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mHELdMDyTtuHz6LV2RaNNJU2e17
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I have recently built a new computer and set up BOINC. It got a few CEP2 workunits but somewhere along the line of getting everything configured it stopped. I have not had any for at least a couple weeks now. I have tried resetting the project a couple times, adding swap, and generally increasing RAM/disk limits. I have also set my preferences to prefer only CEP2 units, just to make sure I'm getting a fair chance.
I followed the other similar thread here about not getting work, and followed the advice. I don't really want to reinstall my system, though.  https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,35746 Here is what it looks like when I request tasks: 26512: 12-Nov-2013 12:12:50 (low) [World Community Grid] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 26513: 12-Nov-2013 12:12:50 (low) [World Community Grid] Reporting 16 completed tasks 26514: 12-Nov-2013 12:12:50 (low) [World Community Grid] Requesting new tasks for CPU 26515: 12-Nov-2013 12:12:54 (low) [World Community Grid] Scheduler request completed: got 42 new tasks 26516: 12-Nov-2013 12:12:54 (low) [World Community Grid] No tasks are available for the applications you have selected 26517: 12-Nov-2013 12:12:54 (low) [World Community Grid] No tasks are available for The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 26518: 12-Nov-2013 12:12:54 (low) [World Community Grid] Your preferences allow tasks from applications other than those selected 26519: 12-Nov-2013 12:12:54 (low) [World Community Grid] Sending tasks from other applications 26520: 12-Nov-2013 12:12:54 (low) [World Community Grid] General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 12-Nov-2013 12:09:50) 26521: 12-Nov-2013 12:12:54 (low) [World Community Grid] Computer location: work Here is my last startup log: 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.2.28 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.33.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1e zlib/1.2.8 libssh2/1.4.3 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] Data directory: /var/lib/boinc 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 240 (driver version unknown, CUDA version 5.5, compute capability 1.2, 512MB, 451MB available, 386 GFLOPS peak) 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] Host name: march 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670 CPU @ 3.40GHz [Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3] 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm ida arat xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid sgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] OS: Linux: 3.11.7-1-ck 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] Memory: 7.72 GB physical, 12.00 GB virtual 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] Disk: 1.79 TB total, 849.03 GB free 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] Local time is UTC -8 hours 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] VirtualBox version: 4.3.2_OSEr90405 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [Plagiarism@Home] URL http://plagiarism.boincpolska.org/plagiarism/; Computer ID 1286; resource share 50 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [WUProp@Home] URL http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/; Computer ID 61446; resource share 100 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [SETI@home] URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 7116704; resource share 0 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [boincsimap] URL http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/; Computer ID 411566; resource share 100 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [GPUGRID] URL http://www.gpugrid.net/; Computer ID 160346; resource share 100 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [Leiden Classical] URL http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/; Computer ID 113661; resource share 50 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [Docking] URL http://docking.cis.udel.edu/; Computer ID 176673; resource share 25 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [World Community Grid] URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 2512811; resource share 200 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [Einstein@Home] URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 9182383; resource share 100 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [Einstein@Home] General prefs: from Einstein@Home (last modified 05-Nov-2013 11:53:24) 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [Einstein@Home] Computer location: work 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] General prefs: using separate prefs for work 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] Reading preferences override file 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] Preferences: 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] max memory usage when active: 5534.45MB 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] max memory usage when idle: 6325.08MB 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] max disk usage: 256.00GB 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] don't use GPU while active 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 75% 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] max download rate: 499999 bytes/sec 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] max upload rate: 100004 bytes/sec 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) 10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] Not using a proxy 10-Nov-2013 19:27:51 Initialization completed 10-Nov-2013 19:27:51 [WUProp@Home] Restarting task wu_v4_1381488756_1272900_0 using data_collect_v4 version 411 nci) in slot 6 10-Nov-2013 19:27:51 [Einstein@Home] Restarting task p2030.20130411.G36.69-01.37.S.b4s0g0.00000_2272_1 using einsteinbinary_BRP4G version 139 (BRP4G-cuda32-nv270) in slot 0 10-Nov-2013 19:27:51 [World Community Grid] Restarting task MCM1_0000029_1106_1 using mcm1 version 724 in slot 4 10-Nov-2013 19:27:51 [World Community Grid] Restarting task MCM1_0000029_1074_1 using mcm1 version 724 in slot 1 10-Nov-2013 19:27:51 [World Community Grid] Restarting task MCM1_0000029_0946_0 using mcm1 version 724 in slot 3 10-Nov-2013 19:27:51 [World Community Grid] Restarting task MCM1_0000029_1059_1 using mcm1 version 724 in slot 5 |
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Jim1348
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It could be that Linux-only problem. But you have a lot of projects; BOINC tends to get all confused in that case (actually it inevitably does so with far fewer projects than that whenever I try it). It may be an example of the following problem due to the "Recent Estimated Credit" technique that the BOINC scheduler uses, though the messages differ:
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/...ad,35738_offset,60#436362 The only solution I have found is to run only one CPU project (WCG for me) and only one GPU project on any given machine. If I want to run other projects, I use a different PC. In your case, I would let all the projects run dry, uninstall BOINC and especially delete the BOINC data folder, and start over with fewer projects. Or you could just wait and see if it starts behaving properly; you never know. |
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Former Member
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Nattgew, had the same thing, but right smack from clean install... after some 36 hours or so the CEP2 started to come. Some members found a simple ''toggling' of the project selections worked for them. Select MCM1+FAAH, deselect CEP2 > Save > Hit update and study messages. Then select CEP2 exclusively, deselect all else, including "if there is no wrk". If the client then tries fetching work from WCG, it will hopefully tell why [bandwidth?... you've entered a restriction]. Just let it sit as no amount of reinstalling will do this... my cards is on something funky on the server side... flags not passing to the feeder properly. On each connect the client is supposed to tell the server about the current config and
----------------------------------------10-Nov-2013 19:27:28 [---] Reading preferences override file Then mod in the appropriate web device profile and hit update again in client, twice, for more observation. First hit to transfer web prefs to client from server, second update to let it request work based on latest web prfs [yes that's right... the server wants to know the latest latest from the client, each and every time] I'm runnning the Gianfranco Locutusofborg ppa package of 7.2.28 on Ubuntu now... no issues. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Nov 13, 2013 2:51:17 PM] |
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mHELdMDyTtuHz6LV2RaNNJU2e17
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Thank you both for your helpful replies.
It may be an example of the following problem due to the "Recent Estimated Credit" technique that the BOINC scheduler uses, though the messages differ That's very interesting, I had noticed the "not highest priority" messages but it seemed to fetch work for everything but CEP2 just fine so I didn't worry too much. I've given up on my initial hope that it would eventually work itself out. I only had so many attached so that BOINC would associate all the accounts together, they used to be broken up. I detached the ones that were set to "no more work", maybe that will help. Some members found a simple ''toggling' of the project selections worked for them. I have started this process, it looks like it did fine with MCM1+FAAH. I have now set it to only CEP2 and no others and will let it run until it needs more work. I also cleared local preferences and restarted BOINC. Hopefully it will at least give something more helpful than just "No tasks are available". Thanks again for your help. I'll update when I find out more. If no amount of fiddling with preferences and updating seems to work, I will resort to wiping out BOINC and starting over. Just hoping it doesn't come to that.  |
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Rob_B
Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Jun 2, 2007 Post Count: 22 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I made the other thread you linked to in the first post.
----------------------------------------Looks like your problem is different. On my problem rig I never got a message about no work being available for CEP2. My rig never got and never asked for CEP2 wu's.  |
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mHELdMDyTtuHz6LV2RaNNJU2e17
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Well toggling the settings didn't seem to work. It gives the same message ("No tasks are available") but of course sends no tasks now. I got that error a couple times overnight. Anywhere besides the message log I should look for more information about this? I like how some projects let you see some of the server side messages generated from each work request. Makes troubleshooting easier.
I'm going to try toggling settings again. Also, when I selected FAAH again I got a bunch of download errors. "File has wrong size" and "checksum or signature error" on a bunch of files. It did manage to get some work, though. Not sure whether this is a problem on my end or not. |
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Former Member
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On the 'wrong size', now having a mention in 3 threads ;>)
Really don't know what to say. Ditch the client [uninstall], delete/eradicate the full install and BOINC data directory and start from new, if you're willing. (Dr. A. was pensive making perturbed faces on the video in September asking himself and the audience why there was an effectively 20% drop in active participation over the past 12 months... how many non-technical throw the towel with this type of unresolvable issue?) |
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mHELdMDyTtuHz6LV2RaNNJU2e17
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Well I was reluctant, but after playing around with some things I ended up reinstalling.
I deleted everything from the /var/lib/boinc directory, reinstalled BOINC for good measure, and started attaching projects. I have left my settings to only allow CEP2 work units. I am still getting the "No tasks available" message. Maybe it will go away as SekeRob suggested... I will wait and see. |
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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The next time that this occurs, can you send the sched_request_www.worldcommunitygrid.org.xml and sched_reply_www.worldcommunitygrid.org.xml to support@worldcommunitygrid.org attention Kevin and I'll take a look?
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