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sptrog1
Master Cruncher Joined: Dec 12, 2017 Post Count: 1593 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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In TASKS downloads seem to accumulate but never complete.
In TRANSFERS they accumulate and promise to retry but don't. Reloading Boinc manager doesn"t change anything. Is ther anything wrong with my setup? It has always worked before and was working until a few days ago. |
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Kirel2
Advanced Cruncher United States Joined: Sep 24, 2014 Post Count: 118 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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No, there's issues with the network on Krembil's side and they aren't fixed yet.
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sptrog1
Master Cruncher Joined: Dec 12, 2017 Post Count: 1593 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I have aborted all and set to no new tasks in order to free these up for new crunchers.
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TPCBF
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 2, 2011 Post Count: 2173 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have aborted all and set to no new tasks in order to free these up for new crunchers. Why?You could just mark the lot and hit a few times retry and you could crunch them yourself.... This is a general problem at Krembil/WCG, for weeks now, and "new crunchers" will run into the same problem.until this gets finally looked at and fixed. Ralf |
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duanebong
Advanced Cruncher Singapore Joined: Apr 25, 2009 Post Count: 134 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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If left to download WUs by itself, BOINC can take many hours to download a WU. Each time it fails, the retry interval gets longer. Can be several hours between retries after failing repeatedly.
----------------------------------------However if you have time and don't mind putting in effort, you can manually click the retry to force BOINC to attempt to download the WU. Usually after 6 or 7 retries it will eventually succeed. Though I don't know if spamming retries is ethically the right thing to do. On a large scale of thousands of people manually hitting retry, it probably overloads the server even more and makes the situation worse.  |
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thunder7
Senior Cruncher Netherlands Joined: Mar 6, 2013 Post Count: 238 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If left to download WUs by itself, BOINC can take many hours to download a WU. Each time it fails, the retry interval gets longer. Can be several hours between retries after failing repeatedly. However if you have time and don't mind putting in effort, you can manually click the retry to force BOINC to attempt to download the WU. Usually after 6 or 7 retries it will eventually succeed. . ' 'the WU' ? I have systems with 48 and 80 cores doing nothing except backing off. There is no 'the WU'. I´m not going to babysit downloading each and every WU. Before this spectacular non-performance, the 80 core system had about one thousand WU's downloaded in the queue with no errors whatsoever. Now it's doing nothing. The staff happily mentioning on August the 15th (almost 2 weeks ago) List of issues that have been solved: No WUs are available to download is not helping my understanding. Available should mean available to crunchers, not stuck behind some never moving network problem. |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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'the WU' ? I have systems with 48 and 80 cores doing nothing except backing off I feel your pain. I don't have systems that big, but have the same problems. But I am not going to get high blood pressure over it. Looking forward to the solution whenever it comes. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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Seoulpowergrid
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 12, 2013 Post Count: 823 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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However if you have time and don't mind putting in effort, you can manually click the retry to force BOINC to attempt to download the WU. Usually after 6 or 7 retries it will eventually succeed. It's the only thing to get WUs on one of my machines before the deadline. I babysat it for a few minutes and kept clicking the retry button when they all failed. Doing that like 6x or 7x made it so they all got downloaded. My thought is if I don't get the WUs then they'll get bounced to someone else and the problem is repeated. Might as well try and finish what was assigned to me.Though I don't know if spamming retries is ethically the right thing to do. On a large scale of thousands of people manually hitting retry, it probably overloads the server even more and makes the situation worse.  |
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mikey
Veteran Cruncher Joined: May 10, 2009 Post Count: 824 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Just keep clicking retry, I have 15 pc's running and it's taken me hours today to get a bunch of tasks to crunch!! Good thing is the tasks are long enough that they aren't returning them and asking for new one immediately..I'm running Covid-19 gpu tasks and ARP tasks.
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mikey
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They won't get bounced to someone else until they time out, they will keep on retrying until they time ou, the APR tasks time out in 6 days.
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