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22/02/2014 18:49:44 | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks: some download is stalled

That's a very old message - it's been standard in BOINC for years. We just haven't seen it for a while, since the transfer to the co-lo.

Even prior to that when we had all the download issues, I'd never seen it. When the network traffic finally cleared all the downloads that had accumulated with each scheduler request for work would finally come through.
This is the first time I've ever seen a stalled download block requests for work.

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Grant
Darwin NT

yeah, it looks like JBOD is crashed, no data to download or even splitting...

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yeah, it looks like JBOD is crashed, no data to download or even splitting...

I find it interesting that it appears to have crashed at very close to midnight, local time.

Looking across all my machines, the work allocations show

7:58:54 UTC - downloaded successfully
8:02:03 UTC - still stuck downloading

That sounds to me like a software problem - a cron job gone wrong - rather than a random hardware failure.

There are no reported failures (yet) at IST.

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22/02/2014 18:49:44 | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks: some download is stalled

That's a very old message - it's been standard in BOINC for years. We just haven't seen it for a while, since the transfer to the co-lo.

Even prior to that when we had all the download issues, I'd never seen it. When the network traffic finally cleared all the downloads that had accumulated with each scheduler request for work would finally come through.
This is the first time I've ever seen a stalled download block requests for work.

OK, I owe you a fuller explanation than that.

commit 89578050f7a523588031656526e537fc99dab08d
Author: David Anderson <davea@ssl.berkeley.edu> Mon Jul 2 04:43:05 2012
Committer: David Anderson <davea@ssl.berkeley.edu> Mon Jul 2 04:43:05 2012

- When the client makes a scheduler RPC without requesting work,
and there's a simple reason
(e.g. the project is suspended, no-new-tasks, downloads stalled, etc.)
show it in the event lot.
If the reason is more complex, don't try to explain.

(I think he means the event log)

July 2012 means somewhere round about v7.0.31 or .32 - so you won't have seen the message until you upgraded BOINC, probably to your current v7.0.64 - but the behaviour has been in BOINC for years.

It's one of the few - but very welcome - cases where BOINC now gives better information about what's going on than it used to.

Some hosts are now running on SETI GPU WU dryland (i hate the @#!!! 100GPUWU limit), backup project thanks, hope they fix that soon.

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Thanks to everyone's help, especially Richard, I am baaaaaaaack crunching.

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Is there even anybody in to do anything on a Saturday?

SETI Beta is completely down...

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Hello, from Albany, CA!...

Is there even anybody in to do anything on a Saturday?

Not sure they can do anything at the lab they can't do from home, and they've been checking in on weekends. But this one may require a trip to the colo site if the disk array is messed up.

Thanks to everyone's help, especially Richard, I am baaaaaaaack crunching.

- Miklos M.

Welcome back!

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Another Fred
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Seems like Murphys pass on the lab at friday´s midnight and do it´s work on the disk array. Hope the problem is something easy to fix or we will be out of work for a long time.

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I got excited when one of my machines had the message:
2/22/2014 10:40:48 AM (UTC -5) SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
Then I realized it was a _3 & stuck in download limbo.

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SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours
Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[

Work may be underway - noted some different behavior - retry #17 did not go to retry immediately like the first 16. It tried for a while before giving up.

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Another Fred
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Certainly looks as if the tyre kicker has arrived on site....

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

Certainly looks as if the tyre kicker has arrived on site....

And the Server Status page clocked him in at 16:50 UTC... :P

It's dead, Jim...

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Aloha, Uli

SETI Beta is completely down...

Except the website is up:

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/

Except the Forums are up:

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/forum_index.php

Except scheduler works as your hosts (and my hosts) can contact it:

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/hosts_user.php?userid=6133

I'd say that's slightly less than completely down!!!

Claggy

Agree... if you could post/read anything on the forums it´s not totaly dead... just in the ICU. We still have some hope.

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Downloads are fixed, here and at Seti Beta, and the Status page now shows tapes.

Claggy

life may be returning!

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