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Send message Joined: 3 Jan 07 Posts: 124 Credit: 7,065 RAC: 0 |
I have a workunit that the server thinks that I got, but my client never downloaded. The resultID is 8874855 Right when this happened, there was a hiccup with the LHC servers. The server page says that the result was sent to me at 14 Oct 2007 0:37:24 UTC. Here is my message log:
Those of us who participate with SETI@Home are familiar with this kind of thing happening. The admins at SETI figured out how to resend those resultIDs to the volunteers (or so I recall...someone correct me if I'm wrong)... Just thought you might like to know... Brian |
 Send message Joined: 14 Jul 05 Posts: 275 Credit: 49,291 RAC: 0 
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Those of us who participate with SETI@Home are familiar with this kind of thing happening. The admins at SETI figured out how to resend those resultIDs to the volunteers (or so I recall...someone correct me if I'm wrong)... No need to "figure out" too much. It's just a setting that has existed for-freakin-ever: <resend_lost_results>. |
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Send message Joined: 3 Jan 07 Posts: 124 Credit: 7,065 RAC: 0 |
Those of us who participate with SETI@Home are familiar with this kind of thing happening. The admins at SETI figured out how to resend those resultIDs to the volunteers (or so I recall...someone correct me if I'm wrong)... Is that the same thing though? I thought that kicked in when the client reported that it disappeared from the state file? My client never saw the download at all, thus my side knows nothing about it... |
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Send message Joined: 1 Sep 04 Posts: 137 Credit: 1,734,093 RAC: 166 |
Pretty sure the server will resend it regardless of your client state file. I'm pretty sure I've seen seti send me the same work units after doing a project reset on my machine. But I'm assuming LHC hasn't updated their code in so long that this option probably isn't available in their server. According to Neasan (or was it Alex?) they are going to update it within the next couple of weeks. *fingers crossed* - A member of The Knights Who Say NI! My BOINC stats site |
 Neasan Send message Joined: 30 Nov 06 Posts: 234 Credit: 11,078 RAC: 0 |
According to Neasan (or was it Alex?) they are going to update it within the next couple of weeks. a) It was according to me b) I never gave a time scale (I'm not stupid) It is the next priority obviously but it won't be 10 minutes of dragging and dropping files(which some seem to believe it is). We now more or less know how this whole think works now and this will make upgrading easier and de-bugging easier once it is done but it won't happen over night. I will investigate this but assume (as POVaddict seems to love mentioning) this will involve the server upgrade. |
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Send message Joined: 3 Jan 07 Posts: 124 Credit: 7,065 RAC: 0 |
Thanks, but it may just give me one more result that ends up being declared invalid. Not sure why I'm getting a 50% invalid rate here now... :shrug: |
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Send message Joined: 14 Jul 05 Posts: 275 Credit: 49,291 RAC: 0
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According to Neasan (or was it Alex?) they are going to update it within the next couple of weeks. That tag seems to exist since the scheduler has an XML parser (24/05/2006 22:22:10). The functionality itself goes back to over two years ago, although I have no idea how it was enabled back then. |
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Send message Joined: 1 Sep 04 Posts: 36 Credit: 78,199 RAC: 0 |
Pretty sure the server will resend it regardless of your client state file. I'm pretty sure I've seen seti send me the same work units after doing a project reset on my machine. But I'm assuming LHC hasn't updated their code in so long that this option probably isn't available in their server. According to Neasan (or was it Alex?) they are going to update it within the next couple of weeks. v4.45 and later sends a list of all tasks in a project it currently has, and server-side compares if anything missing. Meaning, it doesn't matter if a task has never been on client before or not. Server-side-support was added 28.07.2005, but for a long time only Einstein@home was using the re-issue-feature. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." |
 Send message Joined: 25 Feb 07 Posts: 11 Credit: 7,956 RAC: 0 |
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Send message Joined: 3 May 07 Posts: 9 Credit: 5,048,809 RAC: 0 |
I have this one wuid=1839089 as a ghost on my results page but nothing on my system. Checking the message logs shows no mention of theis WU either. |
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