Need help in starting up..

[sumonpathak]

well guys...
trying to figure out distributed contribution...so set up an seti account
but my client is showing something like this
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=340&pictureid=1986

followed the the steps given here to setup..
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=625171

guide me guys...maybe am missing something...

[Sephis]

Hit the button that says "advanced view", then find the tab that says "messages". In there somewhere it should look like this except for some differences in time stamps.

1/9/2012 8:25:04 PM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for CPU
1/9/2012 8:25:10 PM SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
1/9/2012 8:25:10 PM SETI@home Message from server: Project has no tasks available


If that is the case, there is nothing wrong on your end. The servers that generate work units are simply behind and don't have any work to send you. They will catch up eventually. BOINC will automatically keep trying till it gets work.

[sumonpathak]

actually there is no message tab :confused:
closest is NOTICE and its blank..

[Sephis]

Hmm, must be different in the newer versions of BOINC. Go back to simple view (view button in top bar and scroll down to simple view) and click the messages button there in the bottom left and tell me what you see.

[sumonpathak]

i think message has been renamed to notice...the message stays the same:(

[Sephis]

What about the button I circled in green here? Does that give you a new window with lots of messages?

[sumonpathak]

nothing at all :(
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=340&pictureid=1987

[Sephis]

:shrug: That is very strange. If there are problems with the client, they should show up in the messages tab. You may have better luck over on the official BOINC/SETI forums. I have never seen this type of error before.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_forum.php?id=10

[eaglescouter]

Please try this:
Advanced view
Advanced Tab
Event Log

Let us know what you find there please.

[sumonpathak]

found a lot of text lines...sampling a few
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 6.12.34 for windows_x86_64
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.21.6 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | Running under account sumonpathak
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7]
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | Processor: 256.00 KB cache
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | 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 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 popcnt aes pbe
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | Memory: 3.91 GB physical, 7.81 GB virtual
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | Disk: 297.99 GB total, 106.79 GB free
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | Local time is UTC +5 hours
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6800 series (Barts) (CAL version 1.4.1646, 1024MB, 2016 GFLOPS peak)
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | SETI@home | Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6338889; resource share 100
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | Reading preferences override file
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | Preferences:
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | max memory usage when active: 2000.52MB
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 3600.93MB
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | max disk usage: 10.00GB
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | don't use GPU while active
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
1/11/2012 4:04:14 PM | | Not using a proxy
1/11/2012 4:04:15 PM | SETI@home | Started download of 15oc11ae.11675.2521.8.10.173.vlar
1/11/2012 4:04:15 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
1/11/2012 4:04:15 PM | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU
1/11/2012 4:04:17 PM | SETI@home | Temporarily failed download of 15oc11ae.11675.2521.8.10.173.vlar: HTTP error
1/11/2012 4:04:17 PM | SETI@home | Backing off 1 hr 18 min 51 sec on download of 15oc11ae.11675.2521.8.10.173.vlar
1/11/2012 4:04:21 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 4 new tasks
1/11/2012 4:04:23 PM | SETI@home | Started download of 15oc11ae.16003.365969.9.10.146.vlar
1/11/2012 4:04:23 PM | SETI@home | Started download of 15oc11ae.16003.365969.9.10.143.vlar
1/11/2012 4:04:25 PM | SETI@home | Temporarily failed download of 15oc11ae.16003.365969.9.10.143.vlar: HTTP error
1/11/2012 4:04:25 PM | SETI@home | Backing off 18 min 53 sec on download of 15oc11ae.16003.365969.9.10.143.vlar
1/11/2012 4:04:25 PM | SETI@home | Started download of 15oc11ae.16003.365969.9.10.152.vlar
1/11/2012 4:04:28 PM | SETI@home | Temporarily failed download of 15oc11ae.16003.365969.9.10.152.vlar: HTTP error
1/11/2012 4:04:28 PM | SETI@home | Backing off 13 min 15 sec on download of 15oc11ae.16003.365969.9.10.152.vlar

[eaglescouter]

It looks like your install is optimized and is asking for work.
Your system is also encountering the same bandwidth limitations from Berkeley that the rest of us are seeing.

Your 'Transfers' tab should show the work units that are allocated to your machine that are pending download. You can use the 'retry now' button on that page without penalty on any unist that show "Download pending (project backoff xxxxxx).

The 'tasks' tab will show the work that finished download and is being crunched or is in the que to be crunched.

The 'Projects' tab shows in the far right column, how long until your machine is allowed to ask for more work again. Pressing 'update' here will generate an additional time penalty until your machine is eligible to ask for work again. If this timer is zero, do not manually 'update' unless your 'transfers' tab is also empty.

[eaglescouter]

In both the advanced and the simple view, the 'notices' tab only tells you if the project is in a scheduled outage, or if your client is out of date. The valuable information is in the 'messages' tab of older clients, or the 'advanced/event log' tab for the newer client.

[Sephis]

Ah, thanks eaglescouter. I'm still on the older version. I didn't know that they moved the messages info to the event log.

[eaglescouter]

Ah, thanks eaglescouter. I'm still on the older version. I didn't know that they moved the messages info to the event log.

I don't know why it is buried there, I do know that I dislike it there.....

[sumonpathak]

^^thanks guys :)