During a recent experiment with my setup I accidentaly killed 3 WU's ie. they are no longer on my machine but under the "Results for computer" page on the web site it still lists them as "In progres". I know that they will change to "No reply" after the deadline and get re-issued to someone else but I thought that it might be nice if we were able to, under "results for computer", have a WU cancel option. That way the WU will get issued to someone else in order to complete the courm, and people wont have to wait as long for credit to be granted?

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Cheers

Gav



Nothing is 'fool-proof', someone will always invent a better fool!

[font='fixedsys,courier']I've had the same issue a number of times. The only option (I've been told) is to wait it out.[/font]

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What I would REALLY like is the ability to kill a workunit from 13 Jul 2004 repeat 2004. I have a machine that should have been deleted long ago that I cannot delete because of this orphan.

I have others under "live" machines that don't bother me as much, but I'm sick of looking at that machine.

I suppose the problem with deleteing machines is that the credit they have acumulated has to go somewhere, wouldnt want it to disapear.

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Cheers

Gav



Nothing is 'fool-proof', someone will always invent a better fool!

I suppose the problem with deleteing machines is that the credit they have acumulated has to go somewhere, wouldnt want it to disapear.

Deleting a Host from the account will not change the credit scores.

You cannot delete a host until all the WU/Results associated have been purged. When the count hits 0 you can delete it.

You may be able to merge it with the "real" machine ...

If not, you have to wait. I have one machine that has a result pending from July of last year... still has not been purged the lst time I checked.

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If not, you have to wait. I have one machine that has a result pending from July of last year... still has not been purged the lst time I checked.

What I would like to see if a way to report those LONG overdue units. OBVIOUSLY Berkeleys software is not picking them up, so if there were a way to send the data to berkeley then they could work on them. At present I do not know of a way to do that. It MIGHT even help with the database, the units are obviously taking up space and could be causing unseen problems. My oldest is also from July but I have 2 machines with different units, BOTH from July!

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Why don't we all just list out any units older than, say, 9 months in a dedicated thread and the team can then chase them down as other priorities allow?

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I would say about 6 months, since there are MANY that I know from November/December that are froze up. Since they only keep 2-4 weeks on, 6 months is not a bad spot. So, someone go start it, and I will add mine into it.

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I would say about 6 months, since there are MANY that I know from November/December that are froze up. Since they only keep 2-4 weeks on, 6 months is not a bad spot. So, someone go start it, and I will add mine into it.

I guess "someone" did!
Now I just hope Berkeley does something with the list.
Thakyou

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At the time I asked someone else to start, I was too busy at work. When I saw a little while later no one started it, I decided to get it started.

Yes, I hope that the powers at be will see this thread with over 30 users putting their old dead WU in, notices, and decides to clean up the old junk out of the database.

I would love to clean up my dead machine, as I know others would, also. This makes more database cleaning if these old unused machines are removed also. Less to have to keep track of.

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At the time I asked someone else to start, I was too busy at work. When I saw a little while later no one started it, I decided to get it started.

Yes, I hope that the powers at be will see this thread with over 30 users putting their old dead WU in, notices, and decides to clean up the old junk out of the database.

I would love to clean up my dead machine, as I know others would, also. This makes more database cleaning if these old unused machines are removed also. Less to have to keep track of.

The overhead is insignificant ... removing the records will make no difference to anything but our blood pressure ...

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