On my machine FermiBox2 (ID 6609248) I am running BOINC 7.0.25 and the latest Lunatics apps, with all settings as on my other (6.10.56, -.60) machines. Despite requests for "CPU and NVIDIA" (machine has 2 x GTX 480 and 1 x GT240) I have gotten NO CPU WUs at all. This has been going on for several days now.

Why don't I get any CPU WUs?
Is there something I don't know?
Is it a fault of some kind in 7.0.25?

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I've had that problem the last couple of weeks or so on all my machines with older Boinc versions too. I have to untick the box "Use NVIDIA GPU", on the SETI@home preferences page for all venues in question. And then when I have enough CPU work, re tick the box again. Repeat when low on CPU work again, and again...

Edit: This is not something new, it has happened on and off for several years. Sometimes it can work as intended for months, and then suddenly I have to start using the tick/untick trick for weeks again.

Thanks for the suggestion. I switched to the "School" profile which I set to CPU yes, NVIDIA no. But now I am getting "not asking for new tasks" on Update. Is there no end to the perfidy?

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Let it sit there and ponder its sins for a while. I'm sure it will start asking for CPU only when it has thought over its bad behaviour.

It better shape up fast - I'm going away on an 8 day vacation tomorrow, and it has barely one day's worth of GPU work and NO CPU work, and I have it set for 5 days work buffer, which it is no where near.

Maybe I should break out the whips I got for Xmas.

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It just gave you 7 CPU units. See, threatening with punishment helps :-)

Yeah, it did. But they won't finish. I'm well into "Project backoff" already.

BOINC giveth and BOINC taketh away..

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Thanks! The proxy did it (for now) with some liberal exercise of my "Retry Now" finger.

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hit retry untill boinc crys uncle

Cheers,

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Cliff,
Been there, Done that, Still no damm T shirt!

And just got 22 more, so maybe I will be OK.

Tx for your help, Sten-Arne.

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I'm happy that my tips and trick helped of course.

Me too!

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I don't know if you have any other projects attached to that particular machine. These are the buffer settings that I have on both of my machines and I have not had any problems getting work. There are times when some tasks have gone to HP, mainly because I'm watching a DVD or playing a game, but I don't worry about it. The last 3 lines in the bottom image shows tasks waiting to run. I'm also running 80% of the computer 6 active cores & 2 for GPU processing, with the GPUs running 2 tasks each.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

My home computer is now not asking for anymore work even though it has run out. Currently running Milkyway, all I am getting is this.

4/15/2012 12:15:15 PM | SETI@home | update requested by user
4/15/2012 12:15:20 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
4/15/2012 12:15:20 PM | SETI@home | Not reporting or requesting tasks
4/15/2012 12:15:34 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed

Any ideas on what is going on?

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WELL I ran out of GPU WUs - now I've switched back to the profile ("home") that allows both CPU and GPU. So now BOINC won't ask for more WUs when I try an update.

Not the ideal, smooth process, is it?

PS: I'm running only SETI

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I never switch between profiles, I just tick and untick the boxes in the profile I have for the computer in question. It seems from what I have seen, that switching profiles, makes it harder to get SETI to understand wtf you're up to. (edit, added: Or at least it takes longer for the project to get you the work you want....)

GREAT!

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