On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:51:20 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > Nice article here, folding@home the main focus, which mentions > back-offs when requesting new work
Back-offs were what I was seeing on my machine with the Core 2 Duo T7250. It was assigned work to do, but in 24 hours it was never able to download any of it, so I gave up because it was hogging space in the dining room doing nothing, and it has always had the most annoying fan whine under practically all load conditions. (An embarrassing laptop to bring into a library quiet study room.) I thought I'd told it to abort the current tasks before shutting it down, but I've since found they sitll show as "In progress" on my Rosetta account. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to release them so they can be assigned to some other machine, except by aborting them from the instance of BOINC that was processing them. I can't do that because I already re-formatted the USB stick that had the root filesystem on it, thinking I was done with it. I guess the tasks will get reassigned once they exceed their deadline. I hope none of them contains the key to curing COVID-19! -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, post-lurgi 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
