Well, another day w/o any GPU work just because CPU have good cache of work...
This per host limit starts to really annoy me. It's plain stupid to leave one computing device idle only because another one has enough work to do.
There are some workarounds exist of course (as usual with any artifical limitations), seems time to check them.

Same here Raistmer.
Main rig with 4 GPU's idle because 4 CPU cores working through 50 VLAR's.
It has been working it's way through about 1500 of them.
Could have used VLAR_KILL but decided that they would have to be done my someone.
As a consequence cold GPU's.
I wonder how long it will be before a VLAR storm hits and lots of rigs suffer the same fate.

Dave

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Same here i have 256 vlars to get through which is keeping 2 x 480 idle on the plus side i am saving electricity lol

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256 VLAR's will take some time to get through.
Takes my AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Quad 2 hrs each.4 at a time so does about 50 per day.

Dave

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True, i have 2 other rigs one has a decent cache left but the other is on 20 task limit we just have to hope it will all balance out and that this is just a temporary measure to ease server load amongst other things.

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my main cruncher doesnt got any cpu work atall, its atm using the backup einstein to keep crunchingh wich i yust setuped as seti fails to keep my pc crunchingh

wanted to only focus on seti but seems i need to find other projects that are nice to use

atm yust got gpu task from seti

my dual cores did get a couple of cpu workunits but rather had those on my main crunchmachine

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Joined Seti@home on 20 June 1999 (id:797875)
Made This1 to Join the Eve Team

http://www.eveonline.com/seti/

Like I already mentioned in one of the other threads..

MilkyWay@home have a limit of 12 tasks in progress.
If BOINC ask for more, BOINC get:

Message from server: No work sent
Message from server: (reached limit of 12 tasks in progress)

Because of the SETI@home server say not the max limit, I guess something is wrong here.

I believe the Milkyway Limit is 6 Tasks per Core

Got 11 WUs 15 minutes ago to go with the remaining 50 of the 78 given before the outage. So I'm Fine for the Time Being.

The SETI app Data says
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/host_app_versions.php?hostid=5178843

My Guess is this new limit Includes everything (In Progress/Valid/Pending/Errored) hopefully I'll be able to get a few more when all this gets written to the database.

It could be correct, 6 WUs/CPU-Core, but I don't know, because MilkyWay is only a secondary project of me and I have not much knowledge about.

I have there an Intel Core2 Duo E7600 @ 2x 3.06 GHz with OCed GTX260-216.
If CPU & GPU enabled in the preferences, BOINC get only max 12 GPU WUs.
After every UL/report of a result, a new GPU WU DLed. Again 12 WUs in BOINC.


Now here at SETI@home, I don't know.. BOINC got only 2 GPU WUs after the 3 day maintenance. Not more, although every ~ 10 mins UL/report of a result.


I have set 10 days (for to bridge planned and unplanned outages/maintenances).
BOINC is now down to 6 days or something (because of no new WUs DLed).
Current 150 CPU & 849 GPU WUs in BOINC. BOINC ask for new work but get:
Message from server: No work sent
Message from server: This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress

If the WU cache is down to zero and BOINC get only 20 WUs/host in progress..
How it should go with the ReSchedule tool? :-|
CUDA VLARkill app usage? -> damaged quota - backlog (counter) in BOINC -> no request of new work -> idle. :-|


The people which could DL, how big you set your WU caches?
And how much (days & WUs) you have in your BOINC?

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Well I may get kicked out but I sent David Anderson an email to let him know how I feel and that I was asked to come back after quitting awhile back and so being asked to come back, unlike some here I do feel I am owed an explanation!

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

None of my computers get any new work in the past 5 days.
Several are out of work already.
Its broke, no doubt.

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My top producing rig is about to run out of Cuda work now....
Got about 37 VLAR left on the CPU, so another Cuda card sucking wind.

And the really cute part is in addition to the 37 VLAR that rescheduler counts, I have about 34 AP WU's at about 7 hours each in the cache as well.

So, unless things get fixed here soon, that Cuda is gonna be sucking wind for a long time.

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

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=4001951

the above rig only has ten tasks in the queue and is getting the "limit" message. boinc will not even keep the cpu's fed, i have to use reschedule to do it.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=3050453

if the above rig runs dry, i'm calling it quits! Vyper can have the #1 spot, grrr...

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My top producing rig is about to run out of Cuda work now....
Got about 37 VLAR left on the CPU, so another Cuda card sucking wind.

And the really cute part is in addition to the 37 VLAR that rescheduler counts, I have about 34 AP WU's at about 7 hours each in the cache as well.

So, unless things get fixed here soon, that Cuda is gonna be sucking wind for a long time.

I bet VW Bobier isn't real happy either after spending all that money he didn't really have on GTX 295's and now no work to see them go....We should have been warned and this is TOTAL UNPROFESSIONALISM at work.

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

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=4001951

the above rig only has ten tasks in the queue and is getting the "limit" message. boinc will not even keep the cpu's fed, i have to use reschedule to do it.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=3050453

if the above rig runs dry, i'm calling it quits! Vyper can have the #1 spot, grrr...

Sad that DAVID ANDERSON cares so little for Seti, guess this is his way to try and force people into his other projects...Won't work, it is seti or all my machines will sit waiting....

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

I checked the cricket graphs, and the pattern is very different than it has been. It seems very binary in its nature, without much work being transfered.

Steve

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Warning, addicted to SETI crunching!
Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group.
GPUUG Website

I sure hope others are flooding the powers that be's email boxes...

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

I'm getting limited to 20 WU still. I've had to resort to re-scheduling VHARs to my GPU to keep it busy - yeuch!

I'm getting limited to 20 WU still. I've had to resort to re-scheduling VHARs to my GPU to keep it busy - yeuch!

And it may work for awhile if you sit at your computer 24/7....

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

This is getting totally stupid.
Why doesn't Dr.A think things through first, before applying changes and systems that limit complete hosts rather than by processor type.

Is it surprising that the servers fall over, they are being hammered by requests for work, and if the host gets some, in the main it is only enough to last a few hours. Also because of these excess requests for work, reporting is being done one task/connection instead of the preferred batch reporting which lowers server stress.

So far I think, if this was a student exam;
Realising BOINC required changes - pass
Design of changes - borderline pass, but this could change when if and when we see the final result
Coding of changes - Fail
Testing on Beta - Fail, because it was too short and not done with enough hosts (because they didn't know the trail was on)
Introduction of changes - Fail
Down time and system limiting - Fail

Also the Beta site is still down. On return home which was later than expected I was going to contact Jason to do some testing on GT240.

Can't do that so, while I watch the land of my birth beat the cheating 'hand of god'. Just scored the third 3 - 0. I will seriously consider whether I want to continue with BOINC.

I guess patience is again the key.
Sure, I have now maybe 4 or 5 days WUs and not an idle PC, but then also the same like a lot of (all) other members.

I guess we need to wait to at least Monday or to Friday that this strange server message will be placed (improved) correctly or take away.

But, we feel like at a BETA project here.
New server functions/rules - but buggy - again time for to solve.

But, we all here around (should) believe in the science of (our loved) SETI@home project. :-)

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I too am limited to 20 WUS since today also having trouble getting onto Seti one minute I can and the next nothing, is something wrong?

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