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Thread: Server Reports Computer on 2% of the time. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I have a 3.3 ghz Core Duo that the WCG server apparently has no use for. I have just 2 WU's in progress and zip waiting to run or ready to run. I have checked my preferences and have set a 6 day work preference. This rig is always connected to the net, and has at least 10gb of storage allocated in preferences. I have modified my default preferences on the website and deleted the African Climate project. So, with about 4 hours of work left on this rig, the server says no work can be sent. I am getting a little tired of pumping watts into this thing so it can idle instead of produce work units. I check this rig's progress about 4 times a day and all too often I have work units ready to report and nothing crunching. As per the thread title, I am getting this message as of 11/11 and am clueless as to how the server has decided a 24/7 cruncher is only on 2% of the time.
Yes, I have checked and set the time correctly in the bios, run a repair to Boinc 10.28, and modified my default preferences on the website. Computer ID is 359495 See Clippy below; Grid|Sending schedrequest: To fetch work. Requesting 202789 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 11/11/2007 7:32:13 PM|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 11/11/2007 7:32:13 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work could be sent. 11/11/2007 7:32:13 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: Your computer reports a bandwidth of 49.5 kbps; AfricanClimate@Home requires 63.5 kbps. 11/11/2007 7:32:13 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: (won't finish in time) Computer on 0.2% of time, BOINC on 100.0% of that, this project gets 100.0% of that 11/11/2007 7:33:55 PM||General prefs: from World Community Grid (uler last modified 20-Aug-2007 11:15:54) 11/11/2007 7:33:55 PM||Host location: none Regards-Sysmech |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello SysmechAMD,
Computer on 0.2% of time This is the problem. One of your XML files has some spurious data. Unless you want to learn the XML file formats, I suggest the easy fix. Completely uninstall BOINC after setting the project to not get any more work and aborting work units (so server can send them out again immediately). Delete the BOINC directory, then install BOINC again, using your member logon to attach to WCG. This should start you off normally. Oh yeah . . first reset your preferences to a short queue again. Six days is really long and irritates other people who have to wait a week for validation. Lawrence |
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BobCat13
Senior Cruncher Joined: Oct 29, 2005 Post Count: 295 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If you don't want to take all of the steps Lawrence listed, you can do the following.
Stop the boinc core client Make a backup copy of client_state.xml (in case the edit messes something up) Open client_state.xml in a text editor Find the section titled <time stats> Change the value for <on_frac> to 1.000000 Save client_state.xml Start the boinc core client |
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Protego
Cruncher Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 33 Status: Offline |
My suggestion is that this error message:
----------------------------------------11/11/2007 7:32:13 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: (won't finish in time) Computer on 0.2% of time, BOINC on 100.0% of that, this project gets 100.0% of that 0.2%, right? ... is simply removed from the server software. The server shall not evaluate, the Boinc client shall do this.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Thank You BobCat! Easy fix. I now have a full que. I will have to check the rest of my farm for bad data. Anyone want to speculate on the origin of this error? I want to blame the server, but then that's the easy answer.
Again, excellent! Regards-Sysmech |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
This normally happens when a computer has been switched off for a long time.
If that isn't the case, then it could be caused by other circumstances preventing the computer from doing any work. |
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