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Message 1046540 - Posted: 6 Nov 2010, 18:30:11 UTC - in response to Message 1046483.  


Post the contents of GhostDet.INI

[Settings]
txtpath=H:\BOINC-Data
txtInterval=24
iProject=2

[SETI@home]
txtURL=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php

[orbit@home]
txtURL=http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/results.php

[Einstein@Home]
txtURL=http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/results.php

 


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Message 1046894 - Posted: 7 Nov 2010, 18:19:53 UTC - in response to Message 1046488.  

Could you please post a screen shot and let me know what other projects you are crunching for?


Here you go:


Other project is AQUA@home.
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Message 1046902 - Posted: 7 Nov 2010, 18:41:04 UTC - in response to Message 1046540.  


Post the contents of GhostDet.INI

[Settings]
txtpath=H:\BOINC-Data
txtInterval=24
iProject=2

[SETI@home]
txtURL=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php

[orbit@home]
txtURL=http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/results.php

[Einstein@Home]
txtURL=http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/results.php



OK

[SETI@home]
txtURL=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php
[Settings]
iProject=0
txtpath=C:\Programdata\BOINC
txtInterval=6
[AQUA@home]
txtURL=http://aqua.dwavesys.com/results.php
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Message 1046919 - Posted: 7 Nov 2010, 21:03:38 UTC - in response to Message 1046894.  
Last modified: 7 Nov 2010, 21:14:09 UTC



(your GhostDet.INI looks OK)


GhostDet on my Vista/BOINC is OK:





results.htm for SETI@home:

1) View as web-page (as shown by Total Commander - Lister [F3 View]):

Unable to handle request
   {[logo7.gif]}
{HOME}   {PARTICIPATE}   {ABOUT}   {COMMUNITY}   {ACCOUNT}   {STATISTICS} 

This feature is turned off temporarily 

{HOME}   {PARTICIPATE}   {ABOUT}   {COMMUNITY}   {ACCOUNT}   {STATISTICS} 
Copyright © 2010 University of California   


2) Raw HTML View:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html><head><title>Unable to handle request</title>
<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="main.css" media="all" />
		<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/white.css">
        <link rel=alternate type="application/rss+xml" title="SETI@home RSS 2.0" href="http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/rss_main.php">
        
        </head>
    <body>
<!-- SVN VERSIONS -->
<!-- $Id: translation.inc 21878 2010-07-06 23:31:26Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: pm.inc 14019 2007-11-01 23:04:39Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: text_transform.inc 22228 2010-08-14 01:49:08Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: stats_sites.inc 22414 2010-09-27 20:34:47Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: team.inc 22319 2010-09-07 18:20:29Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: user.inc 22366 2010-09-15 23:47:49Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: profile.inc 20582 2010-02-16 01:06:03Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: util.inc 22485 2010-10-08 23:18:12Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: result.inc 22340 2010-09-13 16:12:00Z Rytis $ -->
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/logo7.ico">
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="white_aux.css">

        <table width=100% class=noborder cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0>
        <tr>
        <td><center><h1>Unable to handle request</h1></center></td>
        <td align=right width=250>
        <a href=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/><img border=0 align=right src=logo7.gif hspace=20></a><br>
        </td></tr></table>
        <table width=100% class=noborder cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
        <tr bgcolor=#101048 height=20>

        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/index.php><nobr><b>HOME</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/sah_participate.php><nobr><b>PARTICIPATE</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/sah_about.php><nobr><b>ABOUT</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/sah_community.php><nobr><b>COMMUNITY</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/home.php><nobr><b>ACCOUNT</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/stats.php><nobr><b>STATISTICS</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        </tr></table>
        <p>
    This feature is turned off temporarily
        <p>
        <table width=100% class=noborder cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
        <tr bgcolor=#101048 height=20>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/index.php><nobr><b>HOME</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/sah_participate.php><nobr><b>PARTICIPATE</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/sah_about.php><nobr><b>ABOUT</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/sah_community.php><nobr><b>COMMUNITY</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/home.php><nobr><b>ACCOUNT</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/stats.php><nobr><b>STATISTICS</b></nobr></a></td>
    

        </tr></table>
        <table width=100% class=noborder cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0>
        <tr><td align=center>
            <font color=bbbbbb>
            Copyright &copy; 2010 University of California
            </font>
        </td>
    
        </tr></table>
    </body>
        </html>



Check your results.htm generated after [Detect Ghosts Now] for SETI@home -
does it look the same?

 


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Message 1046989 - Posted: 8 Nov 2010, 3:49:57 UTC - in response to Message 1046894.  
Last modified: 8 Nov 2010, 4:00:14 UTC

Could you please post a screen shot and let me know what other projects you are crunching for?

Here you go:...
...Other project is AQUA@home.

Thanks H Elzinga, your screen-shot and GhostDet.INI indicate that everything is set up correctly so you should be seeing the "Could not load the Work Units 'In Progress' web page. Project may be down...Aborted!" message since the SETI's results page is currently turned off. This is strange, I'll join the AQUA project to see if I encounter the same problem.

Post the contents of GhostDet.INI...
Check your results.htm generated after [Detect Ghosts Now] for SETI@home -
does it look the same?

Thanks BilBg, both of your suggestions are very good ones. I appreciate your help in debugging this rather puzzling problem.

I would be most interested in seeing H Elzinga's results.htm too.

EDIT:
At this point my best guess as to the underlying cause of this problem is that the SETI servers have "lost" some of the tasks assigned to you H Elzinga.

What I mean by this is that your client_state.xml probably contains work units that were sent to you but because of the database crashes and subsequent database restores the SETI servers don't remember that they sent them to you.
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Message 1047016 - Posted: 8 Nov 2010, 8:01:46 UTC - in response to Message 1046919.  

Check your results.htm generated after [Detect Ghosts Now] for SETI@home -
does it look the same?


Looks similar to me:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html><head><title>Unable to handle request</title>
<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="main.css" media="all" />
		<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/white.css">
        <link rel=alternate type="application/rss+xml" title="SETI@home RSS 2.0" href="http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/rss_main.php">
        
        </head>
    <body>
<!-- SVN VERSIONS -->
<!-- $Id: translation.inc 21878 2010-07-06 23:31:26Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: pm.inc 14019 2007-11-01 23:04:39Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: text_transform.inc 22228 2010-08-14 01:49:08Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: stats_sites.inc 22414 2010-09-27 20:34:47Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: team.inc 22319 2010-09-07 18:20:29Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: user.inc 22366 2010-09-15 23:47:49Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: profile.inc 20582 2010-02-16 01:06:03Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: util.inc 22485 2010-10-08 23:18:12Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: result.inc 22340 2010-09-13 16:12:00Z Rytis $ -->
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/logo7.ico">
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="white_aux.css">

        <table width=100% class=noborder cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0>
        <tr>
        <td><center><h1>Unable to handle request</h1></center></td>
        <td align=right width=250>
        <a href=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/><img border=0 align=right src=logo7.gif hspace=20></a><br>
        </td></tr></table>
        <table width=100% class=noborder cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
        <tr bgcolor=#101048 height=20>

        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/index.php><nobr><b>HOME</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/sah_participate.php><nobr><b>PARTICIPATE</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/sah_about.php><nobr><b>ABOUT</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/sah_community.php><nobr><b>COMMUNITY</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/home.php><nobr><b>ACCOUNT</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/stats.php><nobr><b>STATISTICS</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        </tr></table>
        <p>
    This feature is turned off temporarily
        <p>
        <table width=100% class=noborder cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
        <tr bgcolor=#101048 height=20>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/index.php><nobr><b>HOME</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/sah_participate.php><nobr><b>PARTICIPATE</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/sah_about.php><nobr><b>ABOUT</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/sah_community.php><nobr><b>COMMUNITY</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/home.php><nobr><b>ACCOUNT</b></nobr></a></td>
    
        <td class=navbar><a class=navbar href=/stats.php><nobr><b>STATISTICS</b></nobr></a></td>
    

        </tr></table>
        <table width=100% class=noborder cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0>
        <tr><td align=center>
            <font color=bbbbbb>
            Copyright &copy; 2010 University of California
            </font>
        </td>
    
        </tr></table>
    </body>
        </html>
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Message 1047017 - Posted: 8 Nov 2010, 8:55:04 UTC - in response to Message 1046989.  

I'll join the AQUA project to see if I encounter the same problem.


Tried this and got the following HTM:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html><head><title>In progress tasks for computer 71383</title>
<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="main.css" media="all" />
		<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://aqua.dwavesys.com/white.css">
        <link rel=alternate type="application/rss+xml" title="AQUA@home RSS 2.0" href="http://aqua.dwavesys.com/rss_main.php">
	<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon-dwave.ico">
        
        </head>
    <body>
<!-- SVN VERSIONS -->
<!-- $Id: translation.inc 21878 2010-07-06 23:31:26Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: pm.inc 14019 2007-11-01 23:04:39Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: text_transform.inc 22228 2010-08-14 01:49:08Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: stats_sites.inc 22414 2010-09-27 20:34:47Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: team.inc 22319 2010-09-07 18:20:29Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: user.inc 22366 2010-09-15 23:47:49Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: profile.inc 20582 2010-02-16 01:06:03Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: util.inc 22445 2010-10-04 23:48:01Z davea $ -->
<!-- $Id: result.inc 22340 2010-09-13 16:12:00Z Rytis $ -->

        <p>
        <span class="page_title">In progress tasks for computer 71383</span>
        <p>
    <table class=bordered width="100%"><tr><td class="heading" colspan="2">No tasks to display</td></tr>
</table>
<br><center><br>Show: <a href=results.php?hostid=71383&amp;offset=0&amp;show_names=0&amp;state=0&amp;appid=>All</a> | In progress | <a href=results.php?hostid=71383&amp;offset=0&amp;show_names=0&amp;state=2&amp;appid=>Pending</a> | <a href=results.php?hostid=71383&amp;offset=0&amp;show_names=0&amp;state=3&amp;appid=>Valid</a> | <a href=results.php?hostid=71383&amp;offset=0&amp;show_names=0&amp;state=4&amp;appid=>Invalid</a> | <a href=results.php?hostid=71383&amp;offset=0&amp;show_names=0&amp;state=5&amp;appid=>Error</a><br />All | <a href="results.php?hostid=71383&amp;offset=0&amp;show_names=0&amp;state=1&amp;appid=2">D-Wave's Adiabatic QUantum Algorithms - CUDA Enabled</a> | <a href="results.php?hostid=71383&amp;offset=0&amp;show_names=0&amp;state=1&amp;appid=1">D-Wave's Adiabatic QUantum Algorithms - Multi-Threaded</a> | <a href="results.php?hostid=71383&amp;offset=0&amp;show_names=0&amp;state=1&amp;appid=3">D-Wave's Fokker-Planck Simulation : Multi-Threaded</a> | <a href="results.php?hostid=71383&amp;offset=0&amp;show_names=0&amp;state=1&amp;appid=4">D-Wave's Iterative QUANtum Algorithms : Multi-Threaded</a> | <a href="results.php?hostid=71383&amp;offset=0&amp;show_names=0&amp;state=1&amp;appid=5">D-Wave's Test Application</a></center><br><br><hr noshade size=1><center><a href=index.php>Home</a> | <a href=home.php>My Account</a> | <a href=forum_index.php>Message Boards</a><br>
<br><br>Copyright &copy; 2010 D-Wave Systems Inc.</center>
</body>
        </html>


What suprises me is the message No tasks to display
When the page is requested manualy i have tasks in progress.

I noticed a slight difference in url used

Ghost detect sends:
http://aqua.dwavesys.com/results.php?hostid=71383&offset=2&state=1


URL as shown in IE8
http://aqua.dwavesys.com/results.php?hostid=71383&offset=0&show_names=0&state=1&appid=
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Message 1047027 - Posted: 8 Nov 2010, 10:51:03 UTC - in response to Message 1047017.  
Last modified: 8 Nov 2010, 11:35:47 UTC

What suprises me is the message No tasks to display
When the page is requested manualy i have tasks in progress.

I noticed a slight difference in url used

Ghost detect sends:
http://aqua.dwavesys.com/results.php?hostid=71383&offset=2&state=1


URL as shown in IE8
http://aqua.dwavesys.com/results.php?hostid=71383&offset=0&show_names=0&state=1&appid=

This is definitely a bug in GhostDet v1.03, thanks for pointing it out H Elzinga.

You only have 2 tasks so GhostDet's infinite loop prevention mechanism prevents it from asking for the AQUA results page at offset zero (the lowest it goes is two). I'll fix this by changing the code that requests the page to use an offset of zero when the binary search offset is lower than 18, this solves the problem and will probably mean it will require less page requests to figure out how many tasks there are.
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Message 1047210 - Posted: 9 Nov 2010, 7:58:56 UTC - in response to Message 1047027.  

What suprises me is the message No tasks to display
When the page is requested manualy i have tasks in progress.

I noticed a slight difference in url used

Ghost detect sends:
http://aqua.dwavesys.com/results.php?hostid=71383&offset=2&state=1


URL as shown in IE8
http://aqua.dwavesys.com/results.php?hostid=71383&offset=0&show_names=0&state=1&appid=

This is definitely a bug in GhostDet v1.03, thanks for pointing it out H Elzinga.

You only have 2 tasks so GhostDet's infinite loop prevention mechanism prevents it from asking for the AQUA results page at offset zero (the lowest it goes is two). I'll fix this by changing the code that requests the page to use an offset of zero when the binary search offset is lower than 18, this solves the problem and will probably mean it will require less page requests to figure out how many tasks there are.


This now starts to make sense.

AQUA has aperently a limit of 2 tasksso i would never have more results.

As for SETI I can not yet explain the message.
When they enable result pages i wil test again.

Seti beta turns out to be working now and ghost are detected without error.
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Message 1052438 - Posted: 2 Dec 2010, 9:50:28 UTC - in response to Message 1035240.  
Last modified: 2 Dec 2010, 10:01:50 UTC

GhostDet v1.04 is now available, you can download it from http://www.mediafire.com/?yyy64lh5953d7

Change log:
    * Can now check for Ghosts even when no Work Units 'on board'.
    * Ghost percentage format fixed, will now display correctly when there are zero Ghosts.
    * When result page offset < 19 the offset is set to zero, this will improve accuracy and result in less page requests.



EDIT:
Looks like most Ghosts have timed out and/or been re-issued but there are still quite a few left.

02 December 2010

     89 WU 'In Progress'
      0 WU on board
------------------------
     89 Ghost Work Units (100%)


23 October 2010
    812 WU 'In Progress'
     36 WU on board
------------------------
    776 Ghost Work Units (96%)
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Message 1052610 - Posted: 3 Dec 2010, 0:03:17 UTC

v1.04 is not working here.
Get's stuck in an endless loop at last step "Get http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=XXXXXXX&offset=0&state=1".
Maybe a localisation problem - website answers "Keine Aufgaben verfügbar"
real status: 0 WUs on board / 0 WUs in progress.

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Message 1052617 - Posted: 3 Dec 2010, 0:46:07 UTC - in response to Message 1052610.  
Last modified: 3 Dec 2010, 0:46:55 UTC

Please do not use GhostDet v1.04 because it is broken, there will be a new version later today.

v1.04 is not working here.
Get's stuck in an endless loop at last step "Get http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=XXXXXXX&offset=0&state=1".
Maybe a localisation problem - website answers "Keine Aufgaben verfügbar"
real status: 0 WUs on board / 0 WUs in progress.


Thanks __W__, there does seem to be a bug with v1.04 because it is getting stuck at offset 0 on my account too today. Not sure what has gone wrong because it was working correctly when I was testing it over the last week, am about to head off to work but will find, fix the problem and post a new version when I get back.
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Message 1052655 - Posted: 3 Dec 2010, 6:16:19 UTC - in response to Message 1052617.  

GhostDet v1.05 is now available, you can download it from http://www.mediafire.com/?yyy64lh5953d7

Change log:

  • Fixed a bug that caused it to request Result page offset 0 endlessly for Hosts with 20 to 40 Work Units 'In Progress'.
  • Added an extra level of endless loop prevention. Aborts if more than 15 Result pages requested.


Sorry about the bug in v1.04 that caused it to get stuck in a endless loop for those of us with 20 to 40 Work Units 'In Progress'. I'm very embarrassed that I made such a stupid mistake, even more so that I did not catch it during testing, thanks again to __W__ for reporting it so quickly.

     30 WU 'In Progress'
     13 WU on board
------------------------
     17 Ghost Work Units (57%) Fri 03 December 2010

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Message 1052685 - Posted: 3 Dec 2010, 10:26:16 UTC - in response to Message 1052655.  
Last modified: 3 Dec 2010, 10:58:52 UTC



For some unknown reason I can't get the GhostDet Installer v105.zip (stays at "Processing download request...")
(I successfully get GhostDet v105.zip)


( Even if the small .zip works for somebody now he may need the Installer later.

It happened to me - the (small) GhostDet v103.zip worked months ago both on Win98 & Vista computers
but after some time (1-2 months) it refused to start complaining of missing components (MSINET.OCX)
(obviously after I installed/uninstalled other programs which use the same components)

Now I installed GhostDet Installer v103.zip to put the missing components in place (which go in \Windows\SYSTEM\ or \Windows\SYSTEM32\)
and then extracted the GhostDet v105.zip to the ...\GhostDet\ directory replacing the v103 files with v105 files (only GhostDet.exe & GhostDet.pdf are different (new)).
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Message 1052853 - Posted: 4 Dec 2010, 3:41:44 UTC - in response to Message 1052685.  

For some unknown reason I can't get the GhostDet Installer v105.zip (stays at "Processing download request...")

Thanks for letting me know BilBg, looks like it must have been a transient download problem there at MediaFire because the installer downloaded in under 15 seconds when I tested it a few minutes ago.

(I successfully get GhostDet v105.zip)

Glad to hear it, that contains the updated files and is all that's really needed if the program has been installed before or you have an old version of the installer.

( Even if the small .zip works for somebody now he may need the Installer later.

It happened to me - the (small) GhostDet v103.zip worked months ago both on Win98 & Vista computers
but after some time (1-2 months) it refused to start complaining of missing components (MSINET.OCX)
(obviously after I installed/uninstalled other programs which use the same components)

Agreed, its always wise to have a copy of the full installer on hand just in case something happens to the shared components that it relies on.

Now I installed GhostDet Installer v103.zip to put the missing components in place (which go in \Windows\SYSTEM\ or \Windows\SYSTEM32\)
and then extracted the GhostDet v105.zip to the ...\GhostDet\ directory replacing the v103 files with v105 files (only GhostDet.exe & GhostDet.pdf are different (new)).
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An effective solution BilBg, pleased to hear you got it working.
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Message 1052955 - Posted: 4 Dec 2010, 7:17:25 UTC - in response to Message 1052853.  

For some unknown reason I can't get the GhostDet Installer v105.zip (stays at "Processing download request...")

Thanks for letting me know BilBg, looks like it must have been a transient download problem there at MediaFire because the installer downloaded in under 15 seconds when I tested it a few minutes ago.


Yes, the Installer downloads OK now :) (same computer & browser)

(yesterday I tried 5-6 times during 1-2 hours - every time the Installer download failed to start but the small .zip download was OK (2 times))

 


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When task count is 0 : 0 (On-board : 'In Progress')
the page at offset=0 is requested ~10 times (tried on orbit@home)
(until "endless loop prevention if more than 15 Result pages requested" kicks in)

Consider adding code similar to:
int OffsetPrev = -1;
...
if (Offset == OffsetPrev)
   break;
else
   OffsetPrev = Offset;


 


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When task count is 0 : 0 (On-board : 'In Progress')
the page at offset=0 is requested ~10 times (tried on orbit@home)
(until "endless loop prevention if more than 15 Result pages requested" kicks in)

Consider adding code similar to:
int OffsetPrev = -1;
...
if (Offset == OffsetPrev)
   break;
else
   OffsetPrev = Offset;


Cheers BilBg, yep there is yet another bug caused by my - in hindsight perhaps ill considered - attempt to optimize the binary search by setting the offset to zero if its less than 19. Darn, I really broke what was - up until then - a nice tight algorithm that was very stable and worked pretty well.

I've fixed the bug but because it will only occur for Hosts with no work on board, nothing "in progress" and thus no Ghosts I'm going to delay posting the new version until I have thoroughly tested it under every condition I can think of.
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I've fixed the bug but because it will only occur for Hosts with no work on board, nothing "in progress" and thus no Ghosts I'm going to delay posting the new version until I have thoroughly tested it under every condition I can think of.


To speed up testing you can post new versions (very small .zip with GhostDet.exe only)
as "Beta - For bug testing only" (along with the previous "Final" releases).

This way some of us will contribute in testing.

 


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Message 1054606 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 11:40:51 UTC
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One more optimization comes to mind (if you are willing to continue the development)
that will minimize page requests - act with the presumption that most probably there are NO ghosts:
// Set initial Offset to the number of Tasks On Board
if (TasksOnBoard > 0)
   Offset = TasksOnBoard - 1;
else
   Offset = 0;


Try the page at that Offset - it will most probably have 1 task.
But if it's "full of stars" ;) , pardon, full of tasks - execute the "old" algorithm.

 


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