I may be on to what is happening with my MAC.
A Ralph task was preemted and Rosetta continued and all worked as usual.
The Rosetta task finished and Ralph was to continue.
For several seconds the Ralph task showed as running but no ticking on the
CPU time then the time started to go up But I could not watch Grafics on
that task again.
I restarted Boinc and everything was back to normal.

Anders n

Oops, yep, you must be keeping the application in memory (a good thing). I wasn't thinking. Yes, ending BOINC and restarting... basically we're forcing the WU to pick up from the last checkpoint.

Curious, what % done did it say upon restart?

I'd suggest you suspend it, then resume it again and there are a few possible outcomes. Knowing the outcome may be of use to the Project Team.

1) it may end with errors.

2) it may restart the same model and end up in the same state of not being able to complete the model. (I'd only let it run 4hrs this time, I've not seen any tasks that should take that long to complete a model on a 2ghz CPU, which you would see by the % completed changing).

3) it may then complete the model normally in <2hrs.

Anders n, what is your runtime preference? The watchdog should step in within about 15min of crossing 4x the preferred runtime.

Has it made no progress on model numbers in that time?

A new Wu "stuck" http://ralph.bakerlab.org/result.php?resultid=467564

Now at 16H 33 min at 69,7%.
I have stopped other projects so it will not be preemted this time.
Lets hope for the best.

Anders n

Bug ?

I have one WU http://ralph.bakerlab.org/result.php?resultid=463216
that now is at 7H 15min on a pref. of 4 H.
It is at 76.9% and has been on that for the last 2H at least.
I can't get it to show grafics.
I have 2 cores on that MAC and on the other core there is a Rosetta running
where I can se grafics ok.

I'll let it run and se how it turns out.

Anders n

[edit] 8H 15 min same 76.9% [/edit]

After 16H 28min it was swiched for Rosetta. It was finished when I woke up
this morning and reported 3H and 5 min.

Anders n

anders n, do the messages indicate that the task was preempted and restarted at all during the night? Almost sounds like it was removed from memory and reverted back to a prior checkpoint.

Bug ?

I have one WU http://ralph.bakerlab.org/result.php?resultid=463216
that now is at 7H 15min on a pref. of 4 H.
It is at 76.9% and has been on that for the last 2H at least.
I can't get it to show grafics.
I have 2 cores on that MAC and on the other core there is a Rosetta running
where I can se grafics ok.

I'll let it run and se how it turns out.

Anders n

[edit] 8H 15 min same 76.9% [/edit]

Yea, that's a big one -- I better not send it out again!

I have a strange bahaving unit:
http://ralph.bakerlab.org/result.php?resultid=434107

It got stuck at 46% and the status is "waiting for memory". I restarted computer but it didn't help.

I'll try changing preferences regarding memory and enlarge swap file.