No work available

[Pette Broad]

Nothing all day for multiple Windows classic clients....

[15:17:17] - Ask before connecting: No
[15:17:17] - User name: Pette_Broad (Team 33258)
[15:17:17] - User ID: 6D488F061FC766C6
[15:17:17] - Machine ID: 2
[15:17:17]
[15:17:17] Loaded queue successfully.
[15:17:17] + Benchmarking ...
[15:17:20] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[15:17:20] + Attempting to get work packet
[15:17:20] - Connecting to assignment server
[15:17:21] - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0).
[15:17:21] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[15:17:21] Work Unit has an invalid address.
[15:17:21] - Error: Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[15:17:29] + Attempting to get work packet
[15:17:29] - Connecting to assignment server
[15:17:29] - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0).
[15:17:29] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[15:17:29] Work Unit has an invalid address.
[15:17:29] - Error: Attempt #2 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[15:17:41] + Attempting to get work packet
[15:17:41] - Connecting to assignment server
[15:17:42] - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0).
[15:17:42] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[15:17:42] Work Unit has an invalid address.
[15:17:42] - Error: Attempt #3 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[15:18:04] + Attempting to get work packet
[15:18:04] - Connecting to assignment server
[15:18:05] - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0).
[15:18:05] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[15:18:05] Work Unit has an invalid address.
[15:18:05] - Error: Attempt #4 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[15:18:57] + Attempting to get work packet
[15:18:57] - Connecting to assignment server
[15:18:58] - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0).
[15:18:58] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[15:18:58] Work Unit has an invalid address.
[15:18:58] - Error: Attempt #5 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[15:20:24] + Attempting to get work packet
[15:20:24] - Connecting to assignment server
[15:20:25] - Successful: assigned to (130.49.240.81).
[15:20:25] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[15:20:25] Loaded queue successfully.
[15:20:26] + Could not connect to Work Server
[15:20:26] - Error: Attempt #6 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[15:23:16] + Attempting to get work packet
[15:23:16] - Connecting to assignment server
[15:23:17] - Successful: assigned to (130.49.240.81).
[15:23:17] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[15:23:17] Loaded queue successfully.
[15:23:18] + Could not connect to Work Server
[15:23:18] - Error: Attempt #7 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[15:28:46] + Attempting to get work packet
[15:28:46] - Connecting to assignment server
[15:28:47] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.65).
[15:28:47] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[15:28:47] Loaded queue successfully.
[15:28:48] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[15:28:48] (Got status 503)
[15:28:48] + Could not connect to Work Server
[15:28:48] - Error: Attempt #8 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[15:39:32] + Attempting to get work packet
[15:39:32] - Connecting to assignment server
[15:39:33] - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0).
[15:39:33] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[15:39:33] Work Unit has an invalid address.
[15:39:33] - Error: Attempt #9 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[16:01:01] + Attempting to get work packet
[16:01:01] - Connecting to assignment server
[16:01:02] - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0).


Pete

[bruce]

Yes, both 130.49.240.81 and 171.64.65.65 have very few WUs. You're obviously running an older version of the client. Is that because you're using Win9x? On your WInXP machines, I recommend you upgrade to the current version.

You may also have more success if you're willing to run with the -advmethods setting.

I'll notify the appropriate Pande Group members.

[Pette Broad]

I've been running with the -advmethods for months and I've tried removing that flag and adding / removing BigWU. I haven't tried -advmethods plus BigWU's, last time I did that the Units were a 40mb upload, too big a hit for my connection. Not sure what version I'm running but I haven't updated it for 4 or 5 years ...so yes I'll try a newer version.

Thanks,

Pete

[bruce]

If BigWu doesn't work for you, then leave it off. There seem to be plenty of WUs available now, so the upgrade to the new version is probably all that I'd recommend, at this point.