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cliff Send message Joined: 16 Dec 07 Posts: 625 Credit: 3,590,440 RAC: 0 |
12 hours since anyone had a panic attack. That can't be right, it just has to be something to panic about. :-) How about having to hit update 7 time in order to force a contact with the server.. No panic as such, just extremely jarred off with this perpetual comms snafu.. Regards, Cliff, Been there, Done that, Still no damm T shirt! |
Dave Send message Joined: 29 Mar 02 Posts: 778 Credit: 25,001,396 RAC: 0 |
Cliff Try downgrading to 6.10.60 to avoid th 6.12.xx backoffs. Made a massive world of difference this end. Suddenly it's like the olde dayse! |
.clair. Send message Joined: 4 Nov 04 Posts: 1300 Credit: 55,390,408 RAC: 69 |
Cliff Yup, did that myself a few months ago cos i was totaly backed off with the crazy backoff`s. |
cliff Send message Joined: 16 Dec 07 Posts: 625 Credit: 3,590,440 RAC: 0 |
Cliff I think I'll wait it out:-) After all its v7 next is'nt it? Then its lunatics kit and the fun and games start again:-) The backoffs believe it or not, are not the problem so much as the very patchy comms between boinc and its home turf.. Backoffs are cured by highlighting the entire download queue and then hitting retry whenever 1 of them stalls.. The 1st backoff makes it easy to gather the lot and hammer the d/l until all are in. So far today I've had about 3 WU stall.. no more but failed updates are another story.. But if I repeatedly hit update, when boinc times out the first time, then by update hit 3 or 4 or 7 its in contact and the d/l proceeds smoothly. If I'm asleep then Ray's SIV will handle the backoffs, more slowly then me, but it gets it done. Cheers, Cliff, Been there, Done that, Still no damm T shirt! |
Dimly Lit Lightbulb 😀 Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 15399 Credit: 7,423,413 RAC: 1 |
12 hours since anyone had a panic attack. That can't be right, it just has to be something to panic about. :-) A lightbulb blew earlier, AND I DON'T HAVE A SPARE! :) Other than that I'm still waiting for my astropulse times to get down to what they actually are. At the moment they're at 197hrs :) Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club. |
Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13 |
A lightbulb blew earlier, AND I DON'T HAVE A SPARE! :) Other than that I'm still waiting for my astropulse times to get down to what they actually are. At the moment they're at 197hrs :) It'll get there. You need 10 validated APs that did not early-exit and had less than 10% blanking. Mine took a while for that to happen. Right about 44 total APs to get 10 that met the criteria. Of course by then, the DCF mechanism was just about to provide reasonable rates anyway. Because of the way DCF works, it took ~20 to go from a little over 200 down to ~175, 15 more to drop down to ~125, and five to get down to ~75. I imagine it would have only taken 5-7 more for the ETA to be pretty close, but I hit that magic 10 and server-side knocked the ETA down to 04:41:47. One task finished after that and now they're all showing ~11.5h like it should be. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13736 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Now if they could just get DCF to work for MB on CPU & GPU systems. Grant Darwin NT |
Gatekeeper Send message Joined: 14 Jul 04 Posts: 887 Credit: 176,479,616 RAC: 0 |
For the last hour or so, all of my scheduler requests on all 3 rigs are ending in timeout. Cricket and status page both look OK. Uploads going through normally. Anyone else? |
cliff Send message Joined: 16 Dec 07 Posts: 625 Credit: 3,590,440 RAC: 0 |
Yup, same here for past 20 hrs takes 3 or more attempts to get sorted. Cheers, Cliff, Been there, Done that, Still no damm T shirt! |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13736 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
For the last hour or so, all of my scheduler requests on all 3 rigs are ending in timeout. Cricket and status page both look OK. Uploads going through normally. Anyone else? Just checked my logs. Been OK (at least on one machine) for the last hour or 2, but for most of the night the majority of Scheduler requests were timing out. EDIT- just checked my other machine. Still getting the odd Scheduler timeout there. Looks like it's just the luck of the draw. You might get a Scheduler timeout. Even if that doesn't happen you might get a "Project has no tasks available" message. If you're really lucky you might get some work. Grant Darwin NT |
Britz Send message Joined: 1 Apr 12 Posts: 1 Credit: 267,233 RAC: 0 |
I got about 16 GPU and 1 AP WUs today, and that was around 3:00 EDT. Took a long while for the GPU WUs to get returned. Hope it all gets sorted out soon. |
Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13 |
My apologies for clogging the pipe, but my 10-day AP-only cache is now full. 3 crunching with 63 "ready to start." What were the limits again? Wasn't it 50 per [physical] CPU, or did it go back to counting cores? I know for a while it didn't matter if it was 1-16 cores, it was 1 physical CPU and there was a limit. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
I don't know if this is related to server problems or what, but my i7's tasks in progress that was at its maximum of 800 earlier today is now 699. This may or may not have anything to do with the fact that I finally pulled the trigger and installed Lunatics around noon today. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
I don't know if this is related to server problems or what, but my i7's tasks in progress that was at its maximum of 800 earlier today is now 699. My tasks in progress continues to drop, and the server has been saying I've reached my limit for about 7 hours now. Is this anything to do with the switch to Lunatics? Boinc is running GPU work on high priority, even though it's not due for a week or more. (If it matters, I set app_info to do 2 GPUs at a time.) David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Horacio Send message Joined: 14 Jan 00 Posts: 536 Credit: 75,967,266 RAC: 0 |
I don't know if this is related to server problems or what, but my i7's tasks in progress that was at its maximum of 800 earlier today is now 699. I guess the limit was reached only on CPU tasks, if the GPU's are in panic mode, BOINC wont ask for more GPU work, and if you are not using the flops tags then the scheduller is still learning what the speed for the new app's is and meanwhile is using a (slower) default value which is forcing the panic mode... (or something like that...) |
Gatekeeper Send message Joined: 14 Jul 04 Posts: 887 Credit: 176,479,616 RAC: 0 |
Scheduler still seems borked. I've got over 300 to report, and I'm guessing about 100 or more ghosted, waiting for a good scheduler response or five to start receiving them as resends. Still getting 99% timeouts. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13736 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Most of today the Scheduler has been hit & miss, but for about the last hour it's all been miss. Every attempt has timed out. Grant Darwin NT |
AndrewM Send message Joined: 5 Jan 08 Posts: 369 Credit: 34,275,196 RAC: 0 |
To borrow a line from Wiggo, I'm bouncing off the limits AndrewM |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13736 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
To borrow a line from Wiggo, I'm bouncing off the limits So am i, now. But for several hours there i was getting further & further from the limits with each Scheduler timeout. Grant Darwin NT |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22202 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
The schedulers must have had a surfeit of Chocolate Easter Eggs and dozed off in the arm chair... Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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