Communications Deferred
16 Aug 2007 22:12:46 UTC
Topic 193047
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I'm getting a LOT of "Communications Deferred" msgs on SETI, Climateprediction and Einstein. I'm running a Mac G5 dual 2.3GHz w/ 6 Gigs of RAM under OS 10.4.10. The machine runs 24/7. I have tried rebooting with no change including a start from 0.0 volts.
Right now, even with me working my activity monitor says that SETI is getting 94.90% of a processor and Einstein 93.80% of the other processor.
Communications Deferred
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Communication deferred just means that either BOINC tried to contact the project server and it couldn't, or that it had contact but was asked by the server to hold off communications for a while. Be it because there is no work for your platform, or because you just had contact with the server. It's not a bad message.
If you're also getting a message like Not requesting new work or reporting results, then that means you have enough work in queue to be handled by the applications for now.
This remark isn't meant to be
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This remark isn't meant to be derogatory or demeaning, just an observation. It continues to amaze me how people can sign up to run Boinc on their computer(s) and yet contribute little or no effort to understand how it functions or communicates, to understand what is normal and what is not. Seems like the Boinc establishment ought to insist that newcomers must complete a short, simple and informative tutorial before they can download Boinc and use it. The fora across many projects are full of the same questions with the same answers even though great effort has been expended to provide FAQs or sticky threads. Personally I would be reluctant if not afraid to download and run Boinc without any understanding of what it does or how it does it.
RE: Personally I would be
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Good thing I don't really know that last bit myself either... LOL
RE: I'm getting a LOT of
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Not only am I getting the
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Not only am I getting the "deferred" message, but Einstein won't get new tasks.
And BTW, some people have lives and careers and find BOINC annoying and cumbersome but essential to participate in neat programs like SETI or Einstein. Before BOINC SETI ran just fine, with little or no problems.
BOINC is like the tires on your car, you don't need to know how to fix 'em when they leak, just who to talk to...
RE: Not only am I getting
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Please post the last 20 lines from BOINC Manager's Messages tab in an answer window here.
Before we go down the why Seti couldn't continue as it could path again, how do you think you're crunching Einstein at this moment? By magic?
Do you really think that the developers of BOINC are poor, clueless men with no hope of ever getting a family? Do you think that we who try to help here are little men who can only get off by internet porn? That we (developers and helpers) do this out of boredom?
If you don't know how to unscrew the wheel nuts, where do you check first?
Your wife?
Your kids?
The manual of your car?
Right... so if you don't understand something about a piece of software you run, where do you check first?
- The manual?
- The next nearest forums of a project you run and make sure you blast the people who are trying to help others?
Just reading up on it fixes things as well.
Just reading posts of people who answered you does so as well. Follow links. Learn.
But no. Complain.
Oh, and by the way... there's edit this post buttons above every post for the duration of 60 minutes. Next time you quote someone and post at the same time, please take the curtsy to edit your post, before making a new one!
RE: Not only am I getting
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Didn't you tell us that Einstein gets almost 99% of one CPU? How can that be when it doesn't have work at all. I'm confused.
We really need some more information, like the one Ageless asked for from the "Messages" tab.
Let's focus on Einstein at Home here, discussions of whether SETI was nicer before BOINC might be best discussed over at SETI@HOME or BOINC forums. E@H has selected BOINC as its DC platform, and for good reasons, I might add.
CU
BRM
I have no Einstein data
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I have no Einstein data packets to process, have not been able to get any for the last three days. Is the Einstein project completed?
RE: I have no Einstein data
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It's soooo ongoing, and far from over.
Do you have other BOINC projects active? Sometimes it happens that the complex rules that try to implement the "fairness" to split your CPU idle cycles among several projects decide a certain project should get more time and others should pause for some time. You will see this discussed here in many threads, for example here.
Everything you want to know about this but newer dared to ask is explained here.
CU
BRM