Gripes and Kudos II

And "Not reporting or requsting taks" is an informative mesage- it indicates just what it says- it's neither reporting or requsting new work, indicating that hitting the retry button that time wasn't really worth the effort.

Part of the "annoyance" factor involved here is the utter uselessness of enabling a retry button that really isn't going to retry anything at all. Perhaps the level of frustration would drop if such buttons were disabled when the feature behind it is not available? It seems like a logical pattern to follow, but I guess the amount of programming involved is too great...

...The Retry Now button is unavailable if there are no uploads or downloads to retry.

The Update button is always available because there are reasons for contacting the scheduler other than getting new work. For example, you may have updated your preferences on your account page on the web site and you want your computer to make contact so it will know your new prefs. This will result in the "Not reporting or requesting" message.

It looks like I'm back to not being able to download again. I've got a screenfull of downloads. Watching them I find that some downloads -- while they're actively downloading and the percentage is going up -- time out and go to the bottom of the queue. Then another partially downloaded task begins and -- sometime while downloading -- times out.

This may be partially due to having my preferences set for Astropulse tasks only, which are 8 MB in size. I have now changed my preference to seti@home tasks only. I'm hoping the smaller file sizes will lead to more tasks completing on the first try.
The plan that was announced a while back for you guys to quadruple the task sizes has me worried. It seems far fewer tasks (probably at least 4 times fewer tasks) will download on the first try, and the overhead of increased restarts will more than offset any advantage that increased task size has on your database.

After all, if no one can get any work you don't even need a database.

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I know this has probably already been addressed before, but I can't find it. I have 2 computers running seti. One is an older desktop unit with 2 cpus and a laptop with 4. My older unit always has plenty of data to process while my laptop rarely has enough to get through the day. I have increased my data reservoir up to 3 days and only the desktop is increased. What do I need to do?

Amen
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I have increased my data reservoir up to 3 days and only the desktop is increased. What do I need to do?

Network Tasks ?

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/prefs.php?subset=global

Maintain enough tasks to keep busy for at least
(max 10 days).

IS IT REALLY THIS PARAMETER ?



EDIT : AFTER A TEST, I RECEIVED MORE TASK
IT SEEMS TO BE THIS ...

ok thanks
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Thanks. Fixed the problem.

Kudos: The above.

Gripe: No link. Try this: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=71002
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The Universe is not only stranger than you imagine, it's stranger than you can imagine.

SETI@home classic workunits 1,405 CPU time 57,318 hours

Kudos: cdemers for the TCP fix. He should get a free shopping spree in the Seti@Home gift shop.

My question is how do some of the powerhouse computers, such as one with 8 GTX-690 video cards keep busy. Do they get special treatment? I have 2 slow ones and 1 with GTX-480 and 1 with GTX-570. For many weeks now either one or the other of these two have had no WU's. It seems to alternate. Right now one has only GPU WU's and for several days the other had only CPU WU's. At one time my RAC was up to almost 50k but is now just starting to go back up from 18k The 2 slow machines rarely have a problem getting WU's. I've been crunching 13 years but am considering calling it quits.

Bob B.
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My question is how do some of the powerhouse computers, such as one with 8 GTX-690 video cards keep busy. Do they get special treatment? I have 2 slow ones and 1 with GTX-480 and 1 with GTX-570. For many weeks now either one or the other of these two have had no WU's. It seems to alternate. Right now one has only GPU WU's and for several days the other had only CPU WU's. At one time my RAC was up to almost 50k but is now just starting to go back up from 18k The 2 slow machines rarely have a problem getting WU's. I've been crunching 13 years but am considering calling it quits.

Bob B.

I don't know that network speed is my problem but I'll give it a try.
Thanx, Bob
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I don't know that network speed is my problem but I'll give it a try.
Thanx, Bob