Subject: Re: BOINC "Pending credit" and WU caching?
From: "RD" <rd@dragon.net>
Date: 26/06/2004, 18:01
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Hi f/f george,
"f/f george" <george@yourplace.com> wrote in message
news:hp2rd05gkfnoti8ck4vk8f34eqhoce3r99@4ax.com...
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:54:48 +1200, steve <steve@nevernowut.org.nz>
I've completed 21 WUs out of 58 and have 443.67 in "pending credits".
But my actual score os still zero.
Thinking maybe people with largish caches may be stacking up WUs that
won't
be processed for days, I'v reduced by own cache from 8 days (equal to the
longest S@H outage since 1999) to 3 days......and assumed I will turn
around my stacked up WUs faster....and allow everyone to get their
credits
sooner.
Make sense?

ABSOLUTELY! Normally I have over 200 total units waiting to be
processed on my 7 Boinc machines and that is a 1 to 2 day cache too. I
currently have over 10,000 pending credits and am waiting like
everyone else.

Sounds about right.. and it may be a fairly long wait:-/

I was a Beta tester for Boinc and we had this happen occassionaly but
Berkeley always fixed it quickly. I believe they will this time too.

Define quickly:-) AFAIK boinc has some problems, with memory, spliiters
and servers.. And cant do much for this weekend at any rate according to
the S@H boinc web pages..

Methinks we have a case of computer rebellion here, and as usual it
occurs on a weekend:-)

Anyway things are still in the teething stage with seti-boinc, no doubt
other problems will surface over the next few months as well.. just
have to grin and bear it:-)

Anyone using classic S@H will probably be doing better right now
than the boinc users IMHO.

Regards
              RD