On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:39:25 GMT, "Ed" <ed@home.com> wrote:

"John F Hall" <jfh@green.home> wrote:

That's because Berkeley seem to have programmed a "Denial of Service"
attack against themselves.  It's clear their "backing off" stategy is
seriously flawed.  I hope they will rethink it.

Indeed.  This is another example of BOINC hanging itself through its
own complexity.  In the good ol' days of Classic, the client would try
once and then retry after 1 hour -- that seemed to work pretty well
without all these fancy algorithms.  ;-)

Ummmm, the downloads ARE coming. There seems to be a problem someplace
with the current settings. I have just posted a note to the developers
list showing a possible clue to the solution and hopefully they will
be on the fix soon. It is 7:45 here on the East Coast of the US, so
only 3:45 on the West Coast, give them some time to read it and check
into it.