Are there any known issues with either Skype or Messenger? Both applications have run ok for the last day. When BOINC running Rosetta was installed, both the above programmes have shut down 4 times in the last 10 minutes.

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Some Rosetta exceptions noted in the last hour;

***UNHANDLED EXCEPTION****
Reason: Access Violation (0xc0000005) at address 0x00656358 read attempt to address 0x220C8370

***UNHANDLED EXCEPTION****
Reason: Access Violation (0xc0000005) at address 0x007366CB read attempt to address 0x4140D9C8

***UNHANDLED EXCEPTION****
Reason: Access Violation (0xc0000005) at address 0x00656358 read attempt to address 0x220C8288

***UNHANDLED EXCEPTION****
Reason: Access Violation (0xc0000005) at address 0x00656358 read attempt to address 0x22736228

Thanks.

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It looks like the "error in 30 secs" WUs... I haven't heard anything about the possible involvement of Skype and messenger causing WUs to fail.

If it is the 30sec WUs, then it's a known error... but I noticed that some of your WUs are batch 202, and I didn't think there were problems with 202.

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I don't run Messenger, but I run Skype, and I haven't had any problems of what you describe.

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[b]"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me[/b]

Thanks for your replies Andrew and Fuzzy.

Any staff understand the UNHANDLED EXCEPTION messages.

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I don't run Messenger, but I run Skype, and I haven't had any problems of what you describe.

While I run Skype on a Mac, I have Messenger on the PC - no problems either place...

Just to make sure - you DO have "leave applications in memory when preempted" set to "yes"? If not, you'll get this kind of failure, randomly.

EDIT:: Are you sure that link is correct? That host isn't under your name...

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Are there any known issues with either Skype or Messenger?

Skype will get upset if any other process is taking too much network bandwidth. If you are lucky it just stutters, but it can fall over.

If Skype failed while you were uploading I would not be surprised, as upload bandwidth is usually tighter than down. If so the issue is the upload not the preceding Rosetta error message. The fix would be to set a limit to the upload speed in your BOINC prefs. Limit BOINC to maybe 1/10th or 1/3rd of your uplink bandwidth is, or even less. Rosetta won't mind if it takes several minutes to upload.

Remember to accout for 'contention' in this. If you have 256k uplink, on a 25 to 1 contention ratio, then your guranteed uplink speed is only 10k, and youd set from 1k to 3k as the limit. Usually you get a lot more, but not always. ADSL is usually on a contention ratio of 25:1, 10:1 or 5:1. SDSL is usually 1:1 and a lot more expensive! If you don't know, ask your ADSL provider for the contention ratio.

However, I am not aware of messaenger doing this, so I may be totally off track here and the preferences setting might not cure the problem. It won't do any harm tho, and it will head off that annoying stuttering!

River~~

[edit: speeling]

@ Bill, leave applications im memory set to 'yes'.
The url is right, trying to troubleshoot for a team mate....

@ River, thanks for that, sounds plausable to me.

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