Unable to get new tasks (15/10/10)

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Message 1042526 - Posted: 16 Oct 2010, 0:00:06 UTC

The project isn't giving me any new tasks.
Tried repeatedly to get new WUs on 2 PCs.
Neither is in panic mode.
Neither has "no new tasks" set.
Both have 10-day WU cache set, currently containing about 2 days of work.
Both are happily crunching the couple of remaining WUs that each has left (I don't do 24/7 so always have something in reserve).
Messages ... all the usual stuff.
Now and then ..."Internet access OK - project servers may temporarily be down" (no servers were down over the past 4 hours). EH?
Most worrying is "Not reporting or requesting tasks".
This is despite the WWW server page showing "Results ready to send" declining as they are being sent out/increasing as tasks are created.

Is there a favoured participant setting?

The difference between 0 and 1 is greater than the difference between 1 and 1,000,000
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Message 1042528 - Posted: 16 Oct 2010, 0:04:43 UTC - in response to Message 1042526.  

Yes, Patience is the favored. On Friday after the downtime there are close to 1 million people requesting and sending in tasks. It takes a bit of time to shake out and get tasks in and out for everyone.
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Message 1042538 - Posted: 16 Oct 2010, 0:24:52 UTC

Got 1 new task, OK, very shortly after the original message was posted. (Spooky, eh?)

TTFN, Ray

PS:- to re-phrase the reply ... it's OK for the project to send out misleading messages. Or did I get that wrong ...
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Message 1042561 - Posted: 16 Oct 2010, 2:24:56 UTC - in response to Message 1042526.  

The project isn't giving me any new tasks.
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Most worrying is "Not reporting or requesting tasks".

If the host doesn't request tasks the servers certainly won't assign it any.

Your second post noting you got 1 task suggests you may not actually have a 10 day cache set. That can happen if you adjust the web preferences for a different venue than the host is using, or if some local preference has been set (in which case all the global web preferences are ignored).
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Message 1042638 - Posted: 16 Oct 2010, 11:14:27 UTC

I was pleased to get new tasks very earlyafter power-on of SAH systems last night, tho no exciting hi-quorum units.

But I have 2 APs!!! One still trying to download... Haven't had any for months!
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Message 1043024 - Posted: 17 Oct 2010, 7:36:00 UTC

i just have a quick question on this matter

ont of my PC's is only getting CUDA tasks and nothing for the CPU, why is this? no how do i get tasks for the CPU. its had no CPU tasks for about 3 weeks now.
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