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Message 28640 - Posted: 24 Jan 2017, 15:00:14 UTC

Hello!

I would just like to point out the high rate of inconclusive results in the WU sent over the last few days. (Almost 10% for me)

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Message 28642 - Posted: 24 Jan 2017, 15:46:50 UTC

Almost all of my inconclusives were paired with a Apple Darwin application which finished the task in a few seconds. The third task has not been sent yet (unsent).
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Message 28646 - Posted: 24 Jan 2017, 18:21:18 UTC - in response to Message 28642.  

Almost all of my inconclusives were paired with a Apple Darwin application which finished the task in a few seconds. The third task has not been sent yet (unsent).

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Message 28680 - Posted: 26 Jan 2017, 21:58:19 UTC

Sorry if I missed it, but I'm just wondering if something can or is being done about this. I'm still building up inconclusive results with apple-darwin wingmen and some WUs are three days old without a third task being sent out.
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Message 28693 - Posted: 27 Jan 2017, 11:23:30 UTC

I seem to recall this being talked about a while ago and at that time it looked like the 3rd sending would go to the BACK of the queue so with there currently being a lot of Sixtrack tasks available, it might be some time before these get reissued. It would seem sensible to get these out and returned sooner so as not to clog up the server. I don't know if there's a scheduler setting that would change the priority in favour of resends to put them to the FRONT of the queue rather than the back. My earliest inconclusives have been hanging around since 23rd.
All the ones I have looked at, similarly, have Darwin wingmen. One user on the Mac thread notes a rate of 50/50, valid versus inconclusive.
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Message 28695 - Posted: 27 Jan 2017, 17:03:21 UTC

MEA CULPA; the MacOS version is incompatible with the Linux/Windows.
Version 4530 has a minor bug fix in the RIPPLE code but it gives different
results. Hope to consolidate in a week or so with new updated versions
everywhere. The current 4530 MacOS is withdrawn. Eric.
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Message 29090 - Posted: 6 Mar 2017, 14:33:17 UTC

Hello,

I have some task with inconclusive results, all with computer 10377786 as wingman.
All task of this computer seems to get inconclusive results or error.
Some other computer like 10389447 or 10404779 also produce a lot of inconclusive results.
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Message 29095 - Posted: 7 Mar 2017, 9:43:02 UTC - in response to Message 29090.  

Thanks I'll try and look at this (I am on vacation?. I hope I can
remember how to block the machine concerned if necessary! :-(
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Message 29101 - Posted: 7 Mar 2017, 16:31:44 UTC - in response to Message 29095.  

Hi,

This may help you to blacklist a specific host.

It was said in a previous thread.
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Message 29104 - Posted: 7 Mar 2017, 18:27:00 UTC

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Message 29109 - Posted: 8 Mar 2017, 3:49:32 UTC

Well I have had a first look and Host 10377786 is 100% OK.
I did find some problems with Host 10404779 which may be a
server problem (CERN side) or network. The failure rate is
roughly 50%. I am trying to watch this.

The overall error rate, all tasks, is below 1% which I think is
even below the average (I reckon around 2% is "normal").
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Message 29355 - Posted: 17 Mar 2017, 13:01:55 UTC

My inconclusive results are building again. Granted it's not a high percentage, but most are with wingman Computer 10451497. That host has returned >1700 inconclusives in the past few days.
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Message 33634 - Posted: 2 Jan 2018, 20:45:24 UTC - in response to Message 29095.  
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I think this host has a problem.
Only errors while computing, no validation conclusive.

Please , do something to stop it.
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An algorythm or script may be interesting to detect these consecutive errors...(more than 30 consecutive errors --> host suspended).
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Message 33636 - Posted: 2 Jan 2018, 23:02:08 UTC - in response to Message 33634.  

I had the same request not too long ago. I have since found out, the issue might resolve itself. From the BOINC documentation:

BOINC's work distribution policy addresses the (sometimes conflicting) goals of keeping hosts as busy as possible, while minimizing the impact of

Hosts that repeatedly return results with error outcomes, due to a host-specific problem.
Malicious participants who attempt to obtain multiple results of the same workunit, in an attempt to obtain unearned credit or have erroneous results accepted as correct.
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Message 33642 - Posted: 3 Jan 2018, 17:29:27 UTC - in response to Message 33636.  

It may help probably the project , i have found this in the boinc documentation too :

Blacklisting hosts

To blacklist a host, set its max_results_day field to -1. This will cause all of its scheduler requests to return an error message and do nothing else (no jobs or trickle messages will be sent or received).
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Message 33814 - Posted: 12 Jan 2018, 17:08:37 UTC

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Message 33816 - Posted: 12 Jan 2018, 17:24:34 UTC - in response to Message 33814.  

Have one of this inconclusives:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/workunit.php?wuid=82044459

Wait for the next result that will be reported.
It will either confirm your result (good for you) or the result of your wingman (good for your wingman).
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Message 33817 - Posted: 12 Jan 2018, 17:40:30 UTC

No, this is a problem of the result!
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Message 34729 - Posted: 26 Mar 2018, 15:57:19 UTC

There are many WU with inconclusive results!
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Message 34739 - Posted: 27 Mar 2018, 2:52:09 UTC - in response to Message 34729.  

Agreed..
I restarted crunching here a few days ago and already I have 87 Validation inconclusive from 5 PC's. So far I have no errors or invalids. Also most of the other wingman involved seem to reliable hosts that have little if any invalids or errors as well, so i'm wondering whats going on?
Anyone else seeing this?
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