New scoring system

[Dingo]

We are now in 10^th place and slowly making our way up.  Sooner or later we will hit the wall but still progressing up the charts.

[Grey Shadow]

Joined up. Will see how it goes. :)

[danhtruong]

Hi all,

I just joined TheSkyNet and our Alliance there.
Good thing too, because I originally tried installing WCG on the work computer to make use of an extra machine, but unfortunately, installing third party programs is frowned upon.
So i went through the trouble of trying to explain to our IT deparment boys what WCG does and I'd like to install it.

They gave me this kinda look... was half way between a smirk and confusion. I also thought I heard a grunt somewhere.

I guess using java is useful in instances such as this.

Now... let's MOW down position number SEVEN!   >:D

[Dingo]

Just noticed that the French Team that always passes us in projects and gloats about it is in this project as well in #29 L�Alliance Francophone.  We are currently in 8^th place but are slipping a bit.

[kashi]

I changed back to 2 SkyNets. I had reduced it to 1 when it was idling for so long. Might give 3 a go tomorrow.;D

[danhtruong]

hi kashi,

i wouldn't recommend it, because I've got position number 10 in my cross hairs.
and you are that number 10 lol

[kashi]

Haha, first HokeyWB accelerates and zooms past while my SkyNets sat idle and now this. ;D
Lookout though, my unlimited was turned on today, I'll be turning up the wick pretty soon now.

My copper eye in CEP2 has finally made it out of being stuck in pending for 10 days and my red eye in DSFL is about a day's crunching away from pending status. Would be closer but I was sidetracked by a little burst on DNA@Home, work has been so rare there and it absolutely flies on Linux 64.

[danhtruong]

Hi all,

When running multiple clients, do you find that, say if you opened 4 clients.
The next morning, it might drop down to 2 or 3 clients.

Then, because you don't know which of the 4 original opened clients has been dropped, you then close all 4 and then reopen another 4 new clients.

Does that happen to anybody?

[kashi]

Haven't had any drop out for a while but I've only been running 1 or 2 after I noticed it chewing up my quota. I had one stall (no CPU activity) for a long time recently with the other one working.

Perhaps it is more likely to happen if you are running a higher number of the web applications. I did have a few dropouts very early in the project when I was running 5. Also had some that failed to connect and dropped out almost immediately.

Will see what happens tomorrow when I go up to 3. It does use 560MB of memory per application, so perhaps when you are doing something memory intensive and don't have enough memory the Java application terminates. For example if you were doing multiple BOINC projects with some high memory tasks and had "leave in memory" selected. Pausing BOINC to do something else that also used lots of memory would increase the chances of running out of memory.

Maybe overcommitting the CPU could also be a cause of the Java app terminating. Each web application usually uses only one core when fully active but I have seen very occasional spikes to 24% which is 2 cores on this computer. I'm currently running 5 BOINC cores and 2 SkyNets, so one core is kept free to keep things cooler and responsive. I noticed a great deal of screen lag when I was running MilkyWay and 5 SkyNets. I've been in power conservation mode for a while now so am no longer doing any BOINC GPU processing. It so quiet it's unbelievable, strangely it makes the ringing in my ears seem much louder.;D Excellent for sleeping though.

[Dingo]

I think if you click on the Browser client Message "Show your client" and there is nothing there then it is closed.  I think the application is getting better at knowing how amny cores are available and if you open too many clients it shuts them over time. As per Kashi's comment memory is also used and might also be a reason.

I went to visit my Daughter and Son on Sunday and today so had all my computers off except the web server and I see that the Alliance is in 7^th place now.    Big jump to 6^th place as they have over 36K credits on us.  I also got a new Trophie  

[kashi]

Well done on your new trophy.    What is that, a spider? Hmm guess I'll find out when I hit 30,000, Tarantula Nebula perhaps.

[danhtruong]

Wow, 30k credits.
Kinda also looks like the spider from Simcity or that monster in War of the Worlds.

I'll find out in about... 5 months   

[kashi]

Well it was stalled again for all last night, so I shut it down. Started it up this morning and it's cooking with gas so now I've got 4 cores on SkyNet and 4 on WCG.
Hope it keeps going for a bit longer today.