I have set my preference to keep 9 days of work in the queue for both of my computers, but while one computer has dozens of tasks in the queue, the other one has none at all. Why is that?

I have set my preference to keep 9 days of work in the queue for both of my computers, but while one computer has dozens of tasks in the queue, the other one has none at all. Why is that?

To answer that, we need a great deal more information:

For starters, please post some of the messages from the messages tab. This can give us an idea of which path to follow down.

Are there any tasks on the system at all?

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BOINC WIKI

Yes, there were 3 tasks the last time I was logged onto that computer.

One task was waiting to report, and 2 were calculating on the 2 CPUs.

There used to be up to a dozen in the queue, but recently the queue is not being refilled, and often the Boinc application is idle.

The host average on the statistics page has dropped to half of what it used to be.

There are messages which say something like

Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 54321 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks

or

Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 5 completed tasks

which would be followed by something like

Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks

or

Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks

When next I log onto that computer I will copy a bunch of messages to post here.

Yes, there were 3 tasks the last time I was logged onto that computer.

One task was waiting to report, and 2 were calculating on the 2 CPUs.

There used to be up to a dozen in the queue, but recently the queue is not being refilled, and often the Boinc application is idle.

The host average on the statistics page has dropped to half of what it used to be.

There are messages which say something like

Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 54321 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks

or

Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 5 completed tasks

which would be followed by something like

Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks

or

Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks

When next I log onto that computer I will copy a bunch of messages to post here.

54K seconds is a bit more than a half a day.

Got 0 new tasks means that there is either an error message associated - it would be displayed with this message, or the server is just out of work.

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BOINC WIKI

Here are the messages from the log. I have thinned it somewhat by deleting the upload and download message. If there are any messages that you are expecting but not seeing, let me know and I will send the whole log.

Where you see "Requested by user" that is because I saw that there were no tasks in the queue, and sometimes there are no tasks running either, so I hit update to try to get some tasks. Most of the time the Boinc system will request 0 tasks, in spite of the fact that there is nothing in the queue.

So the question is ... Why does the Boinc system request no tasks when I have asked for it to keep 9 days in the queue, and the queue is empty?

11/10/2008 1:19:10 PM||Starting BOINC client version 6.2.19 for windows_intelx86
11/10/2008 1:19:10 PM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
11/10/2008 1:19:10 PM||Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
11/10/2008 1:19:10 PM||Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
11/10/2008 1:19:10 PM||Running under account smeyer
11/10/2008 1:19:10 PM||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6]
11/10/2008 1:19:10 PM||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 mmx
11/10/2008 1:19:10 PM||OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Editon, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00)
11/10/2008 1:19:10 PM||Memory: 2.00 GB physical, 3.85 GB virtual
11/10/2008 1:19:10 PM||Disk: 129.05 GB total, 113.31 GB free
11/10/2008 1:19:10 PM||Local time is UTC -8 hours
11/10/2008 1:19:11 PM|SETI@home|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 4274190; location: work; project prefs: default
11/10/2008 1:19:11 PM||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 27-Oct-2008 09:17:38)
11/10/2008 1:19:11 PM||Computer location: work
11/10/2008 1:19:11 PM||General prefs: using separate prefs for work
11/10/2008 1:19:11 PM||Reading preferences override file
11/10/2008 1:19:11 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1023.01MB
11/10/2008 1:19:11 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1841.42MB
11/10/2008 1:19:11 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 37.25GB
11/10/2008 2:16:38 PM||Running CPU benchmarks
11/10/2008 2:16:38 PM||Suspending computation - running CPU benchmarks
11/10/2008 2:17:10 PM||Benchmark results:
11/10/2008 2:17:10 PM|| Number of CPUs: 2
11/10/2008 2:17:10 PM|| 1779 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
11/10/2008 2:17:10 PM|| 3769 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
11/10/2008 2:17:11 PM||Resuming computation
11/11/2008 10:35:07 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/11/2008 10:35:12 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/11/2008 10:35:12 AM||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 10-Nov-2008 11:41:37)
11/11/2008 10:35:12 AM||Computer location: work
11/11/2008 10:35:12 AM||General prefs: using separate prefs for work
11/11/2008 10:35:12 AM||Reading preferences override file
11/11/2008 10:35:12 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1023.01MB
11/11/2008 10:35:12 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1841.42MB
11/11/2008 10:35:12 AM||Preferences limit disk usage to 37.25GB
11/12/2008 9:23:38 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 9:23:43 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 10:53:08 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 371 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 10:53:13 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 10:53:13 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance
11/12/2008 11:53:13 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/12/2008 11:53:19 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 11:53:19 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance
11/12/2008 12:53:21 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/12/2008 12:53:26 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 12:53:26 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance
11/12/2008 1:53:28 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/12/2008 1:53:33 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 1:53:33 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance
11/12/2008 2:53:35 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/12/2008 2:53:40 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 2:55:55 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 2:56:00 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 2:57:18 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 2:57:24 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 3:10:58 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 3:11:03 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 3:57:51 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 3:57:56 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 4:39:05 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 4:39:11 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 5:23:54 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 5:23:59 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 5:24:59 PM|SETI@home|Fetching scheduler list
11/12/2008 5:25:09 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 5:25:14 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 5:26:14 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 5:26:19 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 5:27:19 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 5:27:24 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 5:28:25 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 5:28:30 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 5:29:30 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 5:29:35 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 5:30:55 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 5:31:00 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 5:37:36 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 5:37:41 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 5:41:56 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 5:42:01 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 6:08:29 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 6:08:34 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 7:06:39 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 7:06:49 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 10:25:04 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 10:25:14 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/12/2008 10:26:14 PM|SETI@home|Fetching scheduler list
11/12/2008 10:26:24 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/12/2008 10:26:39 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 2 new tasks
11/13/2008 1:37:16 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 10848 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/13/2008 1:37:22 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/13/2008 2:02:55 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/13/2008 2:02:56 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/13/2008 2:04:18 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/13/2008 2:04:20 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/13/2008 2:06:10 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/13/2008 2:06:12 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/13/2008 2:07:32 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/13/2008 2:07:33 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/13/2008 2:08:07 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/13/2008 2:08:08 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/13/2008 2:10:45 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/13/2008 2:10:46 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/13/2008 2:18:02 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/13/2008 2:18:03 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/13/2008 2:19:24 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/13/2008 2:19:25 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/13/2008 2:21:17 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/13/2008 2:21:18 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/13/2008 2:23:07 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/13/2008 2:23:08 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/13/2008 2:29:30 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/13/2008 2:29:31 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/13/2008 4:52:20 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4868 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
11/13/2008 4:52:25 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/13/2008 4:53:26 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 11567 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/13/2008 4:53:32 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/13/2008 4:54:35 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 18545 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/13/2008 4:54:47 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/13/2008 4:55:51 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 26004 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/13/2008 4:55:57 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/13/2008 8:24:44 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 1127 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/13/2008 8:24:49 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/13/2008 8:51:42 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 10628 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/13/2008 8:51:53 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/13/2008 9:24:34 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 6816 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/13/2008 9:24:39 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/13/2008 9:25:42 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 16688 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/13/2008 9:25:48 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/13/2008 9:26:51 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 26272 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/13/2008 9:26:57 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/13/2008 9:28:01 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 35767 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/13/2008 9:28:06 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/13/2008 9:29:09 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 44967 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/13/2008 9:29:15 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/13/2008 1:05:39 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 249 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
11/13/2008 1:05:44 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/13/2008 2:57:18 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 1137 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/13/2008 2:57:23 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/13/2008 3:26:40 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 2624 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/13/2008 3:26:45 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/13/2008 5:35:23 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 5468 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
11/13/2008 5:35:28 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/13/2008 6:33:09 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 2306 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/13/2008 6:33:14 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/13/2008 6:34:14 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 9246 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/13/2008 6:34:19 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/13/2008 8:59:42 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 3649 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/13/2008 8:59:47 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/13/2008 9:00:48 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 13037 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/13/2008 9:00:53 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/13/2008 10:41:13 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 3456 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/13/2008 10:41:18 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/13/2008 10:42:19 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 9798 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/13/2008 10:42:24 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 1:19:35 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4554 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
11/14/2008 1:19:40 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 1:23:54 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 5910 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/14/2008 1:23:59 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 2:02:17 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 1884 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/14/2008 2:02:22 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 4:55:15 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 1214 seconds of work, reporting 3 completed tasks
11/14/2008 4:55:20 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 5:34:38 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 1143 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/14/2008 5:34:43 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 5:41:56 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4067 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/14/2008 5:42:01 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 9:05:57 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 3749 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
11/14/2008 9:06:02 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 9:20:19 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4695 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/14/2008 9:20:25 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 12:44:46 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4633 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
11/14/2008 12:44:51 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 1:13:08 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4872 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/14/2008 1:13:14 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 4:14:10 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
11/14/2008 4:14:15 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/14/2008 4:25:30 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 5668 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/14/2008 4:25:35 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 4:50:52 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 8196 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/14/2008 4:50:57 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 7:58:53 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4251 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
11/14/2008 7:58:58 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 8:22:16 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 980 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/14/2008 8:22:21 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 8:54:02 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4899 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
11/14/2008 8:54:07 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/14/2008 11:22:57 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 3613 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/14/2008 11:23:02 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/14/2008 11:24:02 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 10248 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/14/2008 11:24:07 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/14/2008 11:25:07 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 16678 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/14/2008 11:25:12 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/14/2008 11:26:12 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 23019 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/14/2008 11:26:17 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/14/2008 11:27:17 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 29339 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/14/2008 11:27:22 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/14/2008 11:28:33 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 36246 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/14/2008 11:28:38 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/14/2008 11:31:13 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 51801 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/14/2008 11:31:18 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/14/2008 11:49:32 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 152232 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/14/2008 11:49:37 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 12:08:52 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 244634 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 12:08:57 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 1:47:30 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
11/15/2008 1:47:35 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 2:51:53 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 2:51:59 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 2:53:04 AM|SETI@home|Fetching scheduler list
11/15/2008 2:53:14 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 2:53:19 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 2:54:24 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 2:54:30 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 2:55:32 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 2:55:37 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 2:56:42 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 2:56:48 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 2:57:48 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 2:57:53 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 2:59:13 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 2:59:18 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 3:02:04 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 3:02:09 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 3:07:48 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 3:07:53 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 3:09:16 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 3:09:22 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 4:54:22 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 4:54:27 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 6:41:24 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 6:41:29 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 6:42:29 AM|SETI@home|Fetching scheduler list
11/15/2008 6:42:39 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 6:42:44 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 6:43:44 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 6:43:49 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 6:44:49 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 6:44:54 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 6:45:54 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 6:45:59 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 6:47:03 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 6:47:09 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 6:48:32 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 6:48:38 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 6:49:55 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 6:50:01 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/15/2008 6:58:28 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 6:58:33 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/15/2008 6:58:48 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/15/2008 6:58:58 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 2 new tasks
11/15/2008 7:00:54 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/15/2008 7:00:55 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/15/2008 7:03:19 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/15/2008 7:03:20 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/16/2008 10:40:55 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/16/2008 10:41:00 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/17/2008 6:31:30 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 5292 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/17/2008 6:31:35 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/17/2008 10:03:24 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4194 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/17/2008 10:03:29 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/17/2008 10:28:46 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4554 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/17/2008 10:28:51 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/17/2008 11:16:11 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 152 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/17/2008 11:16:16 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/18/2008 1:34:56 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4095 seconds of work, reporting 3 completed tasks
11/18/2008 1:35:01 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/18/2008 3:00:37 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4165 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 3:00:42 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/18/2008 5:06:30 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 1030 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 5:06:35 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/18/2008 6:39:47 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 3344 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 6:39:52 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/18/2008 8:03:24 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 8:03:29 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/18/2008 8:36:45 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 1857 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/18/2008 8:36:50 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/18/2008 10:26:33 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 1294 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 10:26:55 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 10:26:56 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 10:26:56 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
11/18/2008 10:27:59 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 8711 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 10:28:21 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 10:28:22 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 10:28:23 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
11/18/2008 10:29:27 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 16620 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 10:29:49 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 10:29:50 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 10:29:50 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
11/18/2008 10:30:53 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 24214 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 10:31:15 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 10:31:16 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 10:31:17 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
11/18/2008 10:32:21 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 32072 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 10:32:44 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 10:32:45 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
11/18/2008 10:32:47 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 10:34:24 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 42960 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 10:34:46 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 10:34:47 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 10:34:47 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
11/18/2008 10:37:38 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 59983 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 10:38:00 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 10:38:01 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 10:38:03 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
11/18/2008 10:49:00 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 117031 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 10:49:22 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 10:49:23 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 10:49:25 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
11/18/2008 11:04:18 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 188574 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 11:04:40 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 11:04:41 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 11:04:43 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
11/18/2008 11:21:10 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 11:21:11 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 11:22:12 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 11:22:13 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 11:23:14 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 11:23:15 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 11:24:17 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 11:24:18 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 11:25:19 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 11:25:20 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 11:27:37 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 11:27:38 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 11:32:57 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 11:32:58 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 11:46:20 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 11:46:22 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 11:48:51 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 11:49:13 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 11:49:14 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 11:49:16 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
11/18/2008 12:33:35 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 12:33:36 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 1:09:24 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 1:09:25 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 1:10:26 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 1:10:27 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 1:11:29 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 1:11:30 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 1:12:31 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 1:12:32 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 1:13:33 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 1:13:34 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 1:15:45 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 1:15:46 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 1:18:44 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 1:18:45 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 1:26:19 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 1:26:20 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 1:41:18 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 1:41:23 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/18/2008 1:41:23 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance
11/18/2008 1:42:29 PM|SETI@home|Fetching scheduler list
11/18/2008 1:42:40 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 1:42:46 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/18/2008 1:42:46 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance
11/18/2008 1:45:58 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 1:45:59 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 1:47:25 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 1:47:31 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/18/2008 1:47:31 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance
11/18/2008 2:11:05 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 2:11:06 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 2:17:17 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/18/2008 2:17:18 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/18/2008 2:47:37 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/18/2008 2:47:43 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/18/2008 2:48:48 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/18/2008 2:48:54 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/18/2008 2:49:59 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 518402 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/18/2008 2:50:11 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 4 new tasks
11/18/2008 9:27:43 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4029 seconds of work, reporting 4 completed tasks
11/18/2008 9:27:48 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/18/2008 9:42:02 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4205 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/18/2008 9:42:07 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/19/2008 1:05:51 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 3951 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
11/19/2008 1:05:56 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/19/2008 1:17:14 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 2702 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/19/2008 1:17:19 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/19/2008 1:35:36 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 5087 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/19/2008 1:35:41 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/19/2008 5:00:39 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 167 seconds of work, reporting 3 completed tasks
11/19/2008 5:00:44 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/19/2008 5:40:26 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4125 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/19/2008 5:40:31 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/19/2008 5:43:47 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4422 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/19/2008 5:43:52 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/19/2008 9:29:31 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4489 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
11/19/2008 9:29:36 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/19/2008 1:25:34 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 1362 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/19/2008 1:25:44 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/19/2008 2:15:04 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/19/2008 2:15:06 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/19/2008 2:16:26 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/19/2008 2:16:28 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/19/2008 2:17:49 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/19/2008 2:17:50 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11/19/2008 5:06:09 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 1084 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/19/2008 5:06:14 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
11/19/2008 5:07:14 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 7968 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/19/2008 5:07:19 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/19/2008 5:31:33 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 2390 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
11/19/2008 5:31:38 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/19/2008 8:40:59 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4184 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
11/19/2008 8:41:04 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
11/19/2008 11:14:06 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
11/19/2008 11:14:11 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 3 new tasks
11/20/2008 4:32:19 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 259201 seconds of work, reporting 3 completed tasks
11/20/2008 4:32:24 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 3 new tasks

Three questions:

Is SETI your only project?
Do you power off your computer or leave it running when not using it?
In your messages, it indicates that you're using a "preferences override file", which means your using local preferences instead of web preferences, have you checked your local preferences for any conflicting settings?

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In your messages, it indicates that you're using a "preferences override file", which means your using local preferences instead of web preferences, have you checked your local preferences for any conflicting settings?

In particular, what settings do you have for "disk and memory usage" in the BOINC Manager?

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I would also check the section between <time_stats> and </time_stats> in the client_state.xml file in your BOINC data directory. Post it (the section!) here if the numbers tell you nothing.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

I would also check the section between <time_stats> and </time_stats> in the client_state.xml file in your BOINC data directory. Post it (the section!) here if the numbers tell you nothing.

Gruß,
Gundolf

<time_stats>
<on_frac>0.999999</on_frac>
<connected_frac>0.999581</connected_frac>
<active_frac>0.001268</active_frac>
<cpu_efficiency>0.991403</cpu_efficiency>
<last_update>1230397433.968750</last_update>
</time_stats>

Three questions:

Is SETI your only project?

Yes it is.

Do you power off your computer or leave it running when not using it?
In your messages, it indicates that you're using a "preferences override file", which means your using local preferences instead of web preferences, have you checked your local preferences for any conflicting settings?

Yes, this computer is on all the time.

From...

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\global_prefs_override.xml

...I found the following...

<global_preferences>
   <run_on_batteries>0</run_on_batteries>
   <run_if_user_active>1</run_if_user_active>
   <start_hour>0.000000</start_hour>
   <end_hour>0.000000</end_hour>
   <net_start_hour>0.000000</net_start_hour>
   <net_end_hour>0.000000</net_end_hour>
   <leave_apps_in_memory>0</leave_apps_in_memory>
   <confirm_before_connecting>0</confirm_before_connecting>
   <hangup_if_dialed>0</hangup_if_dialed>
   <dont_verify_images>0</dont_verify_images>
   [color=red]<work_buf_min_days>0.000000</work_buf_min_days>[/color]
   [color=green]<work_buf_additional_days>3.000000</work_buf_additional_days>[/color]
   <max_cpus>16</max_cpus>
   <cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>60.000000</cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>
   <disk_interval>60.000000</disk_interval>
   <disk_max_used_gb>40.000000</disk_max_used_gb>
   <disk_max_used_pct>50.000000</disk_max_used_pct>
   <disk_min_free_gb>30.000000</disk_min_free_gb>
   <vm_max_used_pct>75.000000</vm_max_used_pct>
   <ram_max_used_busy_pct>50.000000</ram_max_used_busy_pct>
   <ram_max_used_idle_pct>90.000000</ram_max_used_idle_pct>
   <max_bytes_sec_up>0.000000</max_bytes_sec_up>
   <max_bytes_sec_down>0.000000</max_bytes_sec_down>
   <cpu_usage_limit>100.000000</cpu_usage_limit>
</global_preferences>

Perhaps the red item is the cause?
If so, can I just delete the line from the file, or just delete the file?
What is the meaning and effect of the green item?

In your messages, it indicates that you're using a "preferences override file", which means your using local preferences instead of web preferences, have you checked your local preferences for any conflicting settings?

In particular, what settings do you have for "disk and memory usage" in the BOINC Manager?

The local preferences from Boinc Manager / Advanced / Preferences / Disk and Memory Usage tab

--- Disk Usage ---
Use at most 40.00 Gigabytes of disk space
Leave at least 30.00 Gigabytes of disk space free
Use at most 50 % of total disk space
Write to disk at most every 60 seconds
Use at most 75% of page file (swap space)
--- Memory Usage ---
Use at most 50 % when computer is in use
Use at most 90 % when computer is idle
[ ] Leave applications in memory while suspended

The last item is not checked.

In your messages, it indicates that you're using a "preferences override file", which means your using local preferences instead of web preferences, have you checked your local preferences for any conflicting settings?

In particular, what settings do you have for "disk and memory usage" in the BOINC Manager?

The local preferences from Boinc Manager / Advanced / Preferences / Disk and Memory Usage tab

--- Disk Usage ---
Use at most 40.00 Gigabytes of disk space
Leave at least 30.00 Gigabytes of disk space free
Use at most 50 % of total disk space
Write to disk at most every 60 seconds
Use at most 75% of page file (swap space)
--- Memory Usage ---
Use at most 50 % when computer is in use
Use at most 90 % when computer is idle
[ ] Leave applications in memory while suspended

The last item is not checked.

I think the leave at most 30 gigs of disk space free may cause a problem depending on how much disk space you have, and especailly since you have 40 set as the max. Try setting that to 0.1 gigs or 1 gig.

The text you mentioned in green is how many days worth of work BOINC tries to keep on your system. On the BOINC Manager that is located in Network Usage.

The item in red I have set to 0.001 (anything less is ignorned) and is on the web page preferences so since it appears you are using the local ones they probably don't apply either and are for the minimum work requested for your cache. You should have some value there other than 0 you can adust that here

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<time_stats>
<on_frac>0.999999</on_frac>
<connected_frac>0.999581</connected_frac>
<active_frac>0.001268</active_frac>
<cpu_efficiency>0.991403</cpu_efficiency>
<last_update>1230397433.968750</last_update>
</time_stats>

I think I've found your problem, see the red line above. Somehow BOINC is of the opinion that your computer is active only for about a tenth percent of the time. I don't know why and I don't know why you aren't told the reason for not receiving tasks. BOINC used to tell you that, but obviously that got changed in recent versions.

What you can do is changing the value in client_state.xml, but that has to be done with caution.

First, you must stop BOINC completely, that is, click Advanced/Shut down connected client and then File/Exit.

Then make a backup copy of client_state.xml (there is always a client_state_prev.xml file, but...)

Now open client_state.xml with a text editor (notepad) and change the above line to

<active_frac>1.000000</active_frac>

(keep the count of zeros)

After saving, make sure that notepad didn't append a .txt suffix to the file and start BOINC Manager again. The number of downloaded tasks should now match your preferences.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

<time_stats>
<on_frac>0.999999</on_frac>
<connected_frac>0.999581</connected_frac>
<active_frac>0.001268</active_frac>
<cpu_efficiency>0.991403</cpu_efficiency>
<last_update>1230397433.968750</last_update>
</time_stats>

I think I've found your problem, see the red line above. Somehow BOINC is of the opinion that your computer is active only for about a tenth percent of the time. I don't know why and I don't know why you aren't told the reason for not receiving tasks. BOINC used to tell you that, but obviously that got changed in recent versions.

What you can do is changing the value in client_state.xml, but that has to be done with caution.

First, you must stop BOINC completely, that is, click Advanced/Shut down connected client and then File/Exit.

Then make a backup copy of client_state.xml (there is always a client_state_prev.xml file, but...)

Now open client_state.xml with a text editor (notepad) and change the above line to

<active_frac>1.000000</active_frac>

(keep the count of zeros)

After saving, make sure that notepad didn't append a .txt suffix to the file and start BOINC Manager again. The number of downloaded tasks should now match your preferences.

Gruß,
Gundolf

Hi, curious if it's possible to adjust that from the Boinc Manger rather than a direct edit in the client state file. I'm assuming you were saying you didn't know why this would be adjusted, because it couldn't be adjusted from the Manager. When you say Boinc thinks the user is only active for a small percent of the time, does that refer to the user network or Boinc in general? Does that have anything to do with the network usage settings? Days of the week override maybe? I guess the real question is, how does that setting get aquired by Boinc in the first place lol? Is it this % on the computer summary page "% of time BOINC client is running 98.4507 %"

I have a general idea how it works but I'm having a hard time trying to figure a scenario that would get the computer to that low of a number.
Edit: I see that was the problem, good to know for the future.

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I shut-down Boinc, edited the <active_frac>...</active_frac> line in client_state.xml as indicated to read

<active_frac>1.000000</active_frac>

then restarted Boinc.

Immediately it requested 1.5 million seconds of work and got 20 new tasks.

That is about 8.9 days of work for the 2 CPUs.

That should keep this computer busy through any server outage short of a 10.5 earthquake. :D

I don't think that the "keep 30 Gb free" preference is a problem due to the fact that there is 113 Gb free space on the disk.

11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||Starting BOINC client version 6.2.19 for windows_intelx86
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6]
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 mmx
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Editon, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00)
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||Memory: 2.00 GB physical, 3.85 GB virtual
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||Disk: 129.05 GB total, 113.00 GB free
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||Local time is UTC -8 hours
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM|SETI@home|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 4274190; location: work; project prefs: default
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 10-Nov-2008 11:41:37)
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||Computer location: work
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||General prefs: using separate prefs for work
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||Reading preferences override file
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1023.01MB
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1841.42MB
11/24/2008 10:57:47 AM||Preferences limit disk usage to 37.25GB
11/24/2008 10:57:48 AM|SETI@home|Restarting task 03no08aa.6080.275050.16.8.117_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 603
11/24/2008 10:57:48 AM|SETI@home|Restarting task 03no08ag.21880.273499.3.8.157_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 603
11/24/2008 10:57:48 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 1533520 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
11/24/2008 10:57:53 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 20 new tasks

Thanks to all for helping me to solve this mystery.

Hi, curious if it's possible to adjust that from the Boinc Manger rather than a direct edit in the client state file. I'm assuming you were saying you didn't know why this would be adjusted, because it couldn't be adjusted from the Manager. When you say Boinc thinks the user is only active for a small percent of the time, does that refer to the user network or Boinc in general? Does that have anything to do with the network usage settings? Days of the week override maybe? I guess the real question is, how does that setting get aquired by Boinc in the first place lol? Is it this % on the computer summary page "% of time BOINC client is running 98.4507 %"

I have a general idea how it works but I'm having a hard time trying to figure a scenario that would get the computer to that low of a number.
Edit: I see that was the problem, good to know for the future.

I hope that you don't expect an answer from me, because I don't know. I just happen to have read in a thread about this problem and the solution (just the method you seem to use :-).

I think normally that value reflects the percentage of time the BOINC client is active, so it has nothing to do with network usage settings. But sometimes, usually caused by manipulations of the system clock, it gets a very low setting. That would be corrected with time by BOINC, but in this case it would have lasted very long, I estimate.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

<active_frac> is the fraction of time that BOINC is allowed to process work.

Is the computer set to do work while the user is active? If not, then this may very well be the problem.

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BOINC WIKI

<time_stats>
<on_frac>0.999999</on_frac>
<connected_frac>0.999581</connected_frac>
<active_frac>0.001268</active_frac>
<cpu_efficiency>0.991403</cpu_efficiency>
<last_update>1230397433.968750</last_update>
</time_stats>

I think I've found your problem, see the red line above. Somehow BOINC is of the opinion that your computer is active only for about a tenth percent of the time. I don't know why and I don't know why you aren't told the reason for not receiving tasks. BOINC used to tell you that, but obviously that got changed in recent versions.

What you can do is changing the value in client_state.xml, but that has to be done with caution.

First, you must stop BOINC completely, that is, click Advanced/Shut down connected client and then File/Exit.

Then make a backup copy of client_state.xml (there is always a client_state_prev.xml file, but...)

Now open client_state.xml with a text editor (notepad) and change the above line to

<active_frac>1.000000</active_frac>

(keep the count of zeros)

After saving, make sure that notepad didn't append a .txt suffix to the file and start BOINC Manager again. The number of downloaded tasks should now match your preferences.

Gruß,
Gundolf

Hi, curious if it's possible to adjust that from the Boinc Manger rather than a direct edit in the client state file. I'm assuming you were saying you didn't know why this would be adjusted, because it couldn't be adjusted from the Manager. When you say Boinc thinks the user is only active for a small percent of the time, does that refer to the user network or Boinc in general? Does that have anything to do with the network usage settings? Days of the week override maybe? I guess the real question is, how does that setting get aquired by Boinc in the first place lol? Is it this % on the computer summary page "% of time BOINC client is running 98.4507 %"

I have a general idea how it works but I'm having a hard time trying to figure a scenario that would get the computer to that low of a number.
Edit: I see that was the problem, good to know for the future.

This value is automatically calculated by the BOINC client. Adjusting it without figuring out what is wrong in the first place and fixing the underlying problem is asking for trouble and frustration. Trouble as the computer starts returning work late, and frustration as the value falls back to what it was in the first place.

No, it cannot be modified from the manager, nor should it be modifiable from the manager.

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BOINC WIKI

<active_frac>0.001268</active_frac>
0.001268 * 7 = 0.008876 active days per week
* 24 = 0.213024 active hours per week
* 60 = 12.78144 active minutes per week

I do not have Boinc configured to stop computing when the computer is "active". Boinc should be active all the time. At its low priority, it simply replaces the System Idle Process, using every CPU nano-second that is not being used to do something else for me.

Nor do I have any time frame limits set. Thus Boinc should run any time of the day, every day.

So Boinc should never have computed its active fraction to be less than 13 minutes per week unless there is a bug in that calculation.