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Message 2032781 - Posted: 17 Feb 2020, 8:49:39 UTC - in response to Message 2032767.  

@Grant:
Got home form work to find my Linux system out of GPU work. Heaps of work to be downloaded- all in super extended extreme backoff mode.

Throw this in a cron job, executed from within the BOINC directory, every 15 minutes or so to solve that:
./boinccmd  --project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu update
The solution doesn't match the problem. 'Update' will (amongst other things) try to get more work allocated by the scheduler: but this work is already allocated - it just needs to be downloaded. What's needed is some variation on

--file_transfer URL filename {retry | abort}
Do operation on a file transfer
but as it stands that needs a filename. You could use

--get_file_transfers
Show file transfers
and pipe the output to a file - then pick filenames from that.
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Message 2032787 - Posted: 17 Feb 2020, 11:35:18 UTC

Also unconditional running of update will force a scheduler request to happen when you are still within the cooldown form the previous request. This makes the scheduler refuse to send you any work and reset the cooldown back to full five minutes. When it happens every 15 min, you may lose up to 33% of your opportunities to get more work, which puts you in a disadvantage in a situation where work generation is being throttled.
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Message 2032788 - Posted: 17 Feb 2020, 11:36:10 UTC - in response to Message 2032781.  

for i in `boinccmd --get_file_transfers | sed -n -e 's/^.*name: //p'`;do boinccmd --file_transfer http://setiathome.berkeley.edu $i retry;done

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Message 2032789 - Posted: 17 Feb 2020, 11:38:48 UTC - in response to Message 2032787.  

Also unconditional running of update will force a scheduler request to happen when you are still within the cooldown form the previous request. This makes the scheduler refuse to send you any work and reset the cooldown back to full five minutes. When it happens every 15 min, you may lose up to 33% of your opportunities to get more work, which puts you in a disadvantage in a situation where work generation is being throttled.


i run it on an interval of 930s. while you might miss a couple times, it doesn't seem to have any real adverse affects. my systems still get topped up all the way. it's a lot better than going into extended backoffs while you're sleeping and waking up to a cold system
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Message 2032791 - Posted: 17 Feb 2020, 11:49:42 UTC - in response to Message 2032789.  

i run it on an interval of 930s. while you might miss a couple times, it doesn't seem to have any real adverse affects. my systems still get topped up all the way. it's a lot better than going into extended backoffs while you're sleeping and waking up to a cold system
Your cron can use smaller units than minutes?
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Message 2032792 - Posted: 17 Feb 2020, 11:51:07 UTC - in response to Message 2032791.  

I don’t run it in cron. I just open a terminal window and use the watch command and let it run.
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Message 2032802 - Posted: 17 Feb 2020, 13:55:02 UTC

BoincTasks can do the upload/download retries for you automatically. There is an example config.xml file under "Program Files\eFMer\BoincTasks\examples". You copy and edit this file to folder where BoincTasks exe-files are and restart BoincTasks. By default it checks upload/download queue every 4000 seconds and retries them. If file transfers still fail, it will shorten the interval automatically by 360 seconds (or something like that, I don't remember exactly). The interval is decreased after each retry if file transfers fail until it is 180/360 seconds (sorry, don't remember the exact value). If file transfers are successful, the interval is increased with same step until it is 4000 seconds. The config.xml also allows you to control the work requests as well but I haven't experimented with those parameters. The file has comments in it for different parameters and their purpose. You can see how it has operated under BoincTasks menu Show->Log.
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Message 2032830 - Posted: 17 Feb 2020, 20:35:02 UTC - in response to Message 2032781.  
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The solution doesn't match the problem. 'Update' will (amongst other things) try to get more work allocated by the scheduler: but this work is already allocated - it just needs to be downloaded.
That's what I get for posting so late (early) at night. Sorry, I was conflating two different issues. What I was addressing there was the issue of BOINC "forgetting' to even go asking for work for extended periods when there was none. NVM
Sounds like the BoincTasks option may be worth exploring ... appreciate it.
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Message 2032846 - Posted: 17 Feb 2020, 23:03:24 UTC - in response to Message 2032788.  

for i in `boinccmd --get_file_transfers | sed -n -e 's/^.*name: //p'`;do boinccmd --file_transfer http://setiathome.berkeley.edu $i retry;done


This command will give the boot to stuck transfers if you don’t want to run additional software.
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Message 2032854 - Posted: 18 Feb 2020, 0:10:40 UTC - in response to Message 2032846.  
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for i in `boinccmd --get_file_transfers | sed -n -e 's/^.*name: //p'`;do boinccmd --file_transfer http://setiathome.berkeley.edu $i retry;done


This command will give the boot to stuck transfers if you don’t want to run additional software.


Do you just run this every time you power up the machine or do you wait for an issue to come up? I am new to Linux as well, what options if any do you set for the watch command?

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Message 2032858 - Posted: 18 Feb 2020, 1:37:35 UTC

I would only run the watch command when you expect or getting issues and aren't going to be monitoring the machine while you are away or asleep. Because it can preempt the normal 305 second scheduler connection and force a "too soon" timeout backoff interval. Generally that doesn't cause an issue because it is infrequent or worst case synchronizes with the stock interval and keeps preempting it. But if you choose a much longer than 305 second interval and an odd number that won't happen very often.
But it is safe to use.
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Message 2032879 - Posted: 18 Feb 2020, 3:42:54 UTC

Do you need to panic? I'm not panicking in the slightest
Results ready to send	0	0	391,092	9m
Current result creation rate **	0/sec	0.0184/sec	3.9030/sec	5m
Results out in the field	0	32,248	6,382,603	9m

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Message 2032908 - Posted: 18 Feb 2020, 22:57:28 UTC

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Message 2032909 - Posted: 18 Feb 2020, 23:00:46 UTC - in response to Message 2032908.  

Are we back?


yup, but expect some recovery lag as the system gets pounded by EVERYONE all returning the finished WUs and asking for fresh data. The system will be wonky while dealing with the volume for a while.
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Message 2032935 - Posted: 19 Feb 2020, 0:37:27 UTC

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Message 2032936 - Posted: 19 Feb 2020, 0:50:50 UTC - in response to Message 2032909.  

Are we back?


yup, but expect some recovery lag as the system gets pounded by EVERYONE all returning the finished WUs and asking for fresh data. The system will be wonky while dealing with the volume for a while.


Yep. Much Wonkiness. That's the computer equivalent to Jerkiness in Calculus.
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Message 2032951 - Posted: 19 Feb 2020, 3:06:55 UTC - in response to Message 2032935.  

hello?

Good evening cruncher America
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Message 2032953 - Posted: 19 Feb 2020, 3:16:00 UTC - in response to Message 2032951.  

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Good evening cruncher America


Good Afternoon in NZ! Not a lot of crunching going on right now. Seems things are a little stuck at the moment. Validations are slow, downloads aren't happening despite a growing number of ready to send.
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Message 2032954 - Posted: 19 Feb 2020, 3:24:04 UTC - in response to Message 2032953.  

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Good evening cruncher America


Good Afternoon in NZ! Not a lot of crunching going on right now. Seems things are a little stuck at the moment. Validations are slow, downloads aren't happening despite a growing number of ready to send.

All part of the recovery process
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Message 2032956 - Posted: 19 Feb 2020, 3:26:00 UTC

Splitters stopped too late. There is now over 1.2 million tasks in RTS queue and the total number of tasks in the db is way past the 20 mil stability limit :(
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