Hi After doing SETI@Home for ten years on a variety of slow computers, I recently put together a more advanced system, restarted S@H and signed onto Asteroids. This machine had done more in the past week than my previous ones did in a year.

At one time I had about 40 WUs in my task list. Now there are none. Where did they go?

Now my account shows 108 tasks, with 69 valid, 31 pending and 8 errors while downloading. Did my computer already process all of those WUs that were in progress? Are there no more WUs available?

Forgive my dumb noob questions. I'm not accustomed to such a rapid turn-around.
Thanks.
Steve Gaber
Oldsmar, FL

Welcome to A@H, Steve.

Your list of tasks doesn't show any in progress so you must have processed all the A@H tasks you had. It's not necessary to ask in the forums if there are more tasks available, just go to the Server Status page and see for yourself. I mean you're welcome to ask but why wait for someone else to check for you when you can get the answer quicker on your own, right? The link to the Server Status page is on the home page, same as for most other projects including SETI.

If there are tasks available and you don't have any then maybe it's because BOINC isn't requesting any. If it's not requesting any then maybe it's because BOINC thinks it should crunch SETI tasks for a while in order to honor the project resource shares you've set. The Event Log will give you info regarding whether it's requesting tasks or not and why it isn't getting tasks if it is requesting them.

P.S.

Yes, that's it. I just checked your list of SETI tasks for your new AMD machine and it shows 8 tasks in progress. After you crunch a few of those you'll get more A@H tasks.

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Thanks for the reply to my dumb question. I guess I need to be more patient.

Maybe I'll select no new SETI tasks for awhile.

Steve Gaber
Oldsmar, FL

That's what's referred to as micro-managing and it's not recommended because it usually creates more problems than it solves. Use the "resource share settings" in your website preferences at each of your projects to determine how much of your compute time is allocated to each project. The default is 100, so if you have 2 projects and they're both set at 100 for resource share then each will get roughly 100/200 or 50% of your resources. BOINC will take care of scheduling tasks in a way that your resources are shared according to the shares you specify. That does not mean you will always have a task from each project in your cache, sometimes you will, sometimes you won't. But over the longterm your resource shares will be honored. If you don't know where to find the resource share settings then just ask.

If you feel you want to crunch more of one project than another then set that project's resource share higher so that it receives more resources (compute time) on your computer.

If one were to compare BOINC to an automobile then it's not intended to be driven with your foot on the throttle pedal and your hands on the wheel. You set it on auto-pilot and let it steer itself. It isn't perfect but it works very well. It will crunch project A for a while and ignore B but eventually it will ignore A and crunch B for a while. And sometimes it will crunch both side-by-side. That's normal. Some people enjoy playing with BOINC and steering it manually but eventually the thrill wears off like it does with any new toy.

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I have finished work which is never reported.
I've just started working with Astroid's tasks, but I feel like it's a waste of processing time if it's never going to update.
Anyone else having this problem?

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I have finished work which is never reported.
I've just started working with Astroid's tasks, but I feel like it's a waste of processing time if it's never going to update.
Anyone else having this problem?

There is a maintenance now. Do not abort or delete tasks, they will be reported as soon as server becomes ready. No time wasting.