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

[J1NG]

Currently in middle of maintenance and preliminary upgrades.

The 3820 may be upgraded soon to a 4930k, extra few cores to play around with. Soonâ„¢. Will then be clocking it up as well to 4.3Ghz. (These chips play funny when fully loaded on RAM so can't push it too far). Will then see if I can't leave it on a bit more. Until then, it's in low power state most of the time so only running at 1/3rd speed it should be and only on 5 threads at a time.

J1NG

[Umfriend]

Welcome to the team Wulfman and I hope you'll crunch for us for a long time, at whatever pace you want/can.

[Wulfman]

I guess I should come out of the woodwork - the recent addition would be me. Currently stress testing some systems, so won't keep up the current output, for what it matters... but I'll try to keep the client running on some PCs.

W

[Umfriend]

No worries, very glad you're back with us! I'll remind you next time through PM, ok?

We also have a new member, fechter, but I have no idea who that is. Welcome in any case!

[SitFlyer]

My bad for forgetting to update settings after the heatwave.

[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.

[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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[Marshmallowman]

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

[Umfriend]

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

[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!