Of the approx 400 tasks sitting in my queue most are _0 or _1, thus are "shiny new" tasks, there are a couple of _2 and _3 which are "old and recycled" ones that others have had a crack at.
So the splitters are splitting, but not as fast we know they are capable of - hence my earlier question about them being throttled or something else, I think Mark's comment about there being a shortage of local space to work with is a valid suggestion.

Of the 4 wu's that I have three are _0 and one is a _1, so Yes more assimilating capacity and storage might be a good idea, of course whether the project can do this, I don't know, an expert who knows would have to chime in on this...

Might get some news tomorrow, when Eric and Jeff should be back in da lab.

Like I said, I can wait, I have plenty of time.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

LOL...
The kitties sniffed out 8 WUs for the Frozen 920.
4 minutes later, they are history and it idles again.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

On the bright side, most of my older pendings are getting done finally. As to GPU work, I managed to get a handful sometime this morning so at least a little bit is flowing. My CPUs are busy with a herd of VLARs I was handed a few days ago and it is taking me awhile to work through them so I make very few requests for CPU work. Everything I have is new work, the only -2 was a download problem for one of my wingmen. Everything else is a -0 or-1. I have run out of GPU work a few times but it doesn't last long until I get a few more WUs to play with.

If I remember right, we were warned not long ago that this shorty storm and the problems that come along with it was on the way and we needed to brace ourselves. DA threw us a screwball with his code change during this storm but other than that I'm just chugging along. I haven't changed, added, or subtracted anything. If I send in a few errors when they get this fixed, so be it, I'm sure I won't be alone.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

LOL...
The kitties sniffed out 8 WUs for the Frozen 920.
4 minutes later, they are history and it idles again.

Here that would take 6:28(mins/secs) here and that's with just 2 GTX295 cards inside the case, soon enough I'll have a surprise though, I hope...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

LOL...
The kitties sniffed out 8 WUs for the Frozen 920.
4 minutes later, they are history and it idles again.

Here that would take 6:28(mins/secs) here and that's with just 2 GTX295 cards inside the case, soon enough I'll have a surprise though, I hope...

Yup...
They were here, and then they were gone.
Like a fart in a windstorm.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Oh Hallelujah, praise the mighty SETI God!

I got one AP for my ATOM. Getting AP's (or really anything at all), has become so rare that I must celebrate this with a fresh cup of tea, and a sandwich.

Rejoice with me, an AP for the ATOM is with all cores/threads running and with the ATOM beta AP app around 100 hours of work (with three cores/threads 80 some hours)

Now, to the tea and the sandwich.

Oh my....you should post that in the milestones thread.
Or start a new thread...
"Who got a WU today?" :}

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Oh Hallelujah, praise the mighty SETI God!

I got one AP for my ATOM. Getting AP's (or really anything at all), has become so rare that I must celebrate this with a fresh cup of tea, and a sandwich.

Rejoice with me, an AP for the ATOM is with all cores/threads running and with the ATOM beta AP app around 100 hours of work (with three cores/threads 80 some hours)

Now, to the tea and the sandwich.

Oh my....you should post that in the milestones thread.
Or start a new thread...
"Who got a WU today?" :}

37 MB wu's here, none since, at least not yet, for about 8mins and 55secs of work, oh wow... Better than nothing of course.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I have got 21 Cuda work units today for my Nvidia Gpu on my Ion processor, 83 total Cuda units waiting to process. So far each time I return a work unit I get new ones.

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Only two MB left on the Mac. Ive had this I7 on NNT for the past few days as I couldnt even beg a Work unit to show up. The old P4 has a full cache though.

If thing keep up, That old machine will be the only thing keeping my rac up so I can post:)

So is it slow splitters, Or everyones machine grabbing up work that the server page shows barley any work ready to send?

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Old James

Only two MB left on the Mac. Ive had this I7 on NNT for the past few days as I couldnt even beg a Work unit to show up. The old P4 has a full cache though.

If thing keep up, That old machine will be the only thing keeping my rac up so I can post:)

So is it slow splitters, Or everyones machine grabbing up work that the server page shows barley any work ready to send?

Slow splitters....
AND the work is being grabbed up as fast as it can be generated and sent.
It's just that the number of WUs are so sparse and the number of hosts looking for work right now is so vast, that the odds of any single host actually scoring some work on a given work request are rather small.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Only two MB left on the Mac. Ive had this I7 on NNT for the past few days as I couldnt even beg a Work unit to show up. The old P4 has a full cache though.

If thing keep up, That old machine will be the only thing keeping my rac up so I can post:)

So is it slow splitters, Or everyones machine grabbing up work that the server page shows barley any work ready to send?

Results out in the field is at the lowest point I've ever seen during server uptime, so where all the shorties are going, is the big question. I'm leaning towards the idea that they are being sucked into a huge black hole.

There is a 'strange sucking sound' coming from my rigs....
But the kitties don't see much work being drawn into it's vortex.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Only two MB left on the Mac. Ive had this I7 on NNT for the past few days as I couldnt even beg a Work unit to show up. The old P4 has a full cache though.

If thing keep up, That old machine will be the only thing keeping my rac up so I can post:)

So is it slow splitters, Or everyones machine grabbing up work that the server page shows barley any work ready to send?

Results out in the field is at the lowest point I've ever seen during server uptime, so where all the shorties are going, is the big question. I'm leaning towards the idea that they are being sucked into a huge black hole.

There is a 'strange sucking sound' coming from my rigs....
But the kitties don't see much work being drawn into it's vortex.

Maybe more assimilators are needed, I know, more money, so as to free up storage space.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Only two MB left on the Mac. Ive had this I7 on NNT for the past few days as I couldnt even beg a Work unit to show up. The old P4 has a full cache though.

If thing keep up, That old machine will be the only thing keeping my rac up so I can post:)

So is it slow splitters, Or everyones machine grabbing up work that the server page shows barley any work ready to send?

Results out in the field is at the lowest point I've ever seen during server uptime, so where all the shorties are going, is the big question. I'm leaning towards the idea that they are being sucked into a huge black hole.

There is a 'strange sucking sound' coming from my rigs....
But the kitties don't see much work being drawn into it's vortex.

Maybe more assimilators are needed, I know, more money, so as to free up storage space.

Dunno quite what the assimilation problem is.
The sheer number of WUs being sent back to the servers?
Number of assimilator processes running?
Some data transfer bottleneck on the assimilators?

One would think that with the number of results in the field dropping, and caches running dry, that things would be matching up better on the validation end and that queue would be shrinking too.

Just dunno.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I kinda figured it was both.

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Old James

Assimilators can work only as fast as the master MB science database can gulp the new data. They already had big problems with its performance not long ago, so maybe that's it.

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Stepping back a bit from the details, I suggest that the number of users currently requesting work has exceeded the ability of S@H to generate, distribute, and process work. If everybody feeling upset, left out, ignored, etc. would just quit and go away, the rest of us would be better off.

Only joking.

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A fitting 200th. post in this thread, if Arkayn and the mods are watching.

Just to record that I finally really the mythical 450 tasks in progress, that is 400 for the GPU and 50 for CPU - on a machine which didn't exist when everything went pear-shaped during maintenance 12 days ago.

25/09/2011 21:18:06 | SETI@home | Reporting 2 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
25/09/2011 21:18:06 | SETI@home | [sched_op] CPU work request: 1106181.00 seconds; 0.00 CPUs
25/09/2011 21:18:06 | SETI@home | [sched_op] NVIDIA GPU work request: 254534.49 seconds; 0.00 GPUs
25/09/2011 21:18:15 | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 24 new tasks
25/09/2011 21:18:15 | SETI@home | [sched_op] Server version 613
25/09/2011 21:18:15 | SETI@home | Project requested delay of 303 seconds
25/09/2011 21:18:15 | SETI@home | [sched_op] estimated total CPU task duration: 89229 seconds
25/09/2011 21:18:15 | SETI@home | [sched_op] estimated total NVIDIA GPU task duration: 1834 seconds