It is necessary to read: why have almost 1 million users and to accept the new ones, if they are unable to follow the rythm....

Jean-Paul, They have new (abeit used) servers they are working to bring online now. Until they get these up and running we have to expect these types of outage from their old equipment. The guys at Berkeley have done a fantastic job of keeping us up and running so far considering what they have had to work with. I'm sure they will get things going again when they get in to work today. It's only 6:20 AM in Berkeley as I write this. They don't work 24 hour days even though sometimes it looks like it. :)

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It is necessary to read: why have almost 1 million users and to accept the new ones, if they are unable to follow the rythm....

Jean-Paul,The guys at Berkeley have done a fantastic job of keeping us up and running so far considering what they have had to work with. I'm sure they will get things going again when they get in to work today.:)

Jerry, thank you very much for your answer and I includes/understands the formidable job very well achieved by the guy of Berkeley. Like you said, I also think, that each day, (thanks to their courage; their patience and their tenacity), the things progress to great step. Thank you very much with them and I wish them many successes….

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Ned,
I agree. The 100 result limit on the feeder is holding back throughput for getting those work units out in the field. It really needs to be 1000 for SETI.

Is the problem the 100 result limit, or the fact that when the feeder does run, it is slow?

This is a two dimensional problem. The other dimension is time.

Matt writes in the technical news yesterday and today that the splitters were putting more than their share of load on the database, and that blocking hurt performance -- including, the feeder.

Since he (and the rest of the gang at Berkeley) see the whole picture, and we don't, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

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I stopped SETI@HOME last year because of the constant "NO WORK", and last week received a request to join back, which I did. But it is still the same old problem of "NO WORK", if it can't be resolved, then I will stop again.

@ST:

It is unfortunate that you rejoined at this time as there have been at least 15 months of plenty of work available to crunchers until about 1 week ago.

So this is not "still the same old problem", but something new.

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Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the right thread for this but here goes.

I have been having a problem getting any work from SETI for what feels like weeks. I have had a variety of messages such as the servers may be down and then I started to get messages saying max uploads exceeded (don't know how with no work to do) but now when I do an update I get a message saying not requesting work?????

Can anyone give me a clue if it is worth keeping going or should I just do my bit for global warming and turn BOINC off for a few months?

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Well I'm sure that it must have been a coincidence but no sooner had I shut down the messageboard and there were 2 work units sitting on my pc waiting to start. Hey Ho

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Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the right thread for this but here goes.

I have been having a problem getting any work from SETI for what feels like weeks. I have had a variety of messages such as the servers may be down

Yes, SETI had some server troubles over the last weeks, but that should be over (for now:-).

and then I started to get messages saying max uploads exceeded (don't know how with no work to do)

There was work sporadically, and this one of your computers got some almost every day, but each one was returned with exit code -5. So, now your download quota is exceeded, to prevent that machine to "trash" too many tasks. In one of the log files, I found

Error reading from statefile: wanted 7864 bytes, got 0

That hints to problems with disk access, either bad sector (check disk) or AV restricting access.

but now when I do an update I get a message saying not requesting work?????

You do have 4 tasks downloaded, 2 on each computer.

Can anyone give me a clue if it is worth keeping going or should I just do my bit for global warming and turn BOINC off for a few months?

It is worth it, if you find the cause for the errors (and rectify it).

Gruß,
Gundolf
PS: See also Exit code -1073741819 (0xC0000005) - Einstein at the BOINC FAQ Service.

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

Well I'm sure that it must have been a coincidence but no sooner had I shut down the messageboard and there were 2 work units sitting on my pc waiting to start. Hey Ho

Yes, but they'll error out too, if you don't fix the cause. See my previous post.

Thanks for the detailed response. I have been having problems with my AV Suite so I should have twigged that that might have been affecting it.

It seems that the 2 WUs downloaded to the problem PC are crunching away ok they are at 80% & 76% so I will let them run their course. I think the AV Suite problem has been fixed now.

Once again thanks for the detailed response, I've never had less than 110% help when I have needed to ask a question on here.

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