened?).

J1NG is on and off but mostly on so that helps as well.

Meanwhile, we now have 7 Fallen that have stopped crunching long ago (TX, Taz-Matt, degrub, Delany, Nowhere, box and the girl Maggi)... C'mon guys, get back if you can. It needs not be thousands of credits a day, just a trinkle now and then.