Posts by Grant (SSSF)

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1) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC works and suspends every 10/20 sec (Win11x64) Message 117678 Posted 3 minutes ago by Grant (SSSF)	In reply to robsmith's message of 10 Dec 2025: Another option is a rampant anti-virus software or similar being over zealous (running too frequently and so pushing the non-BOINC cpu usage over the limit) With ridiculously low non BOINC CPU values to suspend (i consider 25% to be ridiculously low) , just clicking on links and loading web pages can cause computing to suspend on low clock speed/low core/thread systems as the CPU load spikes & falls away again.
2) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 117621 Posted 7 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	In reply to Suzie-Q's message of 3 Dec 2025: I give up. Every day I try to connect. Every day I immediately get a 403 Forbidden error. It just took me about 6 goes to be able to "Mark all threads as read." Kept getting Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource. Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu) Server at setiathome.berkeley.edu Port 443 messages. That was after waiting 30-40 seconds for the site to load.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Podman Sucks Message 117592 Posted 11 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	In reply to Vitalii Koshura's message of 30 Nov 2025: In reply to Grant (SSSF)'s message of 29 Nov 2025: I only downgraded BOINC because the Remaining (estimated) time for Tasks was broken and no longer updated in the newer version. Is there an open ticker on GitHub that describes this issue? Yep, it's still there. BOINC does not adjust estimated time based on previous tasks any more #6449
4) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC Client/Manager hard limits? Message 117585 Posted 11 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	In reply to Keith Myers's message of 29 Nov 2025: There's a hard limit on the number of tasks the Boinc server software can send to a host in the Boinc code. The limit is 1000. So you could theoretically have a host with computing capabilities greater than 1000 WU's and not be able to be fully utilized. #define WF_MAX_RUNNABLE_JOBS 1000 // don't fetch work from a project if it has this many runnable jobs. A Dual socket Sierra Forrest system will have 576 cores/threads, so hitting that limit isn't that far away at all now.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Podman Sucks Message 117584 Posted 11 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	I followed the instructions exactly as they were given and installed the upgraded version of BOINC and Podman with no issues on both Win 10 and Win11 systems. I only downgraded BOINC because the Remaining (estimated) time for Tasks was broken and no longer updated in the newer version. Podman wasn't an issue.
6) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 117578 Posted 12 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 28 Nov 2025: In reply to Grant (SSSF)'s message of 28 Nov 2025: Nice and quick to respond at the moment. Well, that's over now. Back to ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT It's loading for me, if i give it a minute or so. Another minute or so to get the forums, then another to get a thread to load ... I'm not going to risk an attempt to post something.
7) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 117574 Posted 12 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	Nice and quick to respond at the moment.
8) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 117520 Posted 18 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 22 Nov 2025: Eric posted the following on https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=86149&postid=2152880#2152880 We've been DDOSed the last month or so by assorted web cralwers that have been ignoring the robots.txt directive. I'm made blocking such things a bit more proactive. Hopefully we can stay up more than 10 minutes at a time now. That seems to be becoming a bigger and bigger problem- most likely crawling for AI/ML data. Another web site i often use had several issues about 6 months back- getting slammed with AI/ML bots, and they had to up their Cloudflare plan and put in other blocks to kill off that load.
9) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions Message 117519 Posted 18 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	Well, wonder of wonders, i didn't lose power last night (although there are hundreds of reported outages). Lots of mobile phone/data issues due to loss of power (even with generator backup, they're usually only good for a few hours). Early reports are lots of trees down, not much in the way of structural damage that doesn't involve trees, and the only damage i've found at my place so far is a metal panel blew out of my back fence. The wind is now around 40km/h, gusts to 60km/h. Still the chance of squalls with gusts to 80km/h+, but the rain has pretty much stopped. So the linesmen should be out and about assessing the damage and then make a start on fixing things up. We really did get off extremely lightly, considering what could have happened IMHO. As it is, it's expected to crank up to a Category 4 later today as it makes it's way west.
10) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 117515 Posted 19 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	In reply to Dr Who Fan's message of 22 Nov 2025: Not for me, i'm still forbidden. Sounds like possible Cloudflare servers are blocking you. Out of curiosity, have you tried clearing the browser cache and deleting cookies for all the *(.)berkeley(.)edu sites, including this site to see if it will let you back in? Two different browsers on two different systems. Can actually access Seti now on a 3rd system, but no joy on the other two. Time to go cookie hunting. Edit- not cookies, but related to the saved URL. The ones that were forbidden, with no mention of HTTP or HTTPS in the saved address were resolving to HTTP. Changed the favourite link address to explicitly HTTPS and no problems.
11) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions Message 117513 Posted 19 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	Thanks. I've pulled down the shade cloth from over the car, motor bikes are parked up under the veranda along with the rubbish bins. Managed to get this weeks' washing done and dried. Kindle and laptop are charged up. Now we just sit and wait.
12) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions Message 117511 Posted 19 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	Just what i didn't need- a weekend cyclone. With Cyclone Fina now a category three system, what does that actually mean? The BOM classifies tropical cyclone categories based on maximum mean wind speed. Here's how the bureau describes category three: Very destructive winds. Some roof and structural damage. Some caravans destroyed. Significant damage to crops and trees. Power failures likely. Maximum mean wind speed of 118–159 km/h. Typical strongest gust of 165–224 km/h. It's been raining continuously for the last 6 hours, and the winds are 30km/h with 50km/h gusts. At this stage it's forecast to pass by to the north of us, but 8-10 hours of gale force winds, with a few hours of 110kmh+ winds and gusts over 130km/h, it's going to be a long, long Saturday- especially once the power goes down (with winds like those, there's no change of it not going down...). By sunrise Sunday it should be mostly over. At least it gives me a legitimate reason not to mow the lawns today.
13) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 117510 Posted 19 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	In reply to Dr Who Fan's message of 21 Nov 2025: SETI website is loading nice and fast. Hurry up and read or post you item(s) there before it disappears again. Not for me, i'm still forbidden.
14) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 117508 Posted 19 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	Well, that's different. Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource.
15) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 117499 Posted 19 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	It was back again, so i went to post, then it fell over again. Then it came back again and i was able to post, and it was still there just after i posted, but no idea it it's still there now 5 minutes has passed.
16) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 117479 Posted 20 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	And now it's died again, just as i was about to try and make a post.
17) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 117478 Posted 20 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	In reply to W-K ID 666's message of 19 Nov 2025: It's up at the moment and was able to make a post, which usually failed earlier. It took a while, but it did load & the forums are quite responsive.
18) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 117471 Posted 21 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	And now it's gone again.
19) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 117470 Posted 21 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	And now it's back again.
20) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 117469 Posted 21 days ago by Grant (SSSF)	Seti is deceased again. EDIT- if you wait long enough, you may be able to get the main page to load. Same for the forums. But no joy at all for getting any threads to load.

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