Out Of Work?

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rcthardcore Send message Joined: 30 Dec 08 Posts: 30 Credit: 6,999,702 RAC: 0	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. ID: 65137 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Vortac Send message Joined: 22 Apr 09 Posts: 95 Credit: 4,808,181,963 RAC: 0	Message 65138 - Posted: 13 Sep 2016, 22:27:47 UTC - in response to Message 65137. Same here ID: 65138 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

rcthardcore Send message Joined: 30 Dec 08 Posts: 30 Credit: 6,999,702 RAC: 0	Message 65142 - Posted: 14 Sep 2016, 19:02:46 UTC I wish the head of the project would post a notice about this problem. ID: 65142 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

rcthardcore Send message Joined: 30 Dec 08 Posts: 30 Credit: 6,999,702 RAC: 0	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. ID: 65143 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

rcthardcore Send message Joined: 30 Dec 08 Posts: 30 Credit: 6,999,702 RAC: 0	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! ID: 65148 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jake Weiss Volunteer moderator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 25 Feb 13 Posts: 580 Credit: 94,200,158 RAC: 0	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 ID: 65153 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Dave GPU Send message Joined: 3 Apr 13 Posts: 3 Credit: 304,699,328 RAC: 0	Message 65247 - Posted: 24 Sep 2016, 14:25:44 UTC Tasks ready to send 295,536 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. ID: 65247 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

entigy Send message Joined: 10 Jun 09 Posts: 6 Credit: 10,333,666 RAC: 0	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 ID: 65255 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

ianjwells Send message Joined: 3 Mar 12 Posts: 4 Credit: 138,942,810 RAC: 4,486	Message 65257 - Posted: 24 Sep 2016, 17:46:22 UTC same problem - can't get tasks even though the project lots are available ID: 65257 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

TimeRanger Send message Joined: 31 Oct 10 Posts: 83 Credit: 38,632,375 RAC: 0	Message 65259 - Posted: 25 Sep 2016, 1:14:58 UTC - in response to Message 65148. Last modified: 25 Sep 2016, 1:18:00 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! 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? ID: 65259 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

merle van osdol Send message Joined: 4 Nov 08 Posts: 31 Credit: 6,762,467 RAC: 0	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? ID: 65312 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jake Weiss Volunteer moderator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 25 Feb 13 Posts: 580 Credit: 94,200,158 RAC: 0	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 ID: 65314 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Tex1954 Send message Joined: 22 Apr 11 Posts: 66 Credit: 903,383,630 RAC: 13,782	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! :D ID: 65347 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Vortac Send message Joined: 22 Apr 09 Posts: 95 Credit: 4,808,181,963 RAC: 0	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. ID: 65348 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jake Weiss Volunteer moderator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 25 Feb 13 Posts: 580 Credit: 94,200,158 RAC: 0	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 ID: 65349 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Vortac Send message Joined: 22 Apr 09 Posts: 95 Credit: 4,808,181,963 RAC: 0	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) ID: 65353 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jake Weiss Volunteer moderator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 25 Feb 13 Posts: 580 Credit: 94,200,158 RAC: 0	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 ID: 65359 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Vortac Send message Joined: 22 Apr 09 Posts: 95 Credit: 4,808,181,963 RAC: 0	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. ID: 65365 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Tex1954 Send message Joined: 22 Apr 11 Posts: 66 Credit: 903,383,630 RAC: 13,782	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!!! 8-) ID: 65366 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Rymorea Send message Joined: 6 Oct 14 Posts: 46 Credit: 20,017,425 RAC: 0	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 :( ID: 65367 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote