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Crystal Pellet
Veteran Cruncher Joined: May 21, 2008 Post Count: 1412 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It would seem the issue is with how WCG is applying the information that the BOINC client is providing. Actually, WCG is handling what the client tells it in standard BOINC fashion (which assumes the host doesn't report a non-Windows O/S whilst asking for a Windows binary!), and in these cases the host is mis-reporting the O/S!Unfortunately, the only ways to prove this are by being able to see what's in a scheduler request from one of these hosts or doing a code dive, though some of the examples I tried to include in my previous post would illustrate the issue (O/S information looking like Linux error reports!) Look at this workunit: Both tasks valid and reporting OS type Ubuntu and OS version Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, but looking into the results: core_client_version>8.2.4</core_client_version Commandline = projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/wcgrid_mcm1_map_7.61_windows_x86_64 -SettingsFile MCM1_0243708_4474.txt and core_client_version>8.2.8</core_client_version Commandline = projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/wcgrid_mcm1_map_7.61_windows_x86_64 -SettingsFile MCM1_0243708_4474.txt |
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alanb1951
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Jan 20, 2006 Post Count: 1327 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I see that the forum search now seems to be able to find all(?) posts back to 2005!
 I needed to find a long-term user certain to have a posting history that started long before mine so I asked for a list of IBM WCG's uplinger posts in ascending order as a test -- I reckoned IBM support would provide a candidate or two  .However the search index was restored (automatic or otherwise), my thanks! Cheers - Al. |
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Grumpy Swede
Master Cruncher Svíþjóð Joined: Apr 10, 2020 Post Count: 2534 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I see that the forum search now seems to be able to find all(?) posts back to 2005! Yes, I can confirm that the forum search is now back to normal. Thank you Igor and Dylan. |
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Hans Sveen
Veteran Cruncher Norge Joined: Feb 18, 2008 Post Count: 1011 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewpostinthread?post=708091
----------------------------------------Seems like it has not been updating since a couple of hours 🤔 Hans S. PS: Up and running again, thanks whoever fixed it! Thanks 😉 [Edit 1 times, last edit by Hans Sveen at Dec 12, 2025 3:37:13 PM] |
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Unixchick
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 16, 2020 Post Count: 1307 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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After last weeks detailed update, I was really hopeful that validating would slowly uptick, but if anything it went down. I wonder what happened?
Kudos to the tech team for indexing the posts on this board so quickly. I hope that next week is better for validation. I feel confident that the WUs I do will be counted eventually, so I continue to grow my personal list of PV jail WUs. |
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AgrFan
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 17, 2008 Post Count: 397 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Still waiting for 691 units from before Nov 7th to validate. None of them have moved in over a week. The Dec 4th update said they "intend to ramp up these passes in the coming days" and provide an ETA for clearing the backlog. That hasn't happened. This is not the way to set user expectations.
----------------------------------------It makes you wonder the importance of this entire project. Maybe that's why funding is lacking. Not much benefit for the amount of money being spent? I've been running folding@home since the September data center cutover. No issues and plenty of work available there.
[Edit 15 times, last edit by AgrFan at Dec 12, 2025 7:49:03 PM] |
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Unixchick
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 16, 2020 Post Count: 1307 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I personally think ALL science is underfunded.
I don't look at the funding level as a measure of worthiness. I think many of the boinc projects do this to lower costs, and to also boost their profile. I guess I'm routing for the scrappy underdog. |
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Grumpy Swede
Master Cruncher Svíþjóð Joined: Apr 10, 2020 Post Count: 2534 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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With the current rate of validation, it will take 47 days to validate all my 1270 Pending Validations. And that is if I stop now, and not crunch any new work at all.
----------------------------------------If I continue to crunch at my current very low rate of only 71 task/day (old Laptop), my Pending list will only grow, and grow, and never shrink at all. Something is not OK in the land of Validations. But then, Pending Validation, is like money in the bank. Sooner or later, they will show up on my account. [Edit 3 times, last edit by Grumpy Swede at Dec 13, 2025 3:47:07 AM] |
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thunder7
Senior Cruncher Netherlands Joined: Mar 6, 2013 Post Count: 241 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Even asking about the amount of unvalidated tasks here seems like a denial of service attack, given it took about 5 refreshes before the website reacted at all. It's at 25000 now....
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Unixchick
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 16, 2020 Post Count: 1307 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I'm going to say that the silver lining is that this backlog of results shows us a little about the new system. It took thunder7 multiple times, but the system did show him 25k results. The system hasn't crashed because of all our unvalidated results.
Hopefully we have a good weekend of WU flow. |
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