I have this wu here at the moment. It's remaining is "---" like a finished wu, but the elapsed is 40:09:09 increasing. It purports to be 54.248% completed.

This is the second issue I've reported to Rosetta today, I've suspended that wu, and set No Now Tasks pending replies.

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Did you happen to notice if the task was actually getting any CPU time? There are cases where between BOINC Manager and the OS, the task does not actually get CPU time. It would also explain why the watch-dog hasn't detected the problem and wrapped up the WU.

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I hadn't but will enable it and watch.

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And I saw that the elapsed time reduced to 03:28:23, the time to completion reverted to a normal looking 03:16:28.
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The wu has run to completion and reported a success. That, of course, does not alter the fact that the problem occurred.

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I hadn't but will enable it and watch.

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And I saw that the elapsed time reduced to 03:28:23, the time to completion reverted to a normal looking 03:16:28.
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This means it wasn't actually crunching but the clock was still running, it was a 'hung unit'. This is a LONG STANDING Boinc problem that happens once in a while but never seems to happen when the 'experts' try to replicate it. Kind of like the noise you take the car to the mechanic for that he never hears, it is there just not when the 'experts' look at it. Doing what you did, suspend the project, waiting a few seconds, and then resuming the project, often 'fixes' the problem.

I allowed new tasks and have not seen this again. I am, however, removing Rosetta from unattended systems.

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I allowed new tasks and have not seen this again. I am, however, removing Rosetta from unattended systems.

That's what alot of people end up doing.

This one also twitched the, now sensitized wu radar. Seemed stuck at 97.715%, elapsed going up, to completion not moving. Stopped and restarted, seemed to start progressing again. I'll let it go and the other wu I've got, (unstarted), run then think I'll take a "vacation" from Rosetta.

The completed wu's disappear from the list to fast to do any comparison, (I'm thinking wu type etc.).

I have always regarded Rosetta as a steady safe project, but it is bordering on the dubious area right now.

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That one finished fine after restarting it. Grossly low credit though, 31.90 for 36,259.55 seconds. There IS something wrong here.

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same problem here,
18,388.82 secs and only 20.00 granted credits..
WU

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The cryo units are screwing me again too:
25,773.17 115.91 20.00
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/workunit.php?wuid=533977210
and:
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/workunit.php?wuid=533939813
25,782.22 115.96 25.64
PATHETIC!!

As well as the rb units:
25,782.21 115.96 33.99
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/workunit.php?wuid=533965328

I am normally getting around something like this:
9,695.84 43.61 53.33
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/workunit.php?wuid=533966921

BUT these darn rb and cryo units are STILL BAD, BAD, BAD!!!

Part (most?) of this is working out the kinks and helping develop new techniques by volunteering our PCs' resources. They have made breakthroughs as evidenced in the other subforum and the twitter feed, etc. If you think you're getting "screwed" and that it's "pathetic", then it's probably time to move on, bro. Life is far too short to get your blood pressure up and/or be constantly worried about a background process that others use (to great benefit, granted) to crunch numbers in. Make no mistake: it's helping, whether the units fail or not. From the failures come learning.

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Part (most?) of this is working out the kinks and helping develop new techniques by volunteering our PCs' resources. They have made breakthroughs as evidenced in the other subforum and the twitter feed, etc. If you think you're getting "screwed" and that it's "pathetic", then it's probably time to move on, bro. Life is far too short to get your blood pressure up and/or be constantly worried about a background process that others use (to great benefit, granted) to crunch numbers in. Make no mistake: it's helping, whether the units fail or not. From the failures come learning.

Come 3.5 million and I will be gone, I have a goal that I am trying to meet and until them I am here come good news or bad.

>>> If you think you're getting "screwed" and that it's "pathetic", then it's probably time to move on, bro

The fact remains, however, that a project that is causing "issues" for the cruncher pool WILL cause people to move on. There are a lot of good projects out there now, and if DB wants to, at least, stay where he is in terms of numbers of participants, something needs to be done.

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