In reply to Hadrian's message of 1 Apr 2026:

Silly question but how much data does a completed task need ? Is it so many K or MB, eventually there must be a limit on how many can be held I would assume, and Index limits on where they are ?

I am not going to guess on that. The uploads for MCM tasks are very small in comparison to those of CPDN where a task might send several GB of data back to the server. However that data in most cases is not kept on the CPDN servers but goes to the university responsible for the particular research project. I have no idea how much data is kept while awaiting validation before it goes to the researchers.

Thanks any way…

Thu 02 Apr 2026 08:20:44 AM BST | World Community Grid | Scheduler request to http://scheduler.worldcommunitygrid.org/boinc/cgi/cgi failed: HTTP service unavailable

Getting the above on everything right now. Unable to report completed tasks or get new ones.

In reply to Dave's message of 2 Apr 2026:

Thu 02 Apr 2026 08:20:44 AM BST | World Community Grid | Scheduler request to http://scheduler.worldcommunitygrid.org/boinc/cgi/cgi failed: HTTP service unavailable

Getting the above on everything right now. Unable to report completed tasks or get new ones.

Unfortunately I think the inevitable is happening as there is a marked decline in work being done looking at the active project list unless people are switching to other projects.

Suggest use WCG forum while it is up.

From thread Project Status (First Post Updated):
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,47663_lastpage,yes#lastpost

According to Igor ~21k users are affected by this issue, and they are working hard now to correct this bug.

I'll let him post an update, with the rest of the information I got about this. I do not want to post the full content from a private mail.

Edit: They have deliberately shut down access to the BOINC system, while they are working on correcting this issue.

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Paul.

WCG is back, with corrected Credit data. It's a bit hard to get new work yet, since everybody is hammering the server for new work. Uploading, and reporting of finished tasks works.

For anyone getting the "forbidden" message on the WCG boards, you can clear your cookies/cache to get past that.

Ok it appears that many of you are on target. Project web site so busy that it's hard to see your account numbers.

When will they present an Export Stat that BOINCStat's can see ?

Last update user XML 2025-08-30 00:23:20 UTC (217 days 02:18:41 old)
Last update host XML 2025-08-30 00:23:20 UTC (217 days 02:18:41 old)
Last update team XML 2025-08-30 00:23:20 UTC (217 days 02:18:41 old)

Respectfully

Bill F
Dallas Texas

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In reply to Bill Freauff's message of 4 Apr 2026:

When will they present an Export Stat that BOINCStat's can see ?

From all the previous posts about it in this thread, once they've fixed all the other more important issues (Validation, work generation, feeder, database etc).
Around 2030 or so?

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Grant
Darwin NT.

Somewhat puzzled credits are very slightly going up but pending validation totals not changing…time is also going up .

In reply to Hadrian's message of 4 Apr 2026:

Somewhat puzzled credits are very slightly going up but pending validation totals not changing…time is also going up .

The DB that shows the Results Page and other statistics pages, are no longer the "working" DB. The "working" DB is now on PostgreSQL database, and the different DB's are not synced yet. That will probably not happen until every other issue is solved. I do not expect that to happen in the near future. It can take months IMO, bearing in mind all the problems that still keep popping up.

In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 4 Apr 2026:

In reply to Hadrian's message of 4 Apr 2026:

Somewhat puzzled credits are very slightly going up but pending validation totals not changing…time is also going up .

The DB that shows the Results Page and other statistics pages, are no longer the "working" DB. The "working" DB is now on PostgreSQL database, and the different DB's are not synced yet. That will probably not happen until every other issue is solved. I do not expect that to happen in the near future. It can take months IMO, bearing in mind all the problems that still keep popping up.

Many Thanks

Presumably until the DB syncing happens we are flying blind as it were ?

In reply to Hadrian's message of 6 Apr 2026:

Presumably until the DB syncing happens we are flying blind as it were ?

Yes, flying pretty blind. However since I use Efmer's BoincTasks, I'm not nearly as blind as people that only use the BOINC Manager. BoincTasks makes it possible through different settings, to keep a local database of sorts, so you can track your crunched tasks, as well as many other BOINC things. Efmer also have "TThrottle to keep your CPU and GPU temperatures controlled."

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I have promised myself I will check Free-DC on 1st December (this year) to see if my numbers are updated.

It's always good to see an optimist. I just wish there was a way for me to share the image from the "prank" that WCG pulled on me for April Fools Day.

Look here: BOINCTASKS & TTHROTTLE The best way to use BOINC

If I only used Windows perhaps. As it is I have a severe allergy to javascript.

Can't connect to WCG to return or get new tasks.

World Community Grid|Scheduler request to https://scheduler.worldcommunitygrid.org/boinc/wcg_cgi/fcgi failed: HTTP service unavailable

Edit to add>>>>
Website and forums are reachable m

Update from Dylan (The "tomorrow" he's referring to, is likely today, since he posted yesterday in his TZ)

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewpostinthread?post=710613

Blocked traffic at the load balancer for maintenance, expected to last until at least tomorrow 18:00 UTC as there is shuffling of shards and files to go along with a new build of the workunit creators and some fixes to the BOINC build. Hopefully, will fix the drought/sporadic MCM1 availability and get validation up and running. I was able to do quite a bit of scripted validation backfill during previous outages since we rolled out the new stack, and test db_dump for stats, but as many have surmised sync is still a problem between the two systems which affects reporting of results on the website. Will have more info in a longer update on the lab website "Operational Status" tab after this round of fixes settles and we're hopefully in a better place.

Edit:

New update on the "Operational Status" page:

April 9, 2026
BOINC web traffic has been blocked at the load balancer for maintenance, all BOINC scheduler, downloads, uploads will be met with HTTP 503 codes until maintenance is completed - we expect completion between April 10th and April 11th, but no earlier than 18:00 UTC on April 10th to allow projected file transfers and migration of sharded database table records between citus postgres workers to complete. We will update here and on the forums if we expect extended maintenance over the weekend. Volunteers should expect that a successful rollout during this maintenance window will increase workunit availability, and put another dent in the validation backlog.

we expect completion between April 10th and April 11th, but no earlier than 18:00 UTC on April 10th

Noted, but no year given, so guesses please ;-)