folding@home problem

[alfredo]

This might be a server problem. I just finished a nice big WU and the client tried to load a new one. Here's what I get:

<17:21:40> Loaded queue successfully.
<17:21:40> + Benchmarking ...
<17:21:45> - Preparing to get new work unit...
<17:21:45> + Attempting to get work packet
<17:21:45> - Connecting to assignment server
<17:21:46> - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.112).
<17:21:46> + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
<17:21:46> Loaded queue successfully.
<17:21:47> - Deadline time not received.
<17:21:52> - Error: Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
<17:22:00> + Attempting to get work packet
<17:22:00> - Connecting to assignment server
<17:22:01> - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.112).
<17:22:01> + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
<17:22:01> Loaded queue successfully.
<17:22:02> - Deadline time not received.
<17:22:07> - Error: Attempt #2 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
<17:22:17> + Attempting to get work packet
<17:22:17> - Connecting to assignment server
<17:22:18> - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.112).
<17:22:18> + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
<17:22:18> Loaded queue successfully.
<17:22:19> - Deadline time not received.
<17:22:23> - Error: Attempt #3 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.


This has been going on for some time now,

[Caoimhe]

1. uh oh

you might need to uninstall it and reinstall. I've never seen error messages like that.

[alfredo]

2. To me it seems like their server might be down.

[Warpy]

3. Mine never even made a successful connection

so I dumped it after the first couple of weeks.

I imagine they had more response than their servers could handle.

[alfredo]

4. It seems they have had problems in the past. Hardware wears out

from time to time.

I pinged the server and got this:

--- 171.64.122.112 ping statistics ---
71 packets transmitted, 70 packets received, 1% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 193.473/3283.668/20173.100/5651.532 ms
mail:~ elfin$

that lost packet could have been from me stopping the process.

I tried a different server and it did the same. I went to the page for server stats and most are full.

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/serverstat.html

[alfredo]

5. It isn't a problem I find. They are changing to a different set

of data. That might have been why you couldn't get anything. They should be back up and running in a week or two.