Setting up Rosetta@home

**afireinside** · 01-05-2006, 08:21 PM

Look at processes and not page file

MY page file is 791mb sitting in windows.

**L0$t Pr0PhEt** · 01-06-2006, 12:22 AM

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...6&d=1135960518

maybe 90mb for everything that involves rosetta

**Rodzilla** · 01-06-2006, 05:53 AM

Originally Posted by KaptainBlaZzed

you all are gong to have to explaine that to me because my dedicated X2 uses ~452mb and my dedicated DX uses ~750mb. these computers do nothing bu crunch, they do not even have antivirus on them. the only extra process is remotedesktop.

my non-dedicated x2 uses ~725mb ram. it is running boinc, boincview, aim, dimes, firefox and norton.

here take a look.

http://kaptain.no-ip.org/images/x2ram.jpg
http://kaptain.no-ip.org/images/dxram.jpg

is there something i missed?? are my settings in my preferences wrong??
here they are

Use no more than 30 GB disk space
Leave at least 0.1 GB disk space free
Use no more than 85% of total disk space
Write to disk at most every 360 seconds
Use no more than 75% of total virtual memory

That's page file you are looking at in the task manager... not physical mem. Mine uses right around 90MB of physical / cpu (Or Wu)

**Vapor** · 01-06-2006, 06:50 AM

This view is more descriptive regarding what's using what...I'd prefer RAM usage statistics over commit charge at the bottom though.

**Martijn** · 01-06-2006, 07:00 AM

I am not using so much ram atm...

Boinc uses around 150Megs total, I've got some other processes running as well, but I never get above 400. I have 1GB of ram and 1.5GB pagefile.

**Rodzilla** · 01-06-2006, 10:25 AM

So far it seems to me that R@H runs a lot better with other apps than D2OL ever did... even with its increased mem usage.

**Vapor** · 01-06-2006, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by Rodzilla

So far it seems to me that R@H runs a lot better with other apps than D2OL ever did... even with its increased mem usage.

I COMPELTELY agree....it gets less in the way AND it still runs at a high/full speed (my D2OL production went down to 2/3rds of what it should have been SOLELY based on a lack of RAM, not even CPU usage).

**KaptainBlaZzed** · 01-06-2006, 05:55 PM

I do not care what everybody has said about the ram usage and page file usage. since i put an extra 512mb ram in 2 of my DX rigs they a docking like mad( dualxeon3, xeoncruncher) and the one with only 512mb ram (dualxeon2) is going so
slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
that i am ordering the extra 512mb ram for it right now.

it might look like it does not matter but i am convienced that you need 256mb per WU you are doing so it can run at its full potential.

all of my rigs were updated just before the severs went off-line and have been crunching for the same amount of time. i have 6 completed WU's on a DX with 1Gb and only 1 on an identical DX with only 512mb.

when i say identical i mean it everything is the same for DX 2 & 3 except 3 has 1Gb ram and different PSU's. Same case, mobo, heatsinks, HD's and they are bouth at 213 x 15 with (2-3-2-5) timings.

more RAM is better and quite a bit from what i can tell so far.

here is a nice pic for everybody to look at.

**cupra** · 01-08-2006, 05:56 AM

very nice guide STEvil .
i add my opteron 148 @ 3.2g for rosetta for now

**Movieman** · 01-09-2006, 01:08 PM

Can not connect to the server to get work, shows me in a queue of 64,000+
This is insanity...or am I doing something wrong? frustrates me when you give your machines to a project and they can't make it intuitive to set up. You'd think that with the science people they'd have at least one person with mgt experience who'd understand the importance of easy setup..
Care to speculate on the numbers of people who got frustrated and walked away just due to the setup?
Just my 2 frustrated cents......
This is what I get:
1/9/2006 5:10:46 PM|rosetta@home|Successfully attached to rosetta@home
1/9/2006 5:11:21 PM|rosetta@home|Sending scheduler request to http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi
1/9/2006 5:11:21 PM|rosetta@home|Reason: To fetch work
1/9/2006 5:11:21 PM|rosetta@home|Requesting 34560 seconds of new work
1/9/2006 5:11:26 PM|rosetta@home|Scheduler request to http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi succeeded
1/9/2006 5:11:26 PM|rosetta@home|No work from project
1/9/2006 5:12:54 PM||request_reschedule_cpus: project op
1/9/2006 5:12:56 PM|rosetta@home|Sending scheduler request to http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi
1/9/2006 5:12:56 PM|rosetta@home|Reason: Requested by user
1/9/2006 5:12:56 PM|rosetta@home|Requesting 34560 seconds of new work
1/9/2006 5:13:01 PM|rosetta@home|Scheduler request to http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi succeeded
1/9/2006 5:17:06 PM|rosetta@home|Sending scheduler request to http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi
1/9/2006 5:17:06 PM|rosetta@home|Reason: To fetch work
1/9/2006 5:17:06 PM|rosetta@home|Requesting 34560 seconds of new work
1/9/2006 5:17:11 PM|rosetta@home|Scheduler request to http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi succeeded
1/9/2006 5:17:11 PM|rosetta@home|No work from project

**the** · 01-09-2006, 01:18 PM

are you able to do a guiless linux install?

**Movieman** · 01-09-2006, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by the

are you able to do a guiless linux install?

me? linux? moi? the seal thing?

I think I saw it once..

seriously, an OLD windows guy here. Too many braincells gone to learn linux.
\

Finally got it running after 2 hours...

**Rodzilla** · 01-10-2006, 07:22 AM

Originally Posted by Movieman

me? linux? moi? the seal thing?

I think I saw it once..

seriously, an OLD windows guy here. Too many braincells gone to learn linux.
\

Finally got it running after 2 hours...

look in your "work" tab. Do you have items there that say "ready to run" and "running" ????? If so you have work and have nothing to worry about.

**jahjahbinks** · 01-19-2006, 02:02 PM

How does Rosetta take advantage of dual-core? Is it same like D2OL where you run two instances of it?

**k0nsl** · 01-19-2006, 02:10 PM

Rosetta will automatically see if you have a dual-core processor, if it does, it will initiate two work units for processing.

-k0nsl

**wiz224** · 01-20-2006, 12:54 AM

hi all!!!

**Rodzilla** · 01-20-2006, 07:09 AM

Originally Posted by wiz224

hi all!!!

**STEvil** · 01-23-2006, 10:13 PM

Wish there was a way to limit dial-up connections to small WU's (as in ones that are not over ~330kb in size).....

**Helheim** · 01-25-2006, 05:44 PM

I just added a computer for XS_VIP, more to come soon.

**RocKer** · 02-11-2006, 09:43 AM

Guy's i have a Q

.

Would 2 x DX 1.6ghz rigs @ 3.1ghz outperform 1 X2 3800 @ 2.7ghz or 1 Opty 165 @ 2.7ghz,if the differens is not that big,am looking in to it to change my little farm back to all AMD

,not that the Xeon's are not good,far from,but i have to stay at 6 to 8 and if i stretch maybe +10 rigs in my farm,due to provider issues,and maybe changing to X2 and/or dual Opty,do downgrade my electric bill,a few rigs but more output,you get it

.

And what about a 3700+SD @ 3.1ghz on water,what dammage thus that baby do in R@H,and the single core Opty's?

**Rodzilla** · 02-15-2006, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by RocKer

Guy's i have a Q

.

Would 2 x DX 1.6ghz rigs @ 3.1ghz outperform 1 X2 3800 @ 2.7ghz or 1 Opty 165 @ 2.7ghz,if the differens is not that big,am looking in to it to change my little farm back to all AMD

,not that the Xeon's are not good,far from,but i have to stay at 6 to 8 and if i stretch maybe +10 rigs in my farm,due to provider issues,and maybe changing to X2 and/or dual Opty,do downgrade my electric bill,a few rigs but more output,you get it

.

And what about a 3700+SD @ 3.1ghz on water,what dammage thus that baby do in R@H,and the single core Opty's?

Sounds like you would save on electricity... I'm not 100% sure that your output would go up.... If anything I would think it would fall.

**[XC] DragonOrta** · 02-22-2006, 03:49 PM

In case people aren't sure on how to change profiles on machines, you have to be logged in, and view your computers, select one, and then there will be a drop down menu at the bottom with your profiles to select from.