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Message 19475 - Posted: 29 Aug 2004, 23:00:44 UTC

I'm only getting "Scheduler RPC to.....succeeded" "No Work From Project" at best on my computers?

Won't even download the new 4.03 cruncher, even though its talking to the server, why's that?


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Message 19476 - Posted: 29 Aug 2004, 23:02:02 UTC
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I just got my 1st WUWU and I believe it only downloads them together.....This is to wild, now I am getting deferred for 18 hrs after getting 1 WUWU lolololol.

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Message 19477 - Posted: 29 Aug 2004, 23:07:39 UTC - in response to Message 19476.  

> I just got my 1st WUWU and I believe it only downloads them together.....This
> is to wild, now I am getting deferred for 18 hrs after getting 1 WUWU opps was wrong a stray Predictor message got in there and I did not see it.....lolololol need a nap hehehehehe lolololol.
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> This 'SPACE' Rented.
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> forth, yet another EXPERT.
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Message 19564 - Posted: 30 Aug 2004, 0:48:30 UTC - in response to Message 19475.  

> I'm only getting "Scheduler RPC to.....succeeded" "No Work From Project" at
> best on my computers?
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> Won't even download the new 4.03 cruncher, even though its talking to the
> server, why's that?
>
Each project can have several different applications each of which requires different code. Downloading the code just in time is similar to lazy evaluation. Don't do it unless you have to, you might not ever need all of the code modules. Say there are two different applications, one of which your computer doesn't qualify to run, why ever download that code. Or you attach today, download a type 1 WU, and tomorrow the code is updated. Why should you have bothered using the bandwith to download the type 2 crunch code.

This situation can happen in Predictor now, and S@H in the future.
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Message 19569 - Posted: 30 Aug 2004, 0:54:15 UTC - in response to Message 19476.  
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Message 19734 - Posted: 30 Aug 2004, 3:13:41 UTC - in response to Message 19564.  

> > I'm only getting "Scheduler RPC to.....succeeded" "No Work From Project"
> at
> > best on my computers?
> >
> > Won't even download the new 4.03 cruncher, even though its talking to
> the
> > server, why's that?
> >
> Each project can have several different applications each of which requires
> different code. Downloading the code just in time is similar to lazy
> evaluation. Don't do it unless you have to, you might not ever need all of
> the code modules. Say there are two different applications, one of which your
> computer doesn't qualify to run, why ever download that code. Or you attach
> today, download a type 1 WU, and tomorrow the code is updated. Why should you
> have bothered using the bandwith to download the type 2 crunch code.
>
> This situation can happen in Predictor now, and S@H in the future.

Cause I'm joined with the SETI portion of BOINC. So, I'll be crunching SETI WU's, big ole suprise. That and one of the two files is like 4.8 megabytes big and it keeps garbage / bad urling all day. If it could be downloaded successfully after resets (when the process messes up like it has for me at least 4 times today so far), without having to wait for the scheduler to deign to send a workunit the hosts way, then everything would be hunky dory a heck of a lot quicker.

Until they can test things better or want to shut down this public project and go back to ALPHA, maybe they can throw in a few workarounds to help out. Doing what I propose couldn't hurt anything could it?

Thats all I'm saying.

I know they finally decided to do the transition on a Sunday, and its only been 7 hours since they let it loose intially, and I shouldn't be quick to anger, but I just got a little frustrated with the one problem after another routine around here. My bad.


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