Posts by Francesco Forti

I just managed to get some WUs by sitting back and doing nothing for the last few hours.

The quota thing, also looks promising. Over time it looks as if it is going to reward those that takes care of their WU's, and punishing those who deliberately abort them, or constantly turns in WU's that error out for one reason or another.

I agree that it looks promising, but I can't help feeling that the GPU crunchers are going to get hit when they generate -12 errors (something that can't be avoided).

The quota code has changed dramatically.

There is a separate quota per application version, and for good computers that consistently return valid work, there is no cap on the quota as it is incremented by one at validation. However, errored or late tasks drop the quota to min(current quota, app specified quota) - 1, and invalid tasks drop the quota by 1 from where it is. In other words if you have a daily quota of 1000 and your machine generates an error, your quota for that app will be 99. If it is currently 50 and you generate an error it will be 49. If it is 100,000 and you have yet another validation success, it will be 100,001.

This way machines that never return an error eventually can get all the tasks they want.

I have finished all the job on http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2693912
So I have done "reset" and also detach ad attach.

Hi Francesco,
Are you referring to 0.36 installer(newer) versus 0.35 installer(older) ?

Usually it just indicates something was keeping BOINC from updating the heartbeat it sends to the science app, and "repeatedly" should be only a concern if it happens more than once an hour or so. The advice to reset the project and thereby trash all work and applications should be only considered as a last resort which might possibly fix a case caused by a corrupted app or set of WUs.

Each instance does cost crunch time since the last checkpoint plus time to do a restart, and there could have been some more time lost before BOINC was able to see that the app exited. So if it's happening more than a few times a day it would make sense to try to figure out what's interfering with BOINC and take steps to fix it.

Joe

So I revert to the previuos Lunatic app.
The message about app_info disappered but I'm still without job (Message from server: Project has no jobs available)

Yeah, I forgot about all those "This looks interesting, I think I install this" types.

By the way: I see
Results returned and awaiting validation 6,043,837
Results out in the field 6,284,723

When a reissue is created it goes at the end of the "Results ready to send" queue, so for this project under normal conditions is sent out within a few hours.

Mostly because the wingmate's result has not yet been received. That's the total "pending", some may be inconclusives too.