Posts by surreal

1) Message boards : Number crunching : rude team, remove? (Message 536) Posted 6 Jan 2020 by surreal Post: >implying this is not, in fact, science. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8372414 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4708600/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16536772 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20102448 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20438558 reproductive health is health
2) Questions and Answers : Windows : Got Tasks, but fail with "Error while computing" (Message 494) Posted 16 Nov 2019 by surreal Post: unless your ram is defective, it's perfectly normal to have a bunch of errors in work units. sometimes even 10-20 at a time.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Quite a few of my tasks end with 197 (0x000000C5) EXIT_TIME_LIMIT_EXCEEDED (Message 477) Posted 3 Nov 2019 by surreal Post: yeah i just had a bunch of them give errors after running for 50 minutes or so. i ran memtest86+ for 3 hours afterwards just in case, but there were no ram faults detected i just let them keep running for hours on end so that the underlying algorithm or mathematics can be adjusted later in the event that it's an actually useful error.
4) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Science thread (Message 475) Posted 31 Oct 2019 by surreal Post: here is a list of everything they supposedly run on here, if you want to look through it: https://nanohub.org/tools/
5) Message boards : Number crunching : How do I get my pc to run more than one task at a time? (Message 467) Posted 28 Oct 2019 by surreal Post: all the virtualbox instances on my machine require 2.25 to 2.6 gb of ram to run per core i had to con the manager into running more instances of virtualbox by adjusting ram usage, and in most cases, can't get all 4 cores to run with 8gb of ram. setting ram usage to 100% seems like a terrible idea most of the time because the virtual machines will over-allocate and cause massive swapfile thrashing that renders the system unusable and the cpu idles at 0% without any work being done. i've had to use 70% ram usage in the memory manager to get 2 cores to process WUs, and 85% for 3 cores. anything higher than about 86% causes 4 tasks to run and then they all just swap to death with no progress being gained. maybe this prevents more people from using boinc, because any noob to this wouldn't think to do any of that; they would simply think 'sure use 100% of my ram, go ahead', and it results in 0% work being done in certain use-cases.