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Message 52353 - Posted: 5 Feb 2014, 15:41:44 UTC

Hello everyone,

Why does BOINC report tasks as completed, when they have obviously errored out?

Tasks are also reported as complete when downloads fail. This happens often with climateprediction.net, if for some reason a download is interrupted, it may or may not resume.

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Message 52355 - Posted: 5 Feb 2014, 15:51:25 UTC - in response to Message 52353.  
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How else is the project's database to know that you've had a problem with the task at hand? Remember that uploading & reporting is a two stage thing, where uploads when they happen only move data between your drive and a drive at the project; reporting tells of the outcome of tasks that were appointed to you by the database.
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Message 52397 - Posted: 6 Feb 2014, 2:28:41 UTC

Understood, however, failed downloads and wu's that did not complete due to errors are being reported as complete when they not. At least that is how it reads in the Event Log.

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