[franz]

Signed up :wheee:

 

[franz]

So the marathon project is Rosetta. Be careful to monitor your RAM use everyone, some Rosetta tasks can take up to 2 GB lately. It seems to be the COVID tasks in particular.

With many cores it easily adds up to a system's worth of RAM and can cause your tasks to error from "out of memory". But this has only happened to me running many COVID tasks at once.

An easy way to deal with this is to limit RAM use in BOINC, I'm limiting it to 80% on my gaming computer and 90% on my dedicated BOINC computer.

I had this issue awhile back running 6 cores on my 4790K with 4GB, came home one day and my HDD was running endlessly. Looked into the process manager and it was writing to the page file like crazy. So I upgraded the RAM! Using 8GB and havent had an issue yet.

 

[franz]

I should definitely upgrade the RAM on my BOINC computer. It's an R7 1700 with 8 GB of RAM. I built it that way because outside of the Pentathlon I only run WCG Mapping Cancer Markers on it, which takes very little RAM.

As for my gaming PC, it's an R5 3600 with 16 GB of RAM. That's pretty well rounded, but occasionally it was getting too many COVID units to handle. It seems okay at the moment for using all 12 threads, though.

Thanks for the heads up. I just added a R7 1700 rig to my arsenal. I will have to keep an eye on that after its all up and running.

 

[franz]

Can someone post a guide or a link on how you all are stockpiling projects and such? In the past I had just one rig, so I didnt really look into it that much.

 

[franz]

I ended up nuking my Ubuntu 20.04 install(18.04FTW) on my new crunching rig, so I didnt have a chance to try any bunkering on any of my rigs. I will be up and running 100% by the 5th, I hope. I will have have the 1700X,4790K,2500K committed to rosetta and crunch number fields on the GPUs. I may split the 1700x between the 2 projects if I run into RAM issues.

 

[franz]

okay - I think I got this rolling along without any "events" thus far. Finally got the 2700X to run more than 8 threads... tho it chose to finish up the NF tasks at this point. I better not let my wife see this work table...

What did you do to run more than 8? Running [email protected] on my 1700X and she wont go over 12 threads no matter what CPU% I change it to. My other rigs I see the extra cores being used but the 1700X aint happy for some reason. No other projects being run on that machine at the moment.

 

[franz]

I had to use an app_config.xml file in the folder in the pic below for rosetta, you'd put it in the similar Universe folder.

The app_config file in this post, just change 18 to the number of threads you want Rosetta to use.

Okay I will try that. I thought that was more to set a limit but hopefully it does something.

What's the memory usage situation on that PC and how much memory is BOINC set to use. There is a % number when idle and another when in use.

16GB which is why I put it on the Universe project, Rosetta was kicking its ass. Its using around 7-8GB with 12 universe projects running. I already increased mem usage to 90use/95idle but that didnt help.

 

[franz]

I splurged on more RAM for 2 of my rigs over the weekend and it should be here tomorrow. Should be able to run all cores with Rosetta and Amicable(gpu only) soon.

So much for my budget boinc builds....:wheee:

 

[franz]

Finally got my new RAM in, UPS decided to hold on to it for 2 extra days....and I fixed my 1700x being stuck on 12 cores. Apparently it was just ignoring whatever preferences I put in on the project websites, but when I went into Boinc Manager and set the preferences there it decided to work. So the 1700X rig can now handle 14cores of Rosetta and amicable on its single GPU.

 

[franz]

Click Add Project, you will not see ibercivis listed so paste this into the project URL box and click next: https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/
After that its just like setting up any other project. That being said, their network seems to be overloaded and I havent been able to pull any projects in the last couple hours.


Since Amicable is down, I am going to try to bunker some Numberfields for the next run, wish me luck

 

[franz]

I don't think it's in the list so you just have to enter the master url into the "Project URL" box.

Ibercivis master URL:

https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/

*Edit* @franz beat me to it.

Yep and as soon as I said I haven't pulled any projects, my 1700X grabbed 7

 

[franz]

Setup multiple clients on one PC. Fill the queue. When one queue is about to complete, fire up another client. Repeat.
https://www.overclock.net/forum/180...uide-setting-up-multiple-boinc-instances.html

Thanks for this. I finally had the time to set this up. I have it working on my Win10 rig and I will try the Ubuntu rigs next. Bunkering around 600 projects for Numberfields between the 3 rigs, mostly GPU, and I will fire up the next client when those downloaded tasks are complete.

So if I understand this correctly I block the IP on all my clients. When those projects are complete, I close that instance of BOINC, start "BOINC2", allow the IP to get new projects and then block it again?

 

[franz]

You don't even have to block the IP. You can just set suspend network activity on the client once you have enough tasks. In the advanced view for BOINC Manager: Activity->Suspend network activity

That would work but its simpler to stop each client. In BOINC manager under activity select Suspend Network Activity after downloading your bunker.

Thanks guys, I blocked the IP on those clients because they are still crunching CPU tasks, but I will use that in the future. It would be simpler to setup a client for each project and use the suspend network feature. I will definitely be better prepared for next year!

 

[franz]

AS mentioned, suspending network activity is easier. A project like BOINC Tasks can manage multiple local/remote clients from one PC so there is no need to shut down 1 client to start another.

The Manager and Client are separate. Multiple clients ran run at once with separate data directories and gui_rpc_port IDs.

Yeah Im still playing around with BOINCTasks too, tried it earlier to connect to the Ubuntu rigs but did something wrong and it froze my clients(probably did the password wrong). I will go back and give it another shot. I'm still working out in the real world and not from home, so I have had little time to get things going. Like I mentioned in my last post, I will have this all setup and working smoothly for next year.