No appropriate work server was available

[John Naylor]

As did mine (big, no advmethods). Better than nothing at least

[rjbelans]

Same here.

Thanks all.

[Pette Broad]

Only got the one unit though, gone back to original message on the other machines. The 44xx server is very low on units so it could be a long wait.



Pete

[7im]

PG pinged about this.

[Pette Broad]

PG pinged about this.

Thanks,

Pete

[VijayPande]

Taking a look now, it looks ok to me (there are jobs), but I can see that we were low a few hours ago. We'll keep an eye on this. More classic jobs are coming on line on Monday as well.

[VijayPande]

PS ok, I see a shortage for AMD's right now. I just fixed that. Could you please report a bit more about what type of machine you have (CPU & OS). You don't have to be too specific, but something (eg P3 or P4 or Athlon) is useful.

[7im]

Pette Broad's profile hasn't been updated in a while, but unless he's gone over to the blue side, it's all AMD.

[mrrangerman]

I've been having the same problems in getting WU's this has been going on for about 4-5 weeks now.

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[15:14:28] Loaded queue successfully.
[15:14:28] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[15:14:28] + Attempting to get work packet
[15:14:28] - Connecting to assignment server
[15:14:28] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[15:14:28] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[15:14:29] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.13).
[15:14:29] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[15:14:29] Loaded queue successfully.
[15:14:29] + Could not connect to Work Server
[15:14:29] - Attempt #1  to get work failed, and no other work to do.
             Waiting before retry.

My system is a AMD64 but I'm running a 32bit OS if this helps at all. This happened a few months ago, I reinstalled the program and that seemed to work, not this time though.

[bruce]

Welcome to the foldingforum, mrrangerman

I've been having the same problems in getting WU's this has been going on for about 4-5 weeks now.

My system is a AMD64 but I'm running a 32bit OS if this helps at all. This happened a few months ago, I reinstalled the program and that seemed to work, not this time though.

What client version are you running? How much RAM? What setting do you have for "Acceptable size of work assignment and work result packets" -- Small/Normal/Big ? Do you have -advmethods set?

In general, "small"/"normal" and not having -advmethods will decrease your chances of getting assignments when WUs are in short supply so you might consider setting "big" and/or advmethods (even temporarily) if you're having troubles.

[whynot]

+1

I've reread FAHwiki and then gone through '-configonly'. Thus I'm sure configuration doesn't asks this:

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 O: Set -advmethods flag always, requesting new advanced
      scientific cores and/or work units if available (no/yes) [yes]

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--- Opening Log file [February 27 16:50:49]


# Linux Console Edition #######################################################
###############################################################################

                       Folding@Home Client Version 6.02

                          http://folding.stanford.edu

###############################################################################
###############################################################################

Launch directory: /home/whynot/folded
Executable: ./fah6
Arguments: -configonly

[16:50:49] - Ask before connecting: No
[16:50:49] - User name: whynot_00 (Team 2164)
[16:50:49] - User ID: 4C71B0411EC5B2F5
[16:50:49] - Machine ID: 1
[16:50:49]
[16:50:49] Configuring Folding@Home...

User name [whynot_00]?
Team Number [2164]?
Passkey (if you obtained one online)?
Ask before fetching/sending work (no/yes) [no]?
Use proxy (yes/no) [no]?
Acceptable size of work assignment and work result packets (bigger units
 may have large memory demands) -- 'small' is <5MB, 'normal' is <10MB, and
 'big' is >10MB (small/normal/big) [big]?
Change advanced options (yes/no) [no]? yes
Core Priority (idle/low) [idle]?
Disable highly optimized assembly code (no/yes) [no]?
Interval, in minutes, between checkpoints (3-30) [15]?
Memory, in MB, to indicate?
Minimize networking -- get and submit work in batches (no/yes) [no]?
Ignore any deadline information (mainly useful if
 system clock frequently has errors) (no/yes) [no]?
Machine ID (1-16) [1]?

[16:51:21] - Ask before connecting: No
[16:51:21] - User name: whynot_00 (Team 2164)
[16:51:21] - User ID: 4C71B0411EC5B2F5
[16:51:21] - Machine ID: 1
[16:51:21]
[16:51:21] -configonly flag given, so exiting.

Hence I've edited wrapper script and added the option explicitly. Gone for b4-core.

p.s. vvoelz, it was pleasure to count for you all that time. I believe that won't come back.

[7im]

That question does appear in all of the recent Windows clients.

And that question does appear in the newer v6.29 linux client.

[mrrangerman]

bruce
In general, "small"/"normal" and not having -advmethods will decrease your chances of getting assignments when WUs are in short supply so you might consider setting "big" and/or advmethods (even temporarily) if you're having troubles.

Thanks I set the unit size to big and changed a few settings and I'm back up and running.

Dan

[fredct]

I'm having the same problem this evening at 7:30 PM eastern. Been working for fine for, well, years.

I've confirmed that I'm set to accept big units (by going through -configonly), and I tried using -advmethods, but no luck.

FYI, I'm on a Mac, and here are the results for "/fah6 -smp -verbosity 9 -advmethods"

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Note: Please read the license agreement (fah6 -license). Further 
use of this software requires that you have read and accepted this agreement.

2 cores detected


--- Opening Log file [March 6 00:36:52 UTC] 


# Mac OS X SMP Console Edition ################################################
###############################################################################

                       Folding@Home Client Version 6.20

                          http://folding.stanford.edu

###############################################################################
###############################################################################

Launch directory: /Users/fred/Library/Folding@home
Executable: ./fah6
Arguments: -smp -verbosity 9 -advmethods 

[00:36:52] - Ask before connecting: No
[00:36:52] - User name: DeltaOne81 (Team 3148)
[00:36:52] - User ID: 369E97475E56523F
[00:36:52] - Machine ID: 1
[00:36:52] 
[00:36:52] Loaded queue successfully.
[00:36:52] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[00:36:52] + Attempting to get work packet
[00:36:52] - Will indicate memory of 4096 MB
[00:36:52] - Detect CPU. Vendor: GenuineIntel, Family: 6, Model: 7, Stepping: 10
[00:36:52] - Connecting to assignment server
[00:36:52] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[00:36:52] - Autosending finished units... [March 6 00:36:52 UTC]
[00:36:52] Trying to send all finished work units
[00:36:52] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[00:36:52] - Autosend completed
[00:36:53] Posted data.
[00:36:53] Initial: 0000; + No appropriate work server was available; will try again in a bit.
[00:36:53] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[00:36:53] - Attempt #1  to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[00:37:09] + Attempting to get work packet
[00:37:09] - Will indicate memory of 4096 MB
[00:37:09] - Connecting to assignment server
[00:37:09] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[00:37:09] Posted data.
[00:37:09] Initial: 0000; + No appropriate work server was available; will try again in a bit.
[00:37:09] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[00:37:09] - Attempt #2  to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[00:37:21] + Attempting to get work packet
[00:37:21] - Will indicate memory of 4096 MB
[00:37:21] - Connecting to assignment server
[00:37:21] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[00:37:22] Posted data.
[00:37:22] Initial: 0000; + No appropriate work server was available; will try again in a bit.
[00:37:22] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[00:37:22] - Attempt #3  to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[00:37:42] + Attempting to get work packet
[00:37:42] - Will indicate memory of 4096 MB
[00:37:42] - Connecting to assignment server
[00:37:42] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[00:37:42] Posted data.
[00:37:42] Initial: 0000; + No appropriate work server was available; will try again in a bit.
[00:37:42] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[00:37:42] - Attempt #4  to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.

[VijayPande]

ok, we've notified the relevant team members on this one.

I am also moving to add more team members to get SMP projects going to avoid this sort of thing in the future.