Bigadv SMP error - no work available?

Is anyone else getting this message from their bigadv clients this morning?

"Initial: 0000; - Error: Bad packet type from server, expected work assignment"

I have 3 i7's idling now, have been all night from the logs

I thought this was an old problem and Stanford fixed it

Code:

[07:29:03] + Attempting to get work packet
[07:29:03] Passkey found
[07:29:03] - Will indicate memory of 6135 MB
[07:29:03] - Connecting to assignment server
[07:29:03] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[07:29:04] Posted data.
[07:29:04] Initial: ED82; - Successful: assigned to (130.237.232.237).
[07:29:04] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[07:29:04] Loaded queue successfully.
[07:29:04] Sent data
[07:29:04] Connecting to http://130.237.232.237:8080/
[07:29:04] Posted data.
[07:29:04] Initial: 0000; - Error: Bad packet type from server, expected work assignment
[07:29:04] - Attempt #6  to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.

 

from what i read on the stanford forum there's a shortage of bigadv units and the general response seems to be:

'switch to regular smp or wait'

 

Aw, I was hoping you weren't going to say that

 

I thought they defaulted over to normal units if there was a shortage?

 

i think that's the theory... but 'in theory' and reality seldom match up...

 

zz9pzza used them all up at the weekend.

 

Just got back in this evening and nothing has changed... They're still idling and not getting units

There goes my 24hr avg.

[edit]

Just bit the bullet and removed the bigadv flag from the SMP CPU clients after reading about the issue on the evga and folding forums.

EVGA forum thread

 

I've pulled the -bigadv flag for the mo as well ....

 

i can see that putting a big dent in a few people's ppd

[assuming these completely replace the older bigadv units]

 

From Stanford Updates thread dated 31st May 2011

"bigadv server 130.237.232.141 is going into accept-only mode for a few days. We're getting ready to upgrade the server software there, and we can't have any outstanding jobs when we do that."

Other servers are due to be taken down for upgrades - see that thread for more details

 

Ah not just me then, my SR-2, 970 and 2 more bigadv rigs are sat idle at the mo and I can't get to them until tomorow, doh! Hope its only a temp shortage and a quick server upgrade...

 

Not all is lost. I got a bigadv at 7.30 this morning (Thursday).

 

I'm still having trouble - you must have got lucky! Just had to swap back to standard SMP.

if the new bigadv units are 12core I hope they amend the time-scales for the bonus points - there aren't that many 12 core machines floating around out there.

 

Just got a -bigadv WU (P6901) but I wanted a -bigbeta

 

Had the same problem yesterday but after about 4 hours picked up a P6901 bigadv.

 

Okay, I'll stick the -bigadv flag back into one machine after the current A3 unit finishes to see if I can get another large unit. These standard SMP units are killing my production but as always, it's all useful science.