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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Doesn't look like it... It would appear that they may have increased the limit...say, from 20 to maybe 50 or something, but folks are still reporting hitting the in progress limit. So they haven't opened up the spigot all the way just yet. Maybe tomorrow? "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Rasputin Send message Joined: 13 Jun 02 Posts: 1764 Credit: 6,132,221 RAC: 0 |
Has anyone here generated any -12 errors? I have, 6 in the last 7 days... Out of thousands of good results... I had 11 -12 errors with the 1200+ uploaded today. That's really unusual for my box, 1 or 2 errors a day in about 400 WU's is normal. And usually there caused by running out of memory (Because I forgot to snooze SETI when watching video's or playing a game) and not -12 errors. |
Rasputin Send message Joined: 13 Jun 02 Posts: 1764 Credit: 6,132,221 RAC: 0 |
Hopefully. I just hope they can do it remotely because nobody will come in to work on the weekend. Especially a holiday weekend. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13736 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Hopefully. I just hope they can do it remotely because nobody will come in to work on the weekend. Especially a holiday weekend. Bull#h!t. They've done that on many occasions when the system hasn't been able to be restarted remotely, inspite of attitudes such as yours. Grant Darwin NT |
Lint trap Send message Joined: 30 May 03 Posts: 871 Credit: 28,092,319 RAC: 0 |
Has anyone here generated any -12 errors? I have, 6 in the last 7 days... Out of thousands of good results... Last -12 I reported was 26th of June. Reported one in May, too. Martin |
forward Send message Joined: 1 Jun 99 Posts: 53 Credit: 2,658,479 RAC: 0 |
Will they take Monday off for the 4th Holiday? If they do I hope the project stays up through the weekend. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65747 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Lets see, No work for gpus(or any for that matter), -12 errors, anonymous platform, 2.3 dll files anybody? The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Rasputin Send message Joined: 13 Jun 02 Posts: 1764 Credit: 6,132,221 RAC: 0 |
Hopefully. I just hope they can do it remotely because nobody will come in to work on the weekend. Especially a holiday weekend. Chill out.. I'm not saying anything bad about the staff. I'm going by what Matt said about going on a three week vacation starting today and also he mentioned a while back (Not long ago, don't feel like going through all his posts) that basically we shouldn't expect them to come in one weekends. Hell, maybe it was Eric that mentioned it. My memory isn't that great anymore. I have great respect for all of the staff at SETI and I'm well aware they work their a**es off for this project and have come in numerous weekends. |
perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3377 Credit: 20,676,751 RAC: 0 |
If you're asking are we using the 2.3dlls, yes I am. As I said I only had the one -12 error over the outage. I now have the new limit of 60 WUs spread between my two CPUs and one 9500GT GPU. So you don't have to ask, I'm running optimized without the flops count added. @forward...They probably will take Monday off but hopefully they will be able to raise the quotas remotely if they haven't got it set to raise automatically. PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC |
Ianab Send message Joined: 11 Jun 08 Posts: 732 Credit: 20,635,586 RAC: 5 |
Unfortunatly some of us have hosts that will process more than 20 WU's at a time. Case in point is a dual Intel X5680 system that I have with 2 Fermi cards running two instances per card. That is a total of 28 tasks at a time that could be processed if this limitation was lifted. Also I am building a system with a Quad sockets and each cpu has 8 cores and hyperthreading - and two fermi cards to boot. That will be 68 tasks at a time processing. I can understand the frustration, but it's still a big improvement on the usual "turn on the tap" recovery from a long outage. The usual process if you remember is that the server and network link get hammered to death for 12 hours or more, uploads fail, and therefore you cant download any new work anyway. At least this way the completed units all uploaded, and SOME new work was sent out to most crunchers. A big improvement over the chaos that most people expected. A few have got caught out with only CPU or GPU, but at least they have some work, and can report / request more without the usual hassles. I see the limit has been raised to 60 in progess now, with a corresponding jump in the network traffic, so I assume things are starting to get back to normal. Hopefully full caches for everyone before Tuesday? Ian |
Ghery S. Pettit Send message Joined: 7 Nov 99 Posts: 325 Credit: 28,109,066 RAC: 82 |
Looks like the new limit is 60. Two machines have gotten up to that many WUs. The third already had more (good cache going into the shutdown), so it's not getting any more for a while. |
Geek@Play Send message Joined: 31 Jul 01 Posts: 2467 Credit: 86,146,931 RAC: 0 |
Lets see, No work for gpus(or any for that matter), -12 errors, anonymous platform, 2.3 dll files anybody? @ VW Bobier Since you cpu has 4 cores, as long as you have more than 2* cores = 8 wu waiting to upload, Boinc will not ask for work. As soon as it hits 8 or less then Boinc will start requesting work. I saw in another posting by you that you were still uploading cpu work. Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc.... |
rebest Send message Joined: 16 Apr 00 Posts: 1296 Credit: 45,357,093 RAC: 0 |
As of right now, my three rigs have work. I ran Rescheduler on my CUDA rig so I now have CUDA work as well. For now, that's all that's needed and I'm happy. Now if the servers were to crash tonight, I'd only have about 12 hours of work on the CUDA rig even though my cache is set for 5 days. I've got the voodoo going. Hopefully, whatever new load control experiment that's being run proves successful so we can stock up on work prior to the scheduled outage next Tuesday. It did make for a successful restart after 3 days being down. Join the PACK! |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
As of right now, my three rigs have work. I ran Rescheduler on my CUDA rig so I now have CUDA work as well. For now, that's all that's needed and I'm happy. Well...good news is the splitters just started back up and are building ready to send again. And the waiting for assimilation total is starting to come down. So I guess I'll just have to tell the kitties to start clicking their ruby slippers again............... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13736 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Network traffic has dropped off again so it looks like everyone's hit the task limit once again. Grant Darwin NT |
Rasputin Send message Joined: 13 Jun 02 Posts: 1764 Credit: 6,132,221 RAC: 0 |
ya know, everybody has a certain amount of pride that might not let them admit when their wrong.. But you did jump on me and accuse me of something I didn't do.. Least you could say would be "Sorry" or even a simple "my mistake". |
JDWhale Send message Joined: 6 Apr 99 Posts: 921 Credit: 21,935,817 RAC: 3 |
AFAIK, this project has never asked for more than "spare" CPU cycles to get the job done. If this has changed, please let me know. Building more and more powerful systems then complaining when work is not available to feed them seems against the original concept of the project. It's my opinion that we should be happy when the admimistrators of the project allow us to crunch for them. Isn't that why we all originally joined the project. That was the way it was when I joined back in 1999 :) |
Aurora Borealis Send message Joined: 14 Jan 01 Posts: 3075 Credit: 5,631,463 RAC: 0 |
Looking at the bandwidth usage on Cricket and reading the posts, my uneducated guess is that they have a script running that is monitoring the server loads and was designed to spoon feed everyone. As the load balances out, I suspect it will incrementally increase the cache limits until they are removed completely. That would be my solution to the ridiculous pounding we've seen after outages in the past. This approach ensures that everyone gets some work while the big crunchers with the large caches are prevented from saturating the system and gumming up the works. They've tried various load balancing schemes in the past that didn't work, but this one seems to be working. Boinc V7.2.42 Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470 |
soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6497 Credit: 34,134,168 RAC: 0 |
new limit on seti tasks=42? Janice |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19062 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
This is after the short break for database server crash, the replica is still off-line. And the title msg is still there, so no changes there. |
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