Is my SETI@Home working?

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East 2 West UFO Society Send message Joined: 26 Jun 03 Posts: 2 Credit: 38 RAC: 0	Message 722063 - Posted: 4 Mar 2008, 23:13:04 UTC Last modified: 4 Mar 2008, 23:13:59 UTC Hi there, I'm returning to SETI@HOME after a long period of being away (I was on the old system), how do I know if SETI@HOME is working properly and if it's uploading/downloading data to my computer? Thanks Jim ID: 722063 ·

OzzFan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28	Message 722080 - Posted: 4 Mar 2008, 23:32:03 UTC You can use BOINC Manager to see if the tasks are running (or use Windows Task Manager and look for setiathome_5.27_windows_intelx86.exe for SETI@Home's application filename). The messages tab will give you some data on the history of what BOINC has been doing since you opened the current session (it resets after each restart of your system). ID: 722080 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3	Message 722081 - Posted: 4 Mar 2008, 23:32:11 UTC If you have download and installed BOINC, then the first thing you need to do is attach to Seti. If the Attach to wizard doesn't come up automatically, after you opened BOINC Manager for the first time, go to Advanced view, Tools->attach to project. Click Next. Find Seti@Home in the list of projects. Click it. Click Next. In the following screen, choose Yes, existing user. Fill in your details, meaning your email address and the password you set up for your account here. Click Next. Click OK. And that should be it. BOINC will download work and the Seti application for you and do all the rest. Crunching will start after that each time you start BOINC. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask. ID: 722081 ·

East 2 West UFO Society Send message Joined: 26 Jun 03 Posts: 2 Credit: 38 RAC: 0	Message 722092 - Posted: 4 Mar 2008, 23:55:09 UTC Thanks for all your responses but here is a copy of all the information from my message tab in BOINC Manager. Maybe someone can decifer it for me please. 04/03/2008 23:35:38\|\|Starting BOINC client version 5.10.30 for windows_intelx86 04/03/2008 23:35:38\|\|log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 04/03/2008 23:35:38\|\|Libraries: libcurl/7.17.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3 04/03/2008 23:35:38\|\|Data directory: C:\\Program Files\\BOINC 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|\|Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 9] 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|\|Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 mmx 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|\|OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Home Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00) 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|\|Memory: 447.29 MB physical, 1.07 GB virtual 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|\|Disk: 37.80 GB total, 11.67 GB free 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|\|Local time is UTC +0 hours 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|\|Version change (5.10.13 -> 5.10.30) 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|SETI@home\|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 4243669; location: home; project prefs: default 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|\|General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 01-Dec-2005 22:09:32) 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|\|Host location: home 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|\|General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|\|Preferences limit memory usage when active to 223.65MB 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|\|Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 402.56MB 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|\|Preferences limit disk usage to 11.58GB 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|\|Running CPU benchmarks 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|SETI@home\|Started download of arecibo_181.png 04/03/2008 23:35:39\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_40.png 04/03/2008 23:35:44\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_40.png: http error 04/03/2008 23:35:44\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of sah_40.png 04/03/2008 23:35:44\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_banner_290.png 04/03/2008 23:35:49\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_banner_290.png: http error 04/03/2008 23:35:49\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of sah_banner_290.png 04/03/2008 23:35:49\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_ss_290.png 04/03/2008 23:35:51\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_ss_290.png: http error 04/03/2008 23:35:51\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of sah_ss_290.png 04/03/2008 23:36:02\|SETI@home\|Finished download of arecibo_181.png 04/03/2008 23:36:10\|\|Benchmark results: 04/03/2008 23:36:10\|\| Number of CPUs: 2 04/03/2008 23:36:10\|\| 1286 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 04/03/2008 23:36:10\|\| 1575 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 04/03/2008 23:36:44\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_40.png 04/03/2008 23:36:46\|SETI@home\|Finished download of sah_40.png 04/03/2008 23:36:50\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_banner_290.png 04/03/2008 23:36:51\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_ss_290.png 04/03/2008 23:36:52\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_ss_290.png: http error 04/03/2008 23:36:52\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of sah_ss_290.png 04/03/2008 23:36:55\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_banner_290.png: http error 04/03/2008 23:36:55\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of sah_banner_290.png 04/03/2008 23:37:52\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_ss_290.png 04/03/2008 23:37:54\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_ss_290.png: http error 04/03/2008 23:37:54\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of sah_ss_290.png 04/03/2008 23:37:55\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_banner_290.png 04/03/2008 23:38:01\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_banner_290.png: http error 04/03/2008 23:38:01\|SETI@home\|Backing off 2 min 22 sec on download of sah_banner_290.png 04/03/2008 23:38:55\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_ss_290.png 04/03/2008 23:38:57\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_ss_290.png: http error 04/03/2008 23:38:57\|SETI@home\|Backing off 2 min 10 sec on download of sah_ss_290.png 04/03/2008 23:40:24\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_banner_290.png 04/03/2008 23:40:25\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_banner_290.png: http error 04/03/2008 23:40:25\|SETI@home\|Backing off 2 min 25 sec on download of sah_banner_290.png 04/03/2008 23:41:08\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_ss_290.png 04/03/2008 23:41:12\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_ss_290.png: http error 04/03/2008 23:41:12\|SETI@home\|Backing off 2 min 38 sec on download of sah_ss_290.png 04/03/2008 23:42:51\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_banner_290.png 04/03/2008 23:42:55\|SETI@home\|Finished download of sah_banner_290.png 04/03/2008 23:43:51\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_ss_290.png 04/03/2008 23:43:53\|SETI@home\|Finished download of sah_ss_290.png 04/03/2008 23:44:16\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 60480 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 04/03/2008 23:45:11\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 04/03/2008 23:46:11\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 60480 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 04/03/2008 23:46:16\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 04/03/2008 23:47:16\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 60480 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 04/03/2008 23:47:31\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 04/03/2008 23:48:31\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 60480 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 04/03/2008 23:48:53\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 04/03/2008 23:48:54\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 04/03/2008 23:48:56\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server 04/03/2008 23:49:56\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 60480 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 04/03/2008 23:50:18\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 04/03/2008 23:50:20\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 04/03/2008 23:50:21\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server 04/03/2008 23:52:06\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 60480 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 04/03/2008 23:52:26\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request succeeded: got 2 new tasks 04/03/2008 23:52:28\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome_5.27_windows_intelx86.exe 04/03/2008 23:52:28\|SETI@home\|Started download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll 04/03/2008 23:52:33\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll: http error 04/03/2008 23:52:33\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll 04/03/2008 23:52:33\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-5.27_COPYING 04/03/2008 23:52:36\|SETI@home\|Finished download of setiathome-5.27_COPYING 04/03/2008 23:52:36\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-5.27_COPYRIGHT 04/03/2008 23:52:42\|SETI@home\|Finished download of setiathome-5.27_COPYRIGHT 04/03/2008 23:52:42\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-5.27_README 04/03/2008 23:52:44\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome-5.27_README: http error 04/03/2008 23:52:44\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome-5.27_README 04/03/2008 23:52:44\|SETI@home\|Started download of seti_527.jpg 04/03/2008 23:52:49\|SETI@home\|Finished download of seti_527.jpg 04/03/2008 23:52:49\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-5.27_AUTHORS 04/03/2008 23:52:54\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome_5.27_windows_intelx86.exe: http error 04/03/2008 23:52:54\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome_5.27_windows_intelx86.exe 04/03/2008 23:52:54\|SETI@home\|Started download of 04fe08aa.5469.9888.14.7.168 04/03/2008 23:52:56\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of 04fe08aa.5469.9888.14.7.168: http error 04/03/2008 23:52:56\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of 04fe08aa.5469.9888.14.7.168 04/03/2008 23:52:56\|SETI@home\|Started download of 04fe08aa.5469.9888.14.7.216 04/03/2008 23:53:18\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome-5.27_AUTHORS: http error 04/03/2008 23:53:18\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome-5.27_AUTHORS 04/03/2008 23:53:34\|SETI@home\|Started download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll 04/03/2008 23:53:35\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll: http error 04/03/2008 23:53:35\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll 04/03/2008 23:53:43\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 04/03/2008 23:53:43\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of 04fe08aa.5469.9888.14.7.216: http error 04/03/2008 23:53:43\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of 04fe08aa.5469.9888.14.7.216 04/03/2008 23:53:44\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 04/03/2008 23:53:44\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-5.27_README 04/03/2008 23:53:48\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome-5.27_README: http error 04/03/2008 23:53:48\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome-5.27_README 04/03/2008 23:53:54\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome_5.27_windows_intelx86.exe 04/03/2008 23:53:56\|SETI@home\|Started download of 04fe08aa.5469.9888.14.7.168 04/03/2008 23:54:03\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of 04fe08aa.5469.9888.14.7.168: http error 04/03/2008 23:54:03\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of 04fe08aa.5469.9888.14.7.168 04/03/2008 23:54:16\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome_5.27_windows_intelx86.exe: http error 04/03/2008 23:54:16\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome_5.27_windows_intelx86.exe 04/03/2008 23:54:18\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-5.27_AUTHORS 04/03/2008 23:54:29\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome-5.27_AUTHORS: http error 04/03/2008 23:54:29\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome-5.27_AUTHORS 04/03/2008 23:54:35\|SETI@home\|Started download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll 04/03/2008 23:54:39\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll: http error 04/03/2008 23:54:39\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll ID: 722092 ·

OzzFan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28	Message 722096 - Posted: 4 Mar 2008, 23:59:18 UTC - in response to Message 722092. Thanks for all your responses but here is a copy of all the information from my message tab in BOINC Manager. Maybe someone can decifer it for me please. It appears your downloads are not going through at the moment. Most of those files are required so that SETI@Home can run. Those HTTP errors usually happen when your firewall is blocking the program from performing downloads. You should tell your firewall that BOINC is allowed to use TCP Port 80 so that these files can get through. ID: 722096 ·

Michel BILLAUD Send message Joined: 23 Jun 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 0 RAC: 0	Message 733368 - Posted: 1 Apr 2008, 23:21:48 UTC Hello ! I return after a long absence (2002). I am French user and I have just downloaded Boing but a problem arises. It's impossible to download this: 02/04/2008 01:07:53\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome_5.27_windows_intelx86.exe: http error 02/04/2008 01:07:53\|SETI@home\|Backing off 2 hr 48 min 7 sec on download of setiathome_5.27_windows_intelx86.exe I sought of the assistance but what I found did not enable me to solve the business. I configured port 80 (TCP) for my firewall. The error persists. I will not wait 3 hours so that it tries again. I do not stop clicking on the button "To try now" but I always obtain the same answer. The ReadMe file made me the same thing but was finally downloaded. Nevertheless, for the project TANPAKU, all was downloaded in less than one minute. Thank you for your assistance. ID: 733368 ·

John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0	Message 733384 - Posted: 1 Apr 2008, 23:52:07 UTC - in response to Message 733368. Hello ! I return after a long absence (2002). I am French user and I have just downloaded Boing but a problem arises. It's impossible to download this: 02/04/2008 01:07:53\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome_5.27_windows_intelx86.exe: http error 02/04/2008 01:07:53\|SETI@home\|Backing off 2 hr 48 min 7 sec on download of setiathome_5.27_windows_intelx86.exe I sought of the assistance but what I found did not enable me to solve the business. I configured port 80 (TCP) for my firewall. The error persists. I will not wait 3 hours so that it tries again. I do not stop clicking on the button "To try now" but I always obtain the same answer. The ReadMe file made me the same thing but was finally downloaded. Nevertheless, for the project TANPAKU, all was downloaded in less than one minute. Thank you for your assistance. Hopefully, you did not configure port 80 for inbound. BOINC only uses port 80 and 443 outbound. It uses port 31416 for internal communications (the UI would not work if it was blocked). Sometimes projects have difficulty downloading work because of bottlenecks at their end, and nothing you do at your end will have any effect. For example if Project A is downloading without problems and Project B is having difficulties, it is most likely at the server end. BOINC WIKI ID: 733384 ·

BostonGuy Send message Joined: 4 Apr 08 Posts: 1 Credit: 0 RAC: 0	Message 734002 - Posted: 4 Apr 2008, 1:41:16 UTC - in response to Message 733384. Thanks Guys, this is exactly what I was looking. Im using BOINC and everything is working great! ID: 734002 ·

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