There is a ten minute delay built into the system between requests for workunits. This is to keep people from "hammering" the server to get more workunits.

There was a power outage last week Tuesday, see the News of March 3, 2006 at the homepage. Afterwards, some problems occurred with some servers, see the Technical news.

Due to the long outage, a lot of hosts are trying to catch work. As for the moment, the splitters can’t fulfill the demand of WU’s, see the server status at
Database/file status
Results ready to send = 12 (not real time data)

Like a lot of others, you will need to have some patience.

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Read the News at the homepage
Have a look at the Technical News
Look if your question is not answered at the Boinc Wiki

Best greetings, Thierry

I know you just recently had a power related shutdown problem and that it took several days to straighten things out so that we could start downloading units to work on. However, I, all too often, over the past year at least, have gotten a silly message that says your server will not download to me because it has been too short a time since it gave me other work or some such nonsense. The server should give me work whenever I ask for it as long as the current work unit has been post-processed correctly. I am running 3 PCs, 500MHz PIII, a 1.3MHz Athlon and an Athlon 3000. These together crunch well and fast. What is the real problem? Are there so many workers now that there is not enough work to cover us all, all of the time? If that is the case, then I can sign up for other efforts and spread my computing donation out. Please help me understand what is going on. I do not remember having such bothersome problems using the old SETI system.

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