Sigh...I saw 11,000+ tasks out for processing earlier. And I didn't get a one of them. My queues are clogged up with WCG, and the occasional Einstein. I say occasional because (excuse the formatting):
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
8991 boinc 39 19 2407100 2.294g 9428 R 92.55 19.78 9,47 einstein_+

Doesn't allow for many of them.

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Hi Bill,
Maybe you can catch some of those Rosetta Work Units with a Batch file
Like this - Upd-Rosetta.bat
@echo off
cd /d c:Program FilesBOINC
:loop
cls
echo "boinccmd.exe --project https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ update"
boinccmd.exe --project https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ update

TIMEOUT /T 600
goto loop

Of course you would need to leave a terminal window open for that

I tried the Windows Task Scheduler Loop - but the Win 10 task scheduler doesn't
seem very reliable. I can't seem to scale to 5 minute intervals very well.

Regards,
Ian

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Hi Bill,
Maybe you can catch some of those Rosetta Work Units with a Batch file
Like this - Upd-Rosetta.bat
@echo off
cd /d c:Program FilesBOINC
:loop
cls
echo "boinccmd.exe --project https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ update"
boinccmd.exe --project https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ update

TIMEOUT /T 600
goto loop

Of course you would need to leave a terminal window open for that

I tried the Windows Task Scheduler Loop - but the Win 10 task scheduler doesn't
seem very reliable. I can't seem to scale to 5 minute intervals very well.

Regards,
Ian

Thanks a lot! Just got it set up on 3 computers, hopefully I'll catch something sometimes... About 2 hours ago I only got tasks on 2 mobile phones despite rushing to press update on several computers.

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Thanks Ian. I run openSUSE. This is my take on your routine though:
bill@opihi:~> cat bin/mowerk
#
# This doohickie will attempt to get work for the main
# projects that I'm supporting.
#
# set -x
#
# How many days worth of work...
# su and cd to /var/lib/boinc
# then vi global_prefs_overide
# and modifiy thusly
# <work_buf_min_days>0.000000</work_buf_min_days>
# <work_buf_additional_days>0.260000</work_buf_additional_days>
# Then
# systemctl restart boinc-client
#
cd
#
# Some interesting things to beat projects up with.
#
#boinccmd --project https://einstein.phys.uwm.edu allowmorework
#boinccmd --project https://einstein.phys.uwm.edu nomorework
#
# Just touch the projects to gather the statistics.
# In alphabetical order no less. Well it was, now it's in my
# simple choice of project complettion and not prodding those
# other two...
#
# boinccmd --project https://denis.usj.es/denisathome update
sleep 30s
boinccmd --project https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta update
sleep 30s
# boinccmd --project https://einstein.phys.uwm.edu update
sleep 1m
boinccmd --project https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org update
sleep 1m
#
# OK, is this a one time thing, or what.
# If not, rapidly update at a 5 minute interval.
# Yeah my math is lousy...it doesn't calculate correctly, but
# you know what? I don't care enough to fix it.
#
if [ "$1" > "" ] ;
then
Reps=`expr $1 - 1`
while [ $Reps -gt 0 ] ; do
Ttl=`echo "$Reps * 5" | bc`
echo "It's" `date '+%T'` "- on repetition" $Reps "- ttl is $Ttl minutes"
boinccmd --project https://denis.usj.es/denisathome update
boinccmd --project https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta update
sleep 10s
# boinccmd --project https://einstein.phys.uwm.edu update
boinccmd --project https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org update
#
Reps=`expr $Reps - 1`
if [ $Reps = 0 ] ;
then
echo "Lightspeed Thumbtwiddling...All Done!"
exit
fi
sleep 5m
done
else
exit
fi

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On a linux box ( - mine is Linux Mint 22.3), an easy way to poll for new rosetta tasks is using
a crontab entry - I use this
crontab -e
then add -

# Update BOINC's Rosetta Project every 2 Minutes to catch stray WUs
*/2 * * * * /usr/bin/boinccmd --project https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ update

I see you're trying also trying the Denis project - I don't think I've seen any activity since
June 2025 on this one. Einstein always seems to have Work Units available though, as
does WCG when it's up.
I try to crunch on Cancer oriented research, as my wife, and mom both died of cancer,
and I'm also struggling with leukemia. I'm glad research like WCG/Folding@Home are still
going strong. FAH even seems to be looking at the KRAS protein involved in a lot of cancers.
I hope us crunchers can really help those researchers!
Anyway try a simple cron job for updating - no need for scripts on linux!
Ian

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pour windows et tous les projets boinc

@echo off
pushd "C:Program FilesBOINC"

:loop
echo [%date% %time%] Debut de la mise a jour automatique...

:: On recupere directement la liste des URLs propres
for /f "usebackq tokens=*" %%a in (`boinccmd.exe --get_project_urls`) do (
echo Mise a jour en cours : %%a
boinccmd.exe --project "%%a" update
)

echo.
echo [%date% %time%] Fin de session. Prochaine verification dans 30 min.
timeout /t 1800 /nobreak >nul
goto loop


pour windows et un projet boinc

@echo off
:loop
"C:Program FilesBOINCboinccmd.exe" --project https://gpugrid.net/gpugrid/ update
timeout /t 900 /nobreak >nul
goto loop


instruction a mettre dans un fichier.bat et a lancer en mode administrateur

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@Pascal - looks good though time period of 1800 may miss some work units - but in my poor French - tres bon!
I also see that the task scheduler is actually working on my old Win 10 laptop - I was wrong to maligh it!
It's running at 5 minute intervals now.
Here's my Event Log -
2/13/2026 2:57:22 AM | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed
2/13/2026 2:57:22 AM | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 31 seconds
2/13/2026 3:02:20 AM | Rosetta@home | update requested by user
2/13/2026 3:02:20 AM | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
2/13/2026 3:02:20 AM | Rosetta@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; Intel GPU: no applications)
2/13/2026 3:02:22 AM | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed
2/13/2026 3:02:22 AM | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 31 seconds
2/13/2026 3:07:19 AM | Rosetta@home | update requested by user
2/13/2026 3:07:20 AM | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
2/13/2026 3:07:20 AM | Rosetta@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; Intel GPU: no applications)
2/13/2026 3:07:21 AM | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed
2/13/2026 3:07:21 AM | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 31 seconds
2/13/2026 3:12:19 AM | Rosetta@home | update requested by user
2/13/2026 3:12:24 AM | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
2/13/2026 3:12:24 AM | Rosetta@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; Intel GPU: no applications)
2/13/2026 3:12:25 AM | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed
2/13/2026 3:12:25 AM | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 31 seconds
2/13/2026 3:17:19 AM | Rosetta@home | update requested by user
2/13/2026 3:17:23 AM | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
2/13/2026 3:17:23 AM | Rosetta@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; Intel GPU: no applications)
2/13/2026 3:17:24 AM | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed
2/13/2026 3:17:24 AM | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 31 seconds
2/13/2026 3:18:04 AM | | Resuming GPU computation
2/13/2026 3:20:49 AM | | Suspending GPU computation - computer is in use
2/13/2026 3:22:19 AM | Rosetta@home | update requested by user
2/13/2026 3:22:22 AM | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
2/13/2026 3:22:22 AM | Rosetta@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: ; Intel GPU: no applications)
2/13/2026 3:22:24 AM | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed
2/13/2026 3:22:24 AM | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 31 seconds
2/13/2026 3:27:19 AM | Rosetta@home | update requested by user
2/13/2026 3:27:21 AM | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
2/13/2026 3:27:21 AM | Rosetta@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; Intel GPU: no applications)
2/13/2026 3:27:22 AM | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed
2/13/2026 3:27:22 AM | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 31 seconds

The Task Scheduler seems to be an easier way to run Rosetta updates every 5 minutes as set and forget!
Ian

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