Problem with BOINC, during Seti outage.

[KarVi]

Hi guys.

I'm having some weird problems with my BOINC installations during this extended outage at Seti.

I have a lot of downloads (and uploads) pending.

But BOINC does not get any new work from other project. All my CPU's (except one doing a CPDN WU), and my R5770  are sitting idle, but still boinc doesn't request work from my backup projects.

When I force BOINC to get work, it requests GPU work, on projects where I have disabled using the GPU.

For instance in Einstein, I have disabled using the GPU on their Web-page. But still BOINC requests GPU work and only GPU work.

And my backup GPU projects, DNETC and Collatz, are not even being asked for work.

Is this because I have so many pending downloads?

Should I cancel all my pending downloads?

[KarVi]

Oh well.

I did the bad thing and canceled all the pending downloads, and now work is pouring in from the backup projects.

Definately a bug in Boinc behaviour...

[Richard Haselgrove]

Yes, a bug which I reported to boinc_alpha on 06 July 2010 (thread title 'Client and server at cross purposes - no work,idle resource'). David checked in http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/changeset/21877 in response - that fix should be in all the v6.11.xx (experimental) builds, though that range will have many more bugs than this.

In the meantime, a better workround is to suspend the individual tasks which are stuck in the download queue - that takes them out of the work fetch calculation, so fetching from other projects can carry on as normal. Then, resume the tasks once the downloads have been completed.

[KarVi]

OK.

Thanks for the explanation.

I will remember to suspend next time instead

[arkayn]

I ended up suspending the SETI project on my Q8200 so it would request CPU work instead of GPU work from Einstein.

[Fredericx51]

Since I'm almost out of SETI tasks, still in UPLoad & D'Load, just got a boat load Einstein GPU tasks, which can fill
my GTX480 & 470, at last, got them both running, PSU issue.
They do consume a lot of power and heat for a small room 

Do hope that SETI comes online by friday, if they are able to fix the 'damage' , do some scientific work and maintenance, a well.
BOINC 6.10.56 (3x) and 1 6.10.58 64BIT still can handle the amount of WU's, never had so much tasks...