ATTN: Something is seriously wrong with new units

Ulrich Metzner
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This thread is just to get attention!
See in the Problems and Bug Reports

Aloha, Uli

Ananas
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ATTN: Something is seriously wrong with new units

Yep, the mean part in this problem is that BOINC can go into a download loop with several retries per second(!) which keeps it very busy and it cannot recover from this loop without user interaction. This can knockout a lot of PCs that run unattended

Gary Roberts
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Yes, we need to impress on

Yes, we need to impress on people that they should abort any h1_xxxx (note small h) style work units as the files have been cancelled on the server and even if they crunch and report they will get no credit and their cpu cycles will have been wasted. I've just done this on about a dozen boxes and some were 90% finished when I aborted them. Some hadn't even started so all in all I've saved myself quite a bit of potentially wasted time.

Cheers,
Gary.

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