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Message 5 - Posted: 2 Oct 2007, 18:12:28 UTC
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you posted on the front page:

October 2, 2007 The Forums are Working... Sort of
It looks like the message boards are at least functional. There are still some errors to be fixed, but at least they are useable. This means I can start getting some feedback from you guys! Also, I found the bug in the code, so if you have gotten work and it ran really slowly and caused your computer to do some strange things I should be able to fix those very soon.

But my PC's are not getting anything. I have 1 Vista and 2 XP boxes registered, but they do not show up in my profile. My team also does not register on my workstations.
I hope the feedback helps.
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Message 6 - Posted: 2 Oct 2007, 18:19:20 UTC

In a test to see if something has changed from when I first joined I detatched and re-atatched. here is what I am getting.

10/2/2007 11:16:42 AM|Milkyway@home|Resetting project
10/2/2007 11:16:42 AM|Milkyway@home|Detaching from project
10/2/2007 11:16:49 AM||Fetching configuration file from http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/get_project_config.php
10/2/2007 11:17:16 AM|Milkyway@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
10/2/2007 11:17:16 AM|Milkyway@home|Reason: Couldn't parse scheduler list

Then

10/2/2007 11:18:23 AM|Milkyway@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
10/2/2007 11:18:23 AM|Milkyway@home|Reason: Couldn't parse scheduler list
10/2/2007 11:19:29 AM|Milkyway@home|Deferring communication for 1 days 0 hr 0 min 0 sec
10/2/2007 11:19:29 AM|Milkyway@home|Reason: 3 consecutive failures fetching scheduler list
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Message 34 - Posted: 3 Oct 2007, 4:16:17 UTC

As of this writing it looks like only 32 test workunits have been created so don't be surprised if in the near future you find yourself getting that out of work message.

So far of the ones I have received they have either ended with the Maximum disk usage exceeded or the Maximum CPU time exceeded errors.
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Message 35 - Posted: 3 Oct 2007, 4:19:16 UTC - in response to Message 18.  

If you want to test if there is any work, go to the projects tab, highlight MilkyWay@home, then hit the update button... if there are work units and your platform is supported you'll get something, but I have yet to get some 100% bug free programs up, but hopefully this week I'll have something operational.

Just FYI that will not work with the newer BOINC clients if the participants work cache is already full with work from other projects. Older clients had a workaround by suspending the other projects and then updating.
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Message 71 - Posted: 4 Oct 2007, 1:19:59 UTC - in response to Message 49.  

The download problem is fixed.



Sorry but still no work with this message. 10/3/2007 9:17:29 PM|Milkyway@home|Reason: 7 consecutive failures fetching scheduler list
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Message 85 - Posted: 4 Oct 2007, 2:25:05 UTC - in response to Message 73.  

The download problem is fixed.



Sorry but still no work with this message. 10/3/2007 9:17:29 PM|Milkyway@home|Reason: 7 consecutive failures fetching scheduler list


That problem is pretty common apparently... I'm working on it right now. That's before you even attempt get work from the server. It looks like most people can't even connect to the scheduler. I'm not sure what the problem is, but the attempts aren't even being recorded in my logs. There may be a missing soft link somewhere.



You must of fixed something, I got a wu, yeah, running 13 minutes, but at 100% for 10 minutes. should i wait?
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Message 87 - Posted: 4 Oct 2007, 2:29:16 UTC - in response to Message 86.  
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I haven't gotten too deep into debugging this, but hopefully I can have it fixed for you soon!

You certainly are a very busy guy tonight, and a very productive one! :D
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Message 88 - Posted: 4 Oct 2007, 2:29:23 UTC - in response to Message 86.  

The download problem is fixed.



Sorry but still no work with this message. 10/3/2007 9:17:29 PM|Milkyway@home|Reason: 7 consecutive failures fetching scheduler list


That problem is pretty common apparently... I'm working on it right now. That's before you even attempt get work from the server. It looks like most people can't even connect to the scheduler. I'm not sure what the problem is, but the attempts aren't even being recorded in my logs. There may be a missing soft link somewhere.



You must of fixed something, I got a wu, yeah, running 13 minutes, but at 100% for 10 minutes. should i wait?


There's a bug in the windows app; it thinks there is a memory leak, and it's going to continue printing to stderr telling you all the modules it's dumping until it kills itself, so you don't really need to keep running. It may still upload a result because if you look on your hard disk the result is in fact there, and it's correct. I haven't gotten too deep into debugging this, but hopefully I can have it fixed for you soon!



went 15 minutes and then error out. Good Luck on the Fixed!
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Message 93 - Posted: 4 Oct 2007, 5:21:08 UTC

I got a question about work what we will get . How long do you expect it will take to crunch a workunit ? And how long we will have to crunch a unit. Deadline time ?
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Message 96 - Posted: 4 Oct 2007, 6:36:08 UTC

Thanks for fast reply :) One more thing. How much data you will need ? some project have few milions work units and misson accomplished.

This will be the same , or it will be unlimited work for many years ?
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Message 100 - Posted: 4 Oct 2007, 8:16:12 UTC

One more think ;)

What time period to the future will cover workunits. Bilions of years ? Or where will start a workunit . 2007 ? or from big bang ?
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