Just checking a result - http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=19965896 - and saw this:

-core_client_version -4.13 -/core_client_version-
-stderr_txt-
No heartbeat from core client - exiting

-/stderr_txt-
[edit: changed angle brackets to hypens so it all will show up]


Can someone please tell me what this means?
Thanks,

C

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It means that the BOINC core on your machine did not respond in a timely manner to a request from the science code. At that point, the science code quit, and may have been restarted the next time that BOINC ran (but then again, maybe it wasn't restarted). This could be caused by BOINC crashing, or your machine being heavily overloaded for a while. This was implemented because sometimes the BOINC CC would exit, and the science code was left running, and when BOINC ran later, it would start that science code again -- with predictably bad results.

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Thanks, John.
I was on travel when that WU was running, so I was frequently putting the computer to sleep while I moved around. That may be what happened to it.

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