File transfers have recently been on par with other programs (e.g., Rosetta & SiDock) - for which we are grateful!
Keep it up!
Thanks!

I agree with Grumpy Swede. I'm only doing ARP at the moment, and I would love to have some ARP WUs... even with download issues... as least I'd have something to crunch eventually. It takes my machine 15 hours to complete an ARP, so a bit of clicking retry to download the files isn't a big deal to me and I don't need many.

Reload the ARP WU bucket PLEASE !

Today at least, I have received a steady stream of OPN tasks with a few MCM here and there as well. I have not noticed any of the download issues today.

Thanks TPCBF for mentioning caching. I hadn't thought of that.
Someone mentioned that download rates are matching Rosetta, and here is their server setup...
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/server_status.php
I don't know much about servers, OSI layers, or caching, but this link might be useful information as WCG might be similar (or smaller given connection issues). Seems that Rosetta only has 1 web server. Also, some BOINC projects like Universe@home only have one server that does everything for all of their applications, which is the default BOINC-server configuration. Would useful caching occur in such a single-server configuration?

I think we disagree on the definition of symptom, but that's just semantics, so not super important. Aren't symptoms usually the observable things like a sore throat and error messages? And the root causes *can* be things that are not readily apparent like the flu or server configurations?

Yes, the current lack of MCM1 work is likely due to the hopper running empty. But I'm not too worried about that as long as the lack of inconsistent work isn't causing the servers to then work MUCH harder when they turn back on. It's the weird connection errors rather than a simple lack of work that frustrates me.


Sgt. Joe, you say that there can be multiple servers. I also said this in the post you were replying to, and none of my logic in that post depended on there being just 1 server. However, regarding caching, I now mention that there probably aren't many download servers because it might be relevant??

I don't know U@H, so I can't say much about it. I just know that there are quite a few "home brew" projects that work with minimal resources. But then their projects are also kind of limited, at least what the number of particpants and scope of project are concerned.

And there is no problem with just having 1 web server, after all, it is just the web site and possibly the forum (I think the later MIGHT be on a separate server (instance)). And the number of web servers is certainly NOT an issue regarding the problems we experience here with WCG. That is kind of the "easy" part...
Yes, symptoms are those things that you can observe, and there can be multiple reasons that cause the same (or very similar) symptoms. For your example of a sore throat, possible reasons can be a cold/flu, talking for hours or eating seriously spicy food. All are decisively different, and so can be the reason for symptoms observed on the Internet...
Rather than one server vs multiple servers, the basic issue is that no other project runs different sub-project concurrently like WCG does.
And what would the purpose of such server status page for the average user be?

Ralf