Hello all!

I have several Windows computers than run Boinc (Rosetta@home project), which regularly clogs the computers by gradually increasing the number of minirosetta executables. Only a few of these (the number of CPU cores) seem to be active, but the remaining ones take up memory as well. After several days, as the number of instances grow, the computers become unusable.

I have tried to update BOINC, but this phenomenon was the same thru several Boinc versions, so I stopped BOINC service on all computers.

I would love to solve this problem.

All computers are on the internet all the time. Here are the settings
"Use GPU" in ON
Switch between apllications every 60 minutes
Use at most 75% CPU time
Network usage: no limit set
Connect about every 0.1 days
Additional work buffer: 0.3 days
Tasks checkpoint to disk every 60 secs
Use at most 37% of RAM (same when in use and idle)
"Leave applications in memory while suspended" is OFF

The computer is Core2 Quad, 4 GB RAM, large HDD, NVidia 8600 GPU card.


Please see the Task Manager screenshot here:
www.astris.com/boincerror.jpg


I guess it must be a configuration error, I have tried to change things, but the very same things happened: after a lengthy run, minirosetta instances piled up.

Thank you in advance:
Laszlo
Budapest, Hungary

Problems with science apps not correctly unloading from memory are best asked at the project's forums. It's their application that behaves like this. Other projects behave correctly under BOINC, which (in my opinion) does not make it a BOINC problem.

So please post at the Rosetta forums first.

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Thank you for your suggestion, I will do that. Before posting, I did a lot of research and googling around Rosetta and found nothing significant.

I found this thread though:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=42428
and it seems very, very similar, but is NOT Rosetta-specific. This is why I thought it might be a more generic error. Still, I suspect there is a problem with my settings, I don't know.

Regards,
Laszlo