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Message 15926 - Posted: 16 Mar 2008, 0:40:10 UTC

Never seen this before on any BOINC client since inception. I run the SHA-1 Collision Search. The WU's are small and take 30 mins. to complete (I have a quad core so I am completing one on average every 7.5 mins.)

Here's a sample of my BOINC logs:
15/03/2008 12:23:20 PM|SHA-1 Collision Search Graz|Computation for task wu_sha1collisionsearchgraz_v54_1205375274_819_0 finished
15/03/2008 12:23:20 PM|SHA-1 Collision Search Graz|Starting wu_sha1collisionsearchgraz_v54_1205375274_681_0
15/03/2008 12:23:20 PM|SHA-1 Collision Search Graz|Starting task wu_sha1collisionsearchgraz_v54_1205375274_681_0 using sha1_collisionsearch_graz version 535
15/03/2008 12:23:22 PM|SHA-1 Collision Search Graz|Started upload of wu_sha1collisionsearchgraz_v54_1205375274_819_0_0
15/03/2008 12:23:24 PM|SHA-1 Collision Search Graz|Finished upload of wu_sha1collisionsearchgraz_v54_1205375274_819_0_0
15/03/2008 12:23:29 PM|SHA-1 Collision Search Graz|Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
15/03/2008 12:23:34 PM|SHA-1 Collision Search Graz|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
15/03/2008 12:23:49 PM|SHA-1 Collision Search Graz|Computation for task wu_sha1collisionsearchgraz_v54_1205375274_875_0 finished
15/03/2008 12:23:49 PM|SHA-1 Collision Search Graz|Starting wu_sha1collisionsearchgraz_v54_1205375274_806_0
15/03/2008 12:23:49 PM|SHA-1 Collision Search Graz|Starting task wu_sha1collisionsearchgraz_v54_1205375274_806_0 using sha1_collisionsearch_graz version 535
15/03/2008 12:23:51 PM|SHA-1 Collision Search Graz|Started upload of wu_sha1collisionsearchgraz_v54_1205375274_875_0_0
15/03/2008 12:23:54 PM|SHA-1 Collision Search Graz|Finished upload of wu_sha1collisionsearchgraz_v54_1205375274_875_0_0
15/03/2008 12:23:55 PM|SHA-1 Collision Search Graz|Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks

And this persists. I stopped and restarted the client and no change. Is this by design? It can't be good for small projects with small WU's like SHA-1 as this will be a significant increase in the burden on the scheduler (and this project is unstable enough!) I notice it's now down:

15/03/2008 8:35:49 PM|SHA-1 Collision Search Graz|Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error

I wonder if this has something to do with it.
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Message 15927 - Posted: 16 Mar 2008, 0:54:27 UTC

What was the deadline on those tasks? Were they in their last 24 hours, by chance?
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Message 15937 - Posted: 16 Mar 2008, 12:45:57 UTC - in response to Message 15934.  

What was the deadline on those tasks? Were they in their last 24 hours, by chance?
Could be like someone discovered that new flag to force reporting ;?

"To report completed tasks."

Could be, but that one waits a minute, not a second.
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Message 15943 - Posted: 16 Mar 2008, 13:31:34 UTC - in response to Message 15939.  
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What was the deadline on those tasks? Were they in their last 24 hours, by chance?
Could be like someone discovered that new flag to force reporting ;?

"To report completed tasks."

Could be, but that one waits a minute, not a second.
Well, not quite.... here it goes likes a few seconds after the uploading converts to 'Ready to Report'

Ah yes, I see. I got a Malaria reporting 5 seconds after the upload finished. Hmm, I really thought there was a 1 minute wait for this flag.
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Message 15944 - Posted: 16 Mar 2008, 13:32:56 UTC - in response to Message 15926.  

Is this by design?

Just for fun, can you post the contents of your cc_config.xml file, please?
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Message 15946 - Posted: 16 Mar 2008, 14:12:27 UTC

Please help. As soon as I upgraded to BOINC 5.10.45, I stopped receiving WU and all of the completed 'Ready to Report' were stuck in my computer. This was consistent with Windows, OS/X and Linux clients. I downgraded the Linux back to 5.10.28 and started to behave correctly. Below are the messages I get from the client. Any ideas or tweeks to make work?

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16-Mar-08 4:42:20 PM|proteins@home|Scheduler request failed: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data)
16-Mar-08 5:03:50 PM|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
16-Mar-08 5:03:53 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
16-Mar-08 5:03:55 PM||Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
16-Mar-08 5:03:55 PM|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request failed: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data)
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Message 15947 - Posted: 16 Mar 2008, 14:16:11 UTC - in response to Message 15946.  

Any ideas or tweeks to make work?

Are you behind a proxy or firewall server?
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Message 15949 - Posted: 16 Mar 2008, 14:30:57 UTC - in response to Message 15947.  

Any ideas or tweeks to make work?

Are you behind a proxy or firewall server?


Yes, I am behind a firewall. I have a UTM box but this has never caused any problem.
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Message 15951 - Posted: 16 Mar 2008, 16:10:42 UTC - in response to Message 15927.  

What was the deadline on those tasks? Were they in their last 24 hours, by chance?


That's probably it... SHA-1 has always had a too-low deadline (which many have complained about) so even though I only cache a day's worth of WU's they still run as "High Priority" so the client is reporting then immediately so that they don't go over the deadline.
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