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Former Member
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Greetings from Sydney. I already had WorldCommunityGrid agent installed running Protein Folding, no problems. I changed my settings to only be connected for FAAH.. now when it tries to download a workunit I get the message : "the grid agent has encountered a problem while attempting to connect... agent paused".
I have Win2k SP4, 256 meg ram, 1494 mhz AMD cpu. any suggestions ? thanks Rod |
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Maybe a firewall (zonealarm or such)?
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Former Member
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Hello rcbutcher,
Blank mind - - Lets experiment. If you change your profile again, does it start downloading HPF work units again? mycrofth |
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yes
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Hi rcbutcher,
The first thing I think of is the minimum requirements at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=minimumreq FAAH requires 250 MB of system memory, whereas HPF can run in 120MB. Some systems dedicate some of their RAM to graphics or other subsystems, such as happened here: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=4674 Could this be your problem? mycroifth |
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Former Member
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Hi,
I have the same problem, i.e. can't download the FAAH but CAN dowload the folding stuff. I think its because my computer is 500mghtz instead of the recommended 550. If you go to the wcgrid.com/cause.html in the "minimum requirements" section it will explain this. So our computers may just be 50 mghtz short of the minimum requirements. Maybe we can ask them to change this? to check your mghtz go to the main screen in the agent, and click on "processor". Let me know! Rebelyell |
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Alther
Former World Community Grid Tech United States of America Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Post Count: 414 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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FAAH requires 250 MB of system memory, whereas HPF can run in 120MB. Some systems dedicate some of their RAM to graphics or other subsystems, such as happened here: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=4674 Could this be your problem? mycroifth Another question to ask is how much virtual memory you have set up for your system. FAAH requires about 100MB more virtual RAM than HPF1, so you may want to check this setting and increase it.
Rick Alther
Former World Community Grid Developer |
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Former Member
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i do think it's not enough RAM. even if your computer says it has 256 (more than the 250 required), part of it might be booked already.
if so, only thing to do is add 64+ more RAM. or somehow make the RAM requirements lower by about 50 MB? |
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I increased memory to 512 meg (I only have 256 meg units) and now FAAH runs OK. It would be useful if the messages displayed by the program gave useful information instead of just saying there was a problem.
thanks for the help Rod |
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Former Member
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I increased memory to 512 meg (I only have 256 meg units) and now FAAH runs OK. It would be useful if the messages displayed by the program gave useful information instead of just saying there was a problem. thanks for the help Rod this raises a serious question. if we don't know how many machines are built like this, then when HPF finishes a lot of machines may suddenly be non-participating!! i agree some announcement might help (or system change). i have seen people just quit other projects if things became too 'technical' for them. perhaps change the announced requirement to 512 MB RAM, or somehow reduce the requirement to 200 MB. also i know some multi-machine contributors are using older type machines. on the other hand, i really don't know how many machines will be affected. |
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