Starting at 3:13 this afternoon, started getting error messages.

1/30/2007 3:13:33 PM||Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
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. (the message have continued all night)
.
1/30/2007 7:37:05 PM|SETI@home|Started download of file 10my00aa.14124.20705.204810.3.148
1/30/2007 7:37:30 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
1/30/2007 7:37:30 PM|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of 10my00aa.14124.20705.204810.3.148: http error
1/30/2007 7:37:30 PM|SETI@home|Backing off 59 minutes and 20 seconds on download of file 10my00aa.14124.20705.204810.3.148
1/30/2007 7:37:31 PM||Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.

Any ideas ?

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We are currently in the recovery aftermath of a planned outrage, when the database is being worked on, compressed and backed up. The recovery period tends to be long before normal service (and WU U/Ls and new WU D/Ls) settle down!

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

Is there a certain period of time that the WUs will "time-out" if the download doesn't complete and become "Ghosts"?

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Is there a certain period of time that the WUs will "time-out" if the download doesn't complete and become "Ghosts"?

I guess you could call the WUs deadline just that. Hopefully it will be uploaded long before that, since the deadlines are measured in weeks and most uploads are completed within hours, even on long outages. But in the strict sense, they don't become ghost WUs, they only expire.

Regards,
Wander

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Kryten is having the vapours (quaint old English expression)...again.

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Account frozen...

Kryten is having the vapours (quaint old English expression)...again.

I think Kryten is having even more serious problems like cardiac arrest. BETA has been sending NO WORK messages (even though the server status shows 29,000+ WUs available) since early this morning and all my crunchers have now reached 24 hour deferral :-(

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!!Stupidity should be PAINFUL!!

Currently, I would think that the name be changed to "oblivious"

Kryten is having the vapours (quaint old English expression)...again.

More like Vapor lock. ;)

Could that new server Sidius do Krytens job?

Or do We need a server named Vader?

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All 6 of my machines are having problems uploading AND downloading and this has been going on since last night. Something is SERIOUSLY wrong.

All 6 of my machines are having problems uploading AND downloading and this has been going on since last night. Something is SERIOUSLY wrong.

See the new Technical News forum. Matt has had to reboot the server twice today … and the more downtime it gets, the more intense the pounding it receives (with concomitant delays & dropped connections) when it comes back up.

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I'm stll getting the same error.

2/5/2007 12:00:42 AM|SETI@home|Started upload of file 18my00aa.12610.8289.473568.3.148_0_0
2/5/2007 12:01:04 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2/5/2007 12:01:04 AM|SETI@home|Temporarily failed upload of 18my00aa.12610.8289.473568.3.148_0_0: http error
2/5/2007 12:01:04 AM|SETI@home|Backing off 1 minutes and 0 seconds on upload of file 18my00aa.12610.8289.473568.3.148_0_0
2/5/2007 12:01:05 AM||Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
2/5/2007 12:02:05 AM|SETI@home|Started upload of file 18my00aa.12610.8289.473568.3.148_0_0
2/5/2007 12:02:35 AM|SETI@home|Finished upload of file 18my00aa.12610.8289.473568.3.148_0_0
2/5/2007 12:02:35 AM|SETI@home|Throughput 1073 bytes/sec
2/5/2007 12:53:46 AM|SETI@home|Started download of file 17my00aa.2347.29281.748586.3.255
2/5/2007 12:54:08 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2/5/2007 12:54:08 AM|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of 17my00aa.2347.29281.748586.3.255: http error
2/5/2007 12:54:08 AM|SETI@home|Backing off 2 hours, 40 minutes and 59 seconds on download of file 17my00aa.2347.29281.748586.3.255
2/5/2007 12:54:09 AM||Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
2/5/2007 12:54:35 AM|SETI@home|Started download of file 18my00aa.25368.28514.548578.3.44
2/5/2007 12:54:36 AM|SETI@home|Started download of file 07jn00aa.20200.19362.136088.3.178
2/5/2007 12:54:57 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2/5/2007 12:54:57 AM|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of 18my00aa.25368.28514.548578.3.44: http error
2/5/2007 12:54:57 AM|SETI@home|Backing off 46 minutes and 57 seconds on download of file 18my00aa.25368.28514.548578.3.44
2/5/2007 12:54:58 AM||Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
2/5/2007 12:54:58 AM|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of 07jn00aa.20200.19362.136088.3.178: http error
2/5/2007 12:54:58 AM|SETI@home|Backing off 2 hours, 8 minutes and 59 seconds on download of file 07jn00aa.20200.19362.136088.3.178

Glad I have 7 wu stored , any idea's when things will be back to "normal" ?

Have you tried stopping and restarting BOINC?

And if that doesn't clear it, restarting the PC?

Have you tried stopping and restarting BOINC?

I'll give that a shot

You could also try Pappa's suggestion in msg 512228

Andy

Have you tried stopping and restarting BOINC?

Okay, I stopped & rebooted. That worked.

The three wu's that were waiting are now downloaded.

Thanks for the hints.

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I have three machines at a location that were unable to download new work. I shut down BONIC on all three machines and rebooted each machine. Now BONIC is back up and getting work.

However, one of the laptops downloaded work and began to crunch. It is still generating a large number of computation errors. I really don't know what could be causing this. This particular laptop is one I got from my daughter when I bought her a new one. This machine had a problem with shutting down, but now that I have cleaned all the dust out of the system and did an nuke and pave (clean OS install) this problem has gone away.

In part, I have been using SETI crunching to test the laptop extensively. It is performing work, but it has a much higher incident of computational errors than any of my other five machines.

The only program running on this machine is BONIC. Here is the listing for this machine. Any ideas would be appreciated.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=3055662

Dennis,

Stop using the screen saver. That machine has a shared video memory, and this can cause the issues you are having. You can look for updated video drivers, and make sure you have the latest patches to DirectX 9.0c.

Not using the screen saver will also save crunching time. I use a blank screen saver on those machines I HAVE to use a screen saver on. Those 3D ones can cause issues.

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Hey Dennis,

Pooh Bear hit the spot. Looking at some of your work units, the exit code -1073741819 usually means something is up with the video drivers.

There was another exit code, - exit code -1072365552 that i couldn't find anything on. I know a lot of discussion on here with laptops is that they overheat quickly, and throttle down the speed of the CPU. Make sure you have good cooling, and you may want to use a program to limit the amount of CPU usage, or try version 5.8.x BOINC, you can also set in your General preferences on how much CPU to use as well.

Good luck!

Jeremy

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Haven't been able to D/L WUs for Apple w/ intel in 2 days.
Get this message:

Mon Feb 5 08:51:24 2007||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
Mon Feb 5 08:51:24 2007||Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
Mon Feb 5 08:51:24 2007|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of 20ap00aa.5520.2320.134656.3.21: http error
Mon Feb 5 08:51:24 2007|SETI@home|Backing off 1 minutes and 0 seconds on download of file 20ap00aa.5520.2320.134656.3.21
Mon Feb 5 08:51:24 2007|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of 20ap00aa.5520.2320.134656.3.56: http error
Mon Feb 5 08:51:24 2007|SETI@home|Backing off 1 minutes and 0 seconds on download of file 20ap00aa.5520.2320.134656.3.56

Server status shows fine on Berkeley's end.
What's up w/ this?

I've re-started BOINC and also have reset project (HATE to do this!)
Same thing.

Anyone w/ Intel Macs having similar problem?
BTW, I'm running 5.4.11 stable release.

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Dennis,

Stop using the screen saver. That machine has a shared video memory, and this can cause the issues you are having. You can look for updated video drivers, and make sure you have the latest patches to DirectX 9.0c.

Not using the screen saver will also save crunching time. I use a blank screen saver on those machines I HAVE to use a screen saver on. Those 3D ones can cause issues.

Thanks for the suggestion, however, I do not use any screen saver. I have the screen set to power off after a few minutes. I also have it on a forced fan cooling rack.

When I did the nuke and pave on the machine I made sure every and all drivers were updated. The machine does indeed have that share video memory stuff and it is sucking up 128MB of the 1GB installed.

Funny, nothing else appears to have any errors showing up. I will look into the new version to pull down the CPU load on this machine a bit. Perhaps that will help. I have a large work unit about to be finished I hope it is free of errors.