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For more than a day my 2 machines keep getting timeouts when trying to do an Update, either automatically from BOINC or manually. I get: | |
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Look in the panic thread, almost everyone has that problem right now. BTW, the cricket graphs looked OK few days ago, now the 100Mbit internet connection is maxed out / overloaded. | |
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Look in the panic thread, almost everyone has that problem right now. BTW, the cricket graphs looked OK few days ago, now the 100Mbit internet connection is maxed out / overloaded. Thanks. I'll check it out. ____________ | |
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One trick that folks have been using is to set No New Tasks, click your update button, and then click to Allow New Tasks. That may or may not help, but just a thought. | |
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One trick that folks have been using is to set No New Tasks, click your update button, and then click to Allow New Tasks. That may or may not help, but just a thought yet both machines have nearly 400 tasks each to report You definately need to go No New Tasks (NNT), and you'll have to do it multiple times because the server now accepts a max of 64 per update. When on NNT, you don't have to wait the 5 minutes between manual updates. ____________ Another Fred Support SETI@home when you search the Web or shop online with GoodSearch and GoodShop  | |
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The technique you describe Fred of setting updates to no new tasks (NNT) and then updating has worked very well for me and the little crunchers around here. Sometimes I hit the do network communication too so that I'm able to break out of a long time out. Then when that clears the hour or so time out delay, I hit the manual update. It almost always works within a few minutes. After I get the update out, I set Boinc Manager to accept new work again. A few hours later I repeat the sequence again. I have noticed my core duo notebook and my i3 notebook run ok by themselves sometimes, but I'm always having to do this for my desktops and my new Dell XPS 15.6 i7-2670qm with a dedicated Nvidia GT 525m graphics card. I am wondering if the dedicated Nvidia graphics cards are part of this problem too because the computers without them are not having the update problem constantly in the last few days. I sure hope this can be addressed as part of maintenance next week or before. Please, Please. There is something else though that is bothering me a great deal more than this one issue though. It is a that there is far too much unreliability of the equipment and network that gets the signal data out of Seti to be processed by the volunteers and then back to Seti when it is processed. That unreliability is causing far too much wasted time and effort from a great number of people. It is probably getting to the point where it must be worked out and solved. | |
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The technique you describe Fred of setting updates to no new tasks (NNT) and then updating has worked very well for me and the little crunchers around here. Sometimes I hit the do network communication too so that I'm able to break out of a long time out. Then when that clears the hour or so time out delay, I hit the manual update. It almost always works within a few minutes. After I get the update out, I set Boinc Manager to accept new work again. A few hours later I repeat the sequence again. I have noticed my core duo notebook and my i3 notebook run ok by themselves sometimes, but I'm always having to do this for my desktops and my new Dell XPS 15.6 i7-2670qm with a dedicated Nvidia GT 525m graphics card. Good point - I also do this to reset the backoff time back to the project's 5 minutes. am wondering if the dedicated Nvidia graphics cards are part of this problem too because the computers without them are not having the update problem constantly in the last few days. Maybe - I have a working theory that the less results you are reporting, the better chance of getting a connect with a work request the past few days. My gpu almost always has a result every 5 minutes, so I've had a harder time than the cpu only machines. I sure hope this can be addressed as part of maintenance next week or before. Please, Please. There is something else though that is bothering me a great deal more than this one issue though.The staff intervened this afternoon and is definately aware of the problems. With the splitters shut down, I'm sure it will have top priority when they get in tomorrow. There is something else though that is bothering me a great deal more than this one issue though. It is a that there is far too much unreliability of the equipment and network that gets the signal data out of Seti to be processed by the volunteers and then back to Seti when it is processed. That unreliability is causing far too much wasted time and effort from a great number of people. It is probably getting to the point where it must be worked out and solved. Can't argue with the unreliability point, it has bothered all of us. Steps are indeed underway. Slavac of the GPU Users Group formed a tax advantaged corp. to collect funds specifically for infra structure upgrades. It's set up to make sure the donations are deductible for US Taxpayers. To date, we've contibuted funds for 2 new servers that are now in service, as well as equipment for increased storage capacity. He's now awaiting specs from the project for another server. Watch his sticky thread in this forum for what's going on. He'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. Funding is a big issue - they recently cut the hours for a key staff person to half time due to funding shortfalls, and that has to be part of our current problems. Government and private grants for science projects are harder and harder to get, and the project is increasingly dependent on general purpose donations from crunchers as well as those designated for specific hardware. Hope all can participate in the current annnual fund drive. ____________ Another Fred Support SETI@home when you search the Web or shop online with GoodSearch and GoodShop | |
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