"Empty work server assignment."

[rickoic]

Was having same problem on 2 pc's. Both with duel 12 core AMD cpu's. Was able to begin getting wu's again when I reduced the number of cores being used by cpu to 12. Then added another cpu and because I'm also running gpu's on each I put the number of cores folding on it to 8. And now I'm getting wu's on both cpu's that are folding.

[bollix47]

If you're seeing cpu:7 in your log try editing your configuration for the cpu slot by changing the number of CPUs from -1 to 6. Others have also reported having a problem when attempting to get work for cpu:7 but have had some success by changing it to cpu:6 - viewtopic.php?p=282559#p282559

[ericitaquera]

Mod edit: merged with existing topic

Hello.

Please could someone point me what is the problem here? I can´t fold anymore since I´m getting the "Empty work server assignment" error.

Thanks in advance

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*********************** Log Started 2016-01-14T11:13:39Z ***********************
11:13:39:************************* Folding@home Client *************************
11:13:39:      Website: http://folding.stanford.edu/
11:13:39:    Copyright: (c) 2009-2014 Stanford University
11:13:39:       Author: Joseph Coffland <joseph@cauldrondevelopment.com>
11:13:39:         Args: --open-web-control
11:13:39:       Config: <none>
11:13:39:******************************** Build ********************************
11:13:39:      Version: 7.4.4
11:13:39:         Date: Mar 4 2014
11:13:39:         Time: 20:26:54
11:13:39:      SVN Rev: 4130
11:13:39:       Branch: fah/trunk/client
11:13:39:     Compiler: Intel(R) C++ MSVC 1500 mode 1200
11:13:39:      Options: /TP /nologo /EHa /Qdiag-disable:4297,4103,1786,279 /Ox -arch:SSE
11:13:39:               /QaxSSE2,SSE3,SSSE3,SSE4.1,SSE4.2 /Qopenmp /Qrestrict /MT /Qmkl
11:13:39:     Platform: win32 XP
11:13:39:         Bits: 32
11:13:39:         Mode: Release
11:13:39:******************************* System ********************************
11:13:39:          CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz
11:13:39:       CPU ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 62 Stepping 4
11:13:39:         CPUs: 32
11:13:39:       Memory: 15.85GiB
11:13:39:  Free Memory: 11.85GiB
11:13:39:      Threads: WINDOWS_THREADS
11:13:39:   OS Version: 6.2
11:13:39:  Has Battery: false
11:13:39:   On Battery: false
11:13:39:   UTC Offset: -2
11:13:39:          PID: 7872
11:13:39:          CWD: C:/Users/Administrator/AppData/Roaming/FAHClient
11:13:39:           OS: Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
11:13:39:      OS Arch: AMD64
11:13:39:         GPUs: 0
11:13:39:         CUDA: Not detected
11:13:39:Win32 Service: false
11:13:39:***********************************************************************
11:13:39:<config>
11:13:39:  <!-- Folding Slots -->
11:13:39:</config>
11:13:39:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80
11:13:40:Updated GPUs.txt
11:13:40:Read GPUs.txt
11:13:40:Trying to access database...
11:13:40:Successfully acquired database lock
11:13:40:Enabled folding slot 00: PAUSED cpu:31 (not configured)
11:13:43:16:127.0.0.1:New Web connection
11:14:05:Set client configured
11:14:06:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 171.67.108.45:8080
11:14:07:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 171.67.108.45:8080
11:14:07:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '171.67.108.45:8080': Empty work server assignment
11:14:07:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 171.67.108.204:80
11:14:08:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '171.67.108.204:80': Empty work server assignment
11:14:08:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
11:14:09:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 171.67.108.45:8080
11:14:09:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '171.67.108.45:8080': Empty work server assignment
11:14:09:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 171.67.108.204:80
11:14:10:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '171.67.108.204:80': Empty work server assignment
11:14:10:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
11:14:41:Saving configuration to config.xml
11:14:41:<config>
11:14:41:  <!-- Slot Control -->
11:14:41:  <power v='full'/>
11:14:41:
11:14:41:  <!-- User Information -->
11:14:41:  <passkey v='********************************'/>
11:14:41:  <team v='86565'/>
11:14:41:  <user v='ericitaquera'/>
11:14:41:
11:14:41:  <!-- Folding Slots -->
11:14:41:  <slot id='0' type='CPU'/>
11:14:41:</config>
11:15:09:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 171.67.108.45:8080
11:15:10:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '171.67.108.45:8080': Empty work server assignment
11:15:10:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 171.67.108.204:80
11:15:11:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '171.67.108.204:80': Empty work server assignment
11:15:11:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
11:16:46:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 171.67.108.45:8080
11:16:47:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '171.67.108.45:8080': Empty work server assignment
11:16:47:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 171.67.108.204:80
11:16:48:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '171.67.108.204:80': Empty work server assignment
11:16:48:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
11:19:23:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 171.67.108.45:8080
11:19:24:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '171.67.108.45:8080': Empty work server assignment
11:19:24:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 171.67.108.204:80
11:19:25:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '171.67.108.204:80': Empty work server assignment
11:19:25:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment

[davidcoton]

31 is prime, you will not get assignments for 31 cpus. Big numbers of CPUs are possibly a problem because of one server being rebuilt. You may need to set CPU:30 (or CPU:32 if you don't need a permanently free CPU) and client-type=bigadv (not sure if that is still required). Or try setting three slots for fewer cores each (eg 12:12:8, or 12:12:6 to leave two free cpus) while projects for more cpus are in short supply.

[Joe_H]

31 is prime, you will not get assignments for 31 cpus. Big numbers of CPUs are possibly a problem because of one server being rebuilt. You may need to set CPU:30 (or CPU:32 if you don't need a permanently free CPU) and client-type=bigadv (not sure if that is still required). Or try setting three slots for fewer cores each (eg 12:12:8, or 12:12:6 to leave two free cpus) while projects for more cpus are in short supply.

As this system is running Windows, client-type=bigadv will not help. Those projects are Linux only and 24+ cores.

Currently projects for up to 12 cores are widely available, some projects will assign to higher core counts. Those are in very short supply though compared to the demand.

[ericitaquera]

Thank you for the clarification.

Now I understood.

I created 2 12 cpus and one 8 cpus slots and now I´m back to folding business.

Regards