Work Units not appearing

Drudge
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Topic 195244

Something strange seems to be happening.

According to the list of tasks, none of my computers has contacted the server for the past day or so. During that time in fact each computer has made contact. Completed tasks have been reported and new work downloaded

These “transactions†appear in the BOINC Manager & the new work units are being processed. No error messages have appeared in the BOINC manager. As far as I can tell, RAC seems to reflect recently returned work (it has risen a little during the time in question).

As an example, here is a link to 2412094.
http://einsteinathome.org/host/2412094/tasks&offset=0&show_names=0&state=0

Any suggestions?

Verloren ist nur, wer sich selbst aufgibt. - Hans-Ulrich Rudel

Gundolf Jahn
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Work Units not appearing

I think that might be correlated with "Couldn't find computer", as that "nonexisting" computer did have server contact, according to the server logs.

Perhaps a hanging server connection (cache?), but I think the admins are alerted.

Gruß,
Gundolf

Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

Mike Hewson
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A replica database ( which

A replica database ( which serves said details to the web pages mentioned ) has stopped and is now out of sync with the main database instance .... this is being attended to as we speak.

Cheers, Mike.

( edit ) I think this has also been making the participants/hosts counts on the server status page look a bit nonty.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

Drudge
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Thanks very much Gundolf &

Thanks very much Gundolf & Dr. Mike. It seems to have sorted itself out during the past couple of hours.

Back to business. :-)

Verloren ist nur, wer sich selbst aufgibt. - Hans-Ulrich Rudel

Drudge
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I hate to say it, but it is

I hate to say it, but it is happening again.

Contacts since 2300 UTC 14/08/2010 do not appear. (About 3 hours ago at the time of this posting).

Verloren ist nur, wer sich selbst aufgibt. - Hans-Ulrich Rudel

Drudge
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Seems to be okay now.

Seems to be okay now.

Verloren ist nur, wer sich selbst aufgibt. - Hans-Ulrich Rudel

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