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Steven Szulecki Send message Joined: 17 Nov 03 Posts: 2 Credit: 706,903 RAC: 1 |
If I cant upload/download work what's the point of running SETI@home? Seems I'm not the only person having problems. A little feedback from Admin would be nice. :( |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
The point is that SETI@Home is not a 24/7 uptime project, and it probably never will be. Though I don't know why this little detail would be reason enough to quit if you're interested in the goal. The results are not time sensitive. Its not like if you don't upload within a week the signal will disappear from the result you're trying to upload. |
JoBluhm Send message Joined: 16 Jun 11 Posts: 1 Credit: 51,831 RAC: 0 |
Hi, installed BOINC and am running. completed several workunits but when they get uploaded they disappear from my screen but there never is a credit showing up. Why? In the past I have been using the NT cmdline engine and it worked well. Why can't there by an easy way like this? |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
According to your account, 7 workunits have erred out so far and you have 4 workunits pending credit. Credit is no longer granted immediately. The results are compared against the uploaded results of another user, referred to as a quorum partner or "wingman". If the results match closely enough, you get credit. This process of comparing results ensures the work is scientifically accurate and prevents cheating. Many people from SETI Classic found ways to return the same result over and over again simply to inflate their credit score. This process prevents that practice. Most people wouldn't consider the command line "easy". ;-) You can actually run BOINC without the GUI. BOINC.EXE is the core client and supports plenty of switches that can control and manipulate it's workings. BOINCMGR.EXE is just the graphical front end to BOINC.EXE. However, running just BOINC.EXE doesn't simply the process at all. BOINC is just the framework that controls all internet communications and workunit caching. The science application does all the mathematical work and writes the results to a file. You still have to go through the result comparing process I mentioned above. By the way, since you are not having upload failures, you should have started your own thread. :-D |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
Jobluhm, you seem to have a few errors the first is.. ERR_RESULT_START -185 this is the other http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/index.php?view=296&sessionID=73cff2186389216a4438788861508c66 You do seem to have 4 or 5 completed tasks waiting for your wingman to complete their work. So maybe you've overcome the problems In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Aurora Borealis Send message Joined: 14 Jan 01 Posts: 3075 Credit: 5,631,463 RAC: 0 |
Hi, installed BOINC and am running. completed several workunits but when they get uploaded they disappear from my screen but there never is a credit showing up. Why? In the past I have been using the NT cmdline engine and it worked well. Why can't there by an easy way like this? The first 7 had computing errors. Of the other 4 returned, 3 are waiting for the other users that received them to send in their results to validate yours. 1 has been returned by the other user, but from posts on the Crunching forum it would seem that the server handling validation may be off line at this time. It may have to wait until tomorrow morning California time for the admins to reboot the system. Edit: Unless they can fix it remotely. Boinc V7.2.42 Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470 |
Estorik Send message Joined: 16 May 11 Posts: 7 Credit: 2,008,366 RAC: 0 |
Hi, there is a problem with the upload of the wu's. For a week he does not load anything from Seti @ home, no up / download, nothing. Other projects run smoothly. Where is the problem? The server are down? Greetz Esto |
Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3184 Credit: 446,358 RAC: 0 |
Ja, zur Zeit ist der Upload-Server außer Funktion, aber nicht seit einer Woche! Warte noch ein Bisschen, der Arbeitstag in Berkeley hat gerade erst begonnen. ;-) Gruß, Gundolf Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz) SETI@home classic workunits 3,758 SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours |
Fred Munday Send message Joined: 29 Apr 02 Posts: 2 Credit: 491,711 RAC: 0 |
Sorry about this folks but I'm starting to agree with the sentiment expressed in this post by Steven Szulecki. I've had 54 or 55 work units that have been trying to upload since midnight last night and in that time I've been able to force two uploads to complete by doing project updates, do all network communications and waiting until I get a project back off for anywhere from a couple of minutes to almost 12 hours. The issue here isn't network connectivity or system horsepower or memory. 10+Mb pipe, Dual Quad Core Xeon processors and 8GB of memory. I keep getting a "Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site" and "Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.". Very frustrating and not word one about what is going on. Is it too much to ask for someone to step forward and say something like, "Yes, we are having some serious problems and here there are:" and give us an explanation? This doesn't eve touch on downloads. None in the past 14+ hours either. What's wrong, folks!!? [/b] |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
BOINC won't attempt to download new work until you are able to upload. That is newer to BOINC but common sense. Why have BOINC attempt Downloads when It can't send the work it has back to Seti In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 3720 Credit: 9,385,827 RAC: 0 |
It looks like they corrected the Upload problems ~2 hours ago: http://fragment1.berkeley.edu/newcricket/grapher.cgi?target=%2Frouter-interfaces%2Finr-250%2Fgigabitethernet2_3;view=Octets;ranges=d It may be still hard to Upload (as everyone's computers are trying now) but at least the Upload have to be possible now. Â - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :) Â |
Estorik Send message Joined: 16 May 11 Posts: 7 Credit: 2,008,366 RAC: 0 |
Hi, I still can't upload wu's. And my last contact with the server was a week ago? My internet connection is working, but I get no connection to the server! What is going on? @Gundolf deine Rechner hatten doch heute noch Kontakt oder?(your computer but still in contact or had?) Greetz Esto |
Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3184 Credit: 446,358 RAC: 0 |
@Gundolf deine Rechner hatten doch heute noch Kontakt oder? Jau, siehe meine Antwort in Why has the computed result been unable to upload? :-) Gruß, Gundolf |
BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 3720 Credit: 9,385,827 RAC: 0 |
Which of your 4 Computers can't connect in a week?: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php?userid=9487575 Is it ID: 5948404 ? There were/are problems but they lasted for not more than a few hours (look the Weekly graph): http://fragment1.berkeley.edu/newcricket/grapher.cgi?target=%2Frouter-interfaces%2Finr-250%2Fgigabitethernet2_3;view=Octets  - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)  |
Estorik Send message Joined: 16 May 11 Posts: 7 Credit: 2,008,366 RAC: 0 |
thanks @all for the fast reply's. Now i am at work and hope i can upload as soon as possible! Greetz Esto |
S@NL - XP_Freak Send message Joined: 10 Jul 99 Posts: 99 Credit: 6,248,265 RAC: 0 |
There does seem to be some routing problems somewhere in Hurricane Electric's systems that is preventing a portion of users from contacting the SETI servers in Berkeley. Hurricane Electric is SETI@Home's private internet provider. This is nothing SETI can fix, nor is there something wrong with your client or computer. Goodbye Seti Classic |
Estorik Send message Joined: 16 May 11 Posts: 7 Credit: 2,008,366 RAC: 0 |
and now? I have many wu's tu upload, but can't connect the server! It is realy frustrating? And for the points it would be a shame! We still have to wait and hope that the problem is fixed until the deadline of the wu's! |
Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3184 Credit: 446,358 RAC: 0 |
and now? And now the upload server (along with all the splitters) is disabled, as you can easily see on the Server status page, which is currently even up to date. On the Cricket daily graph page, you can see when that probably occurred. And then there are Scarecrow's Server graphs. Gruß, Gundolf |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
And for the points it would be a shame! We still have to wait and hope that the problem is fixed until the deadline of the wu's! And if the upload server is disabled as Gundolf said, then others won't be able to upload either, which means that you don't have to worry about your points. |
Vincent Send message Joined: 12 Nov 08 Posts: 2 Credit: 1,047,464 RAC: 0 |
The Problem lies at the network of the Seti servers. There are some people who are not really smart and always first start to blame the users. This is normal for those who don't experience the problems others have. I myself can't connect while still actually can connect. Sounds weird huh? It isn't, if you continue reading. My ISP is in Russia. From my ISP connected to the internet, I could always connect to Seti until a few weeks ago. It suddenly stopped. As if the servers weren't there. All my work. Gone, credits, gone, useless power thrown away, climate heated up extra, with nothing positive in a result. So the question for me: 1) suddenly my network not ok? 2) suddenly route of my ISP not ok? 3) servers of seti not ok? 4) network of Seti not ok? SO I started to chase things down. first: get intel! 1) is my network not ok.. gather intel.. other computers from complete other networks report the same issues. It's not just me. so, although my network might have a problem on it's own(might!) this problem seems not to be related to it, since I'm not alone with it 2) route ISP not ok? same counts as above, it seems even people in different countries experience the issues 3) Seti servers not ok? well they, at seti, say everthing is fine, so that can't be it 4) last option, this has to be it..since all others are not the reason.. ok, let's go check.. login to my VPN network in germany.. hey suddenly I can connect to Seti login to the VPN in the netherlands.. hey, works.. ok, use proxies to connect.. first check all proxies which are actually up and running and able to open up any internet page to be sure we only check up and running.. interesting, of those which are up and alive, some can connect to seti, some not. so the result: indeed, seti own home network or their ISP seems to have a problem for at least a few weeks, causing some people not able to connect at all (depending on which IP range/ISP they come from) while others can connect without a hassle.. since proxies are a bad solution(they keep resetting IP's all the time) and VPN is not an option (You're either on fulltunnel and loose your own home network, or not fulltunnel, but then the internet is still handled over your own ISP) there is no other option then to ask seti to fix this after weeks, fix something which should have taken me less then 1 hour to fix.. but hey, seti are the professionals! ROFL |
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