DaveT <svirtftcyt@yahoo.com> wrote:

DaveT <svirtftcyt@yahoo.com> wrote:

Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> wrote:

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The recent outage has given me a chance to do some tests. Last week I loaded up my main system, a
2.5g dual-core with cuda, with 5 days of work. It was happily processing, uploading and downloading
until sah stopped accepting uploads late Sunday or early Monday. At this point, this system stopped
fetching work, and has not done so since the uploads started accumulating (as of Tuesday night.)
There are currently 33 tasks trying to upload, and the system will not fetch work, although there
are currently enough tasks in the queue to keep it busy for several days. 

Around Saturday, I set up a second system, a Pentium 4 with hyperthreading, which can process two
tasks at once. I set this system to one day of work, which amounted to 7 tasks. I set it not to get
any more, and let it process. When the first system stopped uploading, I allowed the second to get
more tasks, which it wouldn't do, and it started accumulating uploads. The second finished all its
work mid-Tuesday, and will not get any more. It currently has 7 tasks trying to upload and no
others. 

Tonight, Tuesday night, I pulled a third system out of the closet and started it up. It is a
dual-core without cuda, and already had boinc and seti installed, set to 0.25 days, and prevented

>from getting any work. As soon as I allowed new tasks, it downloaded two and started working. (I cut

it off at two.) This shows that downloads are, in fact, working. The other two systems still will
not upload or download. 

I set the second system to 10 days and it still wouldn't download anything. As soon as the third
system finishes one task, I will try to download some more work. Provided that uploads are still
hanging, this will prove whether even a single hanging upload will preclude further fetching. 

If this be the case, it makes outages appear longer than they actually are, because any system with
uploads won't be able to download any more work until this has cleared.

Dave

Well, once again, I've got it wrong. The #1 and #2 systems still have jobs waiting to upload and
won't fetch new work. The #3 system finished its 2 jobs and managed to download 3 more, two of which
are running and one is finished and trying to upload. I do not get it. 

Dave