F@H incomplete queue download.

babyface uk

babyface uk

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Morning all,

Last week I set up the deadlineless wu queue on a machine that only has a net connection once a week, but it download 1 wu but doesn't fill the rest of the cache, when i look in falmon it say deleting incomplete wu downloads. do I need to leave it on the net for 5-10 mins or so or longer.

Ta

Babyface UK
 
nope, still no joy, heres the log

Ask before connecting: No
[16:09:51] - User name: Babyface_UK (Team 10)
[16:09:51] - User ID: 17AB4AF2595A0532
[16:09:51] - Machine ID: 1
[16:09:51]
[16:09:51] Loaded queue successfully.
[16:09:51] + Benchmarking ...
[16:09:55] The benchmark result is 4368
[16:09:55] - Autosending finished units...
[16:09:55] Trying to send all finished work units
[16:09:55] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[16:09:55] - Autosend completed
[16:09:58] - Preparing to get new work units...
[16:09:58] + Attempting to get work packet
[16:09:58] - Will indicate memory of 510 MB
[16:09:58] - Connecting to assignment server
[16:09:58] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[16:09:59] Posted data.
[16:09:59] Initial: 40AB; - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133).
[16:09:59] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[16:09:59] Loaded queue successfully.
[16:09:59] Connecting to http://171.64.122.133:8080/
[16:09:59] Posted data.
[16:09:59] Initial: 0000; + Could not connect to Work Server
[16:10:00] + Attempting to get work packet
[16:10:00] - Will indicate memory of 510 MB
[16:10:00] - Connecting to assignment server
[16:10:00] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[16:10:00] Posted data.
[16:10:00] Initial: 40AB; - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133).
[16:10:00] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[16:10:00] Loaded queue successfully.
[16:10:00] Connecting to http://171.64.122.133:8080/
[16:10:01] Posted data.
[16:10:01] Initial: 0000; + Could not connect to Work Server
[16:10:01] Got 0 more work units.
[16:10:01] + Closed connections
[16:10:01]
[16:10:01] + Processing work unit
[16:10:01] Core required: FahCore_65.exe
[16:10:01] Core found.


now why won't it connect to a work server.

Any ideas.

ta

Babyface UK
 
they are out of deadlineless work due to all the shameless people who are selecting deadlineless work when they don't really need it - in your case of course you do need it due to a lack of connection

if you set it to normal work it should connect but of course you will only get 1 WU and probably a small one at that :(

the problem is that not many of the current projects owe themselves well to being run deadlineless :o
 
rich99million said:
they are out of deadlineless work due to all the shameless people who are selecting deadlineless work when they don't really need it - in your case of course you do need it due to a lack of connection

if you set it to normal work it should connect but of course you will only get 1 WU and probably a small one at that :(

the problem is that not many of the current projects owe themselves well to being run deadlineless :o
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poop, oh well.
 
If i were you i would set up two clients, one for deadlineless and one for normal so when one hasn't got any work the other one might have some.

You could also set up lots (up to 8) normal clients with normal work, so it would have plenty to do until it next got online.

The reason i think deadlinless wus have become more popular is recently they have been giving better points than normal work, and are more consistant too. I've also found the deadlines for normal work are too soon in some cases and some machines are struggling to finish on time so i had to set deadlineless.
 
I think they need to overhaul the credit system. If deadlineless WU's are beating normal WU's, even with there so called "bonus points" then somethings wrong. :rolleyes:
 
oceaness said:
I think they need to overhaul the credit system. If deadlineless WU's are beating normal WU's, even with there so called "bonus points" then somethings wrong. :rolleyes:
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They never said that all deadlineless WUs will suck. They just said they'd be deadlineless. Tradition (small T) may dictate some things but it is not Tradition (capital T).
 
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oceaness said:
Sorry you lost me a bit there :confused:

I think I've read something wrong, :rolleyes: forget my above post I'm off to bed I can't read properly, I'm tired. :p
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Tired with a capital T or a small T? :p

deadlineless work isn't that good - it definately won't be better than a large WU with bonus points
anyway just wait till these new double gromacs get released - much tastiness on an SSE2 rig :D
 
Joe42 said:
If i were you i would set up two clients, one for deadlineless and one for normal so when one hasn't got any work the other one might have some.

You could also set up lots (up to 8) normal clients with normal work, so it would have plenty to do until it next got online.

The reason i think deadlinless wus have become more popular is recently they have been giving better points than normal work, and are more consistant too. I've also found the deadlines for normal work are too soon in some cases and some machines are struggling to finish on time so i had to set deadlineless.
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so, just so i'm sure, if I put in say 4 clients, it will crunch 4 wus at the same time but take 4 times as long - hopefully takeing up the time between connections.

Ta

babyface UK
 
In theory if you set some of them to idle priority and some to low it will work on the ones set to low until they are finished and then work on the ones set to idle, that way it won't be working on too many together. The problem with this approach is, it probably uses a lot more ram and it will be wasting time switching between tasks, and the idle and low priority settings don't always work properly.
 
Joe42 said:
In theory if you set some of them to idle priority and some to low it will work on the ones set to low until they are finished and then work on the ones set to idle, that way it won't be working on too many together. The problem with this approach is, it probably uses a lot more ram and it will be wasting time switching between tasks, and the idle and low priority settings don't always work properly.
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yup it'll use just as much RAM as running the 4 side by side - the ones set to IDLE just won't be progressing whilst the ones set to LOW have work to do

it is a good solution though as for instance if you set half to LOW and the other half to IDLE you should have a few WUs ready to be uploaded when you next get to check the machine
 
rich99million said:
yup it'll use just as much RAM as running the 4 side by side - the ones set to IDLE just won't be progressing whilst the ones set to LOW have work to do

it is a good solution though as for instance if you set half to LOW and the other half to IDLE you should have a few WUs ready to be uploaded when you next get to check the machine
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Thanks guys, will try later.

Babyface UK
 
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