Had to post this, this is too funny.

4/4/05 10:33:18 PM||May run out of work in 10.00 days; requesting more
4/4/05 10:33:18 PM|SETI@home|Requesting 1.80 seconds of work
4/4/05 10:33:18 PM|SETI@home|Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
4/4/05 10:33:20 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded

John

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Thanks, and Keep on crunchin'
John Henry KI4JPL
Sevierville TN

I started with nothing,
and I still have some of it left.
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He he... At least you know you have 863998.2 seconds of work in you cache.

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Ok... I don't get it. That just means it will run out of work in 9.99 days so it topping off its buffer by requesting 1.8 seconds worth of work. It probably got one work unit which put it back over 10 days worth of work and made it happy.

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> Ok... I don't get it. That just means it will run out of work in 9.99 days
> so it topping off its buffer by requesting 1.8 seconds worth of work. It
> probably got one work unit which put it back over 10 days worth of work and
> made it happy.
>
Morning Toby,
yesterday John posted that he'd been "Download Limited" to 4 wu/day. I looked into his results. he's been a perfect cruncher from the beginning of the record until the end of March. He'd been asked to do a "Reset" by someone (supposedly with seti) this caused him to trash 14 WU. This trashing was causing him to get the "Download Limit" message.

What he's seeing as funny is that he's probably only got 1 to 5 WU downloaded. His ability to download is coming back, slowly, but coming back. I think he pushed his "Connect to" setting to 10 in an effort to get more than the 4 or 6/day limit. I'm not sure though.

tony

> Ok... I don't get it. That just means it will run out of work in 9.99 days
> so it topping off its buffer by requesting 1.8 seconds worth of work. It
> probably got one work unit which put it back over 10 days worth of work and
> made it happy.

There is clearly some randomness to the requests, but one of the BOINC rules is that every request for work that is not subject to other limits will get one work unit.

So, this is effectively a request for one work unit.

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I can't help, just have to play one-up! Even though it isn't SETI@Home, it's the BOINC that does the request:

4/4/2005 6:09:24 AM||May run out of work in 1.00 days; requesting more
4/4/2005 6:09:24 AM|Einstein@Home|Requesting 0.05 seconds of work
4/4/2005 6:09:24 AM|Einstein@Home|Sending request to scheduler: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
4/4/2005 6:09:25 AM|Einstein@Home|Scheduler RPC to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi succeeded

(I've seen them from S@H also, but not since my last re-boot).

I do notice that when the request is one of these very small ones, the scheduler doesn't send a work unit. But my data isn't enough to tell what the threshhold is for sending that next unit.

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ive been getting stuff like this all day

2005-04-07 04:20:01 [---] May run out of work in 3.00 days; requesting more
2005-04-07 04:20:01 [SETI@home] Requesting 0.11 seconds of work

I usually get...

May run out of work in 0.00 days
Requesting 0.00 seconds of work

My setting is for 0.001. That way if my machine fails, I don't take any WUs with it.

Still, it's kinda funny to see the logs asking for no work... :-)

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> I usually get...

May run out of work in 0.00 days
Requesting 0.00
> seconds of work

My setting is for 0.001. That way if my machine fails, I
> don't take any WUs with it.
>
> Still, it's kinda funny to see the logs asking for no work... :-)

0.001 is probably smaller than you really want. I'm running 0.25 and I frequently have just one SETI (and just one Einstein).

Besides, even if you "take one with you" the other three will form a quorum.

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I have my settings at connect every 0.25 days, and I usually have 2 Predictor and 2 Seti units (1 running, 1 ready-to-go), but I still don't worry about taking a couple with me if I go down.

Now my other data, on the other hand.... isn't on this computer -- I don't keep anything of importance directly on my windows box.

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...even if you "take one with you" the other three will form a quorum.
True. Hadn't thought of that.

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