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Worried about "timed out - no response" tasks
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Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
A couple months ago, one of my computers was not showing any projects in BOINC Manager's Advanced View, and I knew that wasn't right because in Simple View it was showing as running SETI@home, and tasks were being reported as validated. To hopefully fix the situation, I selected, "No new tasks", and when the well went dry, I uninstalled and reinstalled BOINC. The project still does not show up in Advanced View, and now I'm getting Task Errors on the SETI site saying: Timed out - no response. What is going to happen to these "Timed out - no response" tasks? And why is this computer not processing the tasks? The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13720 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
What is going to happen to these "Timed out - no response" tasks? They will be sent to another machine, and once they Validate, and they get the servers housekeeping working again (Deleting & purging), then those errors will clear from your system. And why is this computer not processing the tasks? The fact that you can't look at the Advanced view makes it very difficult to figure out just what was going on, but looking at that machine it appears you have a whole bunch of Ghosts (WUs the server allocated to you, but you never actually got them). With your CPU & 1 GPU on that system, you should have a maximum of 200 WUs in progress (or less, depending on your cache settings). It's showing 571 In progress. So what's happened (for whatever reason) is the Server has allocated you work when you've requested it, but you never actually received it. Since you never got it on your computer (even though it shows it there in your account), you aren't able to process it, and so when the Deadline date comes around it will time out, hence the Time out- no response on those errored WUs. Grant Darwin NT |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
From what I can see it looks the same as someone an over zealous anti-virus (that will turn good work into ghosts), make sure that your 2 BOINC folder are excluded from any actions by your antivirus program (as it could also be stopping your apps from running). Cheers. |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Good point, Wiggo, and thanks, Grant. I'm puzzled why it happened on a computer that had been doing fine, but I guess that's just the way it goes. It is processing and finishing tasks now. ~I can see that in Advanced view, but not the project, itself, which is just really odd to me. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Juha Send message Joined: 7 Mar 04 Posts: 388 Credit: 1,857,738 RAC: 0 |
In your previous thread about the empty Projects tab I wrote Open Regedit Haven't seen a reply yet. Before you remove the Projects key please copy the values here. I would really like to see them. |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I'm at this point... The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Juha Send message Joined: 7 Mar 04 Posts: 388 Credit: 1,857,738 RAC: 0 |
And the subkeys, Account etc.? |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I don't see a subkeys folder. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Juha Send message Joined: 7 Mar 04 Posts: 388 Credit: 1,857,738 RAC: 0 |
Subkeys means the keys under some key. So Account, Avg. work done, Project, Resource share, Status, Team and Work done just below the Projects key that is highlighted in the screenshot. |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Only two items show up for any of those subkeys... The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Juha Send message Joined: 7 Mar 04 Posts: 388 Credit: 1,857,738 RAC: 0 |
Thanks. Now exit Manager through File->Exit (keep client running if you like), select Projects key in Regedit, press delete or select Edit->Delete and answer yes to the question after checking that you really have the right key selected. Then restart Manager. |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Ha! You're a genius! That worked... The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14649 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
'Width 0' is a good way of hiding things... |
Juha Send message Joined: 7 Mar 04 Posts: 388 Credit: 1,857,738 RAC: 0 |
Ha! You're a genius! That worked... Well, almost. If you redo the same steps for Projects (plural) you'll get the rest of the columns back too. |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Yep, you're right... I owe you a meal at the restaurant at the end of the universe! The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
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