Anyone else not receiving work?

Stick
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Michael and Gary, Although

Michael and Gary,

Although I enjoyed your last exchange on this thread (as I always enjoy your posts), I think it may have diverted attention from the problem that Bookingfax is having (which I somewhat lamely responded to). I think he is a relatively new user and (given his team affiliation) he may not be as fluent in English as we are. Anyway, my purpose in posting here is to raise his issue back to the top of the thread and invite you two ask Bookingfax any questions that I may have overlooked.

Stick

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nothing's working...beside climatepredic...
I'm not recieving new work.


Michael Roycraft
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RE: RE: Ahh. It just

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Ahh. It just fixed itself and downloaded a work unit.

nothing's working...beside climatepredic...
I'm not recieving new work.

Buenas tardes, Bookingfax

In addition to the things Ageless noted, it occurred to me that you may want to check to see if your BOINC is now attached to the projects other than climateprediction. It seems that you have not done any Einstein WUs for a long time - is it possible that something catastrophic has happened since then, requiring resetting or re-installation of Boinc? What are your project share settings?

microcraft
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hi robert, i have also the

hi robert,
i have also the same problem...today it has finished a work unit but since then didn´t upload a new unit. it is not the ´no more work´-button and i used the update-button.
it looks like this:

>>12.10.2005 15:02:04||Starting BOINC client version 4.45 for windows_intelx86
12.10.2005 15:02:04||Data directory: C:\\Programme\\BOINC
12.10.2005 15:02:04|Einstein@Home|Computer ID: 421093; location: home; project prefs: default
12.10.2005 15:02:04||General prefs: from Einstein@Home (last modified 2005-10-11 23:24:31)
12.10.2005 15:02:04||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
12.10.2005 15:02:04||Remote control not allowed; using loopback address
12.10.2005 15:02:04||Insufficient work; requesting more
12.10.2005 15:05:06||request_reschedule_cpus: project op
12.10.2005 15:05:07|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
12.10.2005 15:05:07|Einstein@Home|Requesting 0 seconds of work, returning 0 results
12.10.2005 15:05:08|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi succeeded
12.10.2005 15:05:09|Einstein@Home|Deferring communication with project for 59 seconds
12.10.2005 15:05:21||request_reschedule_cpus: project op
12.10.2005 15:05:23|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
12.10.2005 15:05:23|Einstein@Home|Requesting 0 seconds of work, returning 0 results
12.10.2005 15:05:24|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi succeeded
12.10.2005 16:02:04||Insufficient work; requesting more
12.10.2005 17:02:05||Insufficient work; requesting more
12.10.2005 18:02:06||Insufficient work; requesting more
12.10.2005 19:02:06||Insufficient work; requesting more
12.10.2005 19:03:06||request_reschedule_cpus: project op
12.10.2005 19:03:07|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
12.10.2005 19:03:07|Einstein@Home|Requesting 0 seconds of work, returning 0 results
12.10.2005 19:03:08|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi succeeded
12.10.2005 19:03:09|Einstein@Home|Deferring communication with project for 59 seconds
12.10.2005 19:03:17||request_reschedule_cpus: project op
12.10.2005 19:03:17|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
12.10.2005 19:03:17|Einstein@Home|Requesting 0 seconds of work, returning 0 results
12.10.2005 19:03:18|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi succeeded
12.10.2005 19:03:30||request_reschedule_cpus: project op
12.10.2005 19:03:30|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
12.10.2005 19:03:30|Einstein@Home|Requesting 0 seconds of work, returning 0 results
12.10.2005 19:03:31|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi succeeded>>

i´ll wait a little bit, maybe its just an einstein problem (server???)...
bye, soho

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RE: i´ll wait a little

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i´ll wait a little bit, maybe its just an einstein problem (server???)...
bye, soho

Soho,

More than likely, what you are experiencing is not "an einstein problem (server???)..." but, rather, a feature of BOINC. If you are running several projects, you may not always have work for every project. BOINC is designed to balance the time it allocates to each project over the long run (according to your "percent time" preferences). However, over the short run, some imbalances inevitably occur. For example, if an Einstein unit deadline is approaching and your normal resource share does not give enough time to finish it, BOINC will "borrow" time from another project in order to meet the deadline. Then, when it finishes the Einstein unit, BOINC will "pay back" the other project for the time it "borrowed". While, the "pay back" is happening, BOINC may not ask Einstein for any new work. This is probably what is happening in your case.

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stick, i´m not running other

Message 17970 in response to message 17969

stick,
i´m not running other projects. so it is wasted time to wait and to have nothing to work...

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i´ll wait a little bit, maybe its just an einstein problem (server???)...
bye, soho

Soho,

More than likely, what you are experiencing is not "an einstein problem (server???)..." but, rather, a feature of BOINC. If you are running several projects, you may not always have work for every project. BOINC is designed to balance the time it allocates to each project over the long run (according to your "percent time" preferences). However, over the short run, some imbalances inevitably occur. For example, if an Einstein unit deadline is approaching and your normal resource share does not give enough time to finish it, BOINC will "borrow" time from another project in order to meet the deadline. Then, when it finishes the Einstein unit, BOINC will "pay back" the other project for the time it "borrowed". While, the "pay back" is happening, BOINC may not ask Einstein for any new work. This is probably what is happening in your case.


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RE: stick, i´m not running

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stick,
i´m not running other projects. so it is wasted time to wait and to have nothing to work...

Soho,

You might read through this thread: Message boards : Problems and Bug Reports : BOINC is currently suspended - not exactly the same problem as yours but some similarities. You might get some ideas to try.

Stick

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thanks stick, for your help.

Message 17972 in response to message 17971

thanks stick,
for your help.
But do you think thats normal:
>>13.10.2005 11:13:45||Starting BOINC client version 4.45 for windows_intelx86
13.10.2005 11:13:45||Data directory: C:\\Programme\\BOINC
13.10.2005 11:13:45|Einstein@Home|Computer ID: 421093; location: home; project prefs: default
13.10.2005 11:13:45||General prefs: from Einstein@Home (last modified 2005-10-11 23:24:31)
13.10.2005 11:13:45||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
13.10.2005 11:13:45||Remote control not allowed; using loopback address
13.10.2005 11:13:45||Insufficient work; requesting more
13.10.2005 12:13:46||Insufficient work; requesting more
13.10.2005 13:13:47||Insufficient work; requesting more
13.10.2005 14:13:47||Insufficient work; requesting more
13.10.2005 15:13:48||Insufficient work; requesting more
13.10.2005 16:13:49||Insufficient work; requesting more>>???
i wonder why boinc knows that it needs more work to do but doesn´t upload a new WU...
i did three WU´s and everything worked fine until now...

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stick,
i´m not running other projects. so it is wasted time to wait and to have nothing to work...

Soho,

You might read through this thread: Message boards : Problems and Bug Reports : BOINC is currently suspended - not exactly the same problem as yours but some similarities. You might get some ideas to try.

Stick


Michael Roycraft
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Soho, Is your computer

Soho,

Is your computer connected to the internet behind a firewall? Forgive me if this has been covered before, but I just did a quick scan of this thread and didn't see this possibility checked.

microcraft
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Stick
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RE: RE: thanks stick, for

Message 17975 in response to (parent removed)

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thanks stick,
for your help.
But do you think thats normal:
>>13.10.2005 11:13:45||Starting BOINC client version 4.45 for windows_intelx86
13.10.2005 11:13:45||Data directory: C:\\Programme\\BOINC
13.10.2005 11:13:45|Einstein@Home|Computer ID: 421093; location: home; project prefs: default
13.10.2005 11:13:45||General prefs: from Einstein@Home (last modified 2005-10-11 23:24:31)
13.10.2005 11:13:45||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
13.10.2005 11:13:45||Remote control not allowed; using loopback address
13.10.2005 11:13:45||Insufficient work; requesting more
13.10.2005 12:13:46||Insufficient work; requesting more
13.10.2005 13:13:47||Insufficient work; requesting more
13.10.2005 14:13:47||Insufficient work; requesting more
13.10.2005 15:13:48||Insufficient work; requesting more
13.10.2005 16:13:49||Insufficient work; requesting more>>???
i wonder why boinc knows that it needs more work to do but doesn´t upload a new WU...
i did three WU´s and everything worked fine until now...

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stick,
i´m not running other projects. so it is wasted time to wait and to have nothing to work...

Soho,

You might read through this thread: Message boards : Problems and Bug Reports : BOINC is currently suspended - not exactly the same problem as yours but some similarities. You might get some ideas to try.

Stick



Sorry about the extra post - I seem to have a nervous "trigger" finger.

No, I don't think it's normal. And, quite frankly I'm stumped. That's why I pointed you to the other thread. One of the last suggestions there was to do a reinstall of BOINC using the "Repair" option. It seemed to work for that problem - but, it's really just "a shot in the dark" from me (although, I don't think it would hurt to try). As far as Michael's firewall question goes, I had dismissed the idea, because you seem to be communicating. But, it may be worth looking into anyway. I know BOINC uses some ports in addition to the standard port 80. If it's the firewall, it might be hanging one of the other ports. I don't if I can offer any more help, but our posts seem to have attracted some attention. I know Michael has been very helpful in other situations - so I will leave you in his very capable hands.

Michael Roycraft
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RE: I know Michael has

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I know Michael has been very helpful in other situations - so I will leave you in his very capable hands.

YIKES, Stick. I didn't mean to step on your toes - I don't know anything further to look at, as you've already covered more than I would have thought of.

Somewhere I saw a thread that listed which ports Boinc/Einstein uses, 3 of them, if I remember correctly.

I have to leave for work in a few minutes, try to wring some $$ from the world, before I get evicted (and worse, get my cable internet disconnected) :)

microcraft
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