Splat, OUCH!!
That was a messy one :-(
Everything is struggling just now - and I've got hundreds of tasks to return, but I doubt I'll get many fresh ones in exchange, maybe a few resends as they trickle around, but nothing to get too excited about....

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Well my little slow Sempron machine got lucky...

2014-11-17 14:55:37 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks. Requesting 158793 seconds of work, reporting 7 completed tasks
2014-11-17 14:57:46 SETI@home Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
2014-11-17 14:57:49 SETI@home Started download of ap_25ap11ab_B4_P0_00025_20141021_31039.wu
2014-11-17 14:58:09 SETI@home Finished download of ap_25ap11ab_B4_P0_00025_20141021_31039.wu

It's a _2 task, of course. And the scheduler response took a bit.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

17-11-2014 21:55:30 | SETI@home | Reporting 192 completed tasks
17-11-2014 21:55:30 | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU
17-11-2014 21:56:48 | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
17-11-2014 21:56:48 | SETI@home | Project has no tasks available

Reporting working just fine, took a bit longer than usual but that was to be expected.

No worries, the GPU is crunching Einstein atm so we'll just wait till the boys at the lab patch everything together again ;-)

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So uh, there are some tasks out there that best be aborted.
I just found this task running on my GPU:

Yes, it says 1723 hours remaining. By the time I suspended it, it was 1799 hours.
Exited BOINC, waited 2 minutes, restarted it. Resumed the task. It runs for 12 seconds, then the Remaining time starts shooting up, while Progress is stuck at 0.006%.

Task 07se14ab.12914.11212.438086664204.12.251_1
A lot of the 12914 siblings are tasks that ran for 13 seconds, spike count 30.
So weird then that this one wouldn't do that.

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Well the rest of the fields on the SSP are populated with values again, and the data driven webpages are fast to respond now, too. (They were a bit slow earlier when those fields on the SSP were blank.)

Other than that, even though my UEFI settings are set to disable turbo, and I have manual OC control to set it to the stock speed.. somehow, my Bulldozer clocked down now that it is idle.



At least it is running cool though. I fired up an h.264 encoding task and the core speeds all went to full speed and the temps reported for each core jumped from 19C straight to 37C in just one update interval (about 2/sec, I think) and stayed under 40C anyway, as usual.

Nothing wrong there.. it's just... weird. I've had this CPU almost two years and I've never seen it down-clock itself due to being idle. Oh well, it'll get a good feast of APs eventually.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

Not getting anything from SETI, but just got 40 mb from Beta.

Ageless wrote:

Anyone who took notice how many channels they managed to get from those 0.25GB tapes?

The data is stored in 32 bit values containing 2 bits for each channel. If there's enough data to split for the first channel there ought to be enough for the other channels too. But the tape file would need to be slightly over 1 GB to have enough data for MB splitting, the minimum would produce 512 tasks for each channel.

If AP splitting were running, there might be 4 AP tasks for each channel produced from 0.25GB tapes.

                                                                    Joe

11/17/2014 18:51:15 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks.
11/17/2014 18:51:15 | SETI@home | Reporting 270 completed tasks
11/17/2014 18:51:15 | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
11/17/2014 18:51:19 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Couldn't resolve host name
11/17/2014 18:51:45 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/17/2014 18:51:47 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

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

11/17/2014 18:51:15 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks.
11/17/2014 18:51:15 | SETI@home | Reporting 270 completed tasks
11/17/2014 18:51:15 | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
11/17/2014 18:51:19 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Couldn't resolve host name
11/17/2014 18:51:45 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/17/2014 18:51:47 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

Cliff, just set NNT and you should get those tasks reported and then switch back back to allow new tasks (not that there's much around). ;-)

Cheers.

11/17/2014 18:51:15 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks.
11/17/2014 18:51:15 | SETI@home | Reporting 270 completed tasks
11/17/2014 18:51:15 | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
11/17/2014 18:51:19 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Couldn't resolve host name
11/17/2014 18:51:45 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/17/2014 18:51:47 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

On RCN in Newton, MA, I get that occasionally. It appears that my ISP loses some websites (at random) from time to time off their DNS server. Sometimes I can't access their own webmail whilst I can still access some other websites.

Bizarre.

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just set NNT and you should get those tasks reported and then switch back back to allow new tasks (not that there's much around). ;-)

Cheers.

I had to do that today, for the first time ever. Fat lot of good it did me -- when I allowed tasks again, both boxes got none.

Otoh, there is actual work available at Beta. I went to the extreme of letting my i7 get some, just so it wouldn't OD on Einstein again.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

11/17/2014 18:51:15 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks.
11/17/2014 18:51:15 | SETI@home | Reporting 270 completed tasks
11/17/2014 18:51:15 | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
11/17/2014 18:51:19 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Couldn't resolve host name
11/17/2014 18:51:45 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
11/17/2014 18:51:47 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

On RCN in Newton, MA, I get that occasionally. It appears that my ISP loses some websites (at random) from time to time off their DNS server. Sometimes I can't access their own webmail whilst I can still access some other websites.

Bizarre.

You could just override your ISP and go with 8.8.8.8 (google's public servers). I use that and 4.2.2.2 (Level3) as a fallback. Never have DNS issues.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

Thanks, I will try that next time it happens!

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As I write there are currently just a little over 1.9 million results out in the field. It will be interesting to see how low it will get, also interesting to see how long it will take for everyone's cache to be refilled when a steady flow of data comes back online

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As I write there are currently just a little over 1.9 million results out in the field. It will be interesting to see how low it will get, also interesting to see how long it will take for everyone's cache to be refilled when a steady flow of data comes back online

Out of the ~500 tasks across my machines most it consists of the remaining AP work they have to finish. My two fastest groups of machines are only managing to snag a new task for MB or AP every now & then. Limping along on their backup projects.

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My two win7 machines ran out of work early Sunday evening. They are on backup projects. My Vista machine still has 57 tasks, A few are AP work.

Ive set NNT for Seti and will wait when there is a big enough buffer of work. That will give me a chance to run down my backup work.
I can be patient to get the credits for my Seti toaster:)

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Old James

Since I returned to Seti 2 weeks ago I crunched 70 000 credits, but at least 25% of time I was without work. I tried to make bigger WU stock as I knew this is going to happen as you warned us, but Boinc informed me: I got max.WU allowed for this computer.

Do not get me wrong but that is just stupid - it is not same to have same MAX number of WU for some old computer or for new I5. I crunch max number of WU in 2 days without any problem. And now this computer is empty for last 24h... And who knows how much longer it will be. Yes, I know - I can run Einstein or something like that in meantime, but I returned to SETI...

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Since I returned to Seti 2 weeks ago I crunched 70 000 credits, but at least 25% of time I was without work. I tried to make bigger WU stock as I knew this is going to happen as you warned us, but Boinc informed me: I got max.WU allowed for this computer.

Do not get me wrong but that is just stupid - it is not same to have same MAX number of WU for some old computer or for new I5. I crunch max number of WU in 2 days without any problem. And now this computer is empty for last 24h... And who knows how much longer it will be. Yes, I know - I can run Einstein or something like that in meantime, but I returned to SETI...

The task limits were implemented quite some time ago. It was necessary to prevent the db server from crashing on a regular basis once there were to many results out in the field.

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The task limits were implemented quite some time ago. It was necessary to prevent the db server from crashing on a regular basis once there were too many results out in the field.

Do we know if these were h/w or s/w caused crashes? If, as I hypothesize up thread, they were because of inherent flaws in Informix, I reiterate my request: can't we get a cut-rate license from an Enterprise-grade DB for SETI? Does anyone here have any useful knowledge about this? Or can we (maybe) start a drive to buy a license? Might it be more useful than new h/w?

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Results out in the field 1,772,982 (MB) 399 (AP)

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