Hey all,

So my manager wasn't downloading any work units for some time, and at first I thought not much of it, attributing the glitch to one thing or another. But I finally got annoyed at not doing anything, so I kept poking about and found out that MilkyWay@home had a task that was "Waiting to run". not sure why it wasn't, but I finally aborted it and voila, a glut of projects appeared.

Is this a common issue, uncommon, etc? First time it's happened to me.

-Doug

but I finally aborted it and voila, a glut of projects appeared.

What projects appeared? Or are you speaking of tasks (work units)?

AFAIK, the MilkyWay@home project had been down for quite some time, until recently.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

So my manager wasn't downloading any work units

BOINC Manager is a graphics user interface that allows you to control the underlying client, which does the downloading. But other than that, mind giving some more information, please, as it seems my magic orb's batteries are flat again. I cannot see what you see, sorry for that.

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Sorry, the Boinc the client.

Aborted the "current" work unit. It just said "waiting to start"

Using Boinc v. 6.12.33, runnning on a Macbook Pro intel 2ghz i7 10.6

If MW@H was down, maybe these are some kind of "ghost" work units, which is why they aren't starting?

Ghost work is work that the server assigned to you, but that you never got. Most probably because your connection broke before the work could be sent to you. So no, when it's work that's actually on the system it isn't ghost work.

Next time, try to exit BOINC completely and restarting it, or a reboot of the system. That'll fix 99% of all ailments.

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