There is a problem with some tasks getting stuck. They do not seem to progress to completion. I now that if a task has not completed in 3 hours on my computer, that it will never complete. I have complained about this in the past but there doesn't seem to be a solution. I would like to have the start date and time rahter than or along with the completion deadline. Rahter than waiting a day or too and realizing that my computer is tuck and my averages are doing down, I would love to just abort any uncompleted tasks after tree hours.

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I see your point about identifying a starting timestamp, but for a computer that doesn't run BOINC all the time, it may not help much. What you are asking for is for a way to end the task automatically, and this is what the purpose of the "watchdog" is. Although it sounds like there are currently some situations where it loses track of exactly what is going on, and is not ending the task for you.

The watchdog isn't as strict as just killing everything that exceeds your 3 hours time preference. This is because there are some tasks that may take longer then that to complete the single model minimum. But it does factor in your runtime preference and if this is exceeded by a factor of three or so (I can't recall exactly) then this is one of the conditions for the watchdog to kick in and end the task for you. It is also to end a task that doesn't make any progress for an hour.

Please post details of your observations on the watchdog not detecting tasks that should be shut down in the problem reporting thread in the Number Crunching forum. For v5.46 that is here.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

I am sorry to be slow to respond to you. I appreciate the thoguhtful answer.

You mention a watchdog timer. How is that configured? I do not find anything named watchdog in my preferences. Please give me a clue as to where that might be.

Is there a users manual that explains all of the hidden configurations?
I would love to remote control all of my computers running rosetta but they seem
to reject remote logins from clients. They only seem to respect logins from
localhost.

Sincerely,


Clare Jarvis

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Rosetta's watchdog is a feature. Nothing for you to configure, hidden or otherwise. Consider the watchdog a specialist on knowing which tasks are not progressing "normally". And then ending them gracefully.

So far as remote control, that is a BOINC function, not Rosetta. So the BOINC documentation on controlling remotely from Berkeley would be the place to go. Post to the Number Crunching forum if you have any problems setting it up.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense