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Message 1695285 - Posted: 24 Jun 2015, 21:42:21 UTC

I have created this thread because there is a lot of discussion around these tasks in the Panic Mode On (98) Server Problems? thread on pages 11 and 12. Don't get me wrong I think it is good to discuss how many tasks are getting. I just feel it is the wrong place to be discussing it. I personally find it not helpful when people say they get 100+ task and I do not receive any. My personal belief is that the server problem thread should be related just to that. People do not agree with me on this which I can kind of understand.

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Message 1695288 - Posted: 24 Jun 2015, 21:52:51 UTC

I feel it will be probably a week or more before we receive more tasks as there are 536 channels to complete before more data will be added. Of course I am hoping there will be more sooner rather than later
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Message 1695305 - Posted: 25 Jun 2015, 0:24:09 UTC

Besides my good fortune in the frenzy I have also received 3 resends life AP life is good ATM.
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Message 1695321 - Posted: 25 Jun 2015, 1:38:24 UTC - in response to Message 1695285.  
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since AP came back ONE of my computers has been getting "waiting for GPU memory" ONLY on the AP WUs. The MB WUs run just fine. I "reset" the project and limited it to AP WU's and I still get the same message even though nothing is running on the GPU (according to GPU-Z).

here is the event log ...

6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Starting BOINC client version 6.12.34 for windows_x86_64
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Config: use all coprocessors
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Config: ignoring NVIDIA GPU 1
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Config: ignoring NVIDIA GPU 2
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.21.6 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Data directory: Z:\BOINC_test_data_1
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Running under account Malinda
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | [error] Invalid account filename: statistics_setiathome.berkeley.edu.old_xml.txt
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz [Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5]
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Processor: 256.00 KB cache
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 nx lm vmx smx tm2 popcnt pbe
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Memory: 11.96 GB physical, 35.96 GB virtual
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Disk: 77.81 GB total, 48.53 GB free
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Local time is UTC -4 hours
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 650 (driver version 35012, CUDA version 7000, compute capability 3.0, 2048MB, 135 GFLOPS peak)
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | SETI@home | Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | A new version of BOINC is available. <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php>Download it.</a>
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | Einstein@Home | URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 11693666; resource share 0
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 5348586; resource share 100
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 29-Nov-2012 10:20:26)
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | SETI@home | Computer location: work
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | SETI@home | General prefs: no separate prefs for work; using your defaults
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Reading preferences override file
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Preferences:
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | max memory usage when active: 6123.54MB
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | max memory usage when idle: 11022.37MB
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | max disk usage: 10.00GB
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | max CPUs used: 2
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Using proxy info from GUI
6/24/2015 1:48:11 AM | | Not using a proxy
6/24/2015 1:48:54 AM | SETI@home | update requested by user
6/24/2015 1:48:57 AM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
6/24/2015 1:48:57 AM | SETI@home | Not reporting or requesting tasks
6/24/2015 1:48:58 AM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
6/24/2015 5:33:13 AM | SETI@home | update requested by user
6/24/2015 5:33:18 AM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
6/24/2015 5:33:18 AM | SETI@home | Not reporting or requesting tasks
6/24/2015 5:33:21 AM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
6/24/2015 11:21:37 AM | SETI@home | update requested by user
6/24/2015 11:21:42 AM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
6/24/2015 11:21:42 AM | SETI@home | Not reporting or requesting tasks
6/24/2015 11:21:44 AM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
6/24/2015 11:22:16 AM | SETI@home | Resetting project
6/24/2015 11:22:45 AM | SETI@home | update requested by user
6/24/2015 11:22:50 AM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
6/24/2015 11:22:50 AM | SETI@home | Not reporting or requesting tasks
6/24/2015 11:22:51 AM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
6/24/2015 11:22:53 AM | SETI@home | Started download of arecibo_181.png
6/24/2015 11:22:53 AM | SETI@home | Started download of sah_40.png
6/24/2015 11:22:53 AM | SETI@home | Started download of sah_banner_290.png
6/24/2015 11:22:53 AM | SETI@home | Started download of sah_ss_290.png
6/24/2015 11:22:55 AM | SETI@home | Finished download of arecibo_181.png
6/24/2015 11:22:55 AM | SETI@home | Finished download of sah_40.png
6/24/2015 11:22:55 AM | SETI@home | Finished download of sah_banner_290.png
6/24/2015 11:22:55 AM | SETI@home | Finished download of sah_ss_290.png
6/24/2015 11:23:31 AM | SETI@home | resumed by user
6/24/2015 11:23:42 AM | SETI@home | update requested by user
6/24/2015 11:23:47 AM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
6/24/2015 11:23:47 AM | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU
6/24/2015 11:23:48 AM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
6/24/2015 11:23:48 AM | SETI@home | Not sending work - last request too recent: 56 sec
6/24/2015 11:29:55 AM | SETI@home | update requested by user
6/24/2015 11:29:58 AM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
6/24/2015 11:29:58 AM | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU
6/24/2015 11:30:00 AM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
6/24/2015 11:30:00 AM | SETI@home | No tasks sent
6/24/2015 11:30:00 AM | SETI@home | No tasks are available for AstroPulse v6
6/24/2015 11:30:00 AM | SETI@home | No tasks are available for AstroPulse v7
6/24/2015 11:30:00 AM | SETI@home | Tasks for CPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them
6/24/2015 11:44:09 AM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
6/24/2015 11:44:09 AM | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | SETI@home | No tasks sent
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | SETI@home | No tasks are available for AstroPulse v6
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | SETI@home | No tasks are available for AstroPulse v7
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | SETI@home | Tasks for CPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | SETI@home | New computer location:
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 29-Nov-2012 10:20:26)
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | SETI@home | Host location: none
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | SETI@home | General prefs: using your defaults
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | | Reading preferences override file
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | | Preferences:
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | | max memory usage when active: 6123.54MB
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | | max memory usage when idle: 11022.37MB
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | | max disk usage: 10.00GB
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | | max CPUs used: 2
6/24/2015 11:44:11 AM | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
6/24/2015 12:13:28 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
6/24/2015 12:13:28 PM | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU
6/24/2015 12:13:30 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
6/24/2015 12:13:30 PM | SETI@home | No tasks sent
6/24/2015 12:13:30 PM | SETI@home | No tasks are available for AstroPulse v6
6/24/2015 12:13:30 PM | SETI@home | No tasks are available for AstroPulse v7
6/24/2015 12:13:30 PM | SETI@home | Tasks for CPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them
6/24/2015 12:27:05 PM | SETI@home | update requested by user
6/24/2015 12:27:08 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
6/24/2015 12:27:08 PM | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU
6/24/2015 12:27:09 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 2 new tasks
6/24/2015 12:27:11 PM | SETI@home | Started download of ap_07ja15aa_B4_P0_00329_20150624_02180.wu
6/24/2015 12:27:11 PM | SETI@home | Started download of ap_07ja15aa_B3_P0_00359_20150624_30434.wu
6/24/2015 12:27:20 PM | SETI@home | Finished download of ap_07ja15aa_B4_P0_00329_20150624_02180.wu
6/24/2015 12:27:20 PM | SETI@home | Finished download of ap_07ja15aa_B3_P0_00359_20150624_30434.wu
6/24/2015 12:27:20 PM | SETI@home | Starting task ap_07ja15aa_B4_P0_00329_20150624_02180.wu_2 using astropulse_v7 version 705
6/24/2015 12:27:21 PM | SETI@home | Starting task ap_07ja15aa_B3_P0_00359_20150624_30434.wu_2 using astropulse_v7 version 705
6/24/2015 12:30:24 PM | SETI@home | Restarting task ap_07ja15aa_B4_P0_00329_20150624_02180.wu_2 using astropulse_v7 version 705
6/24/2015 12:30:25 PM | SETI@home | Restarting task ap_07ja15aa_B3_P0_00359_20150624_30434.wu_2 using astropulse_v7 version 705


loop here ...


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Message 1695323 - Posted: 25 Jun 2015, 1:41:57 UTC - in response to Message 1695321.  

you probably need to go back to driver version 347
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Message 1695326 - Posted: 25 Jun 2015, 1:51:40 UTC - in response to Message 1695323.  
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Thanks ... I'll give it a try

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<edit> all is well ... THANKS!!!
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Message 1695366 - Posted: 25 Jun 2015, 4:59:09 UTC - in response to Message 1695305.  

Besides my good fortune in the frenzy I have also received 3 resends life AP life is good ATM.

I snagged 1 resend.

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Message 1695403 - Posted: 25 Jun 2015, 7:13:40 UTC

367 in progress now but was around 440 AP's but there getting crunched :-)
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Message 1695404 - Posted: 25 Jun 2015, 7:16:48 UTC - in response to Message 1695403.  

367 in progress now but was around 440 AP's but there getting crunched :-)

Kitties got 648 left, and crunching them like crazy...LOL.
RAC has had a boost. And I still got one cruncher with no GPUs running.
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Message 1695459 - Posted: 25 Jun 2015, 9:04:26 UTC - in response to Message 1695404.  

367 in progress now but was around 440 AP's but there getting crunched :-)

Kitties got 648 left, and crunching them like crazy...LOL.
RAC has had a boost. And I still got one cruncher with no GPUs running.


I'm sure you will be back running " full bore " soon enough , I said in the seti is down thread maybe they were bringing AP database back . Looks like I was right :-)
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Message 1695668 - Posted: 25 Jun 2015, 20:21:19 UTC

I have dutifully chewed thru all the MBs I had and now I'm happily crunching only APs. If no more are split I should be good for about 10 days.
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Message 1695680 - Posted: 25 Jun 2015, 21:02:03 UTC

I've got about 16 days of my cache of APs left. They're all going to be tasty.
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Message 1695760 - Posted: 26 Jun 2015, 0:51:15 UTC

Hubris, I thought all was well then a power outage came at 3:30 pm. My XP box w 36 APs came back but my W7 box w 87 APs won't boot. Hopefully it will be back and running before they time out.
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Message 1695789 - Posted: 26 Jun 2015, 4:30:43 UTC

Has anybody that has had only these tasks selected not been sent any? I have not received any for a long time. I am thinking this could be because I am based in New Zealand & do not have my computer running 24 7.
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Message 1695792 - Posted: 26 Jun 2015, 4:47:04 UTC - in response to Message 1695789.  

There are hypothesis upon hypothesis as to why that happens.

Everyone says that it's based on a first come first serve.

No one knows for sure. You could do your own experiments. Me, 2 machines do CPU and GPU work, 2 machines do GPU only.

When I had it set for APs only, I would get a few on the CPU and GPU machines. None on the GPU only machines. When I allowed both MB and AP work, the machines with CPU and GPU work got 5 x the amount of APs than the GPU only machines.

But that doesn't mean anything. Last time we had any good amount of APs, both of these machines didn't get any APs. If anything, my oldest machines got more work than my newest machines.

So there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason. Your ideas are as good as mine
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Message 1695793 - Posted: 26 Jun 2015, 5:07:37 UTC - in response to Message 1695792.  

This is good to know thank you. I may try this next round
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Message 1695794 - Posted: 26 Jun 2015, 5:10:24 UTC - in response to Message 1695792.  
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So there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason.


Aside from potential bugs/flaws, there are naturally chaotic elements in the task scheduling that are more or less unmanaged. That means that, over many hosts, every possibility of normal and weird states will emerge eventually.

[Edit:] Ever run that old life simulation, whereby a few simple rules lead to pretty organic looking behaviour ? similar deal.
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Message 1695796 - Posted: 26 Jun 2015, 5:21:11 UTC

Generally.. as I mentioned a week or so ago in the Panic thread.. if you have an empty cache and you are requesting a very large amount of work, the scheduler tends to not send you anything at all, unless there is a lot of work available. Like.. if there's only one or two tapes being split and the creation rate is less than 0.5/sec and you're requesting 2.5M seconds of work on an empty cache.. you won't get anything at all. If you drop your cache settings down so that you're only asking for ~200k seconds.. you'll start getting some tasks.

But.. if there are 3+ tapes and the creation rate is 1+/sec, requesting 2.5M seconds on an empty cache fetches pretty decent hauls. Once you start getting some work in your cache, it seems to fill up more reliably and faster.

Something I have no experience with, but I've read off and on from some of the regular posters around here is when it comes to GPUs, CPU requests tend to be filled first, leaving the GPU bored and idle until the CPU cache is filled, and then generally, you end up with having to make 20+ requests to get 20-30 APs for the GPUs because the server just.. doesn't seem to want to send anything to GPUs without a little bit of a fight. Again, on that one, I think once you get a small pile in the cache, they tend to start flowing in a bit smoother.


Those are just my observations, your results will vary.
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Message 1695851 - Posted: 26 Jun 2015, 6:46:52 UTC - in response to Message 1695796.  

I don't see that. When downloading APs (only), my GPUs fill first and it's a struggle to get any CPU APs. Generally the CPU will not get any APs unless there is no work going through the CPU. Once the CPU is basically idle, the only way to get CPU APs is to hit the update button in the last 3 seconds, and I only get 1-2 (generally) at a time... makes for a long time to fill a CPU cache.
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Message 1695866 - Posted: 26 Jun 2015, 7:02:38 UTC

Hm. I don't know then. As I said, I'm just making observations of vague trends in the chaos. As Jason described it, basically, this whole BOINC thing is essentially quantum physics: a world where anything and everything is possible...all at the same time.
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