Murphy's law again...
18/12/2013 21.25.35 | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
18/12/2013 21.25.35 | World Community Grid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
18/12/2013 21.25.48 | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
18/12/2013 21.25.48 | World Community Grid | Message from server: We are currently experiencing high load and are temporarily deferring your scheduler request. Your client will automatically try again later.

Now I'm sat with 8 cores idle.

18/12/2013 21:31:51 World Community Grid Message from server: Message from server: We are currently experiencing high load and are temporarily deferring your scheduler request. Your client will automatically try again later.


Maybe I'll close down my PC tonight for a change. It may appreciate a night off! :)

I am a little confused as to how this works. If I read rightly, there is a large number of short deadline, high priority work that needs to be worked through.

New devices are being restricted to downloading one task per virtual core to prevent all these high priority tasks. After 3 hours, this restriction is lifted.

I can see how his will overload the server as there will be more server requests as the short deadline tasks report more often.

However, it there a way of staggering these out, so that we can fetch work. I'm not demanding, just asking? Was the backlog that large?

I have a number of machines running with no buffer due to the nature of their operation and I estimate that 63 out of 102 cores are dry and waiting. Although almost all of them are off now for the next few days.

I know the techs are on this and I trust the hell out of them! Out of interest, how much has the workload on WCG increased in the last month?

Holy Crap.... 50% increase in 4 weeks!
I take my hat off to the techs who have managed to handle that increase and an unexpected one at that!