It looks like my uploads are stalled.

And when I cycled the Network connectivity everything started moving again. The joys of a 20 second rest.

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Spoke too soon. Stalled again.

It is in 1-3 hour back off.

Have run completely out of tasks.

Tom M

Focus on the downloads and then at least you can crunch, just keep clicking retry until they come thru

Server is still overwhelmed.

Some uploads & downloads are going through without manual intervention, but it's still necessary to keep things moving.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Server is still overwhelmed.

Some uploads & downloads are going through without manual intervention, but it's still necessary to keep things moving.

I just remembered that a lot of the high volume systems at Seti@Home had to use the cc_config.xml file to limited the total number of "reports" so the Seti servers would not stagger to a halt after the Tuesday maintenance cycle. I wonder if that could make a difference here?
Nah, probably not. Would have to get everyone in the contest to do it too.
I wonder though if standard DDOS (distributed denial of service) defense tactics would lower the load so that some of the uploads would go through at full speed?

I also wonder if a discrete upper limit to the connection "sockets" would keep things moving for the ones who can connect.

Tom M

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Assoc.)

Hi, Folks. I am also suffering from the server issues. On my raspberry pi
nodes I can see up to a dozen 'upload pending' finished task listings per node
waiting in the queue.

Hitting the 'retry pending transfers" button in boinc does not seem to help and
it is sad to see my average wu points go down day by day. I hope the folks
at Universe@Home can get things running as before. Anything specific
that I could do on my end I would be happy to hear about.

-Mike

Same here. Having intermittent issues, mainly "project servers may be temporarily down" when updating project and attempting uploads, which are failing most of the time. I've got lucky with a couple WUs by retrying (one of them while posting here).
Also, pinging universeathome.pl stalls. However, "curl -IL universeathome.pl" does work, but with quite lag in replying.

Hi, Folks. I am also suffering from the server issues. On my raspberry pi
nodes I can see up to a dozen 'upload pending' finished task listings per node
waiting in the queue.

-Mike

I added <max_file_xfers_per_project>8</max_file_xfers_per_project> to the options in the cc_config.xml file, re-started the Boinc Manager or re-read the config files. The default max transfers for all projects are 8 which I left alone.

It started actually succeeding on uploading on two of the 8 uploads that are "active". I still have backed up uploads but I am now getting downloads again since it got closer to being "caught up." I just switched it to 4 per project. Will see if it continues to catch up.

Tom M

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Server works fine now

Server works fine now

Yep.
Looks like things came good around 5.5 hours ago.

And another batch of work has been loaded as well.

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Grant
Darwin NT

And another batch of work has been loaded as well.

Most work requests are responded to with "Project has no tasks available" though, because the feeder's(?) buffer of tasks to assign (or something like that) is not refilled frequently enough. IOW this buffer is too small for the current rate of client requests for more work.

thank you, tom. i will try that myself.

-mike

Unable to get tasks to crunch - kick the server please.

Certainly something's going on with the server- over 3.3 million Tasks are ready to send, but "Project has no tasks available" is the only response i'm getting from the Scheduler when requesting work.
The last time i got any work was almost 8 hours ago. And for 4 hours before that the server was only giving "Project has no tasks available" responses to work requests, and prior to getting some work back then, it was unable to supply any work for almost 6 hours.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Same here on most of my PCs - unable to get new tasks, onboard caches are being drained.

situatin is persistent.

about time to kickstart the server!

situatin is persistent.

about time to kickstart the server!

I'm not sure it needs to be restarted or if it simply can't hand out the tasks any faster. The number of tasks ready to send continues to decrease, so someone is getting the work, but it clearly isn't fast enough for the demand. I would guess that the issue is a need for more resources allocated to the job-processing daemons, but I don't have any insight into our current rate of task delivery compared to regular/max.


EDIT: There may in fact be something that it bottle-necking the process as I can't imagine the regular task delivery is this slow:
From 15:10:03 UTC to 15:13:24 UTC the server released...427 tasks.
I wonder if the increased return rate and data processing that kicks off is hogging the server's resources.

Me too. Still cannot get any wu's across multiple platforms (Win10, Ubuntu & Raspberry OS).

:(

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At the moment, every second to server comes back 46 files (4 millions files per day). Also, at the same time some workunits are downloaded.
I'm afraid this the limit where I can't do much more on server.

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Krzysztof 'krzyszp' Piszczek

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At the moment, every second to server comes back 46 files (4 millions files per day). Also, at the same time some workunits are downloaded.
I'm afraid this the limit where I can't do much more on server.

Thank you for the update! At least I know what is happening now. I will hang in there until things get sorted.

Cheers

I'm running a two day cache and ask for Universe work only on CPU.
No scripting to tickle the server.
Getting about a day's worth of work on each of my four machines running in the Pentathlon.
Works fine for me. :-)

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14 hours since one of my systems was last able to get any work.

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Grant
Darwin NT