Upon returning this morning the 3 WU's on one of my workstations had disappeared from BOINC's "work"-page.
No credits where mentioned (I know it can take a while) nor new WU's received.
Ihave been getting this message pretty much at every update:

--- - 2004-07-22 12:23:22 - Fewer active results than CPUs; requesting more work
SETI@home - 2004-07-22 12:23:22 - Requesting 172297 seconds of work
SETI@home - 2004-07-22 12:23:22 - Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
SETI@home - 2004-07-22 12:25:02 - Scheduler RPC to http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed
SETI@home - 2004-07-22 12:25:02 - No schedulers responded
SETI@home - 2004-07-22 12:25:02 - Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds

Can anyone eleborate on what it means?

It means the schedulers are down.

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It probably also means the seti/boinc environment is fragile and susceptible to frequent outages and down time. Lately it seems that daytime hours are used for database reloading and other system housekeeping chores, at night the systems just seem to die.

Unfortunately, there isn't a good production process in place to post system status on the web page that is current and relevant to let people know what is going on.

The client application messages indicate what is happening. These messages are understandable for the UNIX/MENSA crowd that rollwith this early adopter environment.

Meanwhile, the rest of us plod along trying to contribute our spare cycles and participate and slowly begin to understand how the new, fragile environment behaves.

The line:
> SETI@home - 2004-07-22 12:25:02 - No schedulers responded

is informing you that your system could not connect to the server responsible for providing you with data.

The BOINC FAQ will help you to understand why this is probably happening. You can view the relevant FAQ page by clicking here.

Right now, it appears to me that the scheduling server may be receiving too many requests and is therefore overloaded. Although most requests end as yours do, occasionally a connection can be made, but then the response is "No work from project".

In short, at this moment, even if you could connect to a scheduler, you wouldn't get any work. This is just temporary and will be corrected as time permits.

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