Why are the downnloads paused?

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Stuart Send message Joined: 7 Jan 12 Posts: 13 Credit: 92,202 RAC: 0	Message 1184329 - Posted: 10 Jan 2012, 13:32:50 UTC
	My SET@home screensaver is saying "no active projects" and the BOINC manager shows two projects awaiting download (but not actually downloading). The status says "download pending : project backoff 00:1:40 What is happening? Anyone know?[/img]
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Stuart Send message Joined: 7 Jan 12 Posts: 13 Credit: 92,202 RAC: 0	Message 1184330 - Posted: 10 Jan 2012, 13:35:55 UTC - in response to Message 1184329.
	Actually, it seems to have started again. Not sure what that was about
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BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 2023 Credit: 3,043,427 RAC: 6,469	Message 1184337 - Posted: 10 Jan 2012, 14:37:51 UTC - in response to Message 1184330. Last modified: 10 Jan 2012, 14:59:28 UTC
	And how do you expect that the computations will begin before the task is downloaded? "download pending : project backoff" happens often when the network line to SETI is overloaded: 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!" :)
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Stuart Send message Joined: 7 Jan 12 Posts: 13 Credit: 92,202 RAC: 0	Message 1184395 - Posted: 10 Jan 2012, 22:47:15 UTC - in response to Message 1184337.
	And how do you expect that the computations will begin before the task is downloaded? I wasn't expecting that obviously. I was just surprised that the computer hadn't already downloaded some more data ready to start processing before it had finished the previous jobs. Usually it does that, ie overlaps them. This morning it left itself with no data to process. I was just surprised, that's all.
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John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 22343 Credit: 439,209 RAC: 396	Message 1186268 - Posted: 18 Jan 2012, 20:21:30 UTC - in response to Message 1184395.
	And how do you expect that the computations will begin before the task is downloaded? I wasn't expecting that obviously. I was just surprised that the computer hadn't already downloaded some more data ready to start processing before it had finished the previous jobs. Usually it does that, ie overlaps them. This morning it left itself with no data to process. I was just surprised, that's all. Sometimes things go wrong at the server end... ____________ BOINC WIKI
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