I have a lot of work units that have been reported but are still awaiting "granted" credit. This is strange because nomally the longest I have ever seen Rosetta take to tabulate the granted credit has been about a half hour. Some of these items are taking all day. And....for some reason I have these really short one hour work units even though my preference settings is for 8 hours. Anybody know what is going on?

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I'm not the only one this is happening too, there are other users who's finished work units are also waiting for granted credit. My RAC is starting to plunge because of finished work units that are uploaded are not being granted any credit, they are stuck in "pending" limbo.

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I've seen it too. One of my team-mates is waiting up to 8 hours.

RAC will come back of course - no need to concern yourself with that once they've all been validaed.

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I've seen it too. One of my team-mates is waiting up to 8 hours.

RAC will come back of course - no need to concern yourself with that once they've all been validaed.

The latest system I put online has 20+ pending with only 2 showing any granted credit. This seems to be the pattern for my other systems too.

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I have 82 task Pending now. My average has dropped 80 points today!

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Seems to be a backlog in the validator.

Don't panic; all your pending credits are 'money in the bank'.

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It's sure causing a drop on the Teraflops estimate on the main page as well.

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same here... since yesterday, all of my WUs stay pending.

But the Server Status (https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah_status.php) lists every program as running and operating normally...

I took a look at some of the pending WUs and most of them have a name like
1XXX (3 different big Letters)
or
lr5_combine(_smooth_torsion|_mod)

Furthermore, almost (ca 90%) every pending WU ran much shorter than wanted (12 hours).

Perhaps there is someting wrong with a new batch of WUs?

It seems to be a problem with the validator, and is affecting everybody, look at the main tera-flops estimate on the front page.
(I think it was that Romulan Nero! He sabotages EVERYTHING. ;-) )

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Message has been posted on front page -

Sep 10, 2009
The validator and scheduler servers are currently slowly processing a large work unit. We have reprioritized the WU after finding that it is causing server problem. However, it will take a while for the existing jobs to clean out. Meanwhile, server lags are expected.

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Hi guys. Sorry about all the lags. The job I sent was a lot more IO intensive than I had expected.

Hi guys. Sorry about all the lags. The job I sent was a lot more IO intensive than I had expected.

thanks for the info its ok with me as long as the project is going forward

Great...now how am I supposed to win the Golden Chromosome Award back from Chilean? ;)

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I know it sounds bad but I'm tempted to stop crunching for Rosetta for awhile and put my computer fully over to WCG to help reduce the amount of finished work units that the validator has to catch up with. Anyone want to talk me out of that idea?

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You could download several more days worth of units or else increase the number of hours per work unit and then suspend network activity.

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But that would just flood their servers when I report all those finished tasks. And how the heck do you get 0 granted credit anyway, I know they say "cancelled, in the error section, so they are screw ups right?...
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/workunit.php?wuid=254777531
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/workunit.php?wuid=254958434

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Hello Gen_X_Accord,
Evan's idea looks good to me.
Don't think you will flood the servers;
221,150 Wu's a day = 9215 Wu's/hour = 2.56 Wu's each second
How many seconds do you need to upload / report a single WU? The server has done lots of other Wu's in the meantime.

About choosing between Rosetta & WCG: personally I think there is no wrong choice to make; its up to you.

“Cancelled, in the error section” yes that is weird, I'll ask about that.

Have a nice day,
Path7.

Yes, a lot of units with 0 granted credit here too (17 so far) and with the same cancelled statement in the error section. Standing by until I learn whether it is my fault or the server's

Those 0 work units were granted credit at some point today. They are strange ones. The work units only ran for about an hour and they had really weird names and the graphics were strange looking too, maybe that is why they show up like they do.

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The jobs that are canceled are the ones created IO problem for the server. DEK and I thought if we remove the job, it would stop the validator server from processing it. But turned out it didn't. So we'll have to wait for the server to finish processing the rest of the data.