Hey, everyone! Hope all is going well for you guys. However, I am not happy at all. Not happy at all. Over the past 2 weeks, my RAC has slowly but steadily been dropping. From about 380 down to 315 now. I am DEPRESSED! Seriously, though, I was wondering if this is isolated and happening only to me or are several of you guys experiencing this? And, no, I have not changed my computing habits in the specified time periods, I've had the same habits since I started running Rosetta@home on my computers.

Ergo, I am wondering what I could do to reverse this downward trend and make my RAC move back up again.

Thank you very much! :)

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please see here: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=3056

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So far as things you might do... Set General Preference to leave applications in memory while preempted. Use the current recommended BOINC release. Set your General Preference for connect to network every... days to at least 1. Allow BOINC to use at least 150MB per active Rosetta thread (General Preference for both active and idle % of memory). Avoid ending BOINC and turning off your computer. And rest assured that the Project Team has improved checkpointing being tested on Ralph right now (although if you are crunching 24/7 you won't likely see any improvement from that change). Turn off the screensaver, Rosetta does not need this to do the calculations. Close (not "exit") the BOINC Manager window when you are not looking at it. Get a friend to crunch Rosetta too, on your account ;) ...there's a quick double right there!

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[snip]....Get a friend to crunch Rosetta too, on your account ;) ...there's a quick double right there!

Dirty cruncher! Dirty cruncher! :-)

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So far as things you might do... Set General Preference to leave applications in memory while preempted. Use the current recommended BOINC release. Set your General Preference for connect to network every... days to at least 1. Allow BOINC to use at least 150MB per active Rosetta thread (General Preference for both active and idle % of memory). Avoid ending BOINC and turning off your computer. And rest assured that the Project Team has improved checkpointing being tested on Ralph right now (although if you are crunching 24/7 you won't likely see any improvement from that change). Turn off the screensaver, Rosetta does not need this to do the calculations. Close (not "exit") the BOINC Manager window when you are not looking at it. Get a friend to crunch Rosetta too, on your account ;) ...there's a quick double right there!

You know, it just occured to me that your post should be modified with bullet points and put on the FAQ or somewhere for others access who want to optimize their crunching power with their general preferences. Perhaps this has already been done, but you covered all or most of the bases.

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Dirty cruncher! Dirty cruncher! :-)

hehe dirty crunchers are the way to go! they're sooooo cheap...

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Dirty cruncher! Dirty cruncher! - whatcha gonna do when they come for you

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Wow, all of this has just been hilarious, but thanks! I really appreciate the info!

P.S. Notice that my RAC has gone down to 309 now? Hahahahahaha!