I never run out of work. I even still have a Seti and Seti Beta WU that are only partially done. Other the Seti, I have three projects currently not supplying work, plus three dead projects on my list. Boinc is working precisely as the developers intended.

Except we are on the Seti board not the Boinc board...Some of us choose to only run seti and it gives us a chance to whine and blow steam. It is really quite harmless but also a part of the Hobby....Eric would probably get bored if everything always worked and the boards would be dead. LOL! Back to B*tchin...

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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

i'm here for the free coffee.
and flavored half and half..

(Hiamps...your RAC is higher than mine.
Stop that!)

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Getting problems with uploads/downloads/reporting now again.

It's sad because apparently Boinc/Seti cannot function properly without constant onsite human intervention to keep it online.

Hmm, a bt harsh - and wrong, IMO. My BOINC is still working - it's still crunching SETI WUs, which is precisely what it us supposed to be doing. The SETI servers are flaky, yes - but that is PRECISELY why we have BOINC to look after the flow of work - to & from our home PCs. That way SETI doesn't rely on state of the art servers - on it's VERY limited budget.

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Signs of life....
3/13/2010 12:43:28 PM SETI@home Finished upload of 17no09ac.22446.14382.5.10.156_1_0

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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

i'm here for the free coffee.
and flavored half and half..

(Hiamps...your RAC is higher than mine.
Stop that!)

Thats what happens with the summer farm, I will probably Almost catch up by fall and fall behind again, unless you get new A/C...Oh oh....

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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

The upload problem is certainly back with a vengance. Allmost all of the uploads time out within a second of starting. A few start to upload, but time out after 10-90 seconds.
With over a dozen queued for upload & over 20 minutes of clicking on Retry Now, only 2 uploaded.

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Grant
Darwin NT

"Thats what happens with the summer farm, I will probably Almost catch up by fall and fall behind again, unless you get new A/C...Oh oh...."

me? new ac?
no
but the summer farm is bigger
and badder than before....

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"Thats what happens with the summer farm, I will probably Almost catch up by fall and fall behind again, unless you get new A/C...Oh oh...."

me? new ac?
no
but the summer farm is bigger
and badder than before....

Still pounding away here........
But nothing getting back to home.
Sad? Not really.
Wish I could win that lottery and give the Seti server closet the good cleaning it needs.....sigh.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

31 uploads waiting to go out and growing...

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"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."

"I never get into an argument that I cannot win."

The server status page says everything is just fine.

So... nothing is working! :)

Crunchin' the cache.

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Join the PACK!

I'm getting downloads now so that isn't a problem for me, yet.

Looking at the Cricket graphs it appears that uploads went wonky about 30 hours ago. Same thing with Scarecrows results received graphs. Currently 10-20% of "normal" uploads per hour.

The system may have started to degrade a day or so before it collapsed to current levels. Hopefully it won't be another extended case of "she canna take it Capt'n".

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"Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh." - The Doctor

My 920 rig just ran out of Cuda work, and as there are 2300 or so VfingLAR's on the CPU, nothing left to reschedule here.

The Frozen One has a couple of day's worth yet, and the 3rd Cuda has one or two.

Hope this doesn't take days to fix like the last outage.

Another hack attack?
Or did some clown run another rogue script again?

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

My 920 rig just ran out of Cuda work, and as there are 2300 or so VfingLAR's on the CPU, nothing left to reschedule here.

Thought you said you had 10 days worth for all the machines --- it's not really 10 days worth if they all don't have the right ratio ;-) Even on good days, the potential to have nothing but "V-to-the-f-Lars" exists, so I keep my ReScheduler slider over at 75% to compensate for the feast/famine nature of the tapes being split.

That the upload path is busted just amplifies things, but that could be weathered if there wasn't an artificial block on downloads. If this drags again, I'll take the half day hit to figure out how to set up a private boinc build absent that one line of code (greedy I know, but history seems to be repeating itself awfully quickly).

Since about 9 UTC the work units waiting assimilation has decreased by 111335
This comes as a bit of a surprise to since there has a low turn over of results returned. I have five tasks waiting to upload, I have another 17 in my cache.

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My 920 rig just ran out of Cuda work, and as there are 2300 or so VfingLAR's on the CPU, nothing left to reschedule here.

Thought you said you had 10 days worth for all the machines --- it's not really 10 days worth if they all don't have the right ratio ;-) Even on good days, the potential to have nothing but "V-to-the-f-Lars" exists, so I keep my ReScheduler slider over at 75% to compensate for the feast/famine nature of the tapes being split.

That the upload path is busted just amplifies things, but that could be weathered if there wasn't an artificial block on downloads. If this drags again, I'll take the half day hit to figure out how to set up a private boinc build absent that one line of code (greedy I know, but history seems to be repeating itself awfully quickly).

10 day's worth includes the CPU....
The ratio of VLAR work being issued over the last few weeks has been rather high, so you can't reschedule what you can't get.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

The ratio of VLAR work being issued over the last few weeks has been rather high, so you can't reschedule what you can't get.

I totally hear ya. It's that reason a few weeks back I would occassionally post a ratio of REG/VLAR/VHAR/AP. No one much noticed, but it was a valuable data point for me after I had gotten burned with no cuda work left, so I tried to share. I'd put my toe in the water to sample the ratio with about 200 WU's, and if it was favorable, I'd open the floodgates, and if not, I try again a day later assuming I saw new tapes go live (while keeping my fingers crossed that the project wouldn't pick that day to keel over completely).

Given that approach above, my ratio is still about 60/40 this afternoon (and I can always rebalance back to CPU if necessary), hence I'm not feeling the same pain (yes, I know you eat way more than I do, but I crunch enough work that I beleive the same method would scale). The downside is I have to remember to run re-scheduler about every other day (to balance a 3 day CPU queue and an artifically loaded 12 day queue for the GPU). Yes, this only works for me because we seldom get 7 days of nothing by VLARs, but all these techniques are really little more than increasing personal breathing room for times when the project itself is off balance somehow, and pretty much all you can buy yourself is about half the distance of shortest issued WU's (which is 2 weeks, thus 1 week of air).

Would be a ton easier and far more timely if the Server Status page just gave the % as part of the 'Ready to send' figure (and it could be argued if the cuda code were revisited, maybe there'd be no need for rescheduler in the first place).

Would be a ton easier and far more timely if the Server Status page just gave the % as part of the 'Ready to send' figure (and it could be argued if the cuda code were revisited, maybe there'd be no need for rescheduler in the first place).

Well, we all know that isn't going to happen, eh?

For now, I'd be happy if I could just report what work I do have done.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Would be a ton easier and far more timely if the Server Status page just gave the % as part of the 'Ready to send' figure (and it could be argued if the cuda code were revisited, maybe there'd be no need for rescheduler in the first place).

But there is only one queue RTS. At that point there is no knowledge of whether they will be crunched by a CPU or a GPU, they are the same WU's.

F.

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Was there any definitive reason given for the last time the uploads were backlogged a couple weeks ago?

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"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."

"I never get into an argument that I cannot win."