How can somebody have >50 RAC if server says 99.9% of the time GOT 0 NEW TASKS !!!! My RAC fell down during those few days under 1000, in 3 weeks it will be close to 0. What about new people without luck of getting any work?

How can somebody have >50 RAC if server says 99.9% of the time GOT 0 NEW TASKS !!!! My RAC fell down during those few days under 1000, in 3 weeks it will be close to 0. What about new people without luck of getting any work?

In fact, I haven't received any work from sometime and the MW server said the following:

9/7/2009 7:55:53 PM Milkyway@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
9/7/2009 7:55:53 PM Milkyway@home Requesting new tasks
9/7/2009 7:55:58 PM Milkyway@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
9/7/2009 7:55:58 PM Milkyway@home Message from server: No work sent
9/7/2009 7:55:58 PM Milkyway@home Message from server: (won't finish in time) BOINC runs 94.4% of time, computation enabled 99.5% of that

Maybe I am running too many projects. I've received about 500 points in the past month from MW while I have received ten times that from ClimatePrediction over the same time period. I'd like to do more for MW but the server won't send any work.

Richard Cox

I'd like to do more for MW but the server won't send any work.

Change your BOINC version to something other than 6.6.36...

Thanks Brian; by the way, what does it mean:

"(won't finish in time) BOINC runs 94.4% of time, computation enabled 99.5% of that". Does BOINC believe the application will take longer to execute than needed?

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Thanks Brian; by the way, what does it mean:

"(won't finish in time) BOINC runs 94.4% of time, computation enabled 99.5% of that". Does BOINC believe the application will take longer to execute than needed?

Boinc thinks you would have too much work to complete in the needed time.

Thanks Brian; by the way, what does it mean:

"(won't finish in time) BOINC runs 94.4% of time, computation enabled 99.5% of that". Does BOINC believe the application will take longer to execute than needed?

Boinc thinks you would have too much work to complete in the needed time.

So I need a newer version of BOINC to make a better "estimate-to-complete"?

Thanks Brian; by the way, what does it mean:

"(won't finish in time) BOINC runs 94.4% of time, computation enabled 99.5% of that". Does BOINC believe the application will take longer to execute than needed?

Boinc thinks you would have too much work to complete in the needed time.

So I need a newer version of BOINC to make a better "estimate-to-complete"?

Yes.

When you find a version that all works great, you should leave it as long as possible - unless there is some huge benefit that other people have discovered in new versions.

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I was receiving exactly the same messages a few weeks ago. After backing up from BOINC 6.6.36 to 6.4.7 I started to get MilkyWay WUs again.

The older BOINCs have their own problems if you are running multiple projects, like sometimes letting a project run completely out of work before requesting new work, but in the long run it keeps my CPUs busy. I read on another Forum that newer BOINCs, 6.10.x, seeem to have fixed all this, but I'll let somebody else sort out the bugs in these for a while before I change.

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