After three days of trying, I have finally got a handful of WU's for processing, but the distribution seems to be a bit 'hit'n'miss' with one machine having a full complement in the pipeline, while others only have enough to fill the number of cores available........ Can some continuity on WU issue be established when units are called for???

I have received no work on my two machines since March 14th. I was very concerned that it was "my fault" but I am relieved to know it isn't. I'm guessing its just a waiting game now. At least I have other projects to wok on.

Up until the end of February 2024 I've only been receiving MCM work units, all the other sub-projects I'm subscribed to having dried up after Krembil took over.

Since then I've received no work units at all (on a Windows host). Yesterday I fired up a currently dormant Linux host, and after hitting the update button several times two MCM work units sneaked in after I had given up and switched my attention to the "No New Tasks" button.

On the Windows host I have tried resetting the project several times, but whilst it continues to crunch for Asteroids and Einstein, all it gets with WCG is "Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks".

I've seen the posts elsewhere on the forum saying there is yet another massive problem with WCG, but that maybe it's been fixed. Hard to tell, given the lack of communication from Krembil.

What with this, the months-long dry period immediately after Krembil took over, and the complete lack of work units from sub-projects other than MCM, I'm minded just to give up on WCG. But before I do, is there anyway to check the availability of work units (as is so easily and obviously achieved on other BOINC projects), just in case the problem is with my host?

As an alternative to Bryn Mawr's suggestion, you could go to the "Recent Threads" page on the Forums and look for the latest thread entitled "Project Status (First Post Updated)", which is currently this one.

This thread was created by one of the crunchers here, Unixchick, with assistance from Headcrash and others.

The figures in the table in the first post are based on figures from WUProp, so show only a fraction of the actual WUs. But this is the nearest approximation we have to a real-time server status page, given that WCG doesn't have one.

When MCM is running well, the "Number of workunits the last 24 hours" figure for MCM tends to be about 80,000. As I write this, it is around 20,000, so the system is clearly not operating at anywhere near full capacity.

And when there are problems, you will usually find them being discussed in that thread.

Note that Unixchick has to create a new "Project Status (First Post Updated)" thread from time to time. This is because Unixchick edits the first post regularly, but there is a limit on the number of times a post can be edited. So, once that limit has been reached, Unixchick creates a new "Project Status (First Post Updated)" thread. That is why I suggest navigating to that thread via the Recent Threads page rather than, e.g., bookmarking the current version of that thread.

Cheers,
Mark

Thank you. So there are Windows work units available, but I'm still not getting any of them. I vaguely remember this happening before, and someone at Krembil had to do something. IIRC the problem was geographic, with people in the US getting work units, whilst people in Europe got few if any.

My unassimilated work units disappeared several days ago; I waited for that before posting.

Anyhow, I just signed up with DENIS, and immediately got my first work unit from them.