Posts by Eoin Moore 1971 Universe@Home

1) Message boards : News : Longer work units (Message 5613) Posted 21 May 2022 by Eoin Moore 1971 Post: Looking into your host list (https://universeathome.pl/universe/hosts_user.php?userid=87792) shows last contact with your AMD PC at "19 May 2022, 16:50:56 UTC", while your two Android-based devices look fine. Unfortunately, there are no tasks in progress anymore, so if there are still some in your BOINC list, they are definitely too late. Some tasks did get through on the 19th, but the CPU time looks very wrong https://universeathome.pl/universe/results.php?hostid=570210&offset=0&show_names=0&state=5&appid=. Ten times longer than they should be... as if the PC is extremely slow/overloaded/thrashing, which could have a negative influence on the communication. (RAM full? HDD/SSD full/slow/broken? hardware misbehaving with spamming interrupts and slowing everything down? check like cpu-z benchmarks against a reference) I would check if something else blocks the internet connection of BOINC and/or the Universe project specifically on your PC, the project's servers are fine since yesterday. I suggest restarting your PC and looking for error messages in the boinc log viewer. Hi rsNeutrino, thanks for the detailed reply. You are correct, and I had not noticed, some of the CPU Time figures seem very long (even, I should note in passing, for the last few validated WUs - one was 50,000+ seconds...) Will try all you recommend. Other BOINC projects working normally (except for many validation inconclusive WUs on MW@H), communicating normally, and not taking an inordinate time to complete WUs, as far as I can tell. Lots of space left on SSD, RAM usage seldom more than 50% even with productivity packages running. Hard to see what the problem is. I don't usually babysit my BOINC install, but will be watching it more carefully for a while. Regards, Eoin
2) Message boards : News : Longer work units (Message 5611) Posted 21 May 2022 by Eoin Moore 1971 Post: Unfortunately, more than 40 pending results still. Manual retries just get "project backoff" Some results had deadlines as early as May 11th-13th. Oh well, will just wait for them to clear, and hope the results are still accepted as valid, though they are so late.
3) Message boards : News : Longer work units (Message 5580) Posted 20 May 2022 by Eoin Moore 1971 Post: I also have this problem, many completed WUs ready for upload for 1+ week. Do WUs completed before deadline, but not uploaded before it, still contribute, or are they cancelled / wasted... (edit) upload is delayed only, it seems, on my W10 box. Other machines seem to be uploading results normally