Won't Give New Work!

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Thu May 10, 2007 1:58 pm

Here's one I haven't seen before.

Fired up the laptop for the first time in several weeks. It's been on 24/7 for 3 days now and had 6 projects running. I set the projects so that I should have got lots of work for it by setting 'connect every 5 days'. This used to work fine - but it isn't having it! I'm getting around 5 hours worth which is a pain as it's only connected to the 'network' manually maybe twice a day and runs out of work especially if a WU runs unexpectedly quick which can happen with ABC WUs. I detached all bar 2 projects to give another chance which hasn't helped.

In 'messages' I just had the message 'Message from Server:(Won't finish in time) Computer on 15.4% of time, BOINC on 100% of that, the project gets 50% of that'

I'm assuming that 15.4% has been measured over a longer period than the computer has actually been on. I.E. measurement over 20 days. Computer been on 3 days. (3/20)*100 = 15%

So it seems that it won't get it's full quota until 20 days have elapsed. I blame BOINC 5.8.?? Pain in the butt! :D

RodEllery · Post by **RodEllery** » Thu May 10, 2007 2:07 pm

Are you running the latest client? I seem to remember getting messages similar to this with 5.8.15. Doesn't seem to happen with 5.8.16 though.

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Thu May 10, 2007 2:47 pm

RodEllery wrote:Are you running the latest client? I seem to remember getting messages similar to this with 5.8.15. Doesn't seem to happen with 5.8.16 though.

Thought that was it! I said it was a few weeks since it had been on and it was at 5.8.15. Just upgraded it to 5.8.16 and still getting the same message except it's now at 15.8%.

As we're going away next week and I'll have to switch the laptop off during this time - it looks like it'll have to start all over again when we get back - ho hum!

RodEllery · Post by **RodEllery** » Thu May 10, 2007 3:22 pm

You could always revert to 5.4.11 which is still available on the BOINC site though some projects don't recommend still using this.

Post by **UBT-mark3346** » Thu May 10, 2007 3:39 pm

While running ABC beta the computers request thousands of seconds work..get 1 wu defer communication for 30 seconds then get another and so on until they have downloaded enough which is not a big problem.....except my fastest machine only starts to download another wu when it has finshed one so there is always a small period of no crunching and it needs a constant connection to keep getting more wu's..settings are the same as all the others the only difference is it is running vista. Strange behaviour?

RodEllery · Post by **RodEllery** » Thu May 10, 2007 3:48 pm

That happens here too. I keep a WU with a distant deadline from another project loaded so, in the few seconds between ABC Betas, that gets a bit of work and I'm not wasting potential crunching time.