No tasks, Computation Errors
2 Dec 2012 10:22:45 UTC
Topic 196657
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I'm getting no new tasks, Quota exceeded. Having seen this movie before, I checked my slots directory, and found \1 missing, so I immediately created it. Tried network communications again, samething, except when I checked my slots folders again, all of them except \0 were gone. I recreated all the required slots directories, but I'm still not getting new tasks.
Also, for some reason I am getting a lot of computation errors.
Thanks in advance for the help.
12/2/2012 5:11:38 AM Einstein@Home Restarting task h1_0366.75_S6GC1__33_S6LV1B_1 using einstein_S6LV1 version 113
12/2/2012 5:12:22 AM Einstein@Home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
12/2/2012 5:12:22 AM Einstein@Home Requesting new tasks for GPU
12/2/2012 5:12:24 AM Einstein@Home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/2/2012 5:12:24 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work sent
12/2/2012 5:12:24 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 26 tasks)
12/2/2012 5:12:24 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: Project has no jobs available
No tasks, Computation Errors
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Stop fiddling with your slot directories, Boinc will create and remove them as it sees fit (with the correct permissions for the correct users)
Claggy
RE: I'm getting no new
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That simply means that your host has errored out enough tasks to have reduced the daily quota below the number it has already been assigned today. You will have to wait until after midnight UTC before you can start accessing tomorrows quota. If you keep erroring out tasks without successfully completing any, tomorrow's quota will soon be looking very shabby indeed!
I don't think you've been watching the right movie :-). You need to see the one where the hero belatedly discovers that blasting everything in sight can lead to collateral damage and be quite counter-productive!
All the failed tasks I looked at have this error message:-
6.10.58
Can't link input file
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As Claggy says, only BOINC should be touching slot directories. Those directories are created by BOINC as needed, as a work area for a task. They are populated with links to the app and to the data file(s) needed for the task.
I'm guessing that the above message is a direct consequence of your fiddling with these directories. The state file actually contains info about which task is in which slot. If you go randomly creating and/or removing slots, it's little wonder that mayhem may ensue. If you create a slot that's not actually in the state file, I'm not surprised that BOINC would remove it.
Cheers,
Gary.
I've been away all week.
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I've been away all week. Just started up again, and I have the same problem,
See log file below. In my slots folder, all I have is "0".
12/6/2012 9:12:05 PM Einstein@Home [error] Can't create link file slots/1/einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.32_windows_intelx86__BRP4cuda32.exe
12/6/2012 9:12:06 PM Einstein@Home Computation for task p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2 finished
12/6/2012 9:12:06 PM Einstein@Home Output file p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2_0 for task p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2 absent
12/6/2012 9:12:06 PM Einstein@Home Output file p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2_1 for task p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2 absent
12/6/2012 9:12:06 PM Einstein@Home Output file p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2_2 for task p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2 absent
12/6/2012 9:12:06 PM Einstein@Home Output file p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2_3 for task p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2 absent
12/6/2012 9:12:06 PM Einstein@Home Output file p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2_4 for task p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2 absent
12/6/2012 9:12:06 PM Einstein@Home Output file p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2_5 for task p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2 absent
12/6/2012 9:12:06 PM Einstein@Home Output file p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2_6 for task p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2 absent
12/6/2012 9:12:06 PM Einstein@Home Output file p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2_7 for task p2030.20111209.G176.09-04.15.S.b0s0g0.00000_880_2 absent
12/6/2012 9:13:01 PM Einstein@Home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
12/6/2012 9:13:01 PM Einstein@Home Reporting 1 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for GPU
12/6/2012 9:13:02 PM Einstein@Home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/6/2012 9:13:02 PM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work sent
12/6/2012 9:13:02 PM Einstein@Home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 13 tasks)
12/6/2012 9:13:02 PM Einstein@Home Message from server: Project has no jobs available
12/6/2012 10:03:33 PM Einstein@Home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
12/6/2012 10:03:33 PM Einstein@Home Requesting new tasks for GPU
12/6/2012 10:03:34 PM Einstein@Home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/6/2012 10:03:34 PM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work sent
12/6/2012 10:03:34 PM Einstein@Home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 13 tasks)
12/6/2012 10:03:34 PM Einstein@Home Message from server: Project has no jobs available
RE: I've been away all
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Try running the the Boinc 6.10.58 Installer again, select repair and do a repair installation, this might fix the permissions problem,
Claggy
I could not find the
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I could not find the installer for the original version. I did try installing the current version of BOINC, but I still get no work. In my slots directory, I still have only "0".
12/7/2012 11:42:34 AM | | FP benchmark ran only 0.031200 sec; ignoring
12/7/2012 11:42:34 AM | | FP benchmark ran only 0.046800 sec; ignoring
12/7/2012 11:42:35 AM | Einstein@Home | Restarting task p2030.20111209.G176.83-03.07.S.b2s0g0.00000_256_0 using einsteinbinary_BRP4 version 122 (BRP4SSE) in slot 0
12/7/2012 11:43:39 AM | Einstein@Home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
12/7/2012 11:43:39 AM | Einstein@Home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA
12/7/2012 11:43:41 AM | Einstein@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/7/2012 11:43:41 AM | Einstein@Home | No work sent
12/7/2012 11:43:41 AM | Einstein@Home | (reached daily quota of 13 tasks)
12/7/2012 11:43:41 AM | Einstein@Home | Project has no jobs available
12/7/2012 11:43:41 AM | Einstein@Home | BOINC will delete file earth_05_09 (no longer needed)
12/7/2012 11:43:41 AM | Einstein@Home | BOINC will delete file sun_05_09 (no longer needed)
12/7/2012 11:43:41 AM | Einstein@Home | BOINC will delete file JPLEPH.405 (no longer needed)
12/7/2012 11:58:12 AM | Einstein@Home | Computation for task p2030.20111209.G176.83-03.07.S.b2s0g0.00000_256_0 finished
12/7/2012 11:58:14 AM | Einstein@Home | Started upload of p2030.20111209.G176.83-03.07.S.b2s0g0.00000_256_0_0
Since you're returning only
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Since you're returning only erroneous work anyway, and you only seem to be active for Einstein, you can better uninstall BOINC, remove the BOINC Data directory, reinstall BOINC and start it 'fresh'.
Whatever it is you wrecked by manually adding the slots directories and whatever else you did seems to have survived your updates.