My main SETI farm machine's cache looks to be reducing. Looking at the BOINC Manager "Messages" tab suggests there is no requests for new work, which may account for the reducing cache.

System is crunching OK, and sending off results. The "no new tasks" button, in the Projects tab remains untouched.

Anyone else experiencing this?

NOTE: No other rig in the farm seems to be acting this way, and no Preferences have been changed for a long time!

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I had few systems that could upload for about 3 hours last night. All seems to be ok now.

My main SETI farm machine's cache looks to be reducing. Looking at the BOINC Manager "Messages" tab suggests there is no requests for new work, which may account for the reducing cache.

System is crunching OK, and sending off results. The "no new tasks" button, in the Projects tab remains untouched.

Anyone else experiencing this?

NOTE: No other rig in the farm seems to be acting this way, and no Preferences have been changed for a long time!

Do you crunch other projects as well? Maybe their units are bigger and your computer is 'guessing' it needs to put some time in so they get done before they expire. If this is the case, Seti will get more time later.

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My main SETI farm machine's cache looks to be reducing. Looking at the BOINC Manager "Messages" tab suggests there is no requests for new work, which may account for the reducing cache.

System is crunching OK, and sending off results. The "no new tasks" button, in the Projects tab remains untouched.

Anyone else experiencing this?

NOTE: No other rig in the farm seems to be acting this way, and no Preferences have been changed for a long time!

Do you crunch other projects as well? Maybe their units are bigger and your computer is 'guessing' it needs to put some time in so they get done before they expire. If this is the case, Seti will get more time later.

No Mikey ... SETI only.

Just noticed one uploaded about half an hour ago, but the cache is much smaller than normal.

This has been reducing over the last 24 hours, and may be related to the sliggish SETI/Cogent connection mentioned in another thread on this Forum.

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

My main SETI farm machine's cache looks to be reducing. Looking at the BOINC Manager "Messages" tab suggests there is no requests for new work, which may account for the reducing cache.

System is crunching OK, and sending off results. The "no new tasks" button, in the Projects tab remains untouched.

Anyone else experiencing this?

NOTE: No other rig in the farm seems to be acting this way, and no Preferences have been changed for a long time!

Do you crunch other projects as well? Maybe their units are bigger and your computer is 'guessing' it needs to put some time in so they get done before they expire. If this is the case, Seti will get more time later.

No Mikey ... SETI only.

Just noticed one uploaded about half an hour ago, but the cache is much smaller than normal.

This has been reducing over the last 24 hours, and may be related to the sliggish SETI/Cogent connection mentioned in another thread on this Forum.

The sluggish connection should not do what you are seeing. You would have deferred connections, not no connections. I am thinking maybe it could be your settings on the web site need checking. They have been known to change seemingly by themsleves in the past. Do you use more than the default location? i.e. home, school, work.
One other thing you should check is to see if you are taking longer to process units now. That would explain it too.

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My main SETI farm machine's cache looks to be reducing. Looking at the BOINC Manager "Messages" tab suggests there is no requests for new work, which may account for the reducing cache.

System is crunching OK, and sending off results. The "no new tasks" button, in the Projects tab remains untouched.

Anyone else experiencing this?

NOTE: No other rig in the farm seems to be acting this way, and no Preferences have been changed for a long time!

Do you crunch other projects as well? Maybe their units are bigger and your computer is 'guessing' it needs to put some time in so they get done before they expire. If this is the case, Seti will get more time later.

No Mikey ... SETI only.

Just noticed one uploaded about half an hour ago, but the cache is much smaller than normal.

This has been reducing over the last 24 hours, and may be related to the sliggish SETI/Cogent connection mentioned in another thread on this Forum.

The sluggish connection should not do what you are seeing. You would have deferred connections, not no connections. I am thinking maybe it could be your settings on the web site need checking. They have been known to change seemingly by themsleves in the past. Do you use more than the default location? i.e. home, school, work.
One other thing you should check is to see if you are taking longer to process units now. That would explain it too.

Just checked General Preferences, which seemed unchanged. But I modified some of them to force a redo when the next connection occurs. These are the only preferences I use, no other default locations.

I revisited the WU times, and completion timings are the same as previously.

Very puzzling, but at least the cache has not shrunk too quickly.

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

Have you downloaded some "larger" units that are going to take longer to crunch?

That'd make the cache smaller, I think.

Steve.

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My main SETI farm machine's cache looks to be reducing. Looking at the BOINC Manager "Messages" tab suggests there is no requests for new work, which may account for the reducing cache.

System is crunching OK, and sending off results. The "no new tasks" button, in the Projects tab remains untouched.

Anyone else experiencing this?

NOTE: No other rig in the farm seems to be acting this way, and no Preferences have been changed for a long time!

Do you crunch other projects as well? Maybe their units are bigger and your computer is 'guessing' it needs to put some time in so they get done before they expire. If this is the case, Seti will get more time later.

No Mikey ... SETI only.

Just noticed one uploaded about half an hour ago, but the cache is much smaller than normal.

This has been reducing over the last 24 hours, and may be related to the sliggish SETI/Cogent connection mentioned in another thread on this Forum.

The sluggish connection should not do what you are seeing. You would have deferred connections, not no connections. I am thinking maybe it could be your settings on the web site need checking. They have been known to change seemingly by themsleves in the past. Do you use more than the default location? i.e. home, school, work.
One other thing you should check is to see if you are taking longer to process units now. That would explain it too.

Just checked General Preferences, which seemed unchanged. But I modified some of them to force a redo when the next connection occurs. These are the only preferences I use, no other default locations.

I revisited the WU times, and completion timings are the same as previously.

Very puzzling, but at least the cache has not shrunk too quickly.

How do the estimated times to completion for the WUs still waiting to crunch, compare with the actual completion times for the WUs you've done? I find that when we have a wide range of types of WU (as we do at the moment, with the old uncrunched data tapes) that you sometimes get one which takes longer than expected to crunch. Then BOINC assumes that all WUs are going to take proportionately longer to crunch (the estimates go up), and the cache seems fuller than it really is. So, no need to download any more work to fill it....

I see your machine has downloaded 4 WUs this afternoon, so it isn't completely cut off from the network. I expect it'll carry on doing this, downloading slightly more often than it reports, as the estimates get back to normal and the cache refills to the normal size. All part of the fun.