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Message 868091 - Posted: 22 Feb 2009, 16:30:46 UTC - in response to Message 867946.  
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Thank you littlegreenmanfrommars for posting this a while ago:
"Best advice in such a situation is to turn off network activity for a while.
(BOINC tool menu > select Network activity suspended)."
- i have wanted to know what to do in this situation since i joined.
Competition is so intense; am happy to just slow down a little for the server's sake.
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Message 868099 - Posted: 22 Feb 2009, 16:51:29 UTC - in response to Message 868080.  

The way it actually works is one bad task = -1 quota, one good task = 2x current quota. I think it should be more along the lines of +2 and not 2x. That would greatly help the "damage control" efforts that the quota tries to do anyway.


Sounds good to me, block errant clients quickly, then restore quota as they once more prove themselves stable.
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Message 868103 - Posted: 22 Feb 2009, 16:56:46 UTC - in response to Message 867985.  

... a temporary stop to AP downloads, until the cause of the anomaly can be investigated and corrected. Once the runaway download train is brought under control, uploads will look after themselves.

After having a few more looks at Scarecrow's AP graphs thoughout the day, this measure gets my vote. It's all those AP units being downloaded that's clogging up the pipe.

OK, had a night's sleep and I think I've found the problem - well, the next stage in the chain.

Have a look at WU 417685549. Downloaded seven times, mine is the only one which is running - every other copy failed because they couldn't download the executable file. All my recent AP allocations look like that, though this is the most extreme.

Eric needs to turn on the 'proxy server' distribution channel used when new MB executables threaten to clog the pipes - or AP distribution needs to be restricted to those who have manually downloaded and installed the new Lunatics r112 optimisation for Astropulse_v5 (plug!).


As far as I can tell, they have Coral Cache turned on for the AP v5 as this link still works. The problem is a lot of the antivirus apps mark the redirect as suspect and do not allow the download to happen.

Of course then then we get the task errors because there is no app to process the work.


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