Been having a little trouble over the past 24 hours with my VM SMP clients. When they finish the unit they struggle to return results and recieve a new work unit. This is from 171.64.65.56. (Recieving) I have found that by restarting the VM it enables it to recieve a new WU and away it goes on it's merry way. Not sure that I am going to be credited for them though. Looking on the FAH forums I'm not alone in this either and some say that the number of units available is low!?! Anyone else finding this? Why would a restart allow a WU to be downloaded when it had previously tried up to 19 times to recieve one? Will I be credited do you think? Any ideas?
From the latest postings in the Stanford forum, it appears to be a strange problem with the server. Are you getting 503 errors - Could not connect to server? Restarting the client often gets a new WU in this sort of situation. One of those strange things - it happens, but at first sight it shouldn't. Perhaps a client that is just starting somehow appears different to the server? Are your completed workunits actually being received? Do you get the 'Thank you for contributing' message - if so all is well and you should get the credits once everything is running smoothly. Your completed workunits may be piling up in your own queue - have a look under Status/Queue Info. If so then your machine will try to upload them all, at intervals. I believe your queue has ten slots, and I think that if they are all full, then the client will not download another WU until some space has been created. HTH
Yes, I am getting the 503 error. But it would appear that my WU's are not being returned. 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[21:20:14] Signature is VALID [21:20:14] [21:20:14] Trying to unzip core FahCore_a2.exe [21:20:14] Decompressed FahCore_a2.exe (4382312 bytes) successfully [21:20:14] + Core successfully engaged [21:20:19] [21:20:19] + Processing work unit [21:20:19] At least 4 processors must be requested.Core required: FahCore_a2.exe [21:20:19] Core found. [21:20:19] Working on Unit 04 [July 31 21:20:19] [21:20:19] + Working ... [21:20:19] [21:20:19] *------------------------------* [21:20:19] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core [21:20:19] Version 2.08 (Mon May 18 14:47:42 PDT 2009) [21:20:19] [21:20:19] Preparing to commence simulation [21:20:19] - Ensuring status. Please wait. [21:20:29] - Assembly optimizations manually forced on. [21:20:29] - Not checking prior termination. 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230000 out of 250000 steps (92%) [16:40:14] Completed 232500 out of 250000 steps (93%) [16:52:44] Completed 235000 out of 250000 steps (94%) [17:05:13] Completed 237500 out of 250000 steps (95%) [17:17:44] Completed 240000 out of 250000 steps (96%) [17:30:16] Completed 242500 out of 250000 steps (97%) [17:42:47] Completed 245000 out of 250000 steps (98%) [17:55:19] Completed 247500 out of 250000 steps (99%) [18:07:50] Completed 250000 out of 250000 steps (100%) [18:07:52] DynamicWrapper: Finished Work Unit: sleep=10000 [18:08:02] [18:08:02] Finished Work Unit: [18:08:02] - Reading up to 21142368 from "work/wudata_04.trr": Read 21142368 [18:08:02] trr file hash check passed. [18:08:02] - Reading up to 4509204 from "work/wudata_04.xtc": Read 4509204 [18:08:02] xtc file hash check passed. [18:08:02] edr file hash check passed. [18:08:02] logfile size: 181238 [18:08:02] Leaving Run [18:08:07] - Writing 25977562 bytes of core data to disk... [18:08:07] ... Done. [18:08:08] - Shutting down core [18:08:08] [18:08:08] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT [18:11:23] CoreStatus = 64 (100) [18:11:23] Sending work to server [18:11:23] + Attempting to send results [18:11:24] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server [18:11:24] + Could not connect to Work Server (results) [18:11:24] (171.64.65.56:8080) [18:11:24] - Error: Could not transmit unit 04 (completed August 1) to work server. [18:11:24] Keeping unit 04 in queue. [18:11:24] + Attempting to send results [18:11:25] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server [18:11:25] + Could not connect to Work Server (results) [18:11:25] (171.64.65.56:8080) [18:11:25] - Error: Could not transmit unit 04 (completed August 1) to work server. [18:11:25] + Attempting to send results [18:11:25] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server [18:11:25] + Could not connect to Work Server (results) [18:11:25] (171.67.108.25:8080) [18:11:25] Could not transmit unit 04 to Collection server; keeping in queue. [18:11:25] - Preparing to get new work unit... [18:11:25] + Attempting to get work packet [18:11:25] - Connecting to assignment server [18:11:26] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.56). [18:11:26] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [18:11:26] Loaded queue successfully. [18:11:26] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server [18:11:26] (Got status 503) [18:11:26] + Could not connect to Work Server [18:11:26] - Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [18:11:41] + Attempting to get work packet [18:11:41] - Connecting to assignment server [18:11:41] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.56). [18:11:41] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [18:11:41] Loaded queue successfully. [18:11:42] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server [18:11:42] (Got status 503) [18:11:42] + Could not connect to Work Server [18:11:42] - Attempt #2 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [18:11:56] + Attempting to get work packet [18:11:56] - Connecting to assignment server [18:11:57] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.56). [18:11:57] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [18:11:57] Loaded queue successfully. [18:11:58] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server [18:11:58] (Got status 503) [18:11:58] + Could not connect to Work Server [18:11:58] - Attempt #3 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [18:12:19] + Attempting to get work packet [18:12:19] - Connecting to assignment server [18:12:20] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.56). [18:12:20] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [18:12:20] Loaded queue successfully. [18:12:20] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server [18:12:20] (Got status 503) [18:12:20] + Could not connect to Work Server [18:12:20] - Attempt #4 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [18:13:02] + Attempting to get work packet [18:13:02] - Connecting to assignment server [18:13:03] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.56). [18:13:03] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [18:13:03] Loaded queue successfully. [18:13:04] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server [18:13:04] (Got status 503) [18:13:04] + Could not connect to Work Server [18:13:04] - Attempt #5 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [18:14:27] + Attempting to get work packet [18:14:27] - Connecting to assignment server [18:14:27] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.56). [18:14:27] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [18:14:28] Loaded queue successfully. [18:14:28] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server [18:14:28] (Got status 503) [18:14:28] + Could not connect to Work Server [18:14:28] - Attempt #6 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [18:17:15] + Attempting to get work packet [18:17:15] - Connecting to assignment server [18:17:15] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.56). [18:17:15] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [18:17:16] Loaded queue successfully. [18:17:16] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server [18:17:16] (Got status 503) [18:17:16] + Could not connect to Work Server [18:17:16] - Attempt #7 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [18:22:47] + Attempting to get work packet [18:22:47] - Connecting to assignment server [18:22:48] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.56). [18:22:48] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [18:22:48] Loaded queue successfully. [18:22:48] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server [18:22:48] (Got status 503) [18:22:48] + Could not connect to Work Server [18:22:48] - Attempt #8 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [18:33:29] + Attempting to get work packet [18:33:29] - Connecting to assignment server [18:33:30] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.56). [18:33:30] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [18:33:30] Loaded queue successfully. [18:33:30] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server [18:33:30] (Got status 503) [18:33:30] + Could not connect to Work Server [18:33:30] - Attempt #9 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. So it would appear that I cannot transmit results either. This is the same on all 4 of my VM machines. Any ideas as to what I can do? Am I alone in this? TIA, Keith.
OK, this bit is quite clear ... So if you look at Status/Queue Info you should see that slot 4 has not been returned, and that it has had at least one Upload Failure. So long as there is not a huge disaster with your machine, the client will attempt to send this at intervals. This bit ... etc., etc. ... shows that the client waits for longer and longer times between attempts. I think this is why stopping the client and starting again sometimes connects more successfully than just leaving it; the client simply tries more often. You aren't alone, the posts on the Stanford forums show that. Whatever the problem is, it won't get properly sorted until someone at the other end goes in to fix it. Given the time difference, that'll probably be sometime during our night. Stopping and restarting the client at your end is probably the only thing you can do, or turn off completely and try again tomorrow (at least you wouldn't be wasting electricity)
Just realised you're using VMs. I assume the queue system is the same as with system tray clients, but have no idea how to look at the queue. Sorry
