If everyone who holds a ten day cache dropped to something more reasonable, there'd be more WUs to share around...

No, the splitters stop, when about 250,000 WUs are ready to send, so once they run out of tapes (for whatever reason), there are usually no more than 250,000 WUs to send out regardless of what the people have in their caches.

Larger caches actually force the servers to generate larger work buffer, which is than stored in the cache of each client, so if the servers are down, the clients can still do a lot of work for the project and return it after the outage. If we all had just one day cache, the processing for S@H would have been stopped after about 24 hours completely, with larger caches we process the WUs like nothing happend, the current servers are powerful enough to catch up and restore our caches a while after the outage anyway.

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My single core machine was down to one MB left of its 2.5-day cache, but on the first scheduler contact after it all came back up, it reported all the completed tasks and got 8 new ones to fill the cache back up.

Main cruncher is AP-only and reported what it completed during the outage, and hasn't gotten any new APs yet. Just a little less than a day before I run out. Not worried, nor complaining. I'll get more work eventually.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

Noticed the network traffic has dropped off, so i had a look in my messages tab & it's getting a lot of "Project has no tasks available" and "No tasks sent" messages. It's trying to get work, it's just not receiving it.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Noticed the network traffic has dropped off, so i had a look in my messages tab & it's getting a lot of "Project has no tasks available" and "No tasks sent" messages. It's trying to get work, it's just not receiving it.

The main reason the bandwidth dropped off is the AP splitters are not running at the moment.

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

As of now, that is only one AP splitter and not a lot of data for it to chew on,
Looks like it will be `that` kind of evening on this side of the pond.

`More coal in the boiler the ship is slowing down`

...and by the time I read your post the coal in the AP splitting boiler had run out...

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I missed some Astropulse's being split? Oh man, I'm currently crunching the last one in my cache. Time to panic me thinks.

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My rig just jumped into high priority mode and is leaving work unfinished all over the place. I can't even remember the last time that happened. I do have about 6900 wu's on board, which seems a wee high for a 5 day cache. Even with that amount, I should have no trouble crunching them.

Not really a panic, but I am doing a Spock raised eyebrow.....

Steve

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Warning, addicted to SETI crunching!
Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group.
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I missed some Astropulse's being split? Oh man, I'm currently crunching the last one in my cache. Time to panic me thinks.

Not really a panic, but I am doing a Spock raised eyebrow.....
Steve.

Well, you'll survive, also have 4 times the throughput of my hosts...
Since I'm still running BOINC 7.00.25, almost all SETI, MB also Astropulse
are run High Priority....MW, too. Merely cosmetic?

I've just crunched a few on ATI 5870 GPUs, 3 to 4 hours runtime,
9,779.41 6,056.19 CPU in behandeling* AstroPulse v6
Anoniem platform (ATI GPU) High CPU time is due to the high % of blanking.
*Checked no 2nd result, yet.(I'm waiting for my {wing-}man).

I could do with some more AstroPulse work, though.
Panic, no way, besides thats where Back-Up Projects can be used for ;-).

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My rig just jumped into high priority mode and is leaving work unfinished all over the place. I can't even remember the last time that happened. I do have about 6900 wu's on board, which seems a wee high for a 5 day cache. Even with that amount, I should have no trouble crunching them.

Not really a panic, but I am doing a Spock raised eyebrow.....

Steve

Oh good, they must be splitting shorties again - I could do with a few of them.

My rig just jumped into high priority mode and is leaving work unfinished all over the place. I can't even remember the last time that happened. I do have about 6900 wu's on board, which seems a wee high for a 5 day cache. Even with that amount, I should have no trouble crunching them.

Not really a panic, but I am doing a Spock raised eyebrow.....

Steve

I am on 2600 wu's with my single GTX560 and a 5 day cache.

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My rig just jumped into high priority mode and is leaving work unfinished all over the place. I can't even remember the last time that happened. I do have about 6900 wu's on board, which seems a wee high for a 5 day cache. Even with that amount, I should have no trouble crunching them.

Not really a panic, but I am doing a Spock raised eyebrow.....

Steve

I am on 2600 wu's with my single GTX560 and a 5 day cache.

I've SETI@home Enhanced (1784), (In behandeling)* (831)MB crunched, reported
and waiting for a cannonical result. 3 Astropulse WUs reported.
Less then 1000 a.t.m. on my i7-2600+ 2x ATI 5870 GPUs, 12 a time, have to
set a larger cache, but I'm never out of work, so I let it be.

Most of the regular posters, volunteer developpers, testers,
have an almost 10 fold throughput, since the(y) use of CUDA (FERMI/KEPPLER) and
OpenCL 1.2(ATI-AMD{SDK} 2.4)! More or less. Look at these Results,
Atropulse
WU 99732719.

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My rig just jumped into high priority mode and is leaving work unfinished all over the place. I can't even remember the last time that happened. I do have about 6900 wu's on board, which seems a wee high for a 5 day cache. Even with that amount, I should have no trouble crunching them.

Not really a panic, but I am doing a Spock raised eyebrow.....

Steve

I've had the same, a run of "fast" regular WU's then a few crunchy ones, it upsets (increases) the estimated completion time and with a larger cache its enough to cause Boinc to panic.

Sometimes it will jump in and out of high priority mode, if you have got a bunch of longer running WU's when one finnishes it will kick it into high priority mode and start doing a bunch of shorties, then as the esimated completion time drops it will start back on the longer running ones untill it completes another one and then kicks back into high priority mode again.

There does not seem to be a lot of VLAR's or VHAR's around, but there seems to be a lot of variation (runtime wise) on the regular WU's.

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Kevin

My rig just jumped into high priority mode and is leaving work unfinished all over the place. I can't even remember the last time that happened. I do have about 6900 wu's on board, which seems a wee high for a 5 day cache. Even with that amount, I should have no trouble crunching them.

Not really a panic, but I am doing a Spock raised eyebrow.....

Steve

Oh good, they must be splitting shorties again - I could do with a few of them.

Yup, i am crunching shorties as well most of the names end in VLAR
And this 7970 munches them, yum yum :¬)

There does not seem to be a lot of VLAR's or VHAR's around, but there seems to be a lot of variation (runtime wise) on the regular WU's.

VLAR, I nicked them.
Get yer ands off my vlar`s their mine all mine :¬)

I picked up some APs from earlier. Was getting kind of close to an empty cache again there.. but I'm good for another ~1 day or so now. Would love to fill the 10-day cache up again though.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

Is this thing on?
Not getting any work, just set this up today 6-5-12
If this is not the place to ask please point me to the
right place, eh?

Just visited the VLA in New Mexico on highway 60.
Most impressive and very interesting. We will go
back for the tour.

I am only 90 miles from Roswell, NM, do you want me to
go look around there? I have heard rumors.......

Peace, Bob

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So before the maintenance, I got 16 APs. No more since it came back up since there aren't any tapes available to split. C'mon tapes..

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

Lets see I've got nearly a 4 day cache now, but of course Boinc 6.10.58 x64 isn't reporting, unless I do an update with BoincTasks 1.33, then it's 64 at a time.

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Savoir-Faire is everywhere!
The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST

6.10.60, no fetch issues at all. Heck over the weekend I forgot to check on it and found 8000 tasks for 2 GPU's. Eek.

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brad@gpuug.org