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William Roeder Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 69 Credit: 523,414 RAC: 0 |
That was in BOINC 6.10.36. It suddenly gorged overnight. I dropped back to 6.10.29 just an hour before the latest SETI problems started so I have no idea if 6.10.29 will handle the work queue right. 6.10.36 WAS the recommended version. Now it's 6.10.18 |
QuietIce Send message Joined: 21 Jul 06 Posts: 5 Credit: 24,098,658 RAC: 0 |
Unlike many people I see no reason to jump on the latest version unless it has a significant change that I like or need. In my short three-plus years of crunching I've never seen a version that wouldn't work months after a newer version was released - so what's the hurry? |
PsiKoPatH Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 6 Credit: 618,610 RAC: 0 |
I too have been unable to upload results or download new packages for about two and a half days now. However, the server status page is starting to look better, and the messages in the boinc manager are different now so it would seem seti is working on whatever problem there is. I think the best thing to do is to just let the manager try on it's own and eventually it'll start up again. I've been contributing for seti since 1999 (with a large hiatus in the middle when they joined boinc and due to other reasons. I'm not about to quit now. Good luck to the people trying to solve the problem. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66361 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Uploading results, downloading new work units and even updating one's project has become such a mission that one is forced to suggest shutting the project down until it can be made to work reliably at least some of the time. While I do appreciate the efforts of the project leaders, let us not forget that the contributors to the project are the ones who are paying to make it run through increased electricity bills - something we are no doubt happy to do, but I think users would be happier contributing to a project that actually works more often than not and bears some fruit. When I can in July, If I have enough, I'll send $20 to S@H, It's all I can possibly do now, But then I haven't won the Mega-Millions Lottery yet(the $20 doesn't depend on the Lottery though). :D Savoir-Faire is everywhere! The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST |
Wiktor Send message Joined: 2 Jul 01 Posts: 3 Credit: 42,032,033 RAC: 0 |
hi, Something work wrong with uploud / download again. I waiting five days and soon there'll be deathline to report my work - what a pity :( Let's us know what is going on with seti. regards Wiktor |
mat Send message Joined: 1 Feb 01 Posts: 5 Credit: 10,215,064 RAC: 4 |
Same problem here .... neither upload working nor download :( |
Minotaurus Send message Joined: 2 Feb 09 Posts: 1 Credit: 209,819 RAC: 0 |
Yes, and I have to admit that this is a very very BORING game! (Germany, Berlin, but probably from everywhere) No info, no significant server status problems visible, just failure failure failure. Even no download of new jobs... Finally, many thousands of CPU hours wasted. |
Tackleway Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 4 Credit: 82,309 RAC: 0 |
Same issues here. I'm running with Einstein 'til things are running again |
Niflhum Send message Joined: 17 Jan 01 Posts: 2 Credit: 8,559,683 RAC: 15 |
Downloading is just fine but uploading isn't working but it appears its the same for everyone. Oh and VW Bobier, I'm right there with you. As soon as I win the lottery not only does my future look brighter so does SETIs. Either way I've been at it since 2001 and I'm not stopping now so take all the time you guys need to sort things out my PCs will be waiting. |
Norwich Gadfly Send message Joined: 29 Dec 08 Posts: 100 Credit: 488,414 RAC: 0 |
I have got 10 units waiting to unload so I have suspended the fetching of new S@H work until the problem is resolved. |
Codeman05 Send message Joined: 16 Dec 01 Posts: 33 Credit: 15,457,430 RAC: 0 |
You guys are lucky, I can't even get downloads. Most of my crunchers have a large cache and still running, but a couple are sucking fumes. Here's hoping for a quick fix... |
Rick Spies Send message Joined: 11 Jul 99 Posts: 16 Credit: 23,221,600 RAC: 107 |
I have my preferences set to keep 10 days of work, so I'm still crunching S@H; I just cannot upload results. I spotted what may be a new preference which may be of interest to those who have run out of work units. ----- http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/index.php Click PREFERENCES Click SETI@HOME PREFERENCES Click EDIT SETI@HOME PREFERENCES Check "If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications?" ----- I have no idea what this will actually do as I am not out of work. |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
Hi Rick; You will usually get quicker answers to questions like this on Number Crunching. What the "If no work for selected..." will do depends on what applications you have selected. For example, I dream of getting AP units, so that is the only application selected in my preferences. I also have "If no work for selected..." set to yes, so mostly I get regular WUs these days. And about one AP unit a month. |
Keith Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 483 Credit: 938,268 RAC: 0 |
Don't think that will help. If you set a preference, for instance for astropulse, this would allow you to get Multibeam when astropulse is not available, All within SETI. Keith |
JPP Send message Joined: 31 May 99 Posts: 18 Credit: 59,436,360 RAC: 47 |
well those various outages are potentially concern to me as it may suggest distributing computing is not doing so well; as far it still depends on central 'brain' which , eventually seems to got more and more pain to handle all the clients / wonder how to setup distributed server ... this is not a complain but i wonder how far we get to some ""limits""; since clients are getting stronger and stronger.. cheers jeanpierr€@jpp |
Dave Send message Joined: 29 Mar 02 Posts: 778 Credit: 25,001,396 RAC: 0 |
Nothing is a "waste". The units are done - just awaiting a time to upload. Only a waste if you have HDD-failure in the meantime. + if you drain your cache it will actually *save* you money because your machine will drop down from 100%-loading :). |
Tagged Send message Joined: 6 Oct 02 Posts: 2 Credit: 105,573,486 RAC: 241 |
For example, I dream of getting AP units, so that is the only application selected in my preferences. I also have "If no work for selected..." set to yes, so mostly I get regular WUs these days. And about one AP unit a month. Really only one a month for AP? I've gotten about 3 or 4 AP units on each of my machines in the last week (of course a lot more regular ones to go with it also). Of course there's a nice big list of WUs waiting to be reported .. hopefully these issues get resolved before they expire :) |
RottenMutt Send message Joined: 15 Mar 01 Posts: 1011 Credit: 230,314,058 RAC: 0 |
last one out, turn out the lights!!! |
tpl Send message Joined: 12 Nov 03 Posts: 461 Credit: 243,368,408 RAC: 14 |
"Weekly Outage Every Tuesday morning (Pacific time) we have a 3-4 hour outage for database maintenance. The upload/download servers and some web pages are offline during this time" The only different to the last days is the red colour on the status page ;-) |
Rick Spies Send message Joined: 11 Jul 99 Posts: 16 Credit: 23,221,600 RAC: 107 |
Don't think that will help. Oh, I thought if you ran out of S@H work units that you wold do work on a secondary project (e.g. Folding@Home) to keep your computer busy. |
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