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No new work?

I've been running WCG under BOINC for several months now, and usually have 2 or 3 jobs waiting to start, plus the one running. I stopped getting downloads of new jobs a day or two ago, and just finsihed my last job. Trying "update" form the project menu in BOINC produces this:

1/22/2008 11:45:52 AM|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user
1/22/2008 11:45:52 AM|World Community Grid|Reporting 1 tasks
1/22/2008 11:45:57 AM|World Community Grid|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509]
1/22/2008 11:45:57 AM|World Community Grid|Deferring communication for 1 min 31 sec
1/22/2008 11:45:57 AM|World Community Grid|Reason: requested by project

but no new work. Is there something else I should try?

Bill Walker

[Jan 22, 2008 4:50:20 PM]

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Re: No new work?

What are you signed up for?

[Jan 22, 2008 4:55:43 PM]

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Re: No new work?

I'm signed up for everything going, including Beta projects (although I haven't seen any of these yet). Should have mentioned that the same machine is running SETI and Climate Prediction, and these are both working normally.

Bill W.

[Jan 22, 2008 4:59:02 PM]

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Re: No new work?

Just "reset project" from the BOINC project page, and this seems to have restarted things. I now have 3 new WCG jobs ready to run. However, I have no idea why:
(a) I had to do this, and
(b) it worked.

I should point out that this is a very common situation when it comes to me and computers.

[Jan 22, 2008 5:19:41 PM]

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Re: No new work?

You did not post all the messages, but I'm 99.99% sure that WCG had crunching debt or so called Short Term or Long Term Debt over a certain value (there's a secret formula for that). At that time a project (here WCG) stops fetching work until it has paid off its debt ~~until it~~ and has allowed other projects their share of crunching time. With the reset you simply removed the STD/LTD, so it fetches work again. Just let it run and eventually with the added project, BOINC will starts to balance at the frequency and weight you set each project.

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[Jan 22, 2008 5:24:28 PM]

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Re: No new work?

Interesting. The 3 projects on this machine seem to be getting roughly equal CPU time, and the credits I'm receiving for WCG are actually quite a bit lower than the others - about 100 a day for WCG compared to 150 to 180 a day for each of the other 2. All are set for equal shares of time. If this happens again, I will wait a while to see if WCG comes back by itself.

[Jan 22, 2008 8:05:57 PM]

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Re: No new work?

Hi Bill Walker,
I think that it was late 2006 when Sekerob posted a matrix showing how the BOINC projects awarded points. Most were in a clump with the WCG, but a few awarded more points per FLOP.

Lawrence

[Jan 22, 2008 8:34:06 PM]

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