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Message 1624686 - Posted: 7 Jan 2015, 2:28:43 UTC

Won't get new tasks. Communication deferred. Looks like I can't keep my 2 PC's with work units. Any Ideas?
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Message 1624740 - Posted: 7 Jan 2015, 5:51:24 UTC

There are very few tasks around just now. For whatever reason the recent "tapes" have not produced the usual number of tasks so we are all short.
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Message 1624840 - Posted: 7 Jan 2015, 11:30:04 UTC - in response to Message 1624740.  

Then is it a coincidence that I haven't been able to get GPU specific tasks for a while? I thought it might have been that I overclocked my GPU but even after resetting the clock, I still can't get new tasks for it, and the CPU tasks just stopped coming in sometime half way through yesterday.
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Message 1624883 - Posted: 7 Jan 2015, 14:29:38 UTC - in response to Message 1624840.  

When it first happened on my laptop, I restored the PC thinking something went wrong. Now it happened on the desk top. I don't want to restore that one.
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Message 1624949 - Posted: 7 Jan 2015, 17:11:45 UTC - in response to Message 1624840.  

Then is it a coincidence that I haven't been able to get GPU specific tasks for a while?

There are no "GPU specific" tasks. All tasks, be it Multibeam v7 or Astropulse v7 will sit waiting in the feeder until a computer comes knocking asking for work for "a GPU", "a CPU" or both at the same time. Work then gets appointed to that computer according to which hardware resource got there first.

Which means that if you haven't had work for your GPU in a while now, you'll have to start looking closer to home first:
- Are your project preferences still set so your GPU can ask for work? Do check that you're on the right location (default, home, school, work).
- In BOINC Manager, is the Activity->GPU option set so the GPU can run (always or based on preferences)?
- In BOINC Manager, is any work still registered to the GPU set to "Suspend"?
-- Tasks tab, check that the button "Show Active Tasks" is showing. If "Show All Tasks is showing, click this. The button shows the option you have, not the state it is in.
-- Any task possibly showing status "Suspended by user", click it, then click the "Resume" button. Again, the Suspend/Resume button shows the option you have, not the state it is in.
- When BOINC asks Seti for work, does it do so only for the CPU or also for the GPU? You can add more elaborate messages to the Event Log by enabling the <sched_op_debug> flag from Advanced->Event Log Diagnostic Flags. Checking it and then clicking OK will make that it's used immediately. The Event Log (CTRL+SHIFT+E) will then show work request values per hardware instance. You can post a log with that for some of us to trawl through.
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Message 1624993 - Posted: 7 Jan 2015, 18:11:07 UTC

I too am not getting any tasks.

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Message 1625091 - Posted: 7 Jan 2015, 20:37:52 UTC - in response to Message 1624949.  

I had a separate post about this earlier, I'll link it so it can be discussed there instead.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76392
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Message 1625110 - Posted: 7 Jan 2015, 21:02:15 UTC

Mark Sattler emailed the admins and got this answer back from them:
Mark Sattler wrote:
Matt has explained to me that the AP database is not fully healed, and automated processes are working in the background to complete repairs. It may be some weeks yet before this has been completed.

So, that is the reason that the AP assimilators have been offline, and the AP waiting for assimilation queue has been growing. Since that work has to be stored temporarily until assimilation can commence, that storage space has filled up, and that is the primary reason that the AP splitters are working so slowly... nowhere to go with the work.

They are going to increase the disk space for storing AP work, and that should allow the AP splitters to get back up to speed again, hopefully soon.

Richard Haselgrove wrote:
Since MB work occupies the same fanout directories as AP work, that will affect MB splitting as well. But at least we can crack on with returning MB work for assimilation, and thus recycle the limited space available.
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Message 1625453 - Posted: 8 Jan 2015, 17:19:40 UTC - in response to Message 1624949.  

OK did a restore on my PC. Now I finally received new work.
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Message 1626600 - Posted: 11 Jan 2015, 23:41:07 UTC - in response to Message 1625453.  

Well only received a few work units now back to no work. :o(
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Message 1627263 - Posted: 14 Jan 2015, 2:15:51 UTC - in response to Message 1626600.  

OK I got work...back to normal. Found out my modem was going out. I replaced it all is well. :o)
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