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Message 44599 - Posted: 29 Mar 2021, 16:43:57 UTC

Our database cluster is heavily loaded today, and LHC@home services time out from time to time. Our DBA is trying to fix this. Sorry for the trouble and happy crunching.
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Message 44611 - Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 11:24:18 UTC

The problem now, unfortunately, is, that downloading new tasks is impossible, since after several automatic unsuccessful trials of the BOINC manager to download tasks, communication to the download server is being deferred for 24 hours :-(((
Something should be changed with this system.
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Message 44612 - Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 11:35:49 UTC

Although the server status shows "Workunits waiting for validation: 0"
my hosts have 18 CMS WUs waiting for validation since 2021-03-11.

CMS has a quorum of 1 which is already fulfilled.
Hence, I guess they will never be send out to another host to get checked.
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Message 44613 - Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 11:45:04 UTC - in response to Message 44611.  

The problem now, unfortunately, is, that downloading new tasks is impossible, since after several automatic unsuccessful trials of the BOINC manager to download tasks, communication to the download server is being deferred for 24 hours :-(((
Something should be changed with this system.
is there anything I can do to escape this strange trap, or do my machines really have to wait until tomorrow to get new tasks?
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Message 44616 - Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 12:35:29 UTC - in response to Message 44612.  

Although the server status shows "Workunits waiting for validation: 0"
my hosts have 18 CMS WUs waiting for validation since 2021-03-11.

CMS has a quorum of 1 which is already fulfilled.
Hence, I guess they will never be send out to another host to get checked.
what I just notice:
many tasks that were uploaded yesterday afternoon and evening are still waiting for validation (CMS, Theory, Sixtrack), but 2 CMS tasks that were uploaded about 1 hour ago were validated immediately.

So I am wondering whether the tasks from yesterday will ever get validated.
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Message 44618 - Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 12:51:59 UTC

Why don't you just put a second server in parallel!!! Eric
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Message 44619 - Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 13:24:05 UTC - in response to Message 44612.  

Although the server status shows "Workunits waiting for validation: 0"
my hosts have 18 CMS WUs waiting for validation since 2021-03-11.


Same here, i have 72 sixtrack waiting for validation.
Maybe "status page" is not updated correctly.
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Message 44627 - Posted: 31 Mar 2021, 6:54:05 UTC - in response to Message 44619.  

Same here, i have 72 sixtrack waiting for validation.


Now 86.
Seems that validator have some queues to solve.
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Message 44628 - Posted: 31 Mar 2021, 10:47:52 UTC - in response to Message 44627.  

We are checking our result records and will trigger a re-validation of results that did not get validated properly during the DB outage.
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Message 44657 - Posted: 6 Apr 2021, 10:23:07 UTC - in response to Message 44613.  

The problem now, unfortunately, is, that downloading new tasks is impossible, since after several automatic unsuccessful trials of the BOINC manager to download tasks, communication to the download server is being deferred for 24 hours :-(((
Something should be changed with this system.
is there anything I can do to escape this strange trap, or do my machines really have to wait until tomorrow to get new tasks?
I thought Boinc backed off a slightly longer time each time there's no work available. That makes sense. If there's no work, try in 10 minutes, still no work, must be bigger problem, wait an hour, nothing then, wait a few hours, still nothing, wait a day, don't keep pestering. Seems sensible to me, it's what I'd do if I was trying to phone a company with busy phone lines. You can always just select the project and click update.
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Message 44659 - Posted: 6 Apr 2021, 11:37:13 UTC - in response to Message 44658.  

Since 5.00 UTC Atlas-Tasks are back!
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