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Message 65137 - Posted: 13 Sep 2016, 20:38:22 UTC

Is the project out of work? Have only been able to get just a few work units in the last 3 or 4 hours.
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Message 65138 - Posted: 13 Sep 2016, 22:27:47 UTC - in response to Message 65137.  

Same here
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Message 65142 - Posted: 14 Sep 2016, 19:02:46 UTC

I wish the head of the project would post a notice about this problem.
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Message 65143 - Posted: 14 Sep 2016, 20:22:04 UTC

After some investigation, I have concluded that the project's validator is malfunctioning. It has over 100,000 tasks waiting to be validated. Looks like work unit rationing/limiting has gone into effect. Some word from the project head would be greatly appreciated.
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Message 65148 - Posted: 15 Sep 2016, 16:41:41 UTC

I failed to mention that I am running only GPU work units. Sorry for the confusion. Seems like there is a shortage of them. So I started doing CPU work units in addition to the GPU ones. When I did that, My work queue filled up normally. Happy day!
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Message 65153 - Posted: 16 Sep 2016, 13:17:45 UTC

Hey Everyone,

I've been busy working on the GPU compatibility issue. I thought this issue was mostly solved a month or so ago, but it seems to be popping back up again. The issue is the work generator refuses to make work even when there is a clear need for it. I plan on looking into the issue more after I push the new version of MilkyWay@home out on Monday.

I have an idea of how to fix this problem already so we will see how that works.

Sorry it took so long to respond to your posts. In the future if you want a quicker response from me, try replying on a relevant news post. I don't read number crunching daily.

Jake
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Message 65247 - Posted: 24 Sep 2016, 14:25:44 UTC

Tasks ready to send
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9/24/2016 10:21:19 AM | Milkyway@Home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
9/24/2016 10:21:19 AM | Milkyway@Home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU
9/24/2016 10:21:21 AM | Milkyway@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
9/24/2016 10:21:21 AM | Milkyway@Home | No work available


Anyone else having a problem.
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Message 65255 - Posted: 24 Sep 2016, 17:29:23 UTC - in response to Message 65247.  

Yep.

Tasks ready to send 301,276

24/09/2016 18:23:24 | Milkyway@Home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
24/09/2016 18:23:24 | Milkyway@Home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and Miner ASIC
24/09/2016 18:23:26 | Milkyway@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
24/09/2016 18:23:26 | Milkyway@Home | No work available
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Message 65257 - Posted: 24 Sep 2016, 17:46:22 UTC

same problem - can't get tasks even though the project lots are available
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Message 65259 - Posted: 25 Sep 2016, 1:14:58 UTC - in response to Message 65148.  
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I failed to mention that I am running only GPU work units. Sorry for the confusion. Seems like there is a shortage of them. So I started doing CPU work units in addition to the GPU ones. When I did that, My work queue filled up normally. Happy day!


I can't get any CPU units - only GPU, and not many of those!
Nearly all of my "inconclusive" results have not been resent either?
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Message 65312 - Posted: 27 Sep 2016, 16:03:37 UTC

GPU tasks for MW are very difficult to get. Why can't that cache be filled with new tasks? Is there a problem with lack of compute power on the servers?
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Message 65314 - Posted: 27 Sep 2016, 16:38:58 UTC

Hey Merle Van Osdol,

I am working on increasing work unit availability. It should just be tweaking settings on my end, but I haven't quite found the best settings yet.

Jake
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Message 65347 - Posted: 29 Sep 2016, 10:09:34 UTC

It used to work well, then it pooped out, then it started working well again, and now the same problem.

Have a setup with two AMD 7970's and I only get a few or none WUs for each request... then wait at least another minute before I can try again. The setup clears WUs so fast that a minimum of 30 WUs is needed to keep it working...

Sigh...

HELP!

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Message 65348 - Posted: 29 Sep 2016, 10:33:21 UTC

There is nothing you can do apparently. We have to be patient until the problem is fixed on the server side.
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Message 65349 - Posted: 29 Sep 2016, 17:24:03 UTC

Hey Everyone,

Looks like I found some better settings. Let me know if you are still running out of work units.

Jake
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Message 65353 - Posted: 30 Sep 2016, 5:51:18 UTC

It still happens from time time, enough often to empty the queue completely:

30/09/2016 07:49:29 | Milkyway@Home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and AMD/ATI GPU
30/09/2016 07:49:32 | Milkyway@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
30/09/2016 07:49:32 | Milkyway@Home | No tasks sent
30/09/2016 07:49:32 | Milkyway@Home | No tasks are available for MilkyWay@Home
30/09/2016 07:49:32 | Milkyway@Home | No tasks are available for Milkyway@Home Separation (Modified Fit)
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Message 65359 - Posted: 30 Sep 2016, 16:22:02 UTC

Thanks for the update. I'm tweaking some work knobs today trying to improve work unit availability. Hopefully I can get the work unit generation stable soon.

Jake
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Message 65365 - Posted: 2 Oct 2016, 6:48:55 UTC

More feedback regarding workunit shortage: my slower machine (2x5870) is getting enough work now - it requires 8 tasks per minute to run at 100%. But my main rig (4x7970) requires up to 40 tasks per minute and it's frequently running out of work.
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Message 65366 - Posted: 2 Oct 2016, 10:46:11 UTC

My setups still running out of work as well... even running 1 task per GPU it still runs out and sits for a LONG time doing nothing..

For years, never had any problems... too many users now?

Help!!!

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Message 65367 - Posted: 2 Oct 2016, 11:12:54 UTC

Out of work continues, get some crunch and then waiting hours to get new ones again :(
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