Very true, Barry. Speculating doesn't help a thing, but it would be easier to prevent if we got a bit more information. That worked much better in the past; I always considered Einstein the project which was most open with the participants and trying to get them involved and well-informed. I'd be really glad if it was like that again- maybe it will be soon, who knows? In the meantime I'd say let's stay patient.
As for the issue attaching new hosts, I think it depends. I re-attached my notebook on Friday after yet another OS change (adding a Win 2k because of Linux issues in our campus WLAN) and it worked okay. I had to try twice but then it all went fine.
I hope this is resolved soon. I have two computers running linux and one running win2k. The linux computers occasionally get work but it's been ten days now since the one running windows got anything.
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all my Win machines still seem to get work. However, My linux machine hasn't seen a wu in over a week. The last wu for it was reported 12 Feb, and it had a 3 day cache, so sometime around Feb 9 or 10 it just couldn't get work.
Same issue here with no E@H work since about 12 Feb on my Linux box. Updated to 5.8.11 Linux boinc client and it now apperas to be running normally.
These are part of the "when all else fails, ...." recovery process built in to BOINC, and are normal when there are multiple/extended server outages like the ones we've been having recently.
The one-week backoff has now been recognised as too long, and has been reduced to, I think, 1 day in the newest versions of BOINC. Not worth upgrading just for that, though.
The front page says they're still working on the server problems today, and I've noticed a couple of brief outages, but generally the system seems much more responsive, and I've got a couple of new WUs today on a box which has been dry for over a week. Even my pending credit list is shrinking.
So it would be worth your while trying a manual update. Select 'Einstein' on the projects tab, and click the update button once. If you do that while the server is running, it will clear the one-week delay, and restore the normal retry cycle.
Very true, Barry. Speculating
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Very true, Barry. Speculating doesn't help a thing, but it would be easier to prevent if we got a bit more information. That worked much better in the past; I always considered Einstein the project which was most open with the participants and trying to get them involved and well-informed. I'd be really glad if it was like that again- maybe it will be soon, who knows? In the meantime I'd say let's stay patient.
As for the issue attaching new hosts, I think it depends. I re-attached my notebook on Friday after yet another OS change (adding a Win 2k because of Linux issues in our campus WLAN) and it worked okay. I had to try twice but then it all went fine.
I hope this is resolved soon.
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I hope this is resolved soon. I have two computers running linux and one running win2k. The linux computers occasionally get work but it's been ten days now since the one running windows got anything.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
RE: all my Win machines
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Same issue here with no E@H work since about 12 Feb on my Linux box. Updated to 5.8.11 Linux boinc client and it now apperas to be running normally.
I have only linux systems,
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I have only linux systems, the following lines in the log-file surprises me:
2007-02-21 21:20:43 [Einstein@Home] 4 consecutive failures fetching scheduler list - deferring 604800 seconds
2007-02-21 21:20:43 [Einstein@Home] Deferring scheduler requests for 1 weeks, 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes and 0 seconds
RE: I have only linux
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These are part of the "when all else fails, ...." recovery process built in to BOINC, and are normal when there are multiple/extended server outages like the ones we've been having recently.
The one-week backoff has now been recognised as too long, and has been reduced to, I think, 1 day in the newest versions of BOINC. Not worth upgrading just for that, though.
The front page says they're still working on the server problems today, and I've noticed a couple of brief outages, but generally the system seems much more responsive, and I've got a couple of new WUs today on a box which has been dry for over a week. Even my pending credit list is shrinking.
So it would be worth your while trying a manual update. Select 'Einstein' on the projects tab, and click the update button once. If you do that while the server is running, it will clear the one-week delay, and restore the normal retry cycle.