Message boards : Number crunching : Why is 2nd core always idle?
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Ghostrider Send message Joined: 11 Nov 08 Posts: 10 Credit: 1,216,923 RAC: 0 |
I am about to leave Rosetta@Home for Folding@Home. I left Folding originally because, at the time, the client would only run on one core. In the past, I have been able to keep both cores fed, but now, the second core is always idle. Retry network communications does no good, why isn't there a "Get more work / Report Results" button someplace? I entered in the preferences that I want a 3 day buffer, but all I am doing now is wasting energy. |
dcdc Send message Joined: 3 Nov 05 Posts: 1832 Credit: 119,688,048 RAC: 9,222 |
I am about to leave Rosetta@Home for Folding@Home. I left Folding originally because, at the time, the client would only run on one core. In the past, I have been able to keep both cores fed, but now, the second core is always idle. Retry network communications does no good, why isn't there a "Get more work / Report Results" button someplace? I entered in the preferences that I want a 3 day buffer, but all I am doing now is wasting energy. you only need to post once... you cant download more until you've started crunching - it stops bad clients overloading the servers - give it a couple of hrs. |
Ghostrider Send message Joined: 11 Nov 08 Posts: 10 Credit: 1,216,923 RAC: 0 |
I am about to leave Rosetta@Home for Folding@Home. I left Folding originally because, at the time, the client would only run on one core. In the past, I have been able to keep both cores fed, but now, the second core is always idle. Retry network communications does no good, why isn't there a "Get more work / Report Results" button someplace? I entered in the preferences that I want a 3 day buffer, but all I am doing now is wasting energy. Sorry about the double post, I think I just deleted it... I don't understand about that rule...I am crunching one one core, but there is a work unit waiting to be processed and I have a second idle core. Why doesn't the work unit run on the second core? |
P . P . L . Send message Joined: 20 Aug 06 Posts: 581 Credit: 4,865,274 RAC: 0 |
I am about to leave Rosetta@Home for Folding@Home. I left Folding originally because, at the time, the client would only run on one core. In the past, I have been able to keep both cores fed, but now, the second core is always idle. Retry network communications does no good, why isn't there a "Get more work / Report Results" button someplace? I entered in the preferences that I want a 3 day buffer, but all I am doing now is wasting energy. Hi Ghostrider. Your computers are hidden, it can make it hard to help. Are you using the override file in Boinc, if not try this. GO TO. Computing Preferences THEN. When and how BOINC uses your computer THEN AJUST-IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY. On multiprocessors, use at most 2 processors hope it helps. pete. |
Ghostrider Send message Joined: 11 Nov 08 Posts: 10 Credit: 1,216,923 RAC: 0 |
I am about to leave Rosetta@Home for Folding@Home. I left Folding originally because, at the time, the client would only run on one core. In the past, I have been able to keep both cores fed, but now, the second core is always idle. Retry network communications does no good, why isn't there a "Get more work / Report Results" button someplace? I entered in the preferences that I want a 3 day buffer, but all I am doing now is wasting energy. Thanks Pete, the computer is an E6700, about to become a Q9500. I changed the number of processors to use from 16 to 8. I'll see if that helps. Actually, I just realized that the computer I am using is not under my "Ghostrider" account, it is here: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/hosts_user.php?userid=123935 |
dcdc Send message Joined: 3 Nov 05 Posts: 1832 Credit: 119,688,048 RAC: 9,222 |
Thanks Pete, the computer is an E6700, about to become a Q9500. I changed the number of processors to use from 16 to 8. I'll see if that helps. In that case I'd say it's probably 'waiting for memory'. You have 1GB on that machine so it might be that your preferences are limiting - have a look under Advanced > Preferences > Disk & Memory Usage > Memory (assuming you're using a recent version of BOINC). It might be that the second task is paused when you start to use the machine, but both cores are used when the machine is otherwise idle... are there two rosetta threads listed in task manager (although one might be idle)? Also, make sure 'Leave applications in memory while suspended' is checked... HTH Danny |
Ghostrider Send message Joined: 11 Nov 08 Posts: 10 Credit: 1,216,923 RAC: 0 |
I got it working, I downloaded the most recent version of Boinc. |
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