My alternate 'small project' is Spinhenge -- typically very reliable and they do have a separate discussion board (I've even gotten email replies directly from one of the admins) -- though it does help if you can read/understand German.

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No work to my certain knowledge since about 2.30pm UTC, and no amount of kicking the servers via BOINC's Projects tab, then clicking update can squeeze anything down.


Moreover, the server status page at about 15.00UTC showed nearly 65,000 WUs as Results in progress. This has fallen to 20,247 at 21.34UTC

Looks like the system is being run down for the release of another large batch of work. Or, I think, this is the same as what happened Sunday, when things were getting starved.

Meantime Einstein and Malaria are getting a small boost.

Unfortunately, that project is unavailable at the moment....

I think I will be switching projects soon.

Check out AI's site, it is loaded with info and admin comments. It is run by only 2 people. http://www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem/system.php

My point was that Travis whined before because there isn't enough staff. That project is bery well off with 2 people.

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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
If it makes sense, DON'T do it.

Right -- for me the 'boosted' projects are Climate, Spinhenge, Einstein and Malaria. I've also attached to a new project to give it a try. Your approach to 'kicking the servers' for new work is the same as mine by the way.

It would be nice (polite) for there to be some admin response during these situations.

No work to my certain knowledge since about 2.30pm UTC, and no amount of kicking the servers via BOINC's Projects tab, then clicking update can squeeze anything down.


Moreover, the server status page at about 15.00UTC showed nearly 65,000 WUs as Results in progress. This has fallen to 20,247 at 21.34UTC

Looks like the system is being run down for the release of another large batch of work. Or, I think, this is the same as what happened Sunday, when things were getting starved.

Meantime Einstein and Malaria are getting a small boost.

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Understood, though one other thing that happened here was the release of the optimized application -- that resulted in the project going a bit hyperactive on a number of fronts.

I just wish Travis could jump in here with *SOME* comment -- uncertainty is one of the hobgoblins of projects. Lack of communication is another....

My point was that Travis whined before because there isn't enough staff. That project is bery well off with 2 people.

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I'll start a new thread to ask the question in NC.

That way it will be obvious to Travis, Dave or which ever Admin looks in.

Yesterday was great with all the interactions and the work flowing, and I appreciate Travis was in during Saturday (the week end).

Work is very scarce at this moment, and all my rigs are beginning to starve.

I see that the number of Wus in pending is soaring too!

Yesterday was great with all the interactions and the work flowing, and I appreciate Travis was in during Saturday (the week end).

Work is very scarce at this moment, and all my rigs are beginning to starve.

I see that the number of Wus in pending is soaring too!

the pending WUs are from the new app -- i'm still debugging work creation with that. after i get that working correctly i'll move to validation... then the assimilator :P

i'll start up some more work for the old app.

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Work seems short today. Only had 5 so far.

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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
If it makes sense, DON'T do it.

Anyone else having problems getting work?

Yep short supply today -

Been like this most of today! :(

23/11/2008 20:09:48|Milkyway@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 227044 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
23/11/2008 20:09:53|Milkyway@home|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
23/11/2008 20:10:04|Milkyway@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 227049 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
23/11/2008 20:10:09|Milkyway@home|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
23/11/2008 20:11:09|Milkyway@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 227047 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
23/11/2008 20:11:14|Milkyway@home|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
23/11/2008 20:12:14|Milkyway@home|Fetching scheduler list
23/11/2008 20:12:19|Milkyway@home|Master file download succeeded
23/11/2008 20:12:25|Milkyway@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 227065 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
23/11/2008 20:12:30|Milkyway@home|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks


Would you believe it......work sent.

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11/25/2008 10:16:46 AM|Milkyway@home|Message from server: No work sent
I've been getting this on my three PC's. Server shows over 3000 . Is it only new work now? Thanks, Jack

It would be nice if the server status was showing which kind of WUs are available. ;-)
Would it be possible to tweak the page to show the numbers of "Astronomy" and "milkyway" WUs separatedly?

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Lovely greetings, Cori

25/11/2008 @ 15:45hrs (uk)

Over 3,500 wu's ready to send


25/11/2008 15:46:32|Milkyway@home|Message from server: No work sent


What's up now?

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My guess is that it is being messed with, since the test 21 wu's were erroring out, I kept getting leftovers, and now nothing.

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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
If it makes sense, DON'T do it.

It would be nice if the server status was showing which kind of WUs are available. ;-)
Would it be possible to tweak the page to show the numbers of "Astronomy" and "milkyway" WUs separatedly?

Yeah that was the problem, there are a bunch of test WUs but not a lot of old WUs. I just updated the old code to generate WUs based off of the number of old WUs generated instead of total WUs, so work should be flowing better now. I'm going to see if i can update the status page.

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... I'm going to see if i can update the status page.

Cool! :-)

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Lovely greetings, Cori

Yeah that was the problem, there are a bunch of test WUs but not a lot of old WUs. I just updated the old code to generate WUs based off of the number of old WUs generated instead of total WUs, so work should be flowing better now. I'm going to see if i can update the status page.

Also though, the test21 WU's were all erroring out on download:

11/25/2008 7:59:01 AM|Milkyway@home|Reason: Unrecoverable error for result nm_test21_144_1227625425_0 (WU download error: couldn't get input files:<file_xfer_error> <file_name>nm_test21_astronomy_parameters.txt</file_name> <error_code>-224</error_code> <error_message>file not found</error_message></file_xfer_error>)
11/25/2008 7:59:01 AM|Milkyway@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 58 sec
11/25/2008 7:59:01 AM|Milkyway@home|Reason: Unrecoverable error for result nm_test21_109_1227625425_0 (WU download error: couldn't get input files:<file_xfer_error> <file_name>nm_test21_astronomy_parameters.txt</file_name> <error_code>-224</error_code> <error_message>file not found</error_message></file_xfer_error>)

etc...

-jim

Still no change here.........


25/11/2008 16:10:29|Milkyway@home|Message from server: No work sent
25/11/2008 16:11:29|Milkyway@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 236246 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
25/11/2008 16:11:34|Milkyway@home|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
25/11/2008 16:11:34|Milkyway@home|Message from server: No work sent
25/11/2008 16:12:59|Milkyway@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 236252 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
25/11/2008 16:13:04|Milkyway@home|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
25/11/2008 16:13:04|Milkyway@home|Message from server: No work sent
25/11/2008 16:14:54|Milkyway@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 236270 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
25/11/2008 16:14:59|Milkyway@home|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
25/11/2008 16:14:59|Milkyway@home|Message from server: No work sent
25/11/2008 16:15:50|Milkyway@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 236282 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
25/11/2008 16:15:55|Milkyway@home|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
25/11/2008 16:15:55|Milkyway@home|Message from server: No work sent
25/11/2008 16:17:40|Milkyway@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 236285 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
25/11/2008 16:17:45|Milkyway@home|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
25/11/2008 16:17:45|Milkyway@home|Message from server: No work sent

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