I have noticed a consistent problem when trying to attach to any PC running PCAnywhere Host while Rosetta is running. This is true on both XP and Win2000. Even though Rosetta appears to run at a very very low priority (essentially equiv to idle process), PCAnywhere will allow me to attach to such a PC and log in, but the desktop never refreshes and PCAnywhere "host" just appears to hang. If given long enough, parts of the desktop will start to come in but not enough to make any use of it. Unfortunately I have a number of PC's at various sites that aren't very busy and could be used as Rosetta nodes, but I need the ability to attach to them using PCAnywhere to check on them occasionally. Note that PCAny is v11 and Rosetta is 5.4.9. Note that it is the PC running PCAny Host that is running Rosetta (ie I am at my office (which does not run Rosetta) and I have about 15 computers at remote sites that would run PCAny Host and Rosetta since they are not otherwise that busy.

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jps :)

Perhaps you've already done so, but I'd say the first step is to test the theory that Rosetta is the conflict. Call someone at the site of the computer, have them right click on the BOINC icon and "snooze" (or in older BOINC versions there is a "suspend"). This halts the crunching threads. Snooze halts them for an hour, suspend halts them until you release.

If that halt then results in your connection becoming usable, that would be a more clear indication.

In your General Preferences, do you have it set to NOT run while the PC is in use? And to leave applications in memory when suspended? That might be a simple way to get BOINC to halt for you when it "sees" PCAnywhere "in use".

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Running Microsoft's "System Idle Process" will never help cure cancer, AIDS nor Alzheimer's. But running Rosetta@home just might!
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

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jps :)

I had already tested this. I suspended BOINC/Rosetta, then attached from another computer in our office = works fine; then re-enabled BOINC/Rosetta = same problem. Currently Rosetta is running as a service. I had not tried "run only when pc is idle preference" since this is a 3GHz XP system with 1G RAM and I really don't even notice the background processing when I am actually sitting at the machine. I have updated my preferences to try this. I will report back.

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jps :)