The work distribution issue has been resolved.

Due to the unusually high load during the BOINC Formula event, the server-side work feeder cache was being exhausted too quickly. This caused some clients to receive “no tasks available” messages even though work was available in the database.

The feeder and scheduler configuration has been adjusted, and the server is now sending work normally again.

Thank you for your patience and happy crunching!

Radim Vanco (FoxKyong)

Sat Jun 6 18:40:27 2026 | Asteroids@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Sat Jun 6 18:40:27 2026 | Asteroids@home | Reporting 4 completed tasks
Sat Jun 6 18:40:27 2026 | Asteroids@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU
Sat Jun 6 18:40:29 2026 | Asteroids@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Sat Jun 6 18:40:29 2026 | Asteroids@home | Project has no tasks available

The problem with getting 0 new tasks even with plenty work available has been there long before the BOINC Formula event.

The work distribution issue has been resolved.

Due to the unusually high load during the BOINC Formula event, the server-side work feeder cache was being exhausted too quickly. This caused some clients to receive “no tasks available” messages even though work was available in the database.

The feeder and scheduler configuration has been adjusted, and the server is now sending work normally again.

Thank you for your patience and happy crunching!

Radim Vanco (FoxKyong)

I hope you could automate the process so it doesn't run out again.

Sat Jun 6 18:40:27 2026 | Asteroids@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.

The problem with getting 0 new tasks even with plenty work available has been there long before the BOINC Formula event.

+100

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The work distribution issue has been resolved.

Due to the unusually high load during the BOINC Formula event, the server-side work feeder cache was being exhausted too quickly. This caused some clients to receive “no tasks available” messages even though work was available in the database.

The feeder and scheduler configuration has been adjusted, and the server is now sending work normally again.

...unfortunately, nothing has improved.
The issue isn't resolved at all.

Michael.

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President of Rechenkraft.net e.V.

I still have this problem, is there anything I need to do to fix this.

Thanks

Hooray, managed to get some new tasks!

The work distribution issue has been resolved.

Due to the unusually high load during the BOINC Formula event, the server-side work feeder cache was being exhausted too quickly. This caused some clients to receive “no tasks available” messages even though work was available in the database.

The feeder and scheduler configuration has been adjusted, and the server is now sending work normally again.

Thank you for your patience and happy crunching!

Radim Vanco (FoxKyong)

Hi Radim

Thanks to yourself (and Josef?) for hopefully resolving this issue for EVERY Asteroids member, and not just for the Formula BOINC Sprint challenge.

It is important to everyone that the project runs without issues so that everyone can contribute to the project efficiently and without incurring solvable problems. :-)

regards
Tim

I kinda wonder if there is some inefficiency on the BOINC server code. My smaller machines with lower buffer continued to fetch work through the entire period when my bigger machines that would report and request more task per request got timeouts.

I kinda wonder if there is some inefficiency on the BOINC server code. My smaller machines with lower buffer continued to fetch work through the entire period when my bigger machines that would report and request more task per request got timeouts.

I am seeing the same behavior. My AM5 9950x rigs are all dry and cannot connect/download new work. However, all of my other computers are able to connect and download work units reasonably well. Very odd in my opinion.

Ever since the distribution problem got resolved i have not gotten ANY WORK. I have reinstalled the latest version of BOINC which I was already running. Ideas?

I haven't been able to get any new work recently myself.