Gripes and Kudos II

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Mark W. Patton Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Jul 99 Posts: 9 Credit: 2,120,840 RAC: 1,240	Message 1346829 - Posted: 15 Mar 2013, 13:37:36 UTC
	I am just wondering why the download bandwidth seems so narrow. My network should be able to download a 366k work unit in 1 second but it takes days sometimes. If you have answered this question elsewhere I apologize for asking again but I support 12 different projects and it is hard to read all the message boards. Best Regards, Mark W. Patton ____________
	ID: 1346829 ·

msattler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 34127 Credit: 342,688,592 RAC: 537,714	Message 1346835 - Posted: 15 Mar 2013, 14:09:08 UTC - in response to Message 1346829.
	I am just wondering why the download bandwidth seems so narrow. My network should be able to download a 366k work unit in 1 second but it takes days sometimes. If you have answered this question elsewhere I apologize for asking again but I support 12 different projects and it is hard to read all the message boards. Best Regards, Mark W. Patton LOL.... It's not that the download bandwidth is narrow, it's just that it's clobbered all of the time.... Here is the bandwidth usage graph of Seti... The green is downloads. Getting a piece of it is very difficult sometimes. You should visit our Number Crunching forum, and in particular the Windows TCP thread for a comms mod that might help your downloading woes. ____________ ****** "Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty." As it is kitten, so shall it be done.
	ID: 1346835 ·

Bob Bainbridge Send message Joined: 21 Mar 01 Posts: 35 Credit: 28,910,011 RAC: 30,570	Message 1347067 - Posted: 15 Mar 2013, 22:11:19 UTC - in response to Message 1346835.
	I am just wondering why the download bandwidth seems so narrow. My network should be able to download a 366k work unit in 1 second but it takes days sometimes. If you have answered this question elsewhere I apologize for asking again but I support 12 different projects and it is hard to read all the message boards. Best Regards, Mark W. Patton LOL.... It's not that the download bandwidth is narrow, it's just that it's clobbered all of the time.... Here is the bandwidth usage graph of Seti... The green is downloads. Getting a piece of it is very difficult sometimes. You should visit our Number Crunching forum, and in particular the Windows TCP thread for a comms mod that might help your downloading woes. I tried the TCP mod but it didn't help me at all. My GTX-480 has NO WU's and 12 stuck downloading for hours. The GTX-570 has NO GPU WU's and has a dozen or so stuck in download. OTOH my 2-core laptop has plenty of work as does my old AMD 2-core bare motherboard plugged into a power supply. Bob B. ____________
	ID: 1347067 ·

Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 5057 Credit: 40,720,764 RAC: 52,567	Message 1347105 - Posted: 15 Mar 2013, 23:12:58 UTC - in response to Message 1347067. Last modified: 15 Mar 2013, 23:13:17 UTC
	I tried the TCP mod but it didn't help me at all. My GTX-480 has NO WU's and 12 stuck downloading for hours. Over the last 24-48 hours downloading has been more difficult than at any time previously, even with the fix in place i've had downloads accumulate & project backoffs occur. Generally 30-40min later when i hit retry, everything started to download again by itself. Very, very, very slowly, but it did download. ____________ Grant Darwin NT.
	ID: 1347105 ·

Wiyosaya Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 36 Credit: 623,352 RAC: 476	Message 1347398 - Posted: 16 Mar 2013, 18:47:49 UTC - in response to Message 1347105. Last modified: 16 Mar 2013, 18:49:46 UTC
	I tried the TCP mod but it didn't help me at all. My GTX-480 has NO WU's and 12 stuck downloading for hours. Over the last 24-48 hours downloading has been more difficult than at any time previously, even with the fix in place i've had downloads accumulate & project backoffs occur. Generally 30-40min later when i hit retry, everything started to download again by itself. Very, very, very slowly, but it did download. Gripe: The quoted ones above, and the fact that this condition has, from my perspective, existed for many months and still exists. At speeds as low as 0.8Kbps and lower, downloads take longer than the time to process WUs. Kudos: The S@H team seems to be aware of the problem and is hopefully actively engaged in fixing it. ____________
	ID: 1347398 ·

Bill Schivley CLG-6 Send message Joined: 5 Jul 01 Posts: 5 Credit: 1,139,968 RAC: 285	Message 1347478 - Posted: 16 Mar 2013, 23:31:52 UTC
	Kudos to me first off. I am just about ready to complete 1million work units. it has taken a long time to complete this. For a long time I did not get any Astropluse downloads until I upgraded my drivers. Now, I get all kinds of Seti downloads and A bunch of Astro pluse downloads. The AP downloads are very slow to download but I can get them within a day. Everything is is o.k. for me at this time with the downloads. Seti is almost instantly. My only gripe is how slow AP is. Comparet to what I read here, I have no gripe at all. ____________
	ID: 1347478 ·

Luther Send message Joined: 11 Mar 13 Posts: 12 Credit: 418,572 RAC: 517	Message 1347520 - Posted: 17 Mar 2013, 3:55:16 UTC
	Since some of you are complaining about the downloads of new tasks here is a solution that has worked for me and many others. 1) Download TCPOptimizer (sorry I don't have a link so maybe try google) 2) Run the program, at the bottom it says Choose Settings: Click on Optimal then click Custom and place a check mark next to "TimeStamps" then click Apply! 3) reboot and problem solved you should download nice and fast for every task.
	ID: 1347520 ·

Luther Send message Joined: 11 Mar 13 Posts: 12 Credit: 418,572 RAC: 517	Message 1348017 - Posted: 18 Mar 2013, 8:42:01 UTC - in response to Message 1347520.
	Since some of you are complaining about the downloads of new tasks here is a solution that has worked for me and many others. 1) Download TCPOptimizer (sorry I don't have a link so maybe try google) 2) Run the program, at the bottom it says Choose Settings: Click on Optimal then click Custom and place a check mark next to "TimeStamps" then click Apply! 3) reboot and problem solved you should download nice and fast for every task. Apply the Optimal then do Custom.
	ID: 1348017 ·

BMaytum Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 97 Credit: 3,299,775 RAC: 802	Message 1348737 - Posted: 20 Mar 2013, 15:54:21 UTC - in response to Message 1347520.
	Since some of you are complaining about the downloads of new tasks here is a solution that has worked for me and many others. 1) Download TCPOptimizer (sorry I don't have a link so maybe try google) 2) Run the program, at the bottom it says Choose Settings: Click on Optimal then click Custom and place a check mark next to "TimeStamps" then click Apply! 3) reboot and problem solved you should download nice and fast for every task. Alternatively (rather than using TCPOptimizer) if you're running Windows, see Richard Haselgrove's two easy methods http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=71002&postid=1344153 that set a Registry parameter to relieve WU download congestion on your PC. (Other posters recently pointed out that thread here, but apparently some posters haven't yet understood). Check it out, the Registry setting completely relieved WU download congestion for my 3 PCs.[/url] ____________ Sabertooth Z77, i7-3770K@4.2GHz, GTX680, W8Pro x64 P5N32-E SLI, C2D E8400@3Ghz, GTX580GT/1536MB, Win7SP1Pro x64 & PCLinuxOS2013
	ID: 1348737 ·

Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 3883 Credit: 357,033 RAC: 793	Message 1353085 - Posted: 4 Apr 2013, 2:59:43 UTC
	Kudos: to Matt, Jeff, Eric, and anybody else who helped make the move. While Matt says some things are still throttled so the project comes up to speed slowly, things appear to be working well and uploads/downloads/scheduler requests seemto be going through much faster than they did up the hill. So far, so good. Gripes: None worth mentioning. ____________ Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired
	ID: 1353085 ·

KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 1592 Credit: 4,416,791 RAC: 4,482	Message 1353130 - Posted: 4 Apr 2013, 5:57:15 UTC Last modified: 4 Apr 2013, 5:59:28 UTC
	Minor gripe/inquiry: My (and many people in my RAC range) score dropped by about 77,000 cobblestones just before the outage, and then came back after the outage: Wha Hoppen? ____________ .
	ID: 1353130 ·

Cheopis Send message Joined: 17 Sep 00 Posts: 126 Credit: 6,742,143 RAC: 8,970	Message 1353204 - Posted: 4 Apr 2013, 10:00:08 UTC
	Gripes - none currently. I'm sure there are things to gripe about still but right now the kudos I have to give for the colo's transfer rates are just wow. Kudos overshadow the gripes, and will likely continue to do so for the near future :)
	ID: 1353204 ·

Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 10313 Credit: 5,072,171 RAC: 6,253	Message 1353448 - Posted: 4 Apr 2013, 22:23:53 UTC
	Kudos: 294 Mbps Gripes: What is a gripe? ____________
	ID: 1353448 ·

ksnash Send message Joined: 28 Nov 99 Posts: 402 Credit: 317,022 RAC: 1,409	Message 1354208 - Posted: 6 Apr 2013, 22:43:42 UTC
	gripe: i wish i could assign projects to particular number of processors. context switching is so 00's. :P ____________
	ID: 1354208 ·

HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 3274 Credit: 76,542,761 RAC: 75,541	Message 1354241 - Posted: 7 Apr 2013, 2:07:35 UTC - in response to Message 1354208.
	gripe: i wish i could assign projects to particular number of processors. context switching is so 00's. :P Actually that can be done now. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration#Application_configuration ____________ SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!
	ID: 1354241 ·

Cornhusker Send message Joined: 20 Apr 09 Posts: 6 Credit: 3,094,371 RAC: 10,871	Message 1354264 - Posted: 7 Apr 2013, 6:16:01 UTC
	Kudos: Everyone involved in the colo transfer. It's hard to tell the xfer rate I'm actually getting since the downloads I've seen disappear too fast (that's NOT a gripe) but they appear to be 1500 KB/s or faster. Gripes: Me, for thinking you guys didn't care about our xfer rates. I'll be making another donation with my next paycheck. ____________
	ID: 1354264 ·

Eric Hudson Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4 Credit: 211,626 RAC: 649	Message 1354268 - Posted: 7 Apr 2013, 6:31:02 UTC
	Still waiting for my first download since the move. Saturday midnight and still waiting... ____________ /eric
	ID: 1354268 ·

Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 5057 Credit: 40,720,764 RAC: 52,567	Message 1354273 - Posted: 7 Apr 2013, 7:13:19 UTC - in response to Message 1354268. Last modified: 7 Apr 2013, 7:17:13 UTC
	Still waiting for my first download since the move. Saturday midnight and still waiting... Exit BOINC, restart it & post the startup log in a new thread. Then people might be able to help you. EDIT- just had a look at your system, and you have 3 AP WUs all downloaded today. Depending on your resource share, and the size of your cache settings, given the minimal processing power of the system that is probably all the work the system can handle. ____________ Grant Darwin NT.
	ID: 1354273 ·

Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 1481 Credit: 62,414,690 RAC: 86,958	Message 1354304 - Posted: 7 Apr 2013, 9:31:50 UTC - in response to Message 1354268.
	Still waiting for my first download since the move. Saturday midnight and still waiting... If restarting the manager doesn't work then set your other projects to no new tasks for a while and then you will likely get more work from this one. Cheers.
	ID: 1354304 ·

BMaytum Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 97 Credit: 3,299,775 RAC: 802	Message 1354416 - Posted: 7 Apr 2013, 15:30:06 UTC
	Kudos: (1) to members & esp. Richard Haselgrove (his RegEdit methods) for the Windows TCP Fix prior to the more recent Colocation, and (2) to all who chose & implemented the Colocation move. I was at wits end about the WU Download choking & was ready to pull my plug from S@H Project prior to both of these kudo-worthy events. Gripes: Only one ATM, see http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=71040&postid=1354413 ____________ Sabertooth Z77, i7-3770K@4.2GHz, GTX680, W8Pro x64 P5N32-E SLI, C2D E8400@3Ghz, GTX580GT/1536MB, Win7SP1Pro x64 & PCLinuxOS2013
	ID: 1354416 ·

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