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Message 1875580 - Posted: 29 Jun 2017, 1:31:31 UTC
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. . Hi Guys,

. . I am developing a hate/hate relationship with these &(*&( Seti servers.

. . Four rigs, the others are getting work more or less AOK now, but this one rig cannot get any GPU work from the rotten bloody servers. They will fill the CPU queue to the limit. But for the GPU queue? Nada! Zilch! Not a skerick.

. . I have tried changing to the same location as the other (Linux) rigs that are getting work well and still nothing. Yet despite the fact that one other rig is on the same location setting as this one normally is that one IS getting work. Windows won't let me edit the hosts file anymore (well I can edit it but I cannot save the edit), but otherwise the 2 Window rigs are the same.

. . Some days I really, really hate computers.

[edit] OK! Grant is right, there is some kind of mystical connection between the servers/scheduler and this forum. All morning nothing I tried would download new work. I came in here to write that message and while my back was turned the servers downloaded a queue full of work. I think I can understand how sometimes people go bat&(96 crazy :(

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Message 1875599 - Posted: 29 Jun 2017, 2:53:31 UTC - in response to Message 1875580.  

I would think that this is due to the Arecibo work recently for about the past week being about >95% VLARs. The scheduler will not send them out as GPU work. So if the GUPPI splitter happens to be out of work at the same time, only your CPUs will get anything.
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Message 1875621 - Posted: 29 Jun 2017, 5:04:17 UTC - in response to Message 1875599.  

I would think that this is due to the Arecibo work recently for about the past week being about >95% VLARs. The scheduler will not send them out as GPU work. So if the GUPPI splitter happens to be out of work at the same time, only your CPUs will get anything.

The problem is, when it's really misbehaving, even if you only request CPU work, it still won't give you any, even if you've only got 25 WUs of your 100WU server side limit.

Since the weekly outage, GBT work has started to flow again, and requests for work (almost) always result in getting some when reporting completed work. First time for a while.
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Message 1875632 - Posted: 29 Jun 2017, 6:38:11 UTC - in response to Message 1875621.  


The problem is, when it's really misbehaving, even if you only request CPU work, it still won't give you any, even if you've only got 25 WUs of your 100WU server side limit.

Since the weekly outage, GBT work has started to flow again, and requests for work (almost) always result in getting some when reporting completed work. First time for a while.

That's been my experience also. Only mystery for me right now is why one machine has only been able to get 1/5 of the AP tasks the other machines have accumulated so far.
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Message 1875687 - Posted: 29 Jun 2017, 15:15:05 UTC
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Looking at stats I noticed the 'Top Computer' has an error rate of ~ 10%.........the rating scale apparently has no measurement for accuracy/efficiency.........


https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=7475713

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Message 1875693 - Posted: 29 Jun 2017, 16:00:48 UTC - in response to Message 1875687.  

AFAIK that machine is being used to develop a new app which shows much promise.
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Message 1875825 - Posted: 30 Jun 2017, 7:46:45 UTC

Anyone getting any GBT work?
For a few hours now both of my system have been Arecibo only, apart from about 3 stray GBT WUs.
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Message 1875827 - Posted: 30 Jun 2017, 7:58:23 UTC - in response to Message 1875825.  
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I haven't seen any since 6:15 GMT
EDIT: 08:17 and just received 54 BLC tasks.
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Message 1875835 - Posted: 30 Jun 2017, 8:38:46 UTC

I got a batch of resends, so I checked the server cache delay ... it's 8h10m ... it's usually about 4.5h !!!
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Message 1875837 - Posted: 30 Jun 2017, 8:53:28 UTC - in response to Message 1875827.  

I haven't seen any since 6:15 GMT
EDIT: 08:17 and just received 54 BLC tasks.

Yeah, just picked up about a dozen between both systems. Still, very low GBT to Arecibo ratio.
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Message 1875861 - Posted: 30 Jun 2017, 10:35:13 UTC

Plenty of GBT work here in my mix, there were a pile of AP's here too (but they're dwindling fast).

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Message 1875864 - Posted: 30 Jun 2017, 10:44:43 UTC - in response to Message 1875861.  

A few APs here...more becoming as scarce as hen's teeth..:-)
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Message 1875865 - Posted: 30 Jun 2017, 10:47:23 UTC - in response to Message 1875580.  

. .
. . Four rigs, the others are getting work more or less AOK now, but this one rig cannot get any GPU work from the rotten bloody servers. They will fill the CPU queue to the limit. But for the GPU queue? Nada! Zilch! Not a skerick.
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Have been using only CPUs lately but wanted to try and use the GPU to comparison reasons....but although my settings are right...I also get nothing on the GPU side...
Such is life!
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Message 1875872 - Posted: 30 Jun 2017, 11:57:15 UTC - in response to Message 1875825.  

Anyone getting any GBT work?
For a few hours now both of my system have been Arecibo only, apart from about 3 stray GBT WUs.


. . My windows boxes are only getting Arecibo VLARs, nothing else and the 970s are slowly grinding their way through them (taking 28mins each) because there is nothing else for them to crunch and the CPU is busy crunching V8.07 for Beta.

. . NOT HAPPY JAN!

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Message 1875873 - Posted: 30 Jun 2017, 11:58:56 UTC - in response to Message 1875831.  

I am developing a hate/hate relationship with these &(*&( Seti servers.
It is the way it is mate. You either live with it or you don't. I only partially live with it these days as my choice. You have to make yours.


. . True! But I am loathe to walk away from the project. (More fool me maybe).

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Message 1875898 - Posted: 30 Jun 2017, 14:31:39 UTC - in response to Message 1875580.  

"Windows won't let me edit the hosts file anymore (well I can edit it but I cannot save the edit), but otherwise the 2 Window rigs are the same."

With WIndows 10, you need to edit the file as an Admin (run notepad as Administrator) in order to save the file.
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Message 1875900 - Posted: 30 Jun 2017, 14:41:09 UTC - in response to Message 1875884.  

True! But I am loathe to walk away from the project. (More fool me maybe).

No, not fool you nor me either, not in any way, and I'm not walking away either. But it is time to say publicly that if Seti can't or won't give me work., then I will go elsewhere until they can. And where I go is helping running the Seti backend anyway, so that is also supporting the project. I'm refusing to lose any sleep over it, It is their problem not mine, my conscience is clear. Over nearly 17 years I have done my bit, more than most in fact, and if they start a major fundraising exercise for new kit I will be amongst the first to contribute to it.

But in the meantime Seti is not a sacred cow to be worshipped. I can afford to run the computing kit that I do as a hobby and as such I will use those facilities to the best advantage rather than save a few pennies on electricity that would earn me almost zero interest in the bank anyway. What's wrong with helping to find a cure for cancer as well as looking for ET?


. . That's the thing about BOINC, most if not all the studies being conducted through it are worthwhile pursuits of answers that can benefit all of us quite a lot. So anyone can choose whatever project they like and feel good about it.

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Message 1875901 - Posted: 30 Jun 2017, 14:43:12 UTC - in response to Message 1875898.  

"Windows won't let me edit the hosts file anymore (well I can edit it but I cannot save the edit), but otherwise the 2 Window rigs are the same."

With WIndows 10, you need to edit the file as an Admin (run notepad as Administrator) in order to save the file.


. . I am, that is what is bothering me, I am selecting notepad with the right mouse key and selecting run as adminstrator, but it will not let me save the file after I have edited it ... Computers are such fun ...

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Message 1875910 - Posted: 30 Jun 2017, 15:57:41 UTC - in response to Message 1875835.  

I got a batch of resends, so I checked the server cache delay ... it's 8h10m ... it's usually about 4.5h !!!

I haven't received any BLC tasks in about 8 hrs. So your observation about the server cache delay is making sense to me. They were splitting out BLC tasks for a while into the RTS buffer, then that stopped and then the RTS buffer filled up with Arecibo VLARs. It seems that the RTS buffer gets padded with either/or slugs of BLC or Arecibo tasks sequentially. There is no intermixing.
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Message 1875931 - Posted: 30 Jun 2017, 17:46:54 UTC - in response to Message 1875901.  

. . I am, that is what is bothering me, I am selecting notepad with the right mouse key and selecting run as adminstrator, but it will not let me save the file after I have edited it ... Computers are such fun ...

Stephen
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Sounds like Windows (or other program) has made the file attribute READ-ONLY. Have seen this happen on some Win 7 & 8.x boxes I have worked on.
Try this:
1) Open a Command prompt as an ADMINISTRATOR and CHANGE THE ATTRIBUTE of the file ...
2) At cmd prompt type (without quotes): "attrib -h -s -r C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts"
3) Exit cmd prompt.
4) Open the hosts file with notepad as an ADMINISTRATOR, make edit and save. Exit Notepad.
Hope this works.
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