Getting new work
19 Oct 2007 14:27:34 UTC
Topic 193244
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Lately, after turning in a finished packet, I have to wait 2 or 3 days before receiving new work. I have dial-up access to the internet. Where I live, there is no fast access other than satellite, which is too expensive. Anyone know why the delay each time in giving out new work?
Getting new work
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Thje most common reason is that BOINC tries (and it's quite good at it) to make sure every project get's a fair share of your computer's idle cycles. "Fair" means that in the long run, the share each project gets should be exactly as you specified by your "resource share" settings.
E.g. if you run Seti@Home and Einstein@Home and both are supposed to get an equal share, but SETI@Hoem is down for technical reasons and Einstein steps in, later on BOINC will throttle back Einstein in favor of Sei@Home so that the accumulated "debt" in idle cycles is re-paid.
When this happens, BOINC will display a message like "not requesting new work" when you push the UPDATE button in the Boinc Manager GUI.
If, however, BOINC is displaying a message "requesting xxx seconds of work" but doesn't get any, something else is wrong, and you should copy-paste the messages BOINC displays here so we can find a solution.
Happy crunching,
H-BE
I finally understand! I have
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I finally understand! I have been mashing my mouse button down on the Update button on the Boinc manager trying over and over again to get new work. I do run Seti@home and it is down a lot.
Thanks!
RE: RE: Lately, after
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I have not recieved any work on my computer for maybe a month or more. I am getting the message above. I am running Seti, rossetta, and LHC too. I am also not using the most update version of bionic. What is the solution. Hope someone can help
Hi! Are you getting work
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Hi!
Are you getting work for SETI or any other Project than Einstein@Home on your Athlon?
If so, BOINC seems to assume that other projects you are running need to catch up with Einstein@Home and Einstein@Home should pause for some time.
To make sure this is really the case, you can check this in the following way:
- Locate the Directory BOINC is installed to, usually c:\\programs\\BOINC
- There's a file client_state.xml in this directory. Open it with notepad or any other text editor
- find all lines that look like this
...some project name...
etc. and lines
xxx
xxx
Please report those lines here, preserving the order in which they appear in the client_state.xml file.
These line contain boinc's accounting book that will tell BOINC which project needs to catch up to get it's fair share of your CPU.
CU
H-B
Same stuff for me, no work
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Same stuff for me, no work for a long time.
Posting the info you requested:
SETI@home
short_term_debt 1142.299916
long_term_debt 62097.664973
Einstein@Home
short_term_debt 0.000000
long_term_debt -41678.177219
World Community Grid
short_term_debt -1980.845499
long_term_debt -19245.811506
rosetta@home
short_term_debt 838.545584
long_term_debt -1173.676249
All four projects have 25% each.
Hi! All other projects
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Hi!
All other projects "owe" SETI@Home CPU cycles, and Einstein@Home owes most.
BTW, there are several websites that automatically gather statistics , BOINStats is one of them and this is useful to check planned vs. actual resource share when it comes to credits, not just CPU seconds.
Here's the share of credits for your PC in the last month:
And this was the credit distribution during last week (no E@H activity):
As the bigger BOINC projects tend to calibrate their credits/CPU hour numbers to be similar, the resource share usually is reflected in the credit share as well.
As you can see, BOINC is doing quite a good job balancing the projects, and Einstein@Home will get more mork again after SETI@HOME has reclaimed it's debt.
CU
Bikeman