Preparing for the SZTAKI leg of the BOINC race

[mitro]

I've attached all 4 of my dual-cores to the project with no problem. Only odd thing I have going on is that one of them only has about 4 hours of work on it and will not download more. All of my computers are set up on the same "location" (in BOINC prefs) but the other 3 have the 5+ days of work I've instructed them to have.

Any problem or thoughts others are having while beginning this leg of the race, feel free to post here.

[dAVE]

One of your 3800s has only returned one work unit. Try letting it send in a few more results and then perhaps the server will take it more seriously. It did seem to behave that way when I loaded up. Dave,

[mitro]

The one that has the least work on it has been running SZTAKI for days... the recently added ones are sitting on LOADS of WU's.

[dAVE]

Yes but when I look at your results I see 312 work units loaded and only 3 results returned for computer ID 20384. Is that the one with the problem? Dave.

[mitro]

nope... 20052 :P

[dAVE]

Can't be that one you now have over 300 WUs loaded and even your mighty machines can't crunch that in 4 hours (I hope). I guess it is the 165. Have reset your general preferences to 10 days for that machine and updated it? Dave. (reply to previous message)

[mitro]

It is the 165. It shows 334 WU.... 300+ of which are already finished. (and its set to "Connect to network every 5 days" as they all are)

EDIT: Fixed. Set up seperate preferences for that computer but still was the same, then put it back with the others and it started downloading work.

[dAVE]

Like you I'm out of ideas I'm afraid. There seem to be loads of WUs in the server. The only strange thing is that the 165 is showing a download rate of 0.17 KB/s whereas all your other ones are 40 to 400 times faster, could that be limiting it? i.e. the server timing out. Dave.

[mitro]

I dunno what it was, but it wasn't even trying to get work. Whatever it was is gone now... I've got 2+ days of work.

[NeoGen]

Mitro, the server was afraid that you would hog all workunits for yourself and leave none to the rest of the participants.