Yes, damn, I forgot that was the problem in the first place. Yes, after you run out of work. Download and install the latest version of boinc, which hopefully will be 5.4.X by that time. then do the detach/reattach.

Thanks again Tony

I think I know what to do now! Maybe I'll get to understand these Electric Brains one of these days.

I need to wait a couple of days for the queues to drain now - then I'll tidy everything up . . .

Regards,
Bill_Mole

What if SETI is looking for the wrong sort of signals?


Looking at my current SETI work unit, 01mr99.ab6406.9074.386086.1.0_1, recorded Tuesday march 02, 1999, from: 11hr 31’ 48’ RA +24 deg 43’ 5” Dec on base freq: 1.41999999 Ghz.

Around 82% competion is where I notice what seems to be, to me a strange occurrence. There is a quite distinct weaker powered signal that increases uniformly in frequency over time.

Mark Bollman,
University of Portsmouth,
Software Engineering, BSC(Hons)Year 1.

News Bulletin

This doesn't seem to have had much coverage in the UK media - probably due to the weather . . .

Yes, damn, I forgot that was the problem in the first place. Yes, after you run out of work. Download and install the latest version of boinc, which hopefully will be 5.4.X by that time. then do the detach/reattach.

there are many places with instructions on how to optimize, but if you want to get back to normal, do this:
1)set all projects to "no new tasks/work"

2) run yourself out of work

3) highlight Setiathome on the "projects" tab, then pick detach

4) reattach to seti, all needed files will download automatically, even the new enhanced applications/work if it's available.

you won't loose credit or anything.

tony

Bill, didn't you install a crunch3r boinc client the other day? If so, did you also install the optimized seti application? I see your benchmarks are about twice what mine are for a similar machine:

Measured floating point speed 2698.47 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 7664.51 million ops/sec

If you just installed the optimized boinc client, then that explains why your claims are twice (or better) than what they should be. You should also have installed the optimized application along with it.

tony

Can anyone explain why my computer seems to want to claim around double the credit of anyone else - is it just being greedy?

Short story: It's a bug. Maybe even a feature. Don't sweat it.

Longer version: The accreditation system in use rules out the highest and lowest claims and grants the middle one when all three return the same results. As long as all three computers agree on that, you'll get credit (otherwise a fourth computer is called in).

All about credit

Glad to hear you've gotten work.

In two weeks when those ghost WUs aren't returned, they'll be marked as errors and you may notice a reduction in your quota. Nothing to be done about this but to continue to return good WUS. For each good WU returned your quota will double, so it it's down to 1/cpu/day, return one and it's 2, then 4, then 8 and you'll quickly be back up to 100.

tony

I have BOINC Manager 5.2.8
Most recently I was running SETI 4.18
I have 6 beta units, enough for about 5 days, running on 5.12

I assume 4.18 will update automatically when it's ready.

At about the time noted I tried resetting and then detaching/reattaching SETI (manually) to try and "shake some Work Units loose", which explains the messages above.

I also tried some manual updates - with similar lack of success. Then I saw this thread and decided to join in.

Regards,
Bill_Mole

I see this:

03/05/2006 10:11:34|SETI@home|Resetting project
03/05/2006 10:11:34||request_reschedule_cpus: exit_tasks
03/05/2006 10:11:34||request_reschedule_cpus: project op
03/05/2006 10:12:30|SETI@home|Resetting project
03/05/2006 10:12:30||request_reschedule_cpus: exit_tasks
03/05/2006 10:12:30|SETI@home|Detaching from project

followed by more resets and detachments. Are you doing this or it boinc doing this??? Which core client are you using??? 5.2.13, etc, do you currently have beta work to crunch?

Thanks and Regards,
Bill

You're seeing Ghosts. This happens once in a great while and noone I know of has tracked down exactly why it's happening. The servers assigned them and shipped them to you, but you didn't get them. Now that Seti thinks you've gotten your limit, it won't let you get anymore until tomorrow (or whenever their clock is set for). Hmmmm,

thinking

If he was returning errors, wouldn't his quota be lower? It might be a connection issue where he got "ghosts" that are counting agains his total. Bill, do you have 100 uncrunched results on your work tab that were downloaded today(last 24 hours)?

bill mole: COuld you unhide your computers please so I can take a look at them?