I realise that projects run out of work and now that I've set everything to fetch only CPU work, that further restricts what I get, but isn't that item in the Event Log a bit absurd considering I've had an empty Boinc Manager for 2 days now?

Or is it really meaningless and simply means certain projects are higher up in the pecking order? My projects are all set at 100% except for WCG and CPDN - 200%.

That is wrong perhaps?

---

Peter
Toronto, Canada

Nobody has a comment? I would also question why BOINC should be deciding which Project is more important than another. Shouldn't it be polling all projects for work on an equal standing?

(No work for 5 days now).

---

Peter
Toronto, Canada

From When requesting help on these forums:

General
-- In cases where you don't know how to find any information about your system, exit BOINC completely and restart it. Next copy and post the first 20 to 30 lines from the start-up messages. That'll give us enough information about your system, plus it might show a peek into your problem.
To get to the (start-up) messages, in BOINC 6.10 and before, click the Messages tab. In BOINC 6.12, 7.0 and after, when in Advanced view press CTRL+SHIFT+E.

- When having problems with tasks (not) switching, please make sure to post which projects you're attached to and which are all allowed to fetch work and which have work. Check that you didn't set your preferences on the project web site to omit using your CPU or GPU. Check that you didn't suspend the project, the tasks or the use of the piece of hardware.

- When reporting purported bugs in the program:
You can tell us a whole story of how you feel there's a bug in the program, that things aren't working and such, but for all we know it's something you did yourself. Without a debug log we cannot help you and your post will go ignored.
The debug messages will write into the Event Log.

The main debug flags that we're normally interested in are:
<cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run.
<work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much).
<rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode.
<sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information.

Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file.

When posting a log, after you added the flags to the configuration file, restart BOINC, let it run for up to 5 minutes, then post the WHOLE log. Not just 2 or 4 lines.

---

Do I need to start the debug process ? From what I've read this is normal behaviour in Boinc 7x. You can see what projects I have in my sig above.

Here's the log anyway:

11/05/2013 6:34:23 AM | | No config file found - using defaults
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.64 for windows_x86_64
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | Running under account Peter
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 975 @ 3.33GHz [Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5]
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Ultimate x64 Edition, Service Pack 2, (06.00.6002.00)
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | Memory: 11.99 GB physical, 23.91 GB virtual
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | Disk: 232.87 GB total, 136.37 GB free
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | Local time is UTC -4 hours
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | VirtualBox version: 4.2.6
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 314.22, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 769MB available, 894 GFLOPS peak)
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 314.22, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 769MB available, 894 GFLOPS peak)
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 314.22, device version OpenCL 1.0 CUDA, 896MB, 769MB available, 894 GFLOPS peak)
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 314.22, device version OpenCL 1.0 CUDA, 896MB, 769MB available, 894 GFLOPS peak)
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | Asteroids@home | URL http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/; Computer ID 7403; resource share 100
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | rosetta@home | URL http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID 1260848; resource share 100
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | ABCLLL@Home | URL http://boinc2.cs.hs-rm.de/abclll/; Computer ID 229; resource share 200
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | boincsimap | URL http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/; Computer ID 237450; resource share 100
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | climateprediction.net | URL http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID 1263289; resource share 200
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | Docking | URL http://docking.cis.udel.edu/; Computer ID 98348; resource share 100
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | pogs | URL http://ec2-23-23-126-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com/pogs/; Computer ID 4176; resource share 100
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | URL http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/; Computer ID 10200329; resource share 100
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6142667; resource share 100
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | Cosmology@Home | URL http://www.cosmologyathome.org/; Computer ID 74604; resource share 100
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | malariacontrol.net | URL http://www.malariacontrol.net/; Computer ID 616863; resource share 100
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1007555; resource share 200
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | World Community Grid | General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 10-May-2013 17:23:28)
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | World Community Grid | Host location: none
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | World Community Grid | General prefs: using your defaults
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | Preferences:
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | max memory usage when active: 6139.09MB
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | max memory usage when idle: 9822.54MB
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | max disk usage: 23.29GB
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | don't use GPU while active
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | max download rate: 9000000 bytes/sec
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | max upload rate: 1000000 bytes/sec
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
11/05/2013 6:34:25 AM | | Not using a proxy
11/05/2013 6:34:55 AM | | Suspending GPU computation - user request
11/05/2013 6:34:55 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | Sending scheduler request: Requested by project.
11/05/2013 6:34:55 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | Not requesting tasks: project is not highest priority
11/05/2013 6:34:57 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | Scheduler request completed
11/05/2013 7:15:26 AM | climateprediction.net | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
11/05/2013 7:15:26 AM | climateprediction.net | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA
11/05/2013 7:15:29 AM | climateprediction.net | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
11/05/2013 7:15:29 AM | climateprediction.net | No work sent
11/05/2013 7:44:41 AM | rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
11/05/2013 7:44:41 AM | rosetta@home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA
11/05/2013 7:44:43 AM | rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
11/05/2013 8:37:26 AM | climateprediction.net | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
11/05/2013 8:37:26 AM | climateprediction.net | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA
11/05/2013 8:37:28 AM | climateprediction.net | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
11/05/2013 8:37:28 AM | climateprediction.net | No work sent

..and if you want debug is this what I put in the config file? (Sorry not too familiar with this)

<cc_config>
<log_flags>
<work_fetch_debug>1</work_fetch_debug>
</log_flags>
</cc_config>

In the absence of a negative response I went ahead and added that config file. Closed and reopened BOINC. I assume I remove the config file when you tell me to? Note I have purposely turned off all GPU computing as I only want CPU work.
Here's the log:

11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.64 for windows_x86_64
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, work_fetch_debug
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Running under account Peter
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 975 @ 3.33GHz [Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5]
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Ultimate x64 Edition, Service Pack 2, (06.00.6002.00)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Memory: 11.99 GB physical, 23.91 GB virtual
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Disk: 232.87 GB total, 134.36 GB free
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Local time is UTC -4 hours
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | VirtualBox version: 4.2.6
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 314.22, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 680MB available, 894 GFLOPS peak)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 314.22, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 680MB available, 894 GFLOPS peak)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 314.22, device version OpenCL 1.0 CUDA, 896MB, 680MB available, 894 GFLOPS peak)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 314.22, device version OpenCL 1.0 CUDA, 896MB, 680MB available, 894 GFLOPS peak)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Asteroids@home | URL http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/; Computer ID 7403; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | URL http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID 1260848; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | ABCLLL@Home | URL http://boinc2.cs.hs-rm.de/abclll/; Computer ID 229; resource share 200
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | boincsimap | URL http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/; Computer ID 237450; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | climateprediction.net | URL http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID 1263289; resource share 200
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Docking | URL http://docking.cis.udel.edu/; Computer ID 98348; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | pogs | URL http://ec2-23-23-126-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com/pogs/; Computer ID 4176; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | URL http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/; Computer ID 10200329; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6142667; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Cosmology@Home | URL http://www.cosmologyathome.org/; Computer ID 74604; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | malariacontrol.net | URL http://www.malariacontrol.net/; Computer ID 616863; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1007555; resource share 200
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | World Community Grid | General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 10-May-2013 17:23:28)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | World Community Grid | Host location: none
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | World Community Grid | General prefs: using your defaults
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Preferences:
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | max memory usage when active: 6139.09MB
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | max memory usage when idle: 9822.54MB
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | max disk usage: 23.29GB
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | don't use GPU while active
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | max download rate: 9000000 bytes/sec
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | max upload rate: 1000000 bytes/sec
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: Prefs update
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: Startup
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Not using a proxy
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Suspending GPU computation - user request
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] work fetch start
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] choose_project() for NVIDIA: buffer_low: yes; sim_excluded_instances 3
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch]: not requesting work for CPU: ABCLLL@Home has higher priority
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] set_request() for NVIDIA: ninst 2 nused_total 0.000000 nidle_now 2.000000 fetch share 0.250000 req_inst 2.000000 req_secs 259200.000000
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] ------- start work fetch state -------
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] target work buffer: 86400.00 + 43200.00 sec
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] --- project states ---
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Asteroids@home | [work_fetch] REC 157.982 prio -1.153937 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] REC 54.976 prio -0.401554 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | ABCLLL@Home | [work_fetch] REC 44.165 prio -0.161297 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | boincsimap | [work_fetch] REC 491.171 prio -3.587620 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | climateprediction.net | [work_fetch] REC 66.325 prio -0.000000 can't req work: scheduler RPC backoff (backoff: 2474.96 sec)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] REC 74.198 prio -0.541958 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | pogs | [work_fetch] REC 58.403 prio -0.426587 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | [work_fetch] REC 28.176 prio -0.205805 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | SETI@home | [work_fetch] REC 71.038 prio -0.518879 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Cosmology@Home | [work_fetch] REC 432.199 prio -3.156875 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | malariacontrol.net | [work_fetch] REC 216.650 prio -1.582463 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | World Community Grid | [work_fetch] REC 150.834 prio -0.550864 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] --- state for CPU ---
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] shortfall 1036800.00 nidle 8.00 saturated 0.00 busy 0.00
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Asteroids@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | ABCLLL@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.154
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | boincsimap | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | climateprediction.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | pogs | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | SETI@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Cosmology@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | malariacontrol.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | World Community Grid | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.154
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] --- state for NVIDIA ---
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] shortfall 259200.00 nidle 2.00 saturated 0.00 busy 0.00
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Asteroids@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.250
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | ABCLLL@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | boincsimap | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | climateprediction.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.250
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | pogs | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | SETI@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (blocked by prefs)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Cosmology@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.250
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | malariacontrol.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.250
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | World Community Grid | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (blocked by prefs)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] ------- end work fetch state -------
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] request: CPU (0.00 sec, 0.00 inst) NVIDIA (259200.00 sec, 2.00 inst)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA
11/05/2013 10:35:43 AM | rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
11/05/2013 10:35:43 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] backing off NVIDIA 444 sec
11/05/2013 10:35:43 AM | | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: RPC complete
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] work fetch start
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] choose_project() for NVIDIA: buffer_low: yes; sim_excluded_instances 3
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | [work_fetch]: not requesting work for CPU: ABCLLL@Home has higher priority
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] set_request() for NVIDIA: ninst 2 nused_total 0.000000 nidle_now 2.000000 fetch share 0.333333 req_inst 2.000000 req_secs 259200.000000
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] ------- start work fetch state -------
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] target work buffer: 86400.00 + 43200.00 sec
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] --- project states ---
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Asteroids@home | [work_fetch] REC 157.982 prio -1.099123 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] REC 54.976 prio -0.382480 can't req work: scheduler RPC backoff (backoff: 237.11 sec)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | ABCLLL@Home | [work_fetch] REC 44.165 prio -0.153635 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | boincsimap | [work_fetch] REC 491.171 prio -3.417203 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | climateprediction.net | [work_fetch] REC 66.325 prio -0.000000 can't req work: scheduler RPC backoff (backoff: 2468.55 sec)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] REC 74.198 prio -0.516214 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | pogs | [work_fetch] REC 58.403 prio -0.406324 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | [work_fetch] REC 28.176 prio -0.196029 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | SETI@home | [work_fetch] REC 71.038 prio -0.494231 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Cosmology@Home | [work_fetch] REC 432.199 prio -3.006918 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | malariacontrol.net | [work_fetch] REC 216.650 prio -1.507293 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | World Community Grid | [work_fetch] REC 150.834 prio -0.524697 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] --- state for CPU ---
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] shortfall 1036800.00 nidle 8.00 saturated 0.00 busy 0.00
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Asteroids@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | ABCLLL@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.167
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | boincsimap | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | climateprediction.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | pogs | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | SETI@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Cosmology@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | malariacontrol.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | World Community Grid | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.167
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] --- state for NVIDIA ---
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] shortfall 259200.00 nidle 2.00 saturated 0.00 busy 0.00
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Asteroids@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (resource backoff: 438.29, inc 600.00)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | ABCLLL@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | boincsimap | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | climateprediction.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.333
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | pogs | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | SETI@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (blocked by prefs)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Cosmology@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.333
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | malariacontrol.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.333
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | World Community Grid | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (blocked by prefs)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] ------- end work fetch state -------
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] request: CPU (0.00 sec, 0.00 inst) NVIDIA (259200.00 sec, 2.00 inst)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA
11/05/2013 10:35:52 AM | Docking | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
11/05/2013 10:35:52 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] backing off NVIDIA 367 sec
11/05/2013 10:35:52 AM | | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: RPC complete
11/05/2013 10:35:55 AM | | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: Backoff ended for Docking
11/05/2013 10:39:47 AM | | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: Backoff ended for rosetta@home

Well I guess there isn't an answer.

I've obviousdly long since removed the config file - still no work.

My last thought is merely that I can't understand why BOINC would be giving some projects higher and others lower priorities when there is no work available, shouldn't it then give all of them an equal shot at fetching work?

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Peter
Toronto, Canada

I'm not sure, and my head's elsewhere. Can you please post about this to the BOINC Alpha email list? This list needs registration.

If/when you do so, I'll flag your mail for David to check through it.

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OK I just joined and then emailed it in.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada

Not sure what went wrong where, but your email didn't make it. Are you sure you registered correctly? You'll need to confirm the registration before you can email the list.

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It's odd, when I got the confirmation email I clicked the link and got to the web page which then said there had been an error.
However my membership page exists and I'm looking at it right now.

I'll try resending the email.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada

OK got an acknowledgement this time - but I had sent it as plain text this time which makes the log rather difficult to read, so I tried resending in rich text which I had originally used.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada

It's there in the archive now. Obviously the client doesn't like rich text emails.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada

Your email is in.
Do know that when you add attachments, that depending on size they not always make it. When emailing a big log to a developer, email him in private with the attachment. That way, if there's any private info in the log, the 3 other alpha testers on the list don't get it as well. ;-)

You can change how you want to send text in the options, MIME or plain text.

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Thanks for the info.

Got an answer from boinc_alpha and I'm posting it here in case it's useful to anyone else reading this. Not sure exactly what I can do, if anything. Unless it's possible to completely exclude GPU's from the equation. Something that I'm not sure will do anything anyway.

Work fetch is really based on a priority calculation that is calculated per project.
That "prio" value is based on your REC (Recent Estimated Credit), combined with the amount of downloaded unprocessed work you have on hand.
Those per-project-values are then used to decide which project is asked.

Some slightly-outdated info can be gleaned from the following URLs:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ClientSched
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ClientSchedOctTen (newer)

Below is my analysis of your log file. My comments will appear next to the asterisks (***).
You should read through the comments, to understand how the log reflects the logic.

11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.64 for windows_x86_64
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, work_fetch_debug
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.26
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Running under account Peter
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 975 @ 3.33GHz [Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5]
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Ultimate x64 Edition Service Pack 2, (06.00.6002.00)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Memory: 11.99 GB physical, 23.91 GB virtual
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Disk: 232.87 GB total, 134.36 GB free
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Local time is UTC -4 hours
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | VirtualBox version: 4.2.6
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 314.22, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 680MB available, 894 GFLOPS peak)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 314.22, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 680MB available, 894 GFLOPS peak)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 314.22, device version OpenCL 1.0 CUDA, 896MB, 680MB available, 894 GFLOPS peak)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 314.22, device version OpenCL 1.0 CUDA, 896MB, 680MB available, 894 GFLOPS peak)
*** 2 GPUs, neither are fully-excluded
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Asteroids@home | URL http://asteroidsathome net/boinc/; Computer ID 7403; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | URL http://boinc.bakerlab org/rosetta/; Computer ID 1260848; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | ABCLLL@Home | URL http://boinc2.cs.hs-rm.de/abclll/ Computer ID 229; resource share 200
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | boincsimap | URL http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/; Computer ID 237450; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | climateprediction.net | URL http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID 1263289; resource share 200
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Docking | URL http://docking.cis.udel.edu/; Computer ID 98348; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | pogs | URL http://ec2-23-23-126-96.compute-1 amazonaws.com/pogs/; Computer ID 4176; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | URL http://lhcathomeclassic.cern ch/sixtrack/; Computer ID 10200329; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6142667; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Cosmology@Home | URL http://www.cosmologyathome org/; Computer ID 74604; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | malariacontrol.net | URL http://www.malariacontrol net/; Computer ID 616863; resource share 100
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | World Community Grid | URL http://www worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1007555; resource share 200
*** Attached to 12 projects. 3 of the 12 have double resource share, as compared to 9 of the 12.
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | World Community Grid | General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 10-May-2013 17:23:28)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | World Community Grid | Host location: none
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | World Community Grid | General prefs: using your defaults
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Preferences:
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | max memory usage when active: 6139.09MB
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | max memory usage when idle: 9822.54MB
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | max disk usage: 23.29GB
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | don't use GPU while active
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | max download rate: 9000000 bytes/sec
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | max upload rate: 1000000 bytes/sec
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: Prefs update
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: Startup
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Not using a proxy
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | Suspending GPU computation - user request
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] work fetch start
*** Bring on the work fetch! (My favorite part of BOINC, believe it or not)
*** Note: Work fetch currently fills GPUs first, before CPUs
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] choose_project() for NVIDIA: buffer_low: yes; sim_excluded_instances 3
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch]: not requesting work for CPU: ABCLLL@Home has higher priority
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] set_request() for NVIDIA: ninst 2 nused_total 0.000000 nidle_now 2.000000 fetch share 0.250000 req_inst 2.000000 req_secs 259200.000000
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] ------- start work fetch state -------
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] target work buffer: 86400.00 + 43200 00 sec
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] --- project states ---
*** Note: These "REC" and "prio" values are key to understanding the decisions that BOINC makes for work fetch.
*** REC is Recent Estimated Credit, and it's used to keep track of how much work was recently done, so BOINC can try to reach your target Resource Shares.
*** prio is a value, based on REC, and based on downloaded-unprocessed-work, that BOINC uses to determine who to get more work from
*** Note: prio can change a lot between work fetch iterations; I believe it is normalized around a certain value on each iteration
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Asteroids@home | [work_fetch] REC 157.982 prio -1.153937 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] REC 54.976 prio -0.401554 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | ABCLLL@Home | [work_fetch] REC 44.165 prio -0.161297 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | boincsimap | [work_fetch] REC 491.171 prio -3.587620 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | climateprediction.net | [work_fetch] REC 66.325 prio -0.000000 can't req work: scheduler RPC backoff (backoff: 2474.96 sec)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] REC 74.198 prio -0.541958 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | pogs | [work_fetch] REC 58.403 prio -0.426587 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | [work_fetch] REC 28.176 prio -0.205805 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | SETI@home | [work_fetch] REC 71.038 prio -0.518879 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Cosmology@Home | [work_fetch] REC 432.199 prio -3.156875 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | malariacontrol.net | [work_fetch] REC 216.650 prio -1.582463 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | World Community Grid | [work_fetch] REC 150.834 prio -0.550864 can req work
*** climateprediction.net is prevented from work fetch, due to RPC backoff
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] --- state for CPU ---
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] shortfall 1036800.00 nidle 8.00 saturated 0.00 busy 0.00
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Asteroids@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | ABCLLL@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.154
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | boincsimap | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | climateprediction.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0 000
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | pogs | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | SETI@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Cosmology@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | malariacontrol.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.077
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | World Community Grid | [work_fetch] fetch share 0 154
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] --- state for NVIDIA ---
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] shortfall 259200.00 nidle 2.00 saturated 0.00 busy 0.00
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Asteroids@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.250
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | ABCLLL@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | boincsimap | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | climateprediction.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0 000
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.250
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | pogs | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | SETI@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (blocked by prefs)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | Cosmology@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.250
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | malariacontrol.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.250
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | World Community Grid | [work_fetch] fetch share 0 000 (blocked by prefs)
*** Note: The GPU fetch share values just give you a "normalized" listing of your Resource Share. They are not priority values.
*** The following projects (from the list above) might have GPU apps and are not blocked by prefs:
*** rosetta@home - GPU fetch share 0.250
*** climateprediction.net - GPU fetch share 0.000
*** Docking - GPU fetch share 0.250
*** Cosmology@Home - GPU fetch share 0.250
*** malariacontrol.net - GPU fetch share 0.250
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | | [work_fetch] ------- end work fetch state -------
*** So, to manually calculate who BOINC SHOULD ask, we look at those same projects, but in terms of priority:
*** rosetta@home - REC 54.976 prio -0.401554
*** climateprediction.net - REC 66.325 prio -0.000000 can't req work: scheduler RPC backoff (backoff: 2474.96 sec)
*** Docking - REC 74.198 prio -0.541958
*** Cosmology@Home - REC 432.199 prio -3.156875
*** malariacontrol.net - REC 216.650 prio -1.582463
*** .... so, according to those prio values, the one with the highest priority (aka: least negative), should win.
*** .... so, rosetta@home should win.
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] request: CPU (0.00 sec, 0.00 inst) NVIDIA (259200.00 sec, 2.00 inst)
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
11/05/2013 10:35:42 AM | rosetta@home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA
11/05/2013 10:35:43 AM | rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
11/05/2013 10:35:43 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] backing off NVIDIA 444 sec
11/05/2013 10:35:43 AM | | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: RPC complete
*** rosetta@home did win; worked as expected; we asked that project for work, but did not get any.
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] work fetch start
*** Work fetch again! Shweet!
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] choose_project() for NVIDIA: buffer_low: yes; sim_excluded_instances 3
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | [work_fetch]: not requesting work for CPU: ABCLLL@Home has higher priority
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] set_request() for NVIDIA: ninst 2 nused_total 0.000000 nidle_now 2.000000 fetch share 0.333333 req_inst 2.000000 req_secs 259200.000000
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] ------- start work fetch state -------
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] target work buffer: 86400.00 + 43200 00 sec
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] --- project states ---
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Asteroids@home | [work_fetch] REC 157.982 prio -1.099123 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] REC 54.976 prio -0.382480 can't req work: scheduler RPC backoff (backoff: 237.11 sec)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | ABCLLL@Home | [work_fetch] REC 44.165 prio -0.153635 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | boincsimap | [work_fetch] REC 491.171 prio -3.417203 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | climateprediction.net | [work_fetch] REC 66.325 prio -0.000000 can't req work: scheduler RPC backoff (backoff: 2468.55 sec)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] REC 74.198 prio -0.516214 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | pogs | [work_fetch] REC 58.403 prio -0.406324 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | [work_fetch] REC 28.176 prio -0.196029 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | SETI@home | [work_fetch] REC 71.038 prio -0.494231 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Cosmology@Home | [work_fetch] REC 432.199 prio -3.006918 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | malariacontrol.net | [work_fetch] REC 216.650 prio -1.507293 can req work
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | World Community Grid | [work_fetch] REC 150.834 prio -0.524697 can req work
*** This time, both rosetta@home and climateprediction.net are prevented from work fetch, due to RPC backoff
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] --- state for CPU ---
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] shortfall 1036800.00 nidle 8.00 saturated 0.00 busy 0.00
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Asteroids@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | ABCLLL@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.167
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | boincsimap | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | climateprediction.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0 000
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | pogs | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | SETI@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Cosmology@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | malariacontrol.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.083
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | World Community Grid | [work_fetch] fetch share 0 167
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] --- state for NVIDIA ---
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] shortfall 259200.00 nidle 2.00 saturated 0.00 busy 0.00
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Asteroids@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (resource backoff: 438.29, inc 600.00)
*** Note: In addition to having a project-wide RPC backoff, rosetta@home also has a resource-specific (GPU) backoff, to prevent asking for that resource type
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | ABCLLL@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | boincsimap | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | climateprediction.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0 000
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.333
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | pogs | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | LHC@home 1.0 | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (no apps)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | SETI@home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.000 (blocked by prefs)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Cosmology@Home | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.333
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | malariacontrol.net | [work_fetch] fetch share 0.333
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | World Community Grid | [work_fetch] fetch share 0 000 (blocked by prefs)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | | [work_fetch] ------- end work fetch state -------
*** So, to again calculate who BOINC SHOULD ask, we look at applicable projects, but in terms of priority:
*** rosetta@home - REC 54.976 prio -0.382480 can't req work: scheduler RPC backoff (backoff: 237.11 sec)
*** climateprediction.net - REC 66.325 prio -0.000000 can't req work: scheduler RPC backoff (backoff: 2468.55 sec)
*** Docking - REC 74.198 prio -0.516214
*** Cosmology@Home - REC 432.199 prio -3.006918
*** malariacontrol.net - REC 216.650 prio -1.507293
*** .... so, according to those prio values, the one with the highest priority (aka: least negative), should win.
*** .... so, Docking should win.
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] request: CPU (0.00 sec, 0.00 inst) NVIDIA (259200.00 sec, 2.00 inst)
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
11/05/2013 10:35:48 AM | Docking | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA
11/05/2013 10:35:52 AM | Docking | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
11/05/2013 10:35:52 AM | Docking | [work_fetch] backing off NVIDIA 367 sec
11/05/2013 10:35:52 AM | | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: RPC complete
*** Docking did win; worked as expected; we asked that project for work, but did not get any.
11/05/2013 10:35:55 AM | | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: Backoff ended for Docking
11/05/2013 10:39:47 AM | | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: Backoff ended for rosetta@home
*** At this point, I presume it would continue trying to get GPU work for the 2 remaining projects, in this order: malariacontrol.net, Cosmology@Home
*** Then, once it either got enough GPU work or exhausted asking GPU-applicable projects,
*** if it needed CPU work, it would then cycle through CPU-applicable projects, in much the same manner as we just did GPU-applicable projects.

So, to answer your question... The primary reason it asked rosetta first, then Docking, is because of prio.
And if you look at your RECs, they indicate that, out of the 5 GPU-applicable projects,
You've recently done some rosetta, a little more climateprediction, a little more Docking, quite-a-bit more malariacontrol, and a ton of Cosmology.

Since they all have the same Resource Share values, and Work fetch tries to reach that goal, it prioritized rosetta to be asked first.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada

I noticed this on the BOINC configuration page and wonder if it might help?

<no_gpus>1</no_gpus> to tell it to ignore GPU's altogether. The question I have is, is it really necessary and should the above be wrapped in cc_config tags or on its own?

Tried a different one.

Well not sure whether or not it was a coincidence, I stopped BOINC, entered
this cc_config options XML file, started BOINC and wham, dozens of work
units cascaded in.

<cc_config>
<options>
<no_gpus>1</no_gpus>
</options>
</cc_config>

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Peter
Toronto, Canada

My hard drive died recently so have a new installation of BOINC installed.

Once again the client seemed stuck in limbo for days on end with only 1 CPDN WU in progress and kept saying "project not highest priority" for all the others.

Once I input that cc_config file as per the last post of mine, in came 32 LHC WU's.

I find that quite bizarre because I can't see what difference that config file would make to a set up configured not to receive GPU work in the first place (at both the projects' end and in the GUI).

Perhaps someone could explain it. Or is it once again coincidence as reported earlier on in the thread with my previous installation?

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Peter
Toronto, Canada