Hi everyone,

I am trying to get back into the Boinc thing. I have several old dell 780-Optiplex computers. ( info below )

I install the rosetta project last night. After many attempts, i notice a message ' communication deferred ' .

1) Is this an error or just waiting for the server to send tasks. I kept the machine on and this morning it was crunching numbers.

The rosetta project had completed the tasks.

Today I went to add the GRIDGPU project. I see the same message on both lines. Again, is this an error?

2) If I have this machine headless, will the new tasks automatically get pushed down, or is updating ( the update button ) required?


side note: my intent is to have several of these machines running, I have 10 of them.


TIA


Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:31 AM EDT | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:31 AM EDT | | Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:31 AM EDT | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:32 AM EDT | | No usable GPUs found
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:32 AM EDT | | [libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:32 AM EDT | | Host name: cliffjumper-OptiPlex-780
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:32 AM EDT | | Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8600 @ 3.33GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:32 AM EDT | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority dtherm
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:32 AM EDT | | OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS [5.3.0-45-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:32 AM EDT | | Memory: 3.75 GB physical, 2.00 GB virtual
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:32 AM EDT | | Disk: 228.23 GB total, 208.32 GB free
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:32 AM EDT | | Local time is UTC -4 hours
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:32 AM EDT | | Config: GUI RPCs allowed from:
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:32 AM EDT | GPUGRID | URL http://www.gpugrid.net/; Computer ID 538567; resource share 100
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:32 AM EDT | Rosetta@home | URL http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID 4042899; resource share 100
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:33 AM EDT | | No general preferences found - using defaults
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:33 AM EDT | | Reading preferences override file
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:33 AM EDT | | Preferences:
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:33 AM EDT | | max memory usage when active: 1917.51 MB
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:33 AM EDT | | max memory usage when idle: 3451.52 MB
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:33 AM EDT | | max disk usage: 205.41 GB
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:33 AM EDT | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:33 AM EDT | | Setting up project and slot directories
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:33 AM EDT | | Checking active tasks
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:33 AM EDT | | Setting up GUI RPC socket
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:33 AM EDT | | gui_rpc_auth.cfg is empty - no GUI RPC password protection
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:33 AM EDT | | Checking presence of 12 project files
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:33 AM EDT | GPUGRID | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:33 AM EDT | GPUGRID | Requesting new tasks for CPU
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:38 AM EDT | GPUGRID | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:38 AM EDT | GPUGRID | No tasks sent
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:43 AM EDT | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:43 AM EDT | Rosetta@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:46 AM EDT | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Sun 05 Apr 2020 10:09:46 AM EDT | Rosetta@home | No tasks sent

GPUGrid, as the name hints to, works with GPUs. And only certain Nvidia ones as far as I know. So if you don't have any GPUs to work with, it's useless to add this project.
Rosetta has work, but it comes in batches. So there are times it doesn't have work.

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Possibly relevant is that after trying to get work, most/all (not sure which) projects have a time out during which if you hit the project update button again, the time out starts again. On projects I have observed this varies from a couple of minutes to an hour in the case of CPDN.