Staycation (Jul 01 2010)

Umm, did someone forget to return Beta to on-line status? Still down as of 09:13 Berkeley time... (I'm in the same time zone...)
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Umm, did someone forget to return Beta to on-line status? Still down as of 09:13 Berkeley time... (I'm in the same time zone...)

No news about new limits????
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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

Give Matt little bit more infos.. ;-)

NC subforum : 'This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress??'

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>Das Deutsche Cafe. The German Cafe.<

I as well have only two days of work available.


Fri Jul 2 14:23:40 2010 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Fri Jul 2 14:23:40 2010 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
Fri Jul 2 14:23:40 2010 SETI@home Message from server: This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress


This is the message sent on reboot.

So my question is: If this is going to be the case, that only two days of tasks can be
downloaded, then there will be less work done, as the computer serving SETI will have
days where there is no work available, due to a limit set by the server as copied above.

This especially so, when there are three days or more of SETI server shut down.

I understand the need for more maintenance time (with a later deadline to do the work).

But, if work available limits disables SETI work for three days a week, there will be far less
work done for the project. I do believe the object is not to lessen the work done for SETI,
but rather, to ease the workload deadline for the Berkley staff (Matt, Jeff et al).

So limiting the work available for download to each SETI client detracts from the overall
efficiency for the SETI project, thus negating some of the effect of longer server shutdown
for maintenance.

I do appreciate the work done at Berkley by Matt, Jeff et al.
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Kenn

What is left unsaid is neither heard, nor heeded.
Ce qui est laissé inexprimé ni n'est entendu, ni est observé.

Just a guess, but I would say they have limited the the number of jobs sent to each machine to make the startup much smoother. Everyone gets a few workunits and the download server and bandwidth isn't hammered.

Hopefully the limit can be raised later in the day, or tomorrow and let everyone's caches fill up again.

Ian

Limit seems to have been set to 60 now, so caches should be starting to fill up :-)

Ian

One possiblity would be to decide each week how long the work *should* take before the servers come back up. Post an estimate on the front page Monday afternoon, and leave it posted during the outage. That way if there is nothing major pending, it can be a short outage, but if there is lots of work stacked up you can take a 2 or 3 days. Just tr to get it back up and running sometime on Friday...
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BOINC WIKI

Can´t have any new tasks on any of my computers for 5 days now.
If thats intended, it´s not working.
Please let the work flow as before.

But we refuse to go away, right? :-)

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Hallo everybody

Thank for upgrade soft – I hope that this changes will fit to the bigger requests for WU but...

I have few waiting CPU units (for max 2 days with my processor) and none units for GPU processor and when I trying to download some for my two gpu 285 cards I have message: „This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress”.

Wiktor


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Hallo everybody

Thank for upgrade soft – I hope that this changes will fit to the bigger requests for WU but...

I have few waiting CPU units (for max 2 days with my processor) and none units for GPU processor and when I trying to download some for my two gpu 285 cards I have message: „This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress”.

Wiktor