I have seti@boinc wu's waiting to go back and I am out of seti@boinc wu's to crunch on three pc's. I may have to go back to seti classic for something to do. Does anyone know how long this condition of not being able to send wu's back to seti@boinc and get new wu's is going to last?

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I have seti@boinc wu's waiting to go back and I am out of seti@boinc wu's to crunch on three pc's. I may have to go back to seti classic for something to do. Does anyone know how long this condition of not being able to send wu's back to seti@boinc and get new wu's is going to last?

Usually when this happens on a weekend, we're S.O.L. for the whole weekend. Monday will be the first we'll be able to connect, if we're lucky....

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As a previous seti@home user (classic), I became frustrated at all the down times the servers had, to the point that I quit seti@home on 5/Dec/2003. I dropped by yesterday to see what was new and low and behold, the Boinc project was up and running. Ok I said to myself, lets give them another shot with this new client. I managed to process 20 WU's and boom... the servers are down. Now I realize that it's a weekend and most if not all of the staff at the center are off enjoying the Sun, but is it too much to ask that someone drive by and kick the server that's causing the backlog.

Needless to say, I'm frustrated again and I've only been back less than 24 hours. I guess I'll go back to the distributed project that I was working on before. At least they're willing to kick a server or two when things snafu.

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All is not lost, if you return a result after the deadline you may still get the appropriate credit. If the WU has not reached quorom when you return the result it will still count. Only results returned after the deadline and the quorom has been reached are wasted. Since everybody is unable to connect then there is a strong chance that you will still get credit once the network connection is restored.

Wouldn't the downside to that be when you get the 4th (or later) WU and finish that after the first 3 are turned in?

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me@rescam.org

if i set it higher (1 day, 2 day,3 day, 5 day, 10 day, anything but .1) it will go into panic mode and not download anything from SETI at all.

well i burned thru my cache and thanks to debt issues i have nothing to do, can not download work from any other project attached to... if this keeps up to long i will uninstall and go back to a previous version of BOINC.

You must have bought into the "0.1 day cache is the only choice for the new scheduler" advise... too bad.

Yep, that's what I found out, but I changed mine to 2 days instead of 0.1 days.

For 4.19 & 4.25 it worked great for Einstein if your computer was on only part-time.
I recently reset it to 1 day and will see how that goes.

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me@rescam.org

I've got my cache set to 9 days. It gives me about 3 days worth of actual crunch time (excluding short WU's).

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if you run out of seti to crunch...and boinc is just sitting there...try suspending the project (seti)...then the scheduler should go looking for more WU'S from other projects.

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PROUD TO BE TFFE!

if you run out of seti to crunch...and boinc is just sitting there...try suspending the project (seti)...then the scheduler should go looking for more WU'S from other projects.

I did that to get more SETI units (before the current scheduler situation). But the problem with this is that with my 80:20 settings SETI builds even more debt while the Einstein is suspended.

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me@rescam.org

if you run out of seti to crunch...and boinc is just sitting there...try suspending the project (seti)...then the scheduler should go looking for more WU'S from other projects.

I did that to get more SETI units (before the current scheduler situation). But the problem with this is that with my 80:20 settings SETI builds even more debt while the Einstein is suspended.

maybe the next version of the scheduler will cancel all your debts.

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PROUD TO BE TFFE!

maybe the next version of the scheduler will cancel all your debts.

LoL.

Maybe folks can get one of those debt-consolidation loans?

Seems there is some problem. 2 uploads waiting to retry, 1 download.
Neither will 'resume'.
According to http://fragment1.berkeley.edu/~cricket/inr-668-interfaces.html , traffic has dropped to a fraction over past 2-3 hours.

Well, it's a week-end, what did we expect?

At least I have a 7 day cache ;)

Shoot! This is not good. All my units are processed and I have nothing to process.

Just in case this happens again how do I increase my SETI's cache? I hate to see all this unused CPU power going to waste.

Better yet, add a 2nd (or 3rd) project.

if you run out of seti to crunch...and boinc is just sitting there...try suspending the project (seti)...then the scheduler should go looking for more WU'S from other projects.

If there is any work at all it will run that. IF there is NO work it will ask for work from projects until it finds some regardless of any debt numbers. Shouldn't need to suspend anything for work to happen.

maybe the next version of the scheduler will cancel all your debts.

LoL.

Maybe folks can get one of those debt-consolidation loans?

lol...good one digger...we're all going to be in debt to BOINC for years and years.

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Take a look at the Status Page.

Something is going on.

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...we're all going to be in debt to BOINC for years and years.

LoL@Dan...

Actually I had just switched back to Classic prior to this weekend's outage, in order to polish off some personal goals there, so I've got a nice big cache in SetiDriver to keep me happy. Surprisingly, the bulk of work units I've been crunching on Classic are from Spring, 2005... so it's not really the old, recycled stuff everyone thinks it is.

Anyway, I shall happily return to BOINC at some point and try out the new scheduler. Sounds like John is working very hard on it. :)

Dig

maybe the next version of the scheduler will cancel all your debts.

LoL. Maybe folks can get one of those debt-consolidation loans?

Where four different schedulers compete for your business.

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me@rescam.org

maybe the next version of the scheduler will cancel all your debts.

LoL. Maybe folks can get one of those debt-consolidation loans?

Where four different schedulers compete for your business.

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Something along the line of diedebt dot com?

From the main page:

June 4, 2005
The file server containing the upload/download storage hung last evening. We had to power cycle it today to bring it back. It is now back up and the RAID is resync'ing. When this is complete we will bring scheduling and data service back on line.

Hopefully we'll be up- and downloading again in the morning.. :)

Greetings,
Speedy67

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maybe the next version of the scheduler will cancel all your debts.

LoL. Maybe folks can get one of those debt-consolidation loans?

Where four different schedulers compete for your business.

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Something along the line of diedebt dot com?

darn!...lost another one to ditech!

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PROUD TO BE TFFE!

Seems to have started uploading again (don't need more work just yet...) about an hour ago. Of course, there'll be a traffic jam for a while...

Ah, and from the front page:

June 4, 2005
Update: the scheduling and data servers are back on line. Service may be a bit slow for a while.

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