In reply to Michael E.'s message of 7 May 2026:

If the BOINC agent can detect it, it would be helpful eventually to see something appear once in the Notice tab indicating that the "LHC@home task nnnnnn may take longer than others to complete".

The notice tab is full of spam so nobody reads it.

In reply to Garrulus glandarius's message of 7 May 2026:

There have been some software improvements and a fresh batch is just about to be finished (well, except for all the tasks that are already sent out to slow PCs). More work is expected so I recommend reading the latest discussions and checking in from time to time.

I have 10 computers connected and they never get work, so the batches must get taken fast.

In reply to Mr P Hucker's message of 7 May 2026:

In reply to Garrulus glandarius's message of 7 May 2026:

There have been some software improvements and a fresh batch is just about to be finished (well, except for all the tasks that are already sent out to slow PCs). More work is expected so I recommend reading the latest discussions and checking in from time to time.

I have 10 computers connected and they never get work, so the batches must get taken fast.

Work is intermittent at CPDN, at least 3-4 batches a year though. Windows only batches tend to come about once a year, and tend to get snapped up faster. The others are Linux only. Recent batches have been more demanding (multicore & high RAM).

The notice tab is full of spam so nobody reads it.

I disagree. Communicating that a task needs to checked would help set expectations. A message in the Event log would also work.

In reply to Michael E.'s message of 8 May 2026:

I disagree. Communicating that a task needs to checked would help set expectations. A message in the Event log would also work.

It depends what project s you use I guess. Some of them announce every single goal they've achieved. I've taken to ignoring the notices altogether, I haven't read one for 3 years.

It's like emails from Ebay, I ignore every one because 99.9% of them are "you bought something, you paid for it, it's been shipped, it's getting there, it's nearly there, it's arrived, sendd feedback, please send feedback, last chance to send feedback.

I get so many phonecalls I don't answer a single one directly, the AI on my phone only rings the phone if the person can convince it I want to speak to them.

Yeah thats the problem, some projects do too much automated communication in the notice tab ^^ and you dont need to compute them, its enough you have it attached on your main administration BOINC Managers because as a good stable CPID strategy. Its kinda annouing but i try to life with it cos i visit the projects forums nearly daily xD

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In reply to Nils's message of 6 May 2026:

...Now sadly our downtime will probably drag on until Thursday, as the copy of the data is slower than expected. Sorry for that.

Nils, still any unforeseen problems ?

No, we are back in business. Sorry for the delay, and thanks for your patience.

Not sure about others, but my connection\upload is still failing. other projects are fine, just problems with LHC.



Edit: (about 5 minutes after original posting) Its working now. Had refreshed a couple minutes before Nila sad it was good.

Not sure about others, but my connection\upload is still failing. other projects are fine, just problems with LHC.
Edit: (about 5 minutes after original posting) Its working now. Had refreshed a couple minutes before Nila sad it was good.

Yes, the file_deleter component was Not Running so I believe the server was full. It is Running now. https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/server_status.php

But the annoying

Scheduler request to https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome_cgi/cgi failed: HTTP gateway timeout

is still there

In reply to Saturn911's message of 8 May 2026:

But the annoying

Scheduler request to https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome_cgi/cgi failed: HTTP gateway timeout

is still there

Here too.
Very annoying.
:(

Still there...but just click update again and it will send out work

I had to do it several times on each host and it is 2am here rather not do that but after 22 years it isn't a rare occasion

In reply to computezrmle's message of 8 May 2026:

In reply to Saturn911's message of 8 May 2026:

But the annoying

Scheduler request to https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome_cgi/cgi failed: HTTP gateway timeout

is still there

Here too.
Very annoying.
:(

same problem here: it took more than two hours till several uploaded tasks got reported and new ones were downloaded :-(

In reply to Erich56's message of 9 May 2026:

same problem here: it took more than two hours till several uploaded tasks got reported and new ones were downloaded :-(

Boinc retries anyway, I just leave it to it.

I have no problems with the exception of yesterday.

In reply to greg_be's message of 9 May 2026:

I have no problems with the exception of yesterday.

I've been getting the error almost every time I try and get new work.