No appropriate work server was available

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Re: No appropriate work server was available

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Still not getting bigadv, got a 2662 :(
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Re: No appropriate work server was available

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Looks like things are going belly-up again, I have a couple of clients that finished yesterdays work & now cannot get work. Changing clients configs does not help.
Does Stanford still have networking problems?

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Re: No appropriate work server was available

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Teddy wrote:Looks like things are going belly-up again, I have a couple of clients that finished yesterdays work & now cannot get work. Changing clients configs does not help.
Does Stanford still have networking problems?

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Re: No appropriate work server was available

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Everything is working fine here. *shrug*
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Re: No appropriate work server was available

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Can't get any SMP WUs :

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[02:14:48] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[02:14:51] Posted data.
[02:14:51] Initial: 0000; + No appropriate work server was available; will try again in a bit.
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Re: No appropriate work server was available

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We'll look into this, but could you give us more information? In particular, what client (SMP, GPU, regular), what settings, memory, etc are you using? Please give us as much info as you can. Many people are getting WUs just fine, so this is strange.
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Re: No appropriate work server was available

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--- Opening Log file [January 17 02:41:54 UTC] 


# Windows CPU Console Edition #################################################
###############################################################################

                       Folding@Home Client Version 6.24R3

                          http://folding.stanford.edu

###############################################################################
###############################################################################

Launch directory: C:\Program Files\Folding\SMP
Service: C:\Program Files\Folding\SMP\smp.exe
Arguments: -d C:\Program Files\Folding\SMP -smp -svcstart -verbosity 9 -advmethods -forceasm 

Launched as a service.
Entered C:\Program Files\Folding\SMP to do work.

[02:41:54] - Ask before connecting: No
[02:41:54] - User name: SidVicious (Team 40051)
[02:41:54] - User ID: 7BA100##########
[02:41:54] - Machine ID: 1
[02:41:54] 
[02:41:54] Loaded queue successfully.
[02:41:54] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[02:41:54] Cleaning up work directory
[02:41:54] + Attempting to get work packet
[02:41:54] - Autosending finished units... [January 17 02:41:54 UTC]
[02:41:54] Trying to send all finished work units
[02:41:54] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[02:41:54] - Autosend completed
[02:41:54] - Will indicate memory of 3326 MB
[02:41:54] - Detect CPU. Vendor: GenuineIntel, Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 11
[02:41:54] - Connecting to assignment server
[02:41:54] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[02:41:55] Posted data.
[02:41:55] Initial: 0000; + No appropriate work server was available; will try again in a bit.
[02:41:55] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[02:41:55] - Attempt #1  to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
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Re: No appropriate work server was available

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Still can't get a 6.24R3 SMP WU from assign.stanford.edu
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Re: No appropriate work server was available

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Can you post the contents of your client.cfg editing out the passkey?
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Re: No appropriate work server was available

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[settings]
username=SidVicious
team=40051
passkey=
asknet=no
machineid=1
bigpackets=big

[http]
active=no
host=localhost
port=8080
usereg=no

[core]
disableassembly=no
checkpoint=3
addr=

[power]
battery=no

[clienttype]
type=3
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Re: No appropriate work server was available

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PS I think we found the problem. You should be able to get an assignment now. The issue was a strange one involving a particular combination of flags (adv & bigWU) and the lack of servers for that combo and the fallback logic not quite working.
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Re: No appropriate work server was available

Post by VijayPande »

PS SidVicious: I just saw your assign go through and fail (although everyone else is fine). I made another change which will take about 20 min to update in the system. If that doesn't work, you could make your settings more vanilla (i.e. no bigWU, etc).
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Re: No appropriate work server was available

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Thanks, I didn't have any luck switching from big to normal WUs, I just dropped the advanced WU, we'll see how it goes...
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Re: No appropriate work server was available

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Getting weirder now, changed machine ID to 8, removed the -SMP flag and got a 6318 Great Red Oystrich (note the typo), all 4 cores being used by FahCore_78.exe

*Edit #1* Bleh, what a waste of time, getting a bit over 100ppd per core after 2% (and yes, FahCore_78.exe was using all four cores out of my Q6600), I switched the -smp flag back on, changed machine ID back to 1, tried a combination of small / normal / big WU & adv WU on and off, the ASSignement server stubbornly insist on being just that

*Edit #2* GAH! I did an OS repair late on Friday night, the uniprocessor HAL was used instead of the multiprocessor HAL, everything is fine now, sorry about that !
Last edited by SidVicious on Sun Jan 17, 2010 10:20 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: No appropriate work server was available

Post by PeterA »

I'm getting the same problem here. My problem is that I can only upload and download when I take this laptop to the library. If I can't get a new project downloaded soon, it may be a few days before I get back to the library. :(
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