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Former Member
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Please tell me how to limit the download size of data to be processed.
Thank you.  This morning my agent was stuck on a 900,000MB download. I had to reboot. Have not allowed acess to Grid Agent since.  My normal downloads have been 50-60,000MB, I believe. These process in 12-18 hours. That's fine. But I really don't want my computer memory tied up with a 1gb download, nor tie up my browser waiting for such a large download. My Ram is only set for 800MB. CPU time to process is not a problem. I just put it in snooze if system is being degraded. I reboot once a day, before opening grid agent for new data, to ensure prompt data download. Richarde Locke |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Since you only have one post it would seem that you are just starting here.
----------------------------------------The first download contains the program and supporting DLLs or graphics needed. Subsequent uploads/downloads will only contain a workfile and should not have much impact. The UD interface must wait for the download to complete before starting the next workunit. If you are running the BOINC version it is self cacheing. The next workunit will start while uploading/downloading is taking place. There are two current projects, HPF2 and FA@H. Fight Aids at home has very tiny workfiles. HPF2 workfiles are larger but should still not have a large impact like that first download. I am on dial-up and it works for me. It might also be that you had been running one project for awhile...and just got sent the other---which includes the program the first time. BOINC projects are controlled by the overall project profile. WCG/UD interface projects are controlled by the device profile. You can pick one or the other...or both. In the case of both, you will get new workunits at random from each one.
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Former Member
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I think you must be confused. WCG have never had anything even close to downloads of that size. In fact, they are a couple of orders of magnitude smaller - many downloads are less than a megabyte, and the largest downloads are just a few megabytes.
The slightly larger than normal download you are seeing is because of the new project that launched. WCG are downloading the new software to run the new project. You will be back to normal afterwards. I think perhaps you are confusing gigabytes, megabytes and bytes. The download sizes are given in bytes - 1000 times smaller units than you assumed. |
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Thanks for your reply.
However, if you are attempting to download new software, I don't think it was successful, per the Grid Agent message. I had no problem in March, when I signed on. See summary program files below. I generally have 50,000 +\-whatever (bytes, KB, MB) download. This time it was 900,000 whatever (894,989?), or 40 times normal, and stalled for some 5 hours (while I was asleep). The grid agent was hung up, and FightAids@Home was not processing. The numbers appear at the bottom of the screen for a brief instant between Grid Agent contact, and begining of processing, but these did not disappear. They are tiny, and hard for me to read, so I could be off by a factor of 1,000. I figured 1Gb would get your attention, even if not accurate. Regardless, It also downgraded my desktop processing. So I rebooted to correct the Snafu. FAH is now processing again, as I opened it after getting your message. I looked in "C:\Program Files\WorldCommunityGrid" I have 6 "UD' files modified today, totaling 75 KB, named cs.ud, ud_7378548, tkcp.ud~ tkop.ud!, tkst.ud & tklg.ud. Are these all new software? They look like temporary files. In addition, I have 7 files modified June 24 (about 700kb total), and 4 original (about 800KB)from March 28. So files downloaded/ modified today are not same magnitude (by factor of 10) from original software. If I need to do anything, let me know. Thanx. R.Locke |
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Sekerob
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900 mb or 1 gb, u lost my attention.....whatever it was downloading, it must have been the same packet over and over again due poor comms, or maybe 12mb for hpf2 with a 1200bit modem from previous century....that would give you easy 5 hours.
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The science applications and work units will be in the sub-directory, not in the WorldCommunityGrid directory. Don't be alarmed by the size of the files in there, some of them are generated by the science applications while they work. Also, files are compressed for download. WCG takes good care of your bandwidth.
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if i understand right, you are only going to see a 9 MB download (9,00,000 bytes?) one time, which is the first time you get a new project (like HPF-2). after that all the units have only been about 1/2 MB or less.
so after the first big download, you might then have another problem: your machine might not have the new required speed and memory to do the project. if your machine doesn't have enough, it will not do the work. |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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If you were using HPF2 5.06, the program was just changed to fix some errors. You will get the HPF2 5.07 program once per computer.
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if i understand right, you are only going to see a 9 MB download (9,00,000 bytes?) one time, which is the first time you get a new project (like HPF-2). after that all the units have only been about 1/2 MB or less. so after the first big download, you might then have another problem: your machine might not have the new required speed and memory to do the project. if your machine doesn't have enough, it will not do the work. I think the CPU speed and RAM requirements are examined first. If your computer doesn't meet those requirements then you don't get the first big download. Bandwidth is precious. WCG conserves their bandwidth as well as yours. BTW, 9MB is actually 9,437,184 bytes. 1 KB = 1024 bytes. 1 MB = 1024 KB. 9MB = 9 X 1024 X 1024 = 9,437,184. But 9,000,000 is close enough in some contexts. |
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if i understand right, you are only going to see a 9 MB download (9,00,000 bytes?) one time, which is the first time you get a new project (like HPF-2). after that all the units have only been about 1/2 MB or less. so after the first big download, you might then have another problem: your machine might not have the new required speed and memory to do the project. if your machine doesn't have enough, it will not do the work. I think the CPU speed and RAM requirements are examined first. If your computer doesn't meet those requirements then you don't get the first big download. Bandwidth is precious. WCG conserves their bandwidth as well as yours. BTW, 9MB is actually 9,437,184 bytes. 1 KB = 1024 bytes. 1 MB = 1024 KB. 9MB = 9 X 1024 X 1024 = 9,437,184. But 9,000,000 is close enough in some contexts. smartypants  |
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