Hello,

I posted over a week ago that my WU deadline was about 4 days too short. Since then I've run my computer non-stop to try and finish the task, however I reported it looked like my computing time had increased several hundred hours.

I'm still running that same task but when I go online to check on the status it tells me I'm not running any tasks. What the heck is going on?? I'm seriously hoping I didn't run 481 hours of work to get nothing at all; that's a serious misuse of computer time in my opinion.

Please somebody tell me what the story is. I've read recently seti's servers seem to be having trouble; hopefully this is the case as well.

I don't see that WU in your list anymore either. That would probably mean that your task was late so it was sent out to another machine which was able to complete it before you finished yours, returned it and got credit, and it was assimilated into the Master Science Database and removed the WU from the active pool.

I don't see that WU in your list anymore either. That would probably mean that your task was late so it was sent out to another machine which was able to complete it before you finished yours, returned it and got credit, and it was assimilated into the Master Science Database and removed the WU from the active pool.

TO fix the problem for the future you can either let the task run to completion, or you can abort the task and edit the duration_correction_factor to be about 10 times what it is now. The duration_correction_factor is found in the client_state.xml. There is one for each project.

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I don't see that WU in your list anymore either. That would probably mean that your task was late so it was sent out to another machine which was able to complete it before you finished yours, returned it and got credit, and it was assimilated into the Master Science Database and removed the WU from the active pool.

How do I set my computer up so it doesn't receive astropulse tasks anymore? Apparently my computer isn't fast enough to handle them, even though seti thinks it is.

It's either that or I remove seti, which I'm seriously considering since my computer never turned off.

I don't see that WU in your list anymore either. That would probably mean that your task was late so it was sent out to another machine which was able to complete it before you finished yours, returned it and got credit, and it was assimilated into the Master Science Database and removed the WU from the active pool.

How do I set my computer up so it doesn't receive astropulse tasks anymore? Apparently my computer isn't fast enough to handle them, even though seti thinks it is.

It's either that or I remove seti, which I'm seriously considering since my computer never turned off.

edit: I didn't see the second reply before I wrote the one above. I decided to abort the task, and detach seti for the moment. After I spend considerable time catching up on other projects (seti took up almost a month of time performing essentially no work) I may decide to reattach this one in the future.

I don't see that WU in your list anymore either. That would probably mean that your task was late so it was sent out to another machine which was able to complete it before you finished yours, returned it and got credit, and it was assimilated into the Master Science Database and removed the WU from the active pool.

How do I set my computer up so it doesn't receive astropulse tasks anymore? Apparently my computer isn't fast enough to handle them, even though seti thinks it is.

It's either that or I remove seti, which I'm seriously considering since my computer never turned off.

Go to your account
Resource share and graphics SETI@home preferences
edit - near the bottom uncheck astropulse.
Click update preferences at bottom of page.
You will no longer receive astropulse WU.

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