I'm getting no new work, for several weeks now. The message is that there IS work, but for OTHER PLATFORMS ONLY.

Can someone explain what has happened so suddenly, or what I can do about it? Nothing has changed at my end....

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I have also been getting the same message.

Sun Sep 7 10:09:03 2008|rosetta@home|Fetching scheduler list
Sun Sep 7 10:09:08 2008|rosetta@home|Master file download succeeded
Sun Sep 7 10:09:13 2008|rosetta@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 1428 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Sun Sep 7 10:09:18 2008|rosetta@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
Sun Sep 7 10:09:18 2008|rosetta@home|Message from server: No work sent
Sun Sep 7 10:09:18 2008|rosetta@home|Message from server: (there was work for other platforms)

Zero queued again.

Server Status as of 18 Sep 2008 3:58:53 UTC
[ Scheduler running ] Queued: 0
In progress: 397,434
Successes last 24h: 227,801

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Hello,

I'm running rosetta@home for some days and already get credits for that.
But since yesterday I'm not getting any more wus.
I also participate in some other projects, but they also aren't sending me any work.
I looked for the server status, they're all online.

I'm forced to use a proxy, maybe this is the problem?

zahnstein, I've moved your post to this thread. There are a number of ideas discussed here that could be related to what you describe. There are several options in BOINC to allow you to control how much work it tries to download each time, and to allocate your machine time across the various projects you like to do work for.

If you are adding projects, each one reduces the resource share of the others. So, each of the existing projects get less scheduled CPU time in the days ahead. Also, each new project downloads at least one work unit, so, depending upon how long those are estimated to take, you may have BOINC thinking it already has enough work to keep it busy for some time.

From your profile, it looks like you've just added 4 projects in two days. It will take BOINC some time to get used to the idea of how to schedule your CPU time across the 4 new projects in addition to the one you started with.

So, unless your machine is completely without work, I would try to leave things alone for a while and let it run through some tasks. It will do a good job of getting work when it needs it if you have a full-time network connection.

Welcome to Rosetta.

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The other thing that may be involved here is that BOINC keeps track of how much time it is running during the course of a day. And initially, it assumes that your machine will not be running 24hrs a day. But if that is what you do, it takes BOINC a while to observe that and to average it in to it's estimates. Once it realizes how much your machine runs, it will begin to request more work for each project. But it still may not always have one task for each project all the time. It schedules it out over time to match the resource shares you have defined between the projects.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

Same problem here, requesting tasks, getting 0 tasks

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Mark: Are you requesting xx seconds of work? Or are you hitting the update button for the project and expecting that should always bring down new work?

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

I am letting the scheduler request automatically. I detached and reattached but no difference. Manual request does not work either. No other jobs are currently running on my system.

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I just downloaded 3 tasks. Maybe the problem is ok now.. thanks Mod.

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Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Starting BOINC client version 6.6.36 for powerpc-apple-darwin
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 c-ares/1.6.0
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Processor: 2 Power Macintosh Power Macintosh [Power Macintosh Model PowerMac7,3] [AltiVec]
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Processor features:
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 OS: Darwin: 8.11.0
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Memory: 6.00 GB physical, 127.53 GB virtual
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Disk: 172.24 GB total, 127.29 GB free
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Local time is UTC -5 hours
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Can't load library libcudart
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 No coprocessors
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Not using a proxy
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 rosetta@home URL: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID: 1090433; location: (none); project prefs: default
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 SETI@home URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 1102572; location: home; project prefs: default
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 SETI@home General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 21-Jun-2005 12:08:23)
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 SETI@home Computer location: home
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 SETI@home General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Reading preferences override file
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Preferences limit memory usage when active to 3072.00MB
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 5529.60MB
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Preferences limit disk usage to 86.12GB
Mon Aug 17 00:30:36 2009 rosetta@home update requested by user
Mon Aug 17 00:30:40 2009 rosetta@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Mon Aug 17 00:30:40 2009 rosetta@home Requesting new tasks
Mon Aug 17 00:30:45 2009 rosetta@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Mon Aug 17 00:30:45 2009 rosetta@home Message from server: No work sent
Mon Aug 17 00:30:45 2009 rosetta@home Message from server: (there was work for other platforms)

Mon Aug 17 06:27:28 2009 rosetta@home update requested by user
Mon Aug 17 06:27:31 2009 rosetta@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Mon Aug 17 06:27:31 2009 rosetta@home Requesting new tasks
Mon Aug 17 06:27:36 2009 rosetta@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Mon Aug 17 06:27:36 2009 rosetta@home Message from server: No work sent
Mon Aug 17 06:27:36 2009 rosetta@home Message from server: (there was work for other platforms)

Mon Aug 17 06:36:50 2009 rosetta@home update requested by user
Mon Aug 17 06:36:55 2009 rosetta@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Mon Aug 17 06:36:55 2009 rosetta@home Requesting new tasks
Mon Aug 17 06:37:00 2009 rosetta@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Mon Aug 17 06:37:00 2009 rosetta@home Message from server: No work sent
Mon Aug 17 06:37:00 2009 rosetta@home Message from server: (there was work for other platforms)
I seem to be getting the above messages most of the time.
I taker it there is just no more work from Rossetta?

You have a power mac, RAH has limited work for this kind of machine.
See this message which says:

"Your computer is described as a "Power Macintosh". Does that mean it uses a PPC processor?

Due to the decline in the number of PPC computers, the Rosetta team have decided not to support the PPC processor any longer; the number of computers contributing with PPC does not justify the effort of maintaining PPC compatible code. The project team have instead focussed their limited resources on supporting the Intel processors that are used in new Macintosh computers.

Some users report picking up a PPC compatible task once every few months, but they are rare and probably getting rarer."

Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Starting BOINC client version 6.6.36 for powerpc-apple-darwin
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 c-ares/1.6.0
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Processor: 2 Power Macintosh Power Macintosh [Power Macintosh Model PowerMac7,3] [AltiVec]
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Processor features:
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 OS: Darwin: 8.11.0
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Memory: 6.00 GB physical, 127.53 GB virtual
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Disk: 172.24 GB total, 127.29 GB free
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Local time is UTC -5 hours
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Can't load library libcudart
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 No coprocessors
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Not using a proxy
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 rosetta@home URL: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID: 1090433; location: (none); project prefs: default
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 SETI@home URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 1102572; location: home; project prefs: default
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 SETI@home General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 21-Jun-2005 12:08:23)
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 SETI@home Computer location: home
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 SETI@home General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Reading preferences override file
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Preferences limit memory usage when active to 3072.00MB
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 5529.60MB
Mon Aug 17 00:29:54 2009 Preferences limit disk usage to 86.12GB
Mon Aug 17 00:30:36 2009 rosetta@home update requested by user
Mon Aug 17 00:30:40 2009 rosetta@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Mon Aug 17 00:30:40 2009 rosetta@home Requesting new tasks
Mon Aug 17 00:30:45 2009 rosetta@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Mon Aug 17 00:30:45 2009 rosetta@home Message from server: No work sent
Mon Aug 17 00:30:45 2009 rosetta@home Message from server: (there was work for other platforms)

Mon Aug 17 06:27:28 2009 rosetta@home update requested by user
Mon Aug 17 06:27:31 2009 rosetta@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Mon Aug 17 06:27:31 2009 rosetta@home Requesting new tasks
Mon Aug 17 06:27:36 2009 rosetta@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Mon Aug 17 06:27:36 2009 rosetta@home Message from server: No work sent
Mon Aug 17 06:27:36 2009 rosetta@home Message from server: (there was work for other platforms)

Mon Aug 17 06:36:50 2009 rosetta@home update requested by user
Mon Aug 17 06:36:55 2009 rosetta@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Mon Aug 17 06:36:55 2009 rosetta@home Requesting new tasks
Mon Aug 17 06:37:00 2009 rosetta@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Mon Aug 17 06:37:00 2009 rosetta@home Message from server: No work sent
Mon Aug 17 06:37:00 2009 rosetta@home Message from server: (there was work for other platforms)
I seem to be getting the above messages most of the time.
I taker it there is just no more work from Rossetta?