excessive RPC
18 Nov 2004 14:26:57 UTC
Topic 187114
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The issue is one of excessive calls for WUs I get on my dialup system. Basically I download WUs to crunch at night while I sleep. Then I disable network access to avoid error messages after I disconnect my dialup. In the morning I reconnect the network to upload results and download more WUs. This actually is not so much a problem since it doesn't affect downloads, but I don't want to look like a bad client wasting server time with excessive/unnecessary calls! Typical message is below:
2004-11-18 06:06:52 - Resuming network activity
2004-11-18 06:06:52 - May run out of work in 0.40 days; requesting more
2004-11-18 06:06:52 - Requesting 57168 seconds of work
2004-11-18 06:06:52 - Sending request to scheduler: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
2004-11-18 06:06:54 - Started upload of ft12_I2_f178.0_b0.1_sg00_0_0
2004-11-18 06:06:54 - Started upload of ft12_I2_f199.6_b0.1_sg04_3_0
2004-11-18 06:06:58 - Scheduler RPC to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-11-18 06:06:58 - May run out of work in 0.40 days; requesting more
2004-11-18 06:06:58 - Requesting 41136 seconds of work
2004-11-18 06:06:58 - Sending request to scheduler: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
2004-11-18 06:07:03 - Scheduler RPC to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-11-18 06:07:03 - Message from server: Not sending work - last RPC too recent: 6 sec
2004-11-18 06:07:03 - No work from project
2004-11-18 06:07:03 - Deferring communication with project for 10 minutes and 0 seconds
. . . . . upload stuff . . . .
2004-11-18 06:08:12 - Started download of H1-narrow_219.0_11.0.sft
. . . . . more upload stuff . . . . . .
2004-11-18 06:17:04 - May run out of work in 0.40 days; requesting more
2004-11-18 06:17:04 - Requesting 41887 seconds of work
2004-11-18 06:17:04 - Sending request to scheduler: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
2004-11-18 06:17:24 - Scheduler RPC to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-11-18 06:26:35 - Finished download of H1-narrow_219.0_11.0.sft
Then it's work as normal!
excessive RPC
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Are you referring to the line - 2004-11-18 06:07:03 - Message from server: Not sending work - last RPC too recent: 6 sec?
If you are, it's probably because once you connect and enable network access, the boinc client automatically tries to connect to the server. Not sure if you manually hit "Update Project" at the same time but in most cases I wouldn't worry about it. The RPC delays were written specifically to stop the flooding of the servers so they're working as intended. :)
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> Are you referring to the line - 2004-11-18 06:07:03 - Message from server: Not
> sending work - last RPC too recent: 6 sec?
That and the fact it requests work three times in the span of a few minutes. I didn't manually "Update Project" but in any case it's good to know that it's probably not affecting the servers much. I seem to be seeing the "last RPC too recent" message a bit more lately so I figured I'd mention it.