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Message 2024895 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 8:48:41 UTC - in response to Message 2024893.  
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Starting to get dribs and drabs of work. But all downloads are stalling out and backing off 5 hours.
Yep, instant timeouts on Linux system downloads now. Windows system (hosts file used) they don't time out instantly, just count away with no download activity, then timeout after a few seconds or a minute or so.
It's probably a good thing we can't download any work, as the splitters aren't actually producing any to replace what's already gone from the Ready-to-send buffer.

Things are still very, very broken.
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Message 2024896 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 8:49:29 UTC - in response to Message 2024893.  

Starting to get dribs and drabs of work. But all downloads are stalling out and backing off 5 hours.



Keith...why are you up?? hahaha
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Message 2024898 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 9:00:33 UTC

After many hours and dozens of "no tasks available", I did the trick for resending lost tasks (even though there weren't any), and the scheduler requests started giving me small handfuls of them. Most of which are--as others have also reported--having transfer issues.

But at least the scheduler is giving work out again.

Thank you, staff.
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Message 2024899 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 9:02:46 UTC - in response to Message 2024898.  

But at least the scheduler is giving work out again.
I wish that were so.
For those brief periods where downloads are considered to be downloading, the Scheduler response to a work request is "Project has no tasks available."
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Message 2024907 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 10:45:32 UTC

Downloads have started again, but "Project has no tasks available" seems the be the current response for work as the Ready-to-send is 0 & splitters aren't.
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Message 2024908 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 10:48:48 UTC

Much the same here, except it slowly appears to be easing off and getting back to normal - both work fetch and downloads seem to be getting easier.
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Message 2024911 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 11:08:34 UTC
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Hmm, managed to pick up some work (new work that is, not resends) in the last 30min or so, Ready-to-send showing 1200, but splitter output has been reported as 0 for about an hour now.

Will see how things are come the morning.
Night all.
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Message 2024912 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 11:40:17 UTC
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The Slots are full - all linux-anonymous -systems are operational - thanks again to seti-staff and happy holidays at all - lg Klaus
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Message 2024913 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 11:56:37 UTC - in response to Message 2024606.  
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OK, I've applied Retvari's workround on my Linux Mint host running special sauce and the spoofed client. There's good news and bad news.

Good news (1): It's running
Good news (2): It's picking up the command line. -nobs isn't specifically acknowledged, but I've got an -unroll in there too, and that's reported.

Bad news: It's not received the instruction to run on device 0 / device 1

The device number is being passed correctly in init_data.xml, but the special sauce app isn't looking in the right place. I see Petri's app_info.xml doesn't contain an API version specifier, and it worked before, so I assume it's only listening for a command line. That's ancient, and should be corrected. Petri needs to compile against a newer BOINC API library and make the appropriate coding adjustments.

But at least my machine is running 2-up on device 0 - so at about half normal speed - and some warmth is creeping back into my workroom.


Hi,
anyone with compilation ability can make the special app to read the gpu number from init_data.xml.

in main.cpp you can define BOINC_MAJOR_VERSION to 8 just before the version check
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    // Patch for Cuda device selection, Care of Juha Sointusalo.
    // Deals with boinc api 7.5 onwards breaking change (mid major version),
    // from standard use of command line to field not present on preferred earlier versions.
    // init_data.xml has e.g. <gpu_device_num>0</gpu_device_num>
#define BOINC_MAJOR_VERSION 8 
#if (BOINC_MAJOR_VERSION >= 8) || ((BOINC_MAJOR_VERSION == 7) && (BOINC_MINOR_VERSION >= 5))
    if (app_init_data.gpu_device_num >= 0) {
      gCUDADevPref = app_init_data.gpu_device_num + 1;
      fprintf(stderr, "app_init.xml specified GPU %d\r\n", app_init_data.gpu_device_num);
    }
#endif
...


I tested this and it says now on stderr
app_init.xml specified GPU 0
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Message 2024914 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 12:07:41 UTC

My caches are full again as well.


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Message 2024915 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 12:26:36 UTC
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My 2 cleaned rigs had their caches full again 45 mins before it's the day after Xmas here and I'm off to bed before that day gets here.

Enjoy the festive season everyone.

Cheers.
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Message 2024917 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 12:44:24 UTC

Both boxes are full, Merry Christmas to all.
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Message 2024918 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 12:49:05 UTC - in response to Message 2024857.  
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Any Stock hosts getting work? Is Resend lost tasks still on?


My Windows box is purely stock and appears to have all its tasks reported and a full set of caches.

Excepting Beta mind you. Which is still down.

I will see if my Linux box has "finally" gotten all its gpu tasks cleared and hopefully the "reports" done.

And turn back on the Anonymous platform.

Right now I can complain about how slow Stock is under Linux.

Then I can start complaining about no tasks :)

--Edit--
The Server immediately dumped a bunch of gpu tasks on me.
When I started up my Weekend Warrior boxes they too immediately got tasks.

May be a bit short on Cpu tasks though.

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Message 2024930 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 15:22:52 UTC
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Hey, just for Future Reference, Anonymous platform doesn't work on the BETA Server, I discovered that a few months ago. All you receive is Server Errors when trying to download work. You can contact the Server when running No New Tasks, but, that won't get you any work. I suspect if that code is ever moved to Main, All Hell will break loose ;-)

BTW, I finally found out how to keep the Main Server from sending all those OpenCL tasks when trying to Spoof the CUDA Special App as Stock. Just add <no_opencl>1</no_opencl> to cc_config.xml, then restart BOINC, and then it will only send tasks for CUDA. It means you also won't run any APs, but, who needs APs when you have the Special App? Now I just have to figure out what to do with all these Ghosts that use to be OpenCL tasks. I kinda though Resend Lost Tasks would be running and take care of it..oh well.

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Message 2024932 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 15:41:05 UTC

Woke up this morning to a Xmas present of tasks downloading and running. Went to fire up the hosts I had turned off for the weekend. Replica is still behind and not showing the work yet. The validated tasks and the pendings significantly dropped from before the Grand Mal Outrage event.

Thanks to the staff for taking my advice of rolling back the server software.
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Message 2024934 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 15:46:43 UTC - in response to Message 2024930.  

Hey, just for Future Reference, Anonymous platform doesn't work on the BETA Server, I discovered that a few months ago. All you receive is Server Errors when trying to download work. You can contact the Server when running No New Tasks, but, that won't get you any work. I suspect if that code is ever moved to Main, All Hell will break loose ;-)

BTW, I finally found out how to keep the Main Server from sending all those OpenCL tasks when trying to Spoof the CUDA Special App as Stock. Just add <no_opencl>1</no_opencl> to cc_config.xml, then restart BOINC, and then it will only send tasks for CUDA. It means you also won't run any APs, but, who needs APs when you have the Special App? Now I just have to figure out what to do with all these Ghosts that use to be OpenCL tasks. I kinda though Resend Lost Tasks would be running and take care of it..oh well.

Merry Christmas to You too!


Neat! So now you aren't actually running Anonymous anymore since you found the work around?

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Message 2024939 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 16:14:15 UTC - in response to Message 2024934.  

I'm going to keep testing the App as Stock for now. I did find that boinc-master 7.5 doesn't work on the Mac as Stock, even though it seems to work on Linux. I might recompile the Apps with boinc-master 7.11 soon.
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Message 2024941 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 16:38:01 UTC

My anon boxes have work and everything seems to be fine but the server status page says the replica database is again being left behind at a steady rate, which I guess will predict trouble in the future...
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Message 2024943 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 16:51:32 UTC - in response to Message 2024941.  

My anon boxes have work and everything seems to be fine but the server status page says the replica database is again being left behind at a steady rate, which I guess will predict trouble in the future...


I think it will grow to some value and come back down as things stabilize, just like what happened after the last server change.
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Message 2024954 - Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 18:04:37 UTC

No panic.

The replica lag time is decreasing, and the RTS is increasing.

Happy Holidays! Thank you Seti crew for working so long yesterday to fix the issues!
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