"Deferring..."
28 Jun 2005 14:07:43 UTC
Topic 189439
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2005.06.28. 16:02:07|Einstein@Home|Master file fetch failed
2005.06.28. 16:02:07|Einstein@Home|Deferring communication with project for x days, y hours, z minutes, and w seconds
What is this? What does it mean? What can I do?
"Deferring..."
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Usually means the server is down, but could mean that something is stopping you from contacting the server, like a firewall, or proxy, or bad connection....
Link to Unofficial Wiki for BOINC, by Paul and Friends
RE: 2005.06.28.
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The deferring system selects the size of the delays to be partly random and partly progressively longer after each failed attempt. This makes sure that after there is a central server failure all the clients in the world do not try to get in at once creating a denial of service attack!
Unless you are 105% sure the problem was local please do not try to do anything to speed up the re-connection: if it was a central server failure you'd add a new problem to the one they've already got.
You can of course check things like server connection... as the previous reply suggested. Check everything, if nothing seems wrong, wait to see what happens after the deferral time.
If you find something wrong locally and fix it, do an 'update' on the project to force the client to retry sooner.
Repeated updates while (say) you try to put right your network settings will not hurt anyone; just be sure it really was a local problem before each retry!
~~gravywavy
I have such a problem, too, I
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I have such a problem, too, I think.
29.06.05 21:01:40|Einstein@Home|Deferring communication with project for 1 days, 18 hours, 9 minutes, and 56 seconds
29.06.05 22:01:37||schedule_cpus: time 3600.090000
29.06.05 22:01:37||earliest deadline: 1120069437.000000 H1_1036.5__1036.7_0.1_T28_Fin1_3
29.06.05 22:01:41|Einstein@Home|Deferring communication with project for 1 days, 17 hours, 9 minutes, and 55 seconds
29.07.05 22:25:22||Suspending computation and network activity - running CPU benchmarks
29.07.05 22:25:22|Einstein@Home|Pausing result H1_1036.5__1036.7_0.1_T28_Fin1_3 (removed from memory)
29.07.05 22:25:23||request_reschedule_cpus: process exited
29.07.05 22:25:24||Running CPU benchmarks
29.06.05 22:51:32||request_reschedule_cpus: result op
29.06.05 22:51:33||request_reschedule_cpus: result op
I would understand more, if there stood nothing.... Ok, after having a look at "projects", I see under "recources": 100(100.00%)
What does that mean? The computing can't be ready....
RE: I have such a problem,
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no it looks ok to me
>> for whatever reason the client has deferred contact with Einstein
>> here the client has found your most urgent piece of work
>> every hour during a deferred connect you get another countdown message like this one - notice it is one hour after the previous similar message and the time left to wait is one hour less
>> here the client has put crunching on hold so it can re-run the benchmarks, it does this from time to time
no, resources on the projects page tells you what part of your resources you have chosen to spend on each project. 100% means that all your resources will be spent on that project (I think you have just one project?) When you sign up to a second project (if you do) ask again about this. While you have just one project then it should always say 100%
To see if any of your work is ready, go to the Work tab, and look under progress. In this place, 100% does mean work is ready. If your internet connection is always on, trust BOINC to deliver the completed work in time.
hope that all helps
~~gravywavy
I have had this problem
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I have had this problem several times, usually because my internet connection was down. Try connect to e@h, once you get that to work then try project->udate project. If that does not restart your transfer you can pick the transfers tab then pick your stalled transfer you shoud see a menu pick for retry now (or something like that). This has always worked for me. If it does not wait a while and start from the beginning.