Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home

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lohphat Send message Joined: 22 Apr 06 Posts: 5 Credit: 4,965,549 RAC: 0	Message 103109 - Posted: 5 Nov 2021, 3:30:11 UTC THe show graphics screen crashes for "degrader" tasks on Win10x64 BOINC 7.16.20. Other tasks display fine. ID: 103109 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Sid Celery Send message Joined: 11 Feb 08 Posts: 2117 Credit: 41,139,251 RAC: 16,277	Message 103110 - Posted: 5 Nov 2021, 4:55:45 UTC - in response to Message 103085. Well, for a while there the Validation backlog started to reduce (slowly, but it was reducing), but now it's back on it's way up again. I noticed that, but was wary it might be temporary. As soon as I was out of the country, the fix began and everything was solved by the time I woke up the next day. So, next time there's a server issue, donate to send me to mainland Europe and it'll be fixed in no time. Unfortunately, it doesn't solve my own email issues ID: 103110 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 28 Mar 20 Posts: 1673 Credit: 17,593,339 RAC: 22,296	Message 103111 - Posted: 5 Nov 2021, 5:51:34 UTC - in response to Message 103110. Unfortunately, it doesn't solve my own email issues Still having issues? Grant Darwin NT ID: 103111 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Falconet Send message Joined: 9 Mar 09 Posts: 353 Credit: 1,227,479 RAC: 3,710	Message 103112 - Posted: 5 Nov 2021, 10:25:06 UTC - in response to Message 103109. THe show graphics screen crashes for "degrader" tasks on Win10x64 BOINC 7.16.20. Other tasks display fine. I think those tasks have been like that for a long time now. ID: 103112 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

TSD Send message Joined: 10 Oct 08 Posts: 7 Credit: 2,189,714 RAC: 0	Message 103115 - Posted: 5 Nov 2021, 12:30:37 UTC I would like to apologize to everyone for all the negativity presented in my previous 2 posts. I had a bad day and I was not fair. I am in a better mood now. My current Folding@Home task will finish within 2 hours. And then I will run Rosetta again. And right now I will just shut the f*** up. ID: 103115 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Bryn Mawr Send message Joined: 26 Dec 18 Posts: 389 Credit: 12,070,320 RAC: 8,465	Message 103116 - Posted: 5 Nov 2021, 13:28:16 UTC - in response to Message 103115. I would like to apologize to everyone for all the negativity presented in my previous 2 posts. I had a bad day and I was not fair. I am in a better mood now. My current Folding@Home task will finish within 2 hours. And then I will run Rosetta again. And right now I will just shut the f*** up. No probs, we all have bad days occasionally, here’s wishing you better days ahead :-) ID: 103116 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Sid Celery Send message Joined: 11 Feb 08 Posts: 2117 Credit: 41,139,251 RAC: 16,277	Message 103120 - Posted: 6 Nov 2021, 2:22:35 UTC - in response to Message 103111. Last modified: 6 Nov 2021, 2:29:05 UTC Unfortunately, it doesn't solve my own email issues Still having issues? At that specific point in time, yes, though in the last 10 days I've only had 30hrs at home on SunMon (15hrs asleep) and 10hrs on Weds night (6 asleep). I'm away now until Sunday as well... <sigh> But I now think it's solved following a long chat with tech support. Something to do with them resolving an issue at their end allowing me access using Chrome, but not in Edge (my preference). It turned out clearing the cache in Edge defaults to clearing the last 24hrs only, whereas things have been going on so long I had to extend that to 4 weeks. I hadn't realised cache clearance was time-bound and that was a key factor in my continuing problems. Good that it's now sorted out, but so much of my travel required email access to mandatory formal documents I've been massively stressed. Now all that's over, the urgency of my need for email access has dropped off too. And I'm glad I didn't lose any mail over the last 2 weeks - except now I've had to plough through all that too. I'll have 4 consecutive days at home from Sunday. I'll need it. Edit: I can thoroughly recommend visiting Denmark & Sweden for English speakers. Great place, great people who can't do enough for you (well, me anyway). First time crossing "The Bridge" too - couldn't be easier ID: 103120 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Sid Celery Send message Joined: 11 Feb 08 Posts: 2117 Credit: 41,139,251 RAC: 16,277	Message 103123 - Posted: 7 Nov 2021, 13:45:32 UTC - in response to Message 103120. At that specific point in time, yes, though in the last 10 days I've only had 30hrs at home on SunMon (15hrs asleep) and 10hrs on Weds night (6 asleep). I'm away now until Sunday as well... <sigh> But I now think it's solved following a long chat with tech support. Confirmed now I'm finally home. Back in the land of the living ID: 103123 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 28 Mar 20 Posts: 1673 Credit: 17,593,339 RAC: 22,296	Message 103178 - Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 6:07:16 UTC Last modified: 12 Nov 2021, 6:19:21 UTC Something's broken again. Not picking up any work at all, even though the Server Status pages shows there's still plenty waiting to be done, looks like it's been an issue for about 3 hours now. Usually it wouldn't be such an urgent issue when it takes 8 hours to do a Task, but with all these short running Tasks, i'm almost out of work already. Edit- looks like they've been mucking around with the server again- i'm getting Virtual Box is not installed messages in my Event log again. I don't want to do Python, so i don't need Virtual Box. Just because i don't have virtual Box doesn't mean they should stop sending out Rosetta 4.20 Tasks to my systems. The very same issue we had towards the end of September. Work in progress has dropped by just over 20% already. Grant Darwin NT ID: 103178 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Bryn Mawr Send message Joined: 26 Dec 18 Posts: 389 Credit: 12,070,320 RAC: 8,465	Message 103179 - Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 6:32:18 UTC - in response to Message 103178. Something's broken again. Not picking up any work at all, even though the Server Status pages shows there's still plenty waiting to be done, looks like it's been an issue for about 3 hours now. Usually it wouldn't be such an urgent issue when it takes 8 hours to do a Task, but with all these short running Tasks, i'm almost out of work already. Edit- looks like they've been mucking around with the server again- i'm getting Virtual Box is not installed messages in my Event log again. I don't want to do Python, so i don't need Virtual Box. Just because i don't have virtual Box doesn't mean they should stop sending out Rosetta 4.20 Tasks to my systems. The very same issue we had towards the end of September. Work in progress has dropped by just over 20% already. ID: 103179 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Bryn Mawr Send message Joined: 26 Dec 18 Posts: 389 Credit: 12,070,320 RAC: 8,465	Message 103180 - Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 6:33:25 UTC - in response to Message 103179. Something's broken again. Not picking up any work at all, even though the Server Status pages shows there's still plenty waiting to be done, looks like it's been an issue for about 3 hours now. Usually it wouldn't be such an urgent issue when it takes 8 hours to do a Task, but with all these short running Tasks, i'm almost out of work already. Edit- looks like they've been mucking around with the server again- i'm getting Virtual Box is not installed messages in my Event log again. I don't want to do Python, so i don't need Virtual Box. Just because i don't have virtual Box doesn't mean they should stop sending out Rosetta 4.20 Tasks to my systems. The very same issue we had towards the end of September. Work in progress has dropped by just over 20% already. It’s not sending out Python either. 4,999 waiting 2 hours ago, 4,999 waiting now. ID: 103180 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 28 Mar 20 Posts: 1673 Credit: 17,593,339 RAC: 22,296	Message 103185 - Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 10:24:41 UTC - in response to Message 103180. Something's broken again. Not picking up any work at all, even though the Server Status pages shows there's still plenty waiting to be done, looks like it's been an issue for about 3 hours now. Usually it wouldn't be such an urgent issue when it takes 8 hours to do a Task, but with all these short running Tasks, i'm almost out of work already. Edit- looks like they've been mucking around with the server again- i'm getting Virtual Box is not installed messages in my Event log again. I don't want to do Python, so i don't need Virtual Box. Just because i don't have virtual Box doesn't mean they should stop sending out Rosetta 4.20 Tasks to my systems. The very same issue we had towards the end of September. Work in progress has dropped by just over 20% already. It’s not sending out Python either. 4,999 waiting 2 hours ago, 4,999 waiting now. Okaaay. Just checked the Server Status again, and now it appears were are not getting any Rosetta 4.20 Tasks, because the 2.5 million that were there to be sent out, aren't there any more. Although they were there when Rosetta 4.20 work initially stopped being sent out (or at least the Server Status page thought so). WTF? And if we are out of Rosetta 4.20 Tasks, why aren't Python Tasks still being sent out to those that can process them? Has anyone with VirtualBox installed picked up any in the last 6 hours or so? Grant Darwin NT ID: 103185 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Bryn Mawr Send message Joined: 26 Dec 18 Posts: 389 Credit: 12,070,320 RAC: 8,465	Message 103186 - Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 10:25:03 UTC - in response to Message 103180. Something's broken again. Not picking up any work at all, even though the Server Status pages shows there's still plenty waiting to be done, looks like it's been an issue for about 3 hours now. Usually it wouldn't be such an urgent issue when it takes 8 hours to do a Task, but with all these short running Tasks, i'm almost out of work already. Edit- looks like they've been mucking around with the server again- i'm getting Virtual Box is not installed messages in my Event log again. I don't want to do Python, so i don't need Virtual Box. Just because i don't have virtual Box doesn't mean they should stop sending out Rosetta 4.20 Tasks to my systems. The very same issue we had towards the end of September. Work in progress has dropped by just over 20% already. It’s not sending out Python either. 4,999 waiting 2 hours ago, 4,999 waiting now. OK, maybe that’s not quite accurate. Since 04:00 UTC I’ve picked up 3 degrader retries and the queued figure has dropped by just over 2,000 (to 2,315,344). The waiting to send figures are 0 and 4,990 so some are making their way across but few and far between. ID: 103186 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Falconet Send message Joined: 9 Mar 09 Posts: 353 Credit: 1,227,479 RAC: 3,710	Message 103187 - Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 10:57:54 UTC I booted up my desktop and got 3 Python tasks. No Rosetta 4.20 tasks. Seems like we ran out of Rosetta 4.20 and all that's left are Python tasks? ID: 103187 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jim1348 Send message Joined: 19 Jan 06 Posts: 881 Credit: 52,257,545 RAC: 0	Message 103188 - Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 11:15:25 UTC - in response to Message 103187. Seems like we ran out of Rosetta 4.20 and all that's left are Python tasks? Yes, same for me on all three of my Rosetta machines set up to run the Pythons. That is OK with me, and it simplifies things a bit. ID: 103188 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Bryn Mawr Send message Joined: 26 Dec 18 Posts: 389 Credit: 12,070,320 RAC: 8,465	Message 103189 - Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 11:19:28 UTC - in response to Message 103187. I booted up my desktop and got 3 Python tasks. No Rosetta 4.20 tasks. Seems like we ran out of Rosetta 4.20 and all that's left are Python tasks? Not run out of - they’re sat sitting there but not getting across to the download queue for delivery. ID: 103189 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Falconet Send message Joined: 9 Mar 09 Posts: 353 Credit: 1,227,479 RAC: 3,710	Message 103190 - Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 11:37:58 UTC - in response to Message 103189. I booted up my desktop and got 3 Python tasks. No Rosetta 4.20 tasks. Seems like we ran out of Rosetta 4.20 and all that's left are Python tasks? Not run out of - they’re sat sitting there but not getting across to the download queue for delivery. What I meant was that maybe the 2.3 million queued tasks are Python tasks? ID: 103190 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Bryn Mawr Send message Joined: 26 Dec 18 Posts: 389 Credit: 12,070,320 RAC: 8,465	Message 103192 - Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 12:53:36 UTC - in response to Message 103190. I booted up my desktop and got 3 Python tasks. No Rosetta 4.20 tasks. Seems like we ran out of Rosetta 4.20 and all that's left are Python tasks? Not run out of - they’re sat sitting there but not getting across to the download queue for delivery. What I meant was that maybe the 2.3 million queued tasks are Python tasks? Always possible - I’d be surprised but it is possible :-) ID: 103192 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Falconet Send message Joined: 9 Mar 09 Posts: 353 Credit: 1,227,479 RAC: 3,710	Message 103193 - Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 14:34:23 UTC - in response to Message 103192. I booted up my desktop and got 3 Python tasks. No Rosetta 4.20 tasks. Seems like we ran out of Rosetta 4.20 and all that's left are Python tasks? Not run out of - they’re sat sitting there but not getting across to the download queue for delivery. What I meant was that maybe the 2.3 million queued tasks are Python tasks? Always possible - I’d be surprised but it is possible :-) I'll admit that if they are Python tasks, then it's a very large number. ID: 103193 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jim1348 Send message Joined: 19 Jan 06 Posts: 881 Credit: 52,257,545 RAC: 0	Message 103195 - Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 17:03:36 UTC - in response to Message 103193. I'll admit that if they are Python tasks, then it's a very large number. It is a bit of a surprise, but I think possible. The total numbers have been going down for a week or two, but the percentage of pythons running on my machines has increased steadily for the last two or three days. That indicates to me that they are running out of the regular Rosettas, and are leaving us the pythons. If it keeps up, I will buy more memory. It is cheap now. I expect they are gearing up to produce the DDR5, and are selling off the DDR4. ID: 103195 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote