Cricket has plunged off the cliff.
Bits in and bits out at zero :-(

[edit]...and almost immediately all back up again :-)

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Cricket has plunged off the cliff.
Bits in and bits out at zero :-(

SETI takes a breath! ;-)

I look for those Clifts

It's the only time I can reliably update and retry sucessfully.

Getting my Lost Tasks resent and downloads are as fast as they normally get

when loaded.

Two Ap's present among 18 MB's getting 28 and 22 KBps download speed currently

Cricket has plunged off the cliff.
Bits in and bits out at zero :-(

SETI takes a breath! ;-)

Maybe one of the lab guys did a remote power cycle or something.

One of my boxes got through to report with NNT set, but the other 3 are still getting "couldn't connect to server" errors after 25 seconds. The good news is all my boxes have enough work to get through the weekend...

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Good to see I am not the only "old timer" still patiently crunching.
Altho with SETI being a bit squiffy I am afriad I have switched most of my CPU time to World Community Grid for the time being.

I'll be back.

See you...out there

Regards

BobTheBrit

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Rampage

784 SETI@home 1/26/2013 3:00:57 PM Didn't resend lost task 17dc12aa.16159.476.7.10.240.vlar_1 (expired)
just got about 50 of these

Rampage

784 SETI@home 1/26/2013 3:00:57 PM Didn't resend lost task 17dc12aa.16159.476.7.10.240.vlar_1 (expired)
just got about 50 of these

With the current server congestion, they were probably VLAR tasks assigned to your CPUs, but became ghosts (assignment message did not get through to your computer, so your BOINCManager did not download them). Next request asked for GPU (or CPU and GPU) work, but the servers will not send or resend VLARs to a GPU (Scheduler feeds the most efficient device, normally the GPU, first), so they were cancelled by the server and reassigned to other crunchers. Not a problem on your end, one of the things that happen when the servers are swamped or otherwise having problems.......

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

One system out of GPU work, the other soon to be out of GPU & CPU work.
Scheduler still borked.

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Grant
Darwin NT

One system out of GPU work, the other soon to be out of GPU & CPU work.
Scheduler still borked.

Again? Tell something new...

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One system out of GPU work, the other soon to be out of GPU & CPU work.
Scheduler still borked.

Again? Tell something new...

It sometimes will timeout, it's not all "Couldn't contact Scheduler" messages.

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Grant
Darwin NT

One system out of GPU work, the other soon to be out of GPU & CPU work.
Scheduler still borked.

Again? Tell something new...

1/26/2013 3:56:46 PM | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
1/26/2013 3:56:47 PM | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

Oh, this isn't new .. never mind :-)

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MSattler says

The limits have not accomplished much.....current situation proves that.




I could not agree more. The one thing the limits have done is piss every one off and a lot have again gone to other projects.

I will say it again even though the last time I said it I got really bad reactions. As a temp measure suspend new accounts until this major problem gets ironed out.
I understand what that means but something has to break other than our patience and the servers.

Don't worry though. Piss enough people off and the membership list will go down all by itself and that is not the way to find other life forms in our Multiverses


If the limits where raised up to normal then we would not have to contact the servers so much.
As it is now with just my machine 2 times a day I have fill my cache of 200
If we got to have our 10 day cache then we would only need to contact the servers once or twice a week

That makes sense to me but what do I know

Michael Miles

Things will come good again, eventually, but I'm not going to get panicked about it as I'll just let my backup projects fight it out for a bit of my hardware time.

Cheers.

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It's The Twilight Zone. I haven't been able to connect reliably for days. When I could connect all, I mostly would only receive CUDA MBs. Of course I finally ran out of ATI APs. I then tried to switch to ATI MBs, but, they all erred with;
26-Jan-2013 16:40:09 [SETI@home] Task 16dc12aa.22859.9985.8.10.160_1 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
26-Jan-2013 16:40:09 [SETI@home] If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.
26-Jan-2013 16:40:09 [SETI@home] Task 16dc12aa.22859.9985.8.10.55_1 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
26-Jan-2013 16:40:09 [SETI@home] If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project....
They worked fine before.

I finally gave up and hit the Reset Button.

First thing I got was 20 'lost files', all ATI APs. I'm now up to 56 'LOST' ATI APs. The other files I had when I hit the Reset Button haven't even started downloading yet.

MSattler says

The limits have not accomplished much.....current situation proves that.




I could not agree more. The one thing the limits have done is piss every one off and a lot have again gone to other projects.

Not everyone. The limits haven't pissed me off
and I bet there is a bunch of people that don't
even know that there are limits in place.

I will say it again even though the last time I said it I got really bad reactions. As a temp measure suspend new accounts until this major problem gets ironed out.
I understand what that means but something has to break other than our patience and the servers.

Don't worry though. Piss enough people off and the membership list will go down all by itself and that is not the way to find other life forms in our Multiverses

Until such time that the number of people
crunching drops to the point where bandwidth
drops to 80% of maximum throughput, I don't
think anyone at Berkeley will really be concerned
about it.

If the limits where raised up to normal then we would not have to contact the servers so much.

I don't think so. The servers would probably be even harder to contact than they are now.

As it is now with just my machine 2 times a day I have fill my cache of 200
If we got to have our 10 day cache then we would only need to contact the servers once or twice a week

That makes sense to me but what do I know

Michael Miles

The scheduler is FUBAR again. I've been trying since 12 Noon Berkeley time for some GPU units to test my new GTX 660 and get the same response every time:

1/26/2013 4:38:10 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Failure when receiving data from the peer


The scheduler needs to be re-booted, in all likelyhood.

It's now 5 PM Berkeley time, if anyone had been in the lab, they've probably gone home!

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Hello, from Albany, CA!...

The scheduler is FUBAR again. I've been trying since 12 Noon Berkeley time for some GPU units to test my new GTX 660 and get the same response every time:

1/26/2013 4:38:10 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Failure when receiving data from the peer

At least you can contact the Scheduler.
The response most people have been getting for the last few days is "Couldn't connect to serverr" with the occasional peer error, and the even more occasional actually getting a response from the Scheduler.

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Grant
Darwin NT

It's The Twilight Zone. I haven't been able to connect reliably for days. When I could connect all, I mostly would only receive CUDA MBs. Of course I finally ran out of ATI APs. I then tried to switch to ATI MBs, but, they all erred with;
26-Jan-2013 16:40:09 [SETI@home] Task 16dc12aa.22859.9985.8.10.160_1 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
26-Jan-2013 16:40:09 [SETI@home] If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.
26-Jan-2013 16:40:09 [SETI@home] Task 16dc12aa.22859.9985.8.10.55_1 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
26-Jan-2013 16:40:09 [SETI@home] If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project....
They worked fine before.

I finally gave up and hit the Reset Button.

First thing I got was 20 'lost files', all ATI APs. I'm now up to 56 'LOST' ATI APs. The other files I had when I hit the Reset Button haven't even started downloading yet.

I think I know where those 50+ ATI APs came from. Apparently those were the CPU APs I had when I hit the reset button. The scheduler decided to resend them as ATI APs. It also Timed-Out my Cuda MBs, that I could use, and resent the ATI MBs that I don't need now that I have 50+ ATI APs. Of course, now I have nothing for the CUDA card, or my CPUs. The ATI card is happy though...

That`s it, I`m done.....going to dump all the wu`s and go to the other project. I thought Seti finally got their crap together, but apparently I was wrong!!!! Goodbye Seti

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I get these messages, over and over again:

1/26/2013 5:17:31 PM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
1/26/2013 5:17:31 PM SETI@home Reporting 1 completed tasks, not requesting new tasks
1/26/2013 5:17:53 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
1/26/2013 5:17:53 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
1/26/2013 5:17:54 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

But the status page shows lots of work, and the cricket graph seems to show both up and downloading. This is frustrating. It took hours to report my completed work, and now I can't connect even though I'm not requesting new work.