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Former Member
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I have five BOINC projects. A few days before I went on furlough, I asked each to do "No new tasks" so I could safely shut down my computer for the week without worrying about blowing a report deadline. When I came back, I started everything back up and clicked "Allow new tasks" for each project. Within a couple of days, I was getting new tasks for each project except WCG. It's been two weeks now and I still am getting
----------------------------------------"Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks" in Messages for WCG, and only for WCG, whenever I tell it to Update. It was working fine before "No new tasks"/"Allow new tasks" and no other configuration options have changed. Ubuntu 8.04, BOINC client/manager 5.10.45 (latest I can find for Ubuntu), dual core Intel processor, 4GB RAM Any ideas? [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 24, 2009 5:41:00 PM] |
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Sekerob
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Will you please try a project reset. Some parms may be thinking you overextended your furlough (think the Dutch have 'verlof'... kind of a military word)
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WCG
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Former Member
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Thank you for your quick reply.
That caused something interesting to happen: it still says "Requesting 0 seconds of work", but right after that it started downloading a bunch of *.gif and *.png image files. Still no work, though. I tried resetting twice and had the same behavior. |
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Sekerob
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That download part is the actual software and images relating to WCG. Probably had you set WCG first to fetch work again it would have been crunching already.
----------------------------------------Please find the client_state.xml and copy/paste the section <time_stats> <on_frac>0.938946</on_frac> <connected_frac>0.459381</connected_frac> <active_frac>0.998975</active_frac> <last_update>1248446807.543091</last_update> </time_stats> into your next post. These values could be way off due your vacation.
WCG
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Former Member
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<time_stats>
<on_frac>0.787481</on_frac> <connected_frac>-1.000000</connected_frac> <active_frac>0.848485</active_frac> <cpu_efficiency>0.364772</cpu_efficiency> <last_update>1248455031.524240</last_update> </time_stats> I don't know what "connected_frac" is, but it doesn't look good! |
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Sekerob
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Hack time, with reluctance:
----------------------------------------Stop BOINC entirely, including the service BOINC.exe Open with flat ASCII editor the client_state.xml Change all values EXCEPT last update to 0.990000 Save Start BOINC and service Is processing set to CPU Time 100% in your prefs? PS. The -1.000000 is a longer standing bug fixed in the client version 6.
WCG
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Former Member
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/etc/init.d/boinc-client stop
vi /var/lib/boinc-client/client_state.xml /etc/init.d/boinc-client start refreshed appropriate stuff in BOINC manager I still get "Requesting 0 seconds of work". After restarting, client_state.xml has: <time_stats> <on_frac>0.989953</on_frac> <connected_frac>-1.000000</connected_frac> <active_frac>0.989792</active_frac> <cpu_efficiency>0.988584</cpu_efficiency> <last_update>1248455910.025032</last_update> </time_stats> I did change those first four values to 0.990000, honest! Processing was set to 60%. I changed it to 100% and updated twice. No luck. |
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Sekerob
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It will take time, but temporarily set the work fetch for all but WCG to NO. Abort any unstarted work for the other projects. That should release space in the work buffer... and then it probably will still need time for BOINC to work it out. Just let it run 24/7 for a day or 2.
----------------------------------------Think to remember the -1.000000 <connected_fac> has no impact on actual operation.
WCG
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Thank you. I will try that and report back next week.
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Sekerob
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Oh yes, what is your Connect every X days pref set at and is system date correct? The Connect should be less than the WCG regular work deadline of 10 days.
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