is there a reason that my computers are out of
work?
i checked to see if the Rosetta servers are working...it seems they are...
so whats going on?


tia

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If you run multiple projects you might have over worked Rosetta recently, causing BOINC to hold off on giving you more Rosetta for a little while... otherwise try the update button in the Projects tab

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you can "overwork"?
do i get overtime?

but seriously...i have some computers running 50%/50%
some running Seti/Rosetta, some running Einstein/Rosetta

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I've experienced times recently where the connection to the server fails and it has to try a few times to get work. I believe the servers are a bit overloaded. If you have a very low frequency of connection coupled with a long run time such that you usually one or no workunits waiting to run, then it would be possible to run out of work. I usually have 2 or 3 workunits waiting in my queue and so far I have not run out. I also run 99% Rosetta with SIMAP as a backup.

Charlie

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-Charlie

Well... it's BOINC trying to balance the resource share so that over the long run you spend half your time doing each project.

BUT if for some reason you couldn't get any SETI units for a little while (for example Wednesday shut weekly maintenance), you'd grab some more Rosetta units so you wtill had something to crunch, and you crunch for say, 5 hours. Then, when SETI comes back up, you won't be able to download Rosetta until SETI has more or less caught up. So for about 5 hours, you wouldn't be able to download Rosetta units.

Does this make sense??

Though also quite likely that there are just connection problems as Charles said... Rosetta is apperently running its server to near capacity.

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We would be able to help more if you said what the messages about work were?

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