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kittyman ![]() Volunteer tester ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 49661 Credit: 904,605,303 RAC: 189,575 ![]() ![]() |
Thank you, Eric, for your informative post. Wish you all speed in returning things to fully operational status. And the rest of you, PLEASE direct all further posts not directly related to Eric's post to the Number Crunching forum for your comments and discussions. My body may be here, but my mind is in a galaxy far, far away. Have made friends here. Most were cats. ![]() |
TPCBF Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 54 Credit: 3,842,518 RAC: 1,736 ![]() ![]() |
Maybe...If they show as with no server contacts for more than 7 days, sorry, I just call them deadbeats, I don't think that I had any of my hosts have a problem contacting the servers for more than 3 or 4, and that was during the power outage saga... Seriously, while there are reasons why someone might not contact the server for a couple of weeks, if this is going on 4 weeks or more, with thousands of WUs sitting idle, someone isn't likely to have such bad luck (all in a row?) like you... And it just takes a hundred hosts with a 1000 idle WUs and you have 100000 WUs clogging up the database for weeks. And if someone has your bad luck, why have those WUs (in such amounts, I am not talking about 20 or 30 here...) sitting idle when it isn't likely that they will return in time without passing their deadline once whatever bad luck is involved is remedied?... Why do have a few folks cause additional problems for the large number of working hosts? Ralf |
![]() Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 2 Jun 02 Posts: 455 Credit: 2,287,375 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Matt; Some of the previous posts recommended doing other projects while waiting and waiting for Seti. That may have been a strategy to get users to use Seti less and maybe ultimately leave Seti and have more of Seti to themselves. I have run 3,385,632 seti work units over at primegrid since october 15th,because of trouble getting seti work units. I have been a dedicated seti participant since june of 2002. Now with green bank coming on line soon I think it is time to consider what we want to do with seti? With Arecibo all we could get was a random sampling of the sky,with green bank we will be looking at systems with planets. A budget roughly equal to the paycheck's for the employees at one micky d's may have made since for the shot in the dark like Arecibo was. But now we are going to be looking at planetary system were life could be expected to be found. With it literally thousands of times more likely that seti can find Proof. The server problems are not because too many people are running seti,it is that we,toughs that have interest in seti have failed to provide adequate support to seti both financial and moral. If you can donate a dollar a month if you can't then let amd know that you use their products to do seti and that it is embarrassing how little of their stuff is in the top 100,The same goes for intel and nvidia. If a business donates equipment put a link to their business on your personal or team setup If you come up with a good idea post it,seti is at least as important as the sky search for harmful asteroids and ten years ago it had the budget of a micky d's. Just remember the minimum donation is $10 so even if you have to save up to do that it is not to painful. |
![]() Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3184 Credit: 408,293 RAC: 78 ![]() |
Apparently not... Apparently, you are looking at the wrong numbers. The 100/100 limits apply to tasks actually downloaded, not to tasks listed as "in progress" (probably ghosts anyway). Gruß, Gundolf |
![]() ![]() ![]() Volunteer tester ![]() Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 22228 Credit: 35,639,174 RAC: 35,331 ![]() ![]() |
Apparently not... Which if resend missing results is on will un-ghost as the overworked bandwidth clears. ![]() ![]() |
Horacio Send message Joined: 14 Jan 00 Posts: 536 Credit: 75,967,266 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Apparently not... Not exactly, the limits exists and are working, but the limits do not affect the number of tasks that were assigned to you before they were applied. This means that you wont get new assigned work until your pending WUs get under 100/100, meanwhile if you succeed getting work you will get those already assigned WUs as resends, and the number of pending WUs should not grow unless it goes under 200. ![]() |
rob smith ![]() Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 15878 Credit: 295,734,550 RAC: 322,779 ![]() ![]() |
Keep up with the news - just now there is nothing being downloaded, read this from Eric- http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=70080 And don't clog up the news with inaccurate debates about what is/isn't going on. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
TPCBF Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 54 Credit: 3,842,518 RAC: 1,736 ![]() ![]() |
Besten Dank für den Gruß, ;-)Apparently not... but I don't think that I am looking at the wrong numbers. Ghosts or not, the basic problem might be very well the same, a huge number of WUs just sitting idle in the database waiting to expire and being resend... I rather think that it's the continuing case of RAC happy folks just filling up a week of WUs "just in case" and then abandoning the project when they don't see the result they expect in their numbers. I will start a new thread for posting examples of those cases that I am referring to next time I see this again ("SETI Wall of shame" <LOL>) Ralf |
![]() Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8883 Credit: 11,646,289 RAC: 1,615 ![]() ![]() |
I've emailed Eric requesting he lock this thread since it's outdated ![]() ![]() |
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