I have a huge amount of pending credit in my account, but it doesn't seem to be getting granted. I've been stuck at the same credit number now for several days, both on setiathome.berkeley.edu, and in BOINC Manager on my computer. What the heck?

That's what some of the previous validator threads are about. They are down at the moment. You can also check and see if and when they start running here.

Status

It happens from time to time.

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LOL, you don't come here often do you? THat's the topic of MANY threads. The Validators have been down since the weekend, they ARE working on it. See the Status Page (linked from front page). You'll get your credit when they get caught back up, they have a heck of a backlog. Might be days after they get it working again.

hope this helps

tony

And meanwhile, have also a quick look to the <a>Technical News[/url]:

June 27, 2005 - 22:00 UTC

General update: There were some brief semi-outages over the weekend, all having to do with BOINC server software development. We added two fields to the hosts table that enable us to better calculate how much work to send to users (and prevent sending too much work that cannot possibly get finished before particular deadlines). Some server processes had to be recompiled/reinstalled to accommodate these new fields.

Currently the validate processes are all failing. This is probably a separate issue that was noticed on Sunday and is currently being diagnosed/debugged. While not a show-stopper by any means, the validation queue will grow until this is fixed (resulting only in a delay of granting credit, not a loss in credit), and then the queue should quickly drain.

In order to keep up with the growing user base and the increasing demands for work, another splitter has been added to the splitter pool: a Sun Ultra 10 called "gates." We're sure people will ask about the name so let's nip this in the bud. It our pool of PC's we had one called "gates" which slowly fell into disuse as it aged. One day a Sun Ultra 10 needed to get called into service ASAP, and instead of waiting for the powers that be to grant us a new IP address, we simply shut down that PC for good and reused its address. Not all that interesting, really.