I'll be taking the server down for an hour or two tonight to update some validator and work generation code. It should be back up shortly.

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I've not received any work unit for several weeks now; I've allocated 25% of my computer to the milkyway project... but no work units to work on. Don't know why! John

I've not received any work unit for several weeks now; I've allocated 25% of my computer to the milkyway project... but no work units to work on. Don't know why! John

What kind of computer/operating system are you using?

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something haywire - I am getting 1000's of messages. So far, 4000 in the last 1/2 hour.\

here are 5 of about 4000

jys2x285win7

4843 Milkyway@home 4/19/2010 6:39:43 PM Starting task de_new_test2_142622_1271720289_0 using milkyway version 24
4844 Milkyway@home 4/19/2010 6:39:44 PM Computation for task de_new_test2_142622_1271720289_0 finished
4845 Milkyway@home 4/19/2010 6:39:44 PM Output file de_new_test2_142622_1271720289_0_0 for task de_new_test2_142622_1271720289_0 absent
4846 Milkyway@home 4/19/2010 6:39:44 PM Starting de_new_test2_142608_1271720289_0
4847 Milkyway@home 4/19/2010 6:39:44 PM Starting task de_new_test2_142608_1271720289_0 using milkyway version 24


try to report 23 tasks, get 24 new ones, they get deleted within seconds.


rebooted and stopped getting the messages. I checked my wu error list for jys2x285win7 and I got maybe 1000 tasks that errored out.

<core_client_version>6.10.43</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
- exit code -1 (0xffffffff)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
Device index specified on the command line was 1
Looking for a Double Precision capable NVIDIA GPU
cudaSafeCall() Runtime API error in file <d:/milkyway/astronomy_gpu/evaluation_gpu6.cu>, line 225 : invalid device ordinal.

</stderr_txt>
]]>

this is a dual gtx280 which supports DP

What driver version?

Does the card work with any other project?

Are you running anon platform?

The first questions that come to my weak mind ...

{edit}
My next question, did you change something? I see some tasks are running and validating ...

I upgraded from 196.?? to 197.45. That seems to have started the problem. I thought I had stopped boinc before I upgraded. After rebooting I am occassionally getting driver error on collatz but milkyway is running ok on the same gtx280 system since the reboot. The installer did not ask me to reboot on that windows 7 system. Next time I will reboot just to play it safe.

I also upgraded this to 197.45 at the same time. It cannot run milkyway as it is only SP float, but it does not show any driver error under collatz for 197.45.

This was just a coincidence that the server down message was posted at the time I noticed the problem. Even tho there were 1000 or so tasks that were dumped within an hour, it could have been worse as I might not have noticed the problem till the next day. I have been playing with boincstasks and spotted all the message activity.