communication deferred

kiers
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Topic 190626

In the status column it says: communication defered 00:03:06 WHAT DO I DO AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Jord
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communication deferred

You wait for the 3 minutes and so many seconds. Easy. It's a deferral method which BOINC uses to not 'hammer' the projects servers every second. Else you could leave a heavy object lying on your Enter key while the left mouse button was pointed at the Update button, which would leave you contacting the server 10 times a second. In other words directing a DOS attack against the servers.

So BOINC has a standard deferral method. If it can't contact the servers, you get deferred for a couple of minutes. This is slowly incremented to hours, even days.

Just leave it be.

kiers
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RE: You wait for the 3

Message 24188 in response to message 24187

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You wait for the 3 minutes and so many seconds. Easy. It's a deferral method which BOINC uses to not 'hammer' the projects servers every second. Else you could leave a heavy object lying on your Enter key while the left mouse button was pointed at the Update button, which would leave you contacting the server 10 times a second. In other words directing a DOS attack against the servers.

So BOINC has a standard deferral method. If it can't contact the servers, you get deferred for a couple of minutes. This is slowly incremented to hours, even days.

Just leave it be.

THANKS!!!!!!

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