Posts by JerWA

1) Message boards : Number crunching : no work? (Message 577648) Posted 29 May 2007 by JerWA Post: I finally got some work, but I've got more work stuck downloading and I've gotten some weird errors over the past hours. SETI@home \| 5/28/2007 1:59:45 PM \| Message from server: Can't find host record Invalid or missing account key. Visit this project's web site to get an account key. ^ Only one of these. SETI@home \| 5/28/2007 3:53:11 PM \| Scheduler request failed: HTTP service unavailable ^ Lots of these earlier. SETI@home \| 5/28/2007 4:08:47 PM \| Reason: no work from project ^ Lots of these earlier. SETI@home \| 5/28/2007 4:52:29 PM \| [file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of 19mr05aa.17027.18706.473568.3.73: system connect ^ My logs are full of these, as it's been trying to download 3 work units for almost 3 hours straight now. SETI@home \| 5/28/2007 7:21:50 PM \| Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site SETI@home \| 5/28/2007 7:21:51 PM \| Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. I think someone did this to the server:
2) Message boards : Number crunching : no work? (Message 577355) Posted 28 May 2007 by JerWA Post: SETI@home \| 5/28/2007 6:54:10 AM \| Requesting 23464 seconds of new work SETI@home \| 5/28/2007 6:54:15 AM \| Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509] SETI@home \| 5/28/2007 6:54:15 AM \| Deferring communication for 11 sec SETI@home \| 5/28/2007 6:54:15 AM \| Reason: requested by project SETI@home \| 5/28/2007 6:54:15 AM \| Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec SETI@home \| 5/28/2007 6:54:15 AM \| Reason: no work from project And here I was all excited to read that the optimized app issue was sorted. Fire up SETI again, and get the same message I did when it was broken last time. Quick, someone send the server an .
3) Message boards : Technical News : Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007) (Message 568562) Posted 16 May 2007 by JerWA Post: Hey bit a newb here. seti is trying to upload all it's wu to the server and it seems to be causing my servers to kinda stop working. why i don' know. anyway can i detach from the project and not lose all the wu that are compleated.? When you detach, the client should remove all files, which would including finished work I'd assume. Work you've already sent in, i.e. credit, won't change, but detaching isn't really necessary, just suspend the project. If you, or anyone else, is looking for something to keep your systems busy while SETI is ramping back up, go to www.boincstats.com and browse through the list of projects. Maybe there's something there you'd like, and since they're all BOINC, adding a project to keep your computer(s) busy for a few days is quick and easy (as is suspending the other project(s) when SETI is back up). Just a thought. Edit*: To clarify, boincstats is not a project, it's just a stats site that happens to have a list of the majority of BOINC projects including links to their home pages (in the server status list).
4) Message boards : Technical News : Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007) (Message 568139) Posted 15 May 2007 by JerWA Post: Glad to hear it's on the radar at least. Have a ton of stuck WUs, but none due for the next 13 days or so, so no rush.
5) Message boards : Technical News : Gasping for Air (May 14 2007) (Message 567728) Posted 15 May 2007 by JerWA Post: So far It been almost 12 hours and I think I've restarted the PC once for M$ and I've uploaded a WU and reported a grand total of 1 time each, Something is Broken. I'm beginning to agree. 1) The network bits/second should not be declining while my ability to download is still effectively nothing. 2) The network bits/second should not be declining while my ability to upload is nothing. If you look at the graphs you should notice something "out of spec" right away, in that outbound bytes are spiking WAY out of average, and sometimes higher than receiving. I think, as mentioned in the first post, the problem is simply flooding the network connection on their side. The BOINC client has never been very happy about unstable connections, and I think that's what we're dealing with at the moment. I'd say it should sort itself out over time, except that with over 600,000 users and a week of backlogged workunits, we (users) may be generating enough traffic to keep it in a constant state of flux until/unless Berkley does something on their side to throttle it down to something the servers are happy with. Edit: Hey Batman, don't suppose you could be convinced to move those logs someplace else so that it's a link rather than something we have to scroll past? Just a thought.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : download_fanout and cc_config (Message 567173) Posted 14 May 2007 by JerWA Post: It is a lot easier if you just use proxy 128.32.18.173 this will allow download but not uploads, please turn off the proxy when downloads complete so others can use it. Worked a charm to get the WUs stuck in the download queue clear (very fast transfers too). Thanks, helps keep things going while we're waiting for someone to smack the servers around. Now if only there was a way to clear the 16 WUs stuck in upload.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Processor Identification changed in 5.8.x? (Message 565607) Posted 12 May 2007 by JerWA Post: I know, not a SETI thing, but I figured someone might know. I have several AMD systems, and only one of them exhibits this, but the processor identification is missing a string now. In 5.4.11: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ In 5.8.15 (and .16): AMD Athlon(tm) XP [x86 Family 6 Model 10 Stepping 0] The other two show like this: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ [x86 Family 15 Model 47 Stepping 2] AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ [x86 Family 15 Model 44 Stepping 2] All 3 systems are on Windows XP, using 5.8.16 now. Any idea why it's suddenly unable to figure out that it's a 3000+ and why there's no "Processor" string? It's not impacting anything, just bugs me is all hehe.
8) Message boards : Technical News : Timing is Everything (May 09 2007) (Message 565605) Posted 12 May 2007 by JerWA Post: I think I got you beat. I used a GE-265 in 1970. It had 23 meg Byte drives that weighed 3 tons. Needless to say, the school (ASU) owned it. I am sure someone can do even better. Not me. I used cassettes, and saw an actual working 8" diskette, but my first hard drive was 20 megabytes (MFM interface). It filled two 5.25" bays and must have weighed 10 lbs. Let's see, other firsts... that same PC needed 3rd party software to use it's 1 MB of RAM... and I overclocked it with a crystal (physical) I got at Radio Shack following instructions I found on a BBS; 16Mhz 8086 for the win! That system also hosted my own BBS for quite awhile. I bought the first 14.4k modem to hit the market for $295 (US Robotics). I bought an 800MB SCSI hard drive drive for $900 wholesale. I put 32MB of RAM in my 486/100, the same one with that hard drive, at the bargain price of $51 per MB. That machine ran a serial bus expansion that let me run 4 modems, but I had to use DR DOS for multi-tasking. Ah, those were the days.
9) Message boards : Technical News : Timing is Everything (May 09 2007) (Message 565526) Posted 12 May 2007 by JerWA Post: Don't you hate it when your server explodes? Did the subsequent black hole register in an Astropulse or Einstein workunit? Anywho, there are so many BOINC projects and it takes so little time to shuffle them around that I don't get why everyone is so upset. I know my "farm" isn't exactly huge at 9 boxes, but with BoincView it takes me 5 minutes to switch them all to different projects. I have many of the rigs on multiple projects (dual cores), and many others with suspended projects for easy re-activation for times just like this. Out of those 9 machines I have 26 projects listed (including duplicates for different machines on the same project), there's certainly no need for any machine to sit idle while SETI rebuilds. Set your queue time low, let them work on other projects for a few days. Broaden your horizons. That said, much luck with the new server, I (and about 640,000 other users according to BOINCStats) will be waiting when it comes back online.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Uh-oh.......can't upload completed results? (Message 495665) Posted 1 Jan 2007 by JerWA Post: Everything uploaded finally, and I didn't see any validation errors (but I did get a lot of pendings), but it's telling me no work from project now. Not good, as I'm on my last WU with about 5 minutes left to crunch. 1/1/2007 10:12:43 AM\|SETI@home\|Requesting 168855 seconds of new work 1/1/2007 10:12:48 AM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request succeeded 1/1/2007 10:12:48 AM\|SETI@home\|No work from project :-(
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Uh-oh.......can't upload completed results? (Message 495261) Posted 1 Jan 2007 by JerWA Post: Worked fine all day after this mornings problems, but I've got a WU stuck again now despite all servers showing green. 12/31/2006 7:49:20 PM\|SETI@home\|Started upload of file 01dc03ab.21618.10016.122158.3.216_2_0 12/31/2006 7:49:42 PM\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 12/31/2006 7:49:42 PM\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed upload of 01dc03ab.21618.10016.122158.3.216_2_0: http error 12/31/2006 7:49:43 PM\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. At least it downloaded a whole days work first, I was down to 2 WUs waiting to process this morning and it had me worried about idling. ;-) Edit: Forgot to mention that I did lose one to validation errors this morning as well. <sigh>
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Uh-oh.......can't upload completed results? (Message 492997) Posted 29 Dec 2006 by JerWA Post: Server status was showing the Up/Down server administratively taken down and almost everything else was red, but everything is back to green now except the splitters. Unfortunately, work still won't upload. :-( Edit: Nevermind, it's working now. Must have caught it right when the status said online but the servers weren't fully online. ;-)
13) Questions and Answers : Windows : No work from project? (Message 33221) Posted 6 Oct 2004 by JerWA Post: > Same here im , Im also getting the same reply. Maybe a little patience is > required and WU's will start to be issued again. > If your connecting with the scehduler and getting a no work response i would > say there is nothing wrong your end and its just a case of patience my > friend. > > p.s > > I hope :) > <img> src="http://boinc.mundayweb.com/seti2/stats.php?userID=1329&trans=off"> > I'm still getting hit and miss WUs. Two machines, same processor, RAM and OS. One machine is getting 1 WU and a second about the time the first hits 80% done... the other got 6 WUs all in one go (after being told no work for 2 hours). :S It's also been saying scheduler down for the last hour.

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