no more tasks

Wolfgang Oesterle-Imbery
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Topic 226319

Since few days ago I don't get any new tasks – how to reactivate?

Joseph Stateson
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There should be plenty of

There should be plenty of work units for your system.  The last task you received was Oct 22, 5 days ago.

 

Must be something wrong.

Using the manager select the Einstein project and click on update.  Then bring up tools and look at the event log.  Einstein should ask for CPU work within a few seconds.

Running in screen saver mode?  Maybe your system is not available long enough.  Under Activity select "always" and see if that gets you anything.

 

GWGeorge007
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Wolfgang Oesterle-Imbery

Wolfgang Oesterle-Imbery wrote:

Since few days ago I don't get any new tasks – how to reactivate?

On the Einstein home page click on your computer so that you get your computer's details.  Scroll down to where you see "Location".  Make sure that the location (otherwise known as venue) in the window (i.e. Home - Work- School) is the same as what you have set your preferences to.  If that is the same, then you are probably trying to use GW tasks which are greater in size than your computer's CPU can handle.  If you swapped over to GR it will probably work because GR tasks uses less memory than GW tasks.

George

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archae86
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On your Einstein account

On your Einstein account pages, look for your list of computers.  The right column is labeled "Last Contact" and has a link to a log from the most recent attempt that computer made to talk to the project.  As I type this, your machine's most recent attempt is over half a day ago, and contains these lines:

2021-10-28 00:08:27.9252 [PID=26768]    [send] CPU: req 0.00 sec, 0.00 instances; est delay 0.00
2021-10-28 00:08:27.9252 [PID=26768]    [send] work_req_seconds: 0.00 secs

 

The thing to notice here is that your machine requested zero new work.  One way for this to happen is for you to already have work assigned to you for this project in excess of your requested queue size.  Another way is for you to be signed up to multiple projects, and for BOINC to assess that you are behind in your requested allocation of effort to one or more other projects.  Are you currently requesting and getting work from Asteroids?

Richie
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Asteroids is still offline

Asteroids is still offline since their server hardware crashed earlier this year. So it must be one of the other scenarios.

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