Hello,
I have many rosetta@home tasks right now, which is great. I think this is a very worthy cause.
My concern is that the processes aren't running properly. On my intel i5 with 16gb ram...

Link to computer ID 2440613
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2440613

... I see no CPU usage while the tasks are running. Average load while these rosetta tasks are running idles at an average 6% across all cores for the entire machine. Is this normal? Has anyone experienced this? Might something be configured wrong on my BOINC client?

The BOINC Manager sometimes runs in to a sort of dispatching problem where it shows tasks running, but does not actually give them CPU time. If you completely exit BOINC Manager so it shuts down all of the tasks, and start it again, it should clear up the issue.

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The BOINC Manager sometimes runs in to a sort of dispatching problem where it shows tasks running, but does not actually give them CPU time. If you completely exit BOINC Manager so it shuts down all of the tasks, and start it again, it should clear up the issue.

Wow, what an easy fix. This worked. Thank you. =)

Turns out, this is not a very good fix. Only seems to work for about 10 minutes then goes back to not working. I'm not about to go restarting boinc every 5-10 minutes. I don't really even want to be aware of boinc on my computer. I'm suspending this project until further notice.

I'm having this same problem on my WinXP. My system has lots of memory and disk resources available and plenty of CPU speed to whip through several tasks per day. My configuration more than meets the minimum requirements for this project. I'm running the latest Boinc version, but some Rosetta (and a few other) tasks take weeks to complete and that's just not acceptable.

Is there any better answer to this issue available? Right now I'm aborting the processes that are clearly taking way to long, but the Task Manager shows the jobs are still in memory and I have to kill the processes manually. That seems a little suspicious to me.

I'm having this same problem on my WinXP. My system has lots of memory and disk resources available and plenty of CPU speed to whip through several tasks per day. My configuration more than meets the minimum requirements for this project. I'm running the latest Boinc version, but some Rosetta (and a few other) tasks take weeks to complete and that's just not acceptable.

Is there any better answer to this issue available? Right now I'm aborting the processes that are clearly taking way to long, but the Task Manager shows the jobs are still in memory and I have to kill the processes manually. That seems a little suspicious to me.

The strange thing is you're only have problems with a few tasks, while others complete. Could it be that your problem tasks are demanding an unusually high amount of RAM? Is it possible to set aside more RAM or disk space to Boinc?

I'm completely guessing. It's a strange one.

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If BOINC Manager detects total RAM usage of all tasks exceeding the max configured, it suspends a task until memory frees up. But the task will show suspended waiting for memory, rather than "running".

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense