Posts by Gary McCall
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SETI@home Staff Blog :
Welcome to the SETI@home staff blog.
(Message 1494566)
Posted 24 Mar 2014 by  Gary McCall
Post: Quick Question: Why does it take so long to process certain jobs? I have 5 jobs still in the pending status going back to mid-February and more than a dozen still pending from the first week of March, and yet some of the jobs that were completed only last week have already been processed. There does not seem to be any visible logic to how the process works. Please advise... |
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News :
Astropulse Offline
(Message 1482336)
Posted 27 Feb 2014 by Gary McCall
Post: Am I right in assuming that this server failure has also had a ripple effect on other parts of the system? I have more than a dozen completed jobs waiting/pending upload (most of them are not Astropulse jobs), and I have several dozen completed jobs (pending credit) which do not appear to be progressing towards validation. Would you please post additional updates with respect to what other features/functions have been impacted by this server failure? |
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Technical News :
Composite Head (Nov 05 2008)
(Message 829004)
Posted 10 Nov 2008 by Gary McCall
Post: Do these recent problems have anything to do with what seems to be an ever-increasing delay in the awarding of processed credits? Over the past few weeks, I've seen the average pending credits on my projects nearly double, from an average of 1900-2200 credits a day pending to more than 5400 pending as of this morning. Over the past month or so, I've also noted that credits pending for Astropulse jobs are taking two to three times longer to be awarded than those for the other data sets. |
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Number crunching :
Upload problems.
(Message 545494)
Posted 13 Apr 2007 by Gary McCall
Post: It would appear that uploading is not the only problem. I noted this morning that the Knights..., BoincStats, Combined Stats, etc. have not updated their result credit totals since 4/10. I've accrued nearly 5000 credits since their last update, and after three days, the rankings are completely inaccurate (or more-so now than normal). I have also experienced some downloading problems over the past week. Some of these downloads continually retried for up to 2 days, before I finally aborted them. Once the problem downloads were aborted however, the project managed to kick off new download requests which were successful. I had to abort about a half-dozen jobs on two different computers between 4/7 and 4/11. In the past 24 hours, uploading and downloading problems seem to have been resolved, but I can't help wondering if these problems with Kryten might also (still) be creating the problems noted with the stat aggregation folks.(?) |
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Questions and Answers :
Preferences :
General Preferences still not updating for Seti
(Message 443669)
Posted 25 Oct 2006 by Gary McCall
Post: Ozz -- you've posted a number of replies to this particular issue under multiple threads. You defend BOINC while acknowledging the preferences issue, yet you offer no assistance or useful advice to others on how to remedy the problem. If you know how to fix this problem, why don't you say so. If you're not having this problem yourself, please don't assume that it is not a real problem for others, and if you don't know how to fix it, why bother to post a reply at all? I know how long this project has been running and I know how many hundreds of thousand of systems are crunching away at the data every day, but that doesn't mean the BOINC software doesn't have problem. I'm running the very latest version (5.4.11 BOINC), and even after repeated installations, it simply refuses to run based on the preferences I've set, and there are a lot of other users making these same complaints. I've set my preferences (and SAVED and UPDATED) repeatedly. I want the processes idle when I'm working, with a delay of 5 minutes after no activity, but the process continues to run continously 24/7, unless I manually suspend it. Again, if you can help, please do. If not, quit wasting our time with useless replies. My general preferencer still are not updating for Seti, are they ever going to fix it???? |
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Questions and Answers :
Preferences :
Can't get SETI to stop
(Message 443663)
Posted 25 Oct 2006 by Gary McCall
Post: Agreed. Whether some believe it or not, there does appear to be a problem. I have completely uninstalled and reinstalled the BOINC software and have repeated check both my local configuration (verified as running with preferences) and I have repeatedly run the preference settings under my account -- and yes, saved them repeatedly! No matter what I do, BOINC runs full bore all the time. I have a 3gig P4, and it runs very hot on some processing runs, to the extent that I have to manually suspend the project in order to allow it to cool down -- it even overheated about a week ago and froze the system. If anyone else if having this problem, I'd very much like to know the solution. Is is possibly a Windows registry key? Is it a problem with the current BOINC version? I don't know -- but it IS a real problem.
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