Tasks failed
1

If you fail a task, BOINC gives you a 24 hour timeout and only sends you one task for the next day. You have to return that one task as valid before it will send you any more. You are likely in timeout.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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I think you are right.


General
URL
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
User name
AllenIN
Team name
Resource share
100
Scheduler RPC deferred for
00:03:26
Disk usage
302.61 MB
Computer ID
8048221
Suspended via GUI
no
Don't request tasks
no
Host location
home
Tasks completed
0
Tasks failed
0
Credit
User
54,238,004 total, 30,475.30 average
Host
8,253,718 total, 4,911.15 average
Scheduling
Scheduling priority
-0.05
CPU task request deferred for
00:05:23
CPU task request deferral interval
00:20:00
Last scheduler reply
12/15/2019 8:43:11 PM

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I'm sorry,but the log I sent you is from the wrong system. I'll get on the other system.

Something strange about that system. You are up to 786 tasks currently and you should only have a maximum of 500. One cpu =200 tasks and one gpu =300 tasks. For the venue location that host is on, does it have cpu work enabled? Are you spoofing gpus that would give more work than a stock system?

[Edit] Forgot you said you reset the host. Likely the extra tasks are lost tasks or ghosts.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

The system has a quad cpu and the gpu is running 3 tasks at one time. Hope that helps. It may have been giving me an extra shot of GPU work, since I didn't have any CPU work running.
Good news though, my last batch of tasks as a few CPU tasks in it. I guess the problem is solved and you were correct.

Thanks a bunch for your time and efforts. Much appreciated.

Allen

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I have about 350 tasks right now.

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I have about 350 tasks right now.

If this is the same machine, looks like you have a good bunch of ghosts:
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=8048221

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I have about 350 tasks right now.

Nope you have 845 now. Lots of ghosts.
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=8048221

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

What's to be done about the ghosts?

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What's to be done about the ghosts?

This.

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Read through and execute the procedure.
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84176&postid=2010025

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

Your CPU requests were likely in "back off request mode" and that can be for as long as 4 odd days.

There was a simple way to check and rectify that with the ancient BOINC version that I use to use, but I can't seem find out how to do that yet with the much newer version that I'm using now.

If you have the Manager running, highlight Seti in the projects tab and then select Properties. That shows you the backoff timeouts for both the cpu and gpu.

Ok, I was looking at my 2500K rig at the time and all it showed was "Scheduling priority -0.05 to - 0.09" and that's with the 3 days +0.1 settings, but since my "-nobs" experiment on it I didn't get me the full 200 CPU tasks (even though the ARR was 2.7-2.9 days) and then I actually checked my 3570K which does get the whole 200 task allocation showed what I was use to under the ancient version that I was use to (both CPU and GPU are shown no matter what cache settings were set with the ancient version) so I changed the 2500K cache settings to 4 days + 0.1 and now I get both priority settings on it.

So I take it that as soon as you close that window and hit the Update button still resets the back off time like the older versions did?

Cheers.

So I take it that as soon as you close that window and hit the Update button still resets the back off time like the older versions did?

Yep.
Hitting update resets all the backoffs.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Well there you go, an old dog can learn new tricks. LOL

Cheers.

Clients reporting server has no tasks available, and site seems to be reacting slowly.

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17-Dec-19 13:36:30 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
17-Dec-19 13:36:30 | SETI@home | Reporting 65 completed tasks
17-Dec-19 13:36:30 | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
17-Dec-19 13:36:52 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
17-Dec-19 13:36:53 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
17-Dec-19 13:36:57 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

Web site & forums grinding to a halt, no output from the splitters, no response from the Scheduler.
We're going down!

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Grant
Darwin NT

Web site & forums grinding to a halt, no output from the splitters, no response from the Scheduler.
We're going down!

Hi Grant,

Look at it this way: It couldn't happen on a more appropriate day than today, Tuesday maintenance day. :)

My only concern is will my cache run dry before the end of maintenance? :/

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

It feels like it's limping back into life. Started to accept reports of completed work (slowly), but can't find any new work. I suspect a database crash - I hope no damage was done.

My current concern is will my cache run dry before the START of maintenance?
Good grief

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Clients reporting server has no tasks available, and site seems to be reacting slowly.

. . I am in the same boat as Kiran, not able to report work and cache is shrinking ... and with the outage just hours away ...

Stephen