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Message 16480 - Posted: 23 Aug 2004, 0:19:18 UTC
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I've been trying all day to download some work for another machine I'm risking on boinc again after the recent debacle, I've reset, detached, re-attached, but all day I have got nothing but 'No work from project' from the scheduler.
At least the website link now works ok, taking you to the correct site.
Has anyone else had this problem? There's not much mention of this issue on this board, so I'm either alone or have a fubar'ed machine or no-one else (I find hard to believe) has tried to update yet?
Geography shouldn't matter, but I'm in the alleged united kingdom, and reliably getting scheduler connections.

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Message 16502 - Posted: 23 Aug 2004, 1:52:28 UTC - in response to Message 16480.  

> I've been trying all day to download some work for another machine I'm risking
> on boinc again after the recent debacle, I've reset, detached, re-attached,
> but all day I have got nothing but 'No work from project' from the scheduler.
> At least the website link now works ok, taking you to the correct site.
> Has anyone else had this problem? There's not much mention of this issue on
> this board, so I'm either alone or have a fubar'ed machine or no-one else (I
> find hard to believe) has tried to update yet?
> Geography shouldn't matter, but I'm in the alleged united kingdom, and
> reliably getting scheduler connections.
>
> TTFN
> Ken Phillips - UK

Ken, I stopped getting work units today too. I am getting the no work message when BOINC goes to download more. I am sure geography doesn't matter, too. I was able to get everything uploaded as it finished, but don't seem to get anything new. Going back to Classic again.

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Message 16505 - Posted: 23 Aug 2004, 2:33:51 UTC - in response to Message 16480.  


I guess it's the same situation for everyone. All my processed WUs are uploaded properly but no new WU from scheduler!
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Message 16524 - Posted: 23 Aug 2004, 3:48:09 UTC

I suspect the silence on this issue is down to most of us having deserted in favour of Predictor@Home until SETI/BOINC shows some sign of reliability. I can't get any SETI work either, but my systems are busy nonetheless.

Hopefully the lessened demand will allow the SETI team to sort out the mess.


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Message 16538 - Posted: 23 Aug 2004, 4:50:19 UTC

I started getting uploads and downloads after the Great Drought at around 13:00 (US PT, UTC-7) 8/20. It went in fits and starts, but I got all my 18-19 finished WUs uploaded and about 16 replacements downloaded after about 12 hours. I got more WUs down on 8/21 at 08:25, 14:00, and 22:30 (all US PT).

Like Peder, my uploads have been going on the first try today (8/22), but I haven't hit the low-water mark yet, so I don't know if there're any WUs left to come down. That'll probably happen after the current one finishes in 60-90 minutes.


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Message 16589 - Posted: 23 Aug 2004, 12:21:55 UTC

Sometime overnight, I did at last manage to get one work unit, I am a bit surprised that even a few days after coming back 'online' that they still can't properly match supply and demand, especially if as has been said in this thread, that lots of folk are simply sitting on the sidelines during the 'crisis', surely the same workunit splitting? capacity exists as before the DB crash, the system seemed to coping then, so why not now? As Major Kong would say, 'thats more for me me me'.
I wish I could join the likes of Predictor@home, unfortunately, wisely, unlike seti@home they had closed the doors by the time I went to have a look with the intention of joining, the work looks very interesting, and has more immediate results and applications than seti, but at the risk of being called paranoid, the name of the organisation puts me off a little, the 'Scripps Institute', who knows what we would be helping to design? I think I've been watching too much Sci-fi.
I am still running seti classic, so the computers are still busy, but from what I've heard they are mostly just wasting time and power, by reworking stuff thats already been done a multitude of times, so, in all honesty I'm still slowly but surely losing faith in this project.

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Message 16590 - Posted: 23 Aug 2004, 12:24:55 UTC
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just had one box get about 6 wu less than 5 mins ago

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Message 16593 - Posted: 23 Aug 2004, 12:39:00 UTC

I just forced an Update and Got 1 Wu ... Wheeeeeeeeee :/
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Message 16594 - Posted: 23 Aug 2004, 12:44:54 UTC

I saw a article on the planetary society's website dated 2004/8/3 showing the new 7 beam reciever being installed at aricebo. That may help on the supply side (once the server hardware gets straighted out).

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Message 16625 - Posted: 23 Aug 2004, 16:26:24 UTC - in response to Message 16589.  


> intention of joining, the work looks very interesting, and has more immediate
> results and applications than seti, but at the risk of being called paranoid,
> the name of the organisation puts me off a little, the 'Scripps Institute',
> who knows what we would be helping to design? I think I've been watching too
> much Sci-fi.


Ken,

I grew up in San Diego. Scripps institute and the Salk Institute, which was right next door, always seemed like very honorable endeavors. I suppose some of the work that they do is sort of Sci-fi though.

http://www.scripps.edu/intro/history.html

http://www.salk.edu/about/history/


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Message 16629 - Posted: 23 Aug 2004, 16:35:04 UTC - in response to Message 16594.  

> I saw a article on the planetary society's website dated 2004/8/3 showing the
> new 7 beam reciever being installed at aricebo. That may help on the supply
> side (once the server hardware gets straighted out).

Very interesting article John.
The future of our WU's ?

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Message 16631 - Posted: 23 Aug 2004, 16:38:24 UTC

I don't know but it must be hit or miss. I was almost out of workunits and earlier this morning I got 21 WU's on one computer and 28 on one other machine. My other boxes still had WU's.

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Message 16781 - Posted: 23 Aug 2004, 23:41:15 UTC
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I've not seen a new WU all day..(last night, really) I'm currently crunching my last one.

As I'm also doing Predictor, I need to keep "keep work fox xx days" at a reasonable amount (BOINC global), and I have one machine which I only attach to seti (mfold slows it way, way down -it likes to have something like 60mb to play with.)

With the "lost" WU's, (the DB reload and the other glitch a week or two back), thought there'd be lots of work for atleast a couple days!

BTW, there's a new item in global prefernces "Use no more than XX% of virtual memory". Is this actually functioning?


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Message 16864 - Posted: 24 Aug 2004, 1:47:12 UTC

The server was out for a short period ( project down) but I got wu's a few minutes ago...
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Message 16948 - Posted: 24 Aug 2004, 4:48:20 UTC

Havn't gotten a WU yet since last night. No biggie. They havn't been recording at ariceibo recently anyway so maybe they are running out? Or maybe the servers and splitters can't keep up. Well, they do have over 5 mil users on the classic side so, what do you expect?
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