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[[Ion]]

Something's not right. I see WU's pop up in Transfers, they look like they're DL'ing, but nothing's showing up in Tasks. Event log looks like everything's okay. I'm about to run out of work.

Only on one computer or across the board? As you can see from the Deadlines here, mine has been pulling down WUs every few minutes all morning (and into the afternoon, now):

Can you try restarting BOINC or Windows?

 

[peche]

is there more people having troubles with work loads?

Regards

 

[Heaven7]

BOINCStats seems to be working again! Yay!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Only on one computer or across the board?

I only watched it happen on one system, but my other systems don't have the WU's that they should either.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Any idea what this means?

5/4/2015 12:06:16 PM | World Community Grid | Not requesting tasks: don't need

I seem to be DL'ing WU's one at a time as I finish one. Only on this one system. Buffer set to .5/.5

 

[[Ion]]

Any idea what this means?

I seem to be DL'ing WU's one at a time as I finish one. Only on this one system. Buffer set to .5/.5

Yeah, that means that the buffer is filled with as many tasks as it needs based on your settings, so it isn't asking the scheduler for any more.

I took the Opty setup down for about half an hour and gave it a good dusting. It's still running a bit warm, but I think it's better now.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Yeah, that means that the buffer is filled with as many tasks as it needs based on your settings, so it isn't asking the scheduler for any more.

I took the Opty setup down for about half an hour and gave it a good dusting. It's still running a bit warm, but I think it's better now.

But I should have a day's worth of work in the queue. I have NONE.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Somehow, I had selected "Show Active Tasks" under the Tasks tab. Everything's okay.

 

[manofthem]

Just another little headsup:

World Community Grid: Firmware Upgrade: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 14:00:00 UTC

Firmware Upgrade: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 14:00:00 UTC

4 May 2015

SummaryA firmware upgrade will be performed on Tuesday, May 5th.

World Community Grid will be performing a firmware upgrade startingTuesday, May 5, 2015 at 14:00:00 UTC. The window for this maintenance activity is estimated to be 6 hours, although we anticipate the actual outage time to be very short.

During this firmware upgrade, the website will become unavailable and volunteer devices will not be able to send or receive research tasks for a few short periods of time.

No action is required by the members, as the BOINC/World Community Grid software application will automatically reconnect to our servers once the upgrade is over.

Thank you again for you participation in World Community Grid

 

[twilyth]

My phone doesn't seem to have any tasks and 17 are waiting to upload. I guess these devices get the lowest priority.

 

[Norton]

Somehow, I had selected "Show Active Tasks" under the Tasks tab. Everything's okay.

I've done that before

Just another little headsup:

World Community Grid: Firmware Upgrade: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 14:00:00 UTC

Thanks for the update!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

FDC has updated

 

[manofthem]

All pcs seem to be back to normal, happy about that another lesson as to why a slightly larger buffer would be warranted, so I'm actually going to increase the buffers on these machines.

 

[[Ion]]

All pcs seem to be back to normal, happy about that another lesson as to why a slightly larger buffer would be warranted, so I'm actually going to increase the buffers on these machines.

The issue is, IIRC the schedulers will only hand out either 25 or 35 WUs per thread that your system presents. I think it's 25, which means that all of the i5s will only get 100 WUs at a time. For the CEP2 WUs, that's fine: they take eight or ten or even twelve hours each, so that'll last a very long time. But the FAAH WUs finish up in less than an hour, so the 25 WUs/thread lasts less than a day :/

 

[manofthem]

The issue is, IIRC the schedulers will only hand out either 25 or 35 WUs per thread that your system presents. I think it's 25, which means that all of the i5s will only get 100 WUs at a time. For the CEP2 WUs, that's fine: they take eight or ten or even twelve hours each, so that'll last a very long time. But the FAAH WUs finish up in less than an hour, so the 25 WUs/thread lasts less than a day :/

Indeed those faah ones fly. I'm not running those currently so it's a no-bother for me, but yeah... Still, I'm increasing the buffer to 1 day. Running OET and CEP2 mainly so it ought to play nicely.

 

[twilyth]

The issue is, IIRC the schedulers will only hand out either 25 or 35 WUs per thread that your system presents. I think it's 25, which means that all of the i5s will only get 100 WUs at a time. For the CEP2 WUs, that's fine: they take eight or ten or even twelve hours each, so that'll last a very long time. But the FAAH WUs finish up in less than an hour, so the 25 WUs/thread lasts less than a day :/

So then setting the buffer in days is basically meaningless. That explains a lot, like why i have less than 300 wu's for a 32 thread machine.

 

[[Ion]]

So then setting the buffer in days is basically meaningless. That explains a lot, like why i have less than 300 wu's for a 32 thread machine.

You should see more than that--my 32C Opty, which probably doesn't have the same per thread performance of your dual-SB-E, has about 1000 WUs downloaded right now. Which works out to right about 30/core.

 

[twilyth]

You should see more than that--my 32C Opty, which probably doesn't have the same per thread performance of your dual-SB-E, has about 1000 WUs downloaded right now. Which works out to right about 30/core.

Well, it might be a bug with boinctasks. That's reporting that only 8 threads are running but when I check the machine, BOINC says that all of the threads are busy.

Also, the total number of waiting faah wu's for the 8 thread machines is about the same so, now I'm thinking bug.

 

[xvi]

If FAAH is ending, will Android ARM devices have work to do? I don't think I've seen any other WUs run on my phone or media center.

Edit: Should have googled it first. Looks like OET has ARM WUs. Not sure why I haven't seen 'em yet though.

Edit 2: Device profiles for ALL my crunchers got set to the "School" preset which I was using for machines that I wanted FA@H-only. Figures.

 

[librin.so.1]

>FAAH is ending

Damn it looks like I'm going to miss a 50-diamond FAAH badge by a small margin B|

 

[[Ion]]

>FAAH is ending

Damn it looks like I'm going to miss a 50-diamond FAAH badge by a small margin B|

IIRC we have a couple more weeks of it left. But not enough. I'm almost certainly just barely going to miss my 100 year badge in it

 

[twilyth]

Something I figured out yesterday that may be of help for those of you looking to make your next-level faah badge - If you don't set your profiles up so that your machines only take wu's from faah, you're going to get wu's from other projects and you're not going to make as much progress as you might like to.

I realized this yesterday when I checked boinctasks and saw some UGM and MCM projects trying to slither their way into my queues. Nuh uh, we'll be having none of that.

Also, check your android devices. My phone has been waiting a few days now to upload and get new work but even once the WCG issue was fixed, the completed wu's were just sitting there waiting to upload.

I had to toggle between run and suspend a couple of times to get them pushed out and get new work. And as you might expect, everything I sent back was past the deadline so I'm out about a day's work on the phone.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Something I figured out yesterday that may be of help for those of you looking to make your next-level faah badge - If you don't set your profiles up so that your machines only take wu's from faah, you're going to get wu's from other projects and you're not going to make as much progress as you might like to.

Something I also found out the hard way about the same time as you, so it seems. I was very surprised that I had to deselect "If there is no work available for the project(s) I have selected above, please send me work from another project" to keep from getting other project work when only FAAH was selected.
I needed 711 days when I switched everything on the first of the month. Down to 601. And by tomorrow, I should be slicing off 30 days per day.

My ppd have definitely been tanking since I moved over to doing mostly FAAH. I used to be able to hit 40k plus on many days but now, 36k is a good day - except for those days that one rig uploads a bunch of work. It's the only other machine I use the VPN on and it's constantly getting disconnected so it can be a day or more before I notice and reset the connection.

I've noticed that the PPD seems to be even more decisively different between Windows and Linux with the FAAH-Vina WUs. The Xeon hexs are both down about 7-10% each (runnign 2008 R2 Enterprise), but I've also never seen 8.5k PPD out of a Sandy i7 before (Stuttgart, i7 2600k @ 4.5GHz running Mint 16) or 8k out of the FX8 (Riga, FX8350 @ 4.4GHz running Mint 15). So I guess it's a mixed bag.

I will second that. My stock clocked 3770K (H77 motherboard) got 8,761 points yesterday. It's on Mint 17 with only a single 2 GB stick of RAM. (I'm running out of RAM) IIRC, that beat the 2600K @4.4GHz running W7 by almost 2000 2500 points. I got 2,990 out of my PII-805 at stock clocks!

 

[twilyth]

This is just speculation on my part, but I think that probably aren't enough faah wu's to last until June but they don't want to change the project end date so they're parsing wu's. Hopefully there aren't a lot of people out there who are taking the same tack as we are or they might start to throttle us.

edit: I think I also need about another 15-20 days of only faah wu's to make my badge goal. 16 days under ideal conditions, so we'll see how it goes.

 

[hat]

Adding my ZTE Force to WCG full time. My Motorola Moto G arrived today. There's some ups and downs about the switch but I'm happy so far.

Are there any tricks or anything I should know about when it comes to phones and WCG? I've just installed it, plugged the phone in to a power source and set it down.