That could be helped, maybe, by resetting the RDCF to 1. Obviously the BOINC manager thinks those 20 units will be enough to meet your needs,that could be because the RDCF is seriously out of wack.

Thanks for your reply. I have checked the DCF in the client_state.xml. It was 0.96xxxx on that machine. AFAIR everything equal or lower than 1 is fine... I have changed it to 1.000000, but no change so far. I even detached from LHC on that machine yesterday. Rosetta is now the only project.
On the machine that is fine, the RCF is even lower (0.8xxxxx).

The Q9650 and the i7 920 are less than 2 month old, and to be honest, I had the same problems on the two machines I had before. I can't tell when this started and actually I didn't really care, because both machines were due to be replaced in the next weeks, when I noticed it.

Joe

P.S.: In my desperation, I just increased the cache from 3 to 5 days on that one machine - and now it is downloading WUs. 47 so far. At least I now got a cache for one day.

EDIT: Oh, come on, now all active WUs have changed to high priority. I give in. I'm done with BOINC.

Your problem is the version of Boinc you are using! On the newer machines you are using Boinc 6.6.36 that version, along with all 6.6.? version, has some SERIOUS scheduling problems! I recommend you drop to version 6.4.7 or something earlier. On one machine you are using version 5.4.9 and it seems to be working just fine. You can get all versions of Boinc here: http://boincdl.ssl.berkeley.edu/dl/
You can also go to the home page and under download Boinc click on the All Versions link, 6.4.7 is there too.
I have been crunching for Boinc since the early Beta days, there are good versions and not quite so good version, there probably always will be. Find one you like and stick with it until you find something better. Distributed Computing is a worthwhile thing to do and if you can find something that you can believe in the project in, they you have a keeper! IMHO Rosie is such a project!!

6.4.7 is a non GPU program. I think it 6.5.2 or something in that area that allows for GPU processors.

That could be helped, maybe, by resetting the RDCF to 1. Obviously the BOINC manager thinks those 20 units will be enough to meet your needs,that could be because the RDCF is seriously out of wack.

Thanks for your reply. I have checked the DCF in the client_state.xml. It was 0.96xxxx on that machine. AFAIR everything equal or lower than 1 is fine... I have changed it to 1.000000, but no change so far. I even detached from LHC on that machine yesterday. Rosetta is now the only project.
On the machine that is fine, the RCF is even lower (0.8xxxxx).

The Q9650 and the i7 920 are less than 2 month old, and to be honest, I had the same problems on the two machines I had before. I can't tell when this started and actually I didn't really care, because both machines were due to be replaced in the next weeks, when I noticed it.

Joe

P.S.: In my desperation, I just increased the cache from 3 to 5 days on that one machine - and now it is downloading WUs. 47 so far. At least I now got a cache for one day.

EDIT: Oh, come on, now all active WUs have changed to high priority. I give in. I'm done with BOINC.

Your problem is the version of Boinc you are using! On the newer machines you are using Boinc 6.6.36 that version, along with all 6.6.? version, has some SERIOUS scheduling problems! I recommend you drop to version 6.4.7 or something earlier. On one machine you are using version 5.4.9 and it seems to be working just fine. You can get all versions of Boinc here: http://boincdl.ssl.berkeley.edu/dl/
You can also go to the home page and under download Boinc click on the All Versions link, 6.4.7 is there too.
I have been crunching for Boinc since the early Beta days, there are good versions and not quite so good version, there probably always will be. Find one you like and stick with it until you find something better. Distributed Computing is a worthwhile thing to do and if you can find something that you can believe in the project in, they you have a keeper! IMHO Rosie is such a project!!

6.4.7 is a non GPU program. I think it 6.5.2 or something in that area that allows for GPU processors.

You are correct...Paul Buck says 6.5.0 is the best for GPU crunching, I do not crunch thru Boinc so can't vouch for that though.

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Haven't been able to download any new tasks for 2 days. Messages say "download failed". This is Mac OS X 10.5.7 and BOINC 6.6.36 running *only* Rosetta. I tried deleting all of Boinc ( data files, app, prefs )from the machine and doing a new install but now receive "Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks". Prefs are defaults upon install with no limits. Is there a fix on my end?

Thanks....Brian S.

Haven't been able to download any new tasks for 2 days. Messages say "download failed". This is Mac OS X 10.5.7 and BOINC 6.6.36 running *only* Rosetta. I tried deleting all of Boinc ( data files, app, prefs )from the machine and doing a new install but now receive "Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks". Prefs are defaults upon install with no limits. Is there a fix on my end?

Thanks....Brian S.

There was a major bug on the server side, so nothing wrong with your computer. It looks like it has been resolved now, but almost every participant is trying to download new work at the same time. The servers are busy handing out work as fast as they can but it may be a few hours before everything is back to normal.

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I didn't just run out of work for Rosetta, but for Folding@home's gpu client as well. I am running the regular Folding client until I can get something for Rosetta. I'm watching those Tera Flops drop on the main page.

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I've been running some World Computing Grid projects in the meantime.. Don't let those CPU cycles go to waste!

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I was at least able to finally upload my finished WUs. My downloading bonked out because that bad database file mentioned on the home page had been queued up for me, so it messed up my downloading a little bit. It's now been cleared out of my crunching list.

Now, I can't get work again. The messages list says there's no work from server, but the RAH home page and server status are both saying everything's fine. I guess it's being overloaded again like last week.

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I now have one Rosetta task running on one core, and am running Folding on another core. That's different. Just waiting for more Rosy.

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6 new tasks started coming down here about 50 minutes ago. No download errors. One job completed 99 decoys in 30 minutes for some reason and has gone back already. 9 more tasks coming down now. Hopefully all goes well.

It must be about 4am Seattle time. Well done over there.

Edit: Validate error :(

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I still have problems to receive new tasks... and my WU buffer is finishing... :(

I understand that someone of the R@H team is still working on this issue.

At this moment there are 1.365.000 WU ready to send and increasing rapidly because seams that the transfer process is stopped.

In adition... I should like to see more news from Rosetta,s responsibles updating about this issue to their "customers"... if this is not very complicated...

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our scheduler server is getting hammered right now with work requests. it will take some time for it to settle down unfortunately. hang in there and you should start getting jobs.

Finally I was able to download a WU again! There were a lot of failed attempts this evening again, but some minutes ago it worked. Only one single WU was downloaded, but it is a start :-)

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Yes.

From my part, seams that things come back to work normally.

Thanks, team.

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I have a few work units. They seem to be hit and miss. I also am having trouble uploading finished work units. Rosetta is having MAJOR problems folks. Looks like WCG is going to be getting some attention from me in the meantime. I'll have at least one core crunching Rosy, but the other will probably be WCG until Rosy gets its problems fixed, and maybe even after Rosy gets it's problems fixed. And the Folding gpu client is working for me again. So since I have the potential to run 3 different workunits or projects at once, I'm going to spread the computing potential around instead of it all being focused on Rosy. (Which I cannot utilize my gpu for anyway.)

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Our scheduler server is getting hammered right now with work requests. It will take some time for it to settle down unfortunately. Hang in there and you should start getting jobs.

Can I ask, David, was this a server issue? Is the server still getting a lot of hits? After 24+ hours of work being available there are still a lot of errorsfailuresretries in uploads and downloads (it does all go through eventually). When the previous problems arose there were no errors reported on the Server Status page.

What I'm really asking is if the problem has been resolved or if it's possible we could see continuing issues at unexpected times. Things still don't seem quite right, even now.

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Scheduler is again not working. Seams that problems are not yet solved.

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What I'm really asking is if the problem has been resolved or if it's possible we could see continuing issues at unexpected times. Things still don't seem quite right, even now.

Either you're a fortune teller or a curse. Servers disabled.

Hopefully it's to put in a more permanent fix.

Scheduler is again not working. Seams that problems are not yet solved.

I believe you are right. There must be a big problem with the server. Am too concerned . Rosetta is my favorite. Since we are just enthusiastic volunteers, lets just relax and wait. For the time being, take some WU from World C Grid. They have lots of work.
Right now my biggest concern is the Temperature in Seattle, 90*F - 102*F for the next few days or more. I have no aircon in my computer room. My room Ambient is 95*F. I am shutting off all my 5 quad machines to avoid shortening their life. The machines are all drdicated to Rosetta@home. All our major appliance stores run out of window aircon.
joseps

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I turned off my 5computers when I went on vacation. When I return today, I can not upload work. Need work units to run computers.
joseps

Yes joseps, good move. I believe I crashed a hard drive last Summer because I left it running while the room got too hot. Even if the CPU can handle it, the hard drive can't.

Been curious to know, what is that behind you in your avatar? Tulips?

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Yes joseps, good move. I believe I crashed a hard drive last Summer because I left it running while the room got too hot. Even if the CPU can handle it, the hard drive can't.

Been curious to know, what is that behind you in your avatar? Tulips?

it almost looks like the tulips fields up in skagit county.
is that where the photo was taken joseps?