Hi

I haven't been receiving work units from Rosetta or World Community Grid for months.

Both projects appear to be connecting to their respective hosts, but when I select "Update", both return the status "Communication deferred" with a repeating 31 second countdown.

Please can someone help diagnose this. Thanks! Event log follows:


7/22/2022 2:52:43 PM | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
7/22/2022 2:52:43 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.16.20 for windows_x86_64
7/22/2022 2:52:43 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
7/22/2022 2:52:43 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.47.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2s zlib/1.2.8
7/22/2022 2:52:43 PM | | Data directory: E:ProgramDataBOINC
7/22/2022 2:52:43 PM | | Running under account Nattr
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series (driver version 3188.4, device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (3188.4), 2048MB, 2048MB available, 2688 GFLOPS peak)
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | Windows processor group 0: 16 processors
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | Host name: DESKTOP-EFGN3EN
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | Processor: 16 AuthenticAMD AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor [Family 23 Model 113 Stepping 0]
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movebe popcnt aes f16c rdrandsyscall nx lm avx avx2 svm sse4a osvw ibs skinit wdt tce topx page1gb rdtscp fsgsbase bmi1 smep bmi2
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 11: Professional x64 Edition, (10.00.22000.00)
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | Memory: 15.95 GB physical, 18.32 GB virtual
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | Disk: 1.82 TB total, 1.74 TB free
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | Local time is UTC -4 hours
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | No WSL found.
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | VirtualBox version: 6.0.14
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | World Community Grid | General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 04-Feb-2022 18:44:55)
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | World Community Grid | Host location: none
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | World Community Grid | General prefs: using your defaults
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | Reading preferences override file
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | Preferences:
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | max memory usage when active: 8165.83 MB
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 14698.50 MB
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | max disk usage: 1676.71 GB
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | don't use GPU while active
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | Setting up project and slot directories
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | Checking active tasks
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | Rosetta@home | URL https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID 4117729; resource share 100
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 8553618; resource share 100
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | World Community Grid | Not using AMD/ATI GPU: project preferences
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | Setting up GUI RPC socket
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | Checking presence of 55 project files
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | | Suspending GPU computation - computer is in use
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM | Rosetta@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU
7/22/2022 2:52:46 PM | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
7/22/2022 2:52:46 PM | Rosetta@home | No tasks sent
7/22/2022 2:52:46 PM | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 31 seconds
7/22/2022 2:52:51 PM | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
7/22/2022 2:52:51 PM | World Community Grid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
7/22/2022 2:52:52 PM | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
7/22/2022 2:52:52 PM | World Community Grid | Project has no tasks available
7/22/2022 2:52:52 PM | World Community Grid | Project requested delay of 121 seconds

I haven't been receiving work units from Rosetta or World Community Grid for months.

WCG has been down for months, they only recently came back online, and are still working the bugs out & work is very sparse- any issues you have getting work from them, you need to take up with them on their forums.


With Rosetta there is only very occasionally Rosetta 4.20 Tasks available, it's the luck of the draw whether or not you're able to get any.
Python Tasks are always available, but if you miss deadlines (which it looks like you have), or produce errors, then you may be black listed. Go to your account page, Computers, Details, and down near the bottom should be a python tasks section. If there is an Allow button, click on it, and work should start flowing.
To help keep it flowing set you cache to less than a day (0.25 days & 0.01 additional days should be plenty).

7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM |  | Preferences:
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM |  | max memory usage when active: 8165.83 MB
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM |  | max memory usage when idle: 14698.50 MB
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM |  | max disk usage: 1676.71 GB
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM |  | don't use GPU while active
7/22/2022 2:52:44 PM |  | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%

You have lots of course & threads, but very little RAM on that system, which will massively impact your ability to do any Python work.
Setting the RAM requirement to 100% when in use & 100% when not in use will allow you to do more work, and won't actually result in all RAM being used.
Don't use GPU while active is generally unnecessary- if you do get GPU Tasks from WCG, and it impacts on other work, you can suspend GPU processing just while doing that affected work. Depending on the type of GPU work, you may need to reserve a CPU core/thread to support each running GPU Task- you need to work that out with the project providing the GPU work.

And most of all- unless you are using your system for CPU based rendering, there is no need to suspend BOINC work at all, set it to 0 (leave it blank). BOINC applications are generally set to the lowest priority levels- other programmes have higher priority levls & when they start BOINC Tasks will get less processing time & so not affect other programmes.

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Grant
Darwin NT