Sporadic issues with 171.67.108.xx servers
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Re: Sporadic issues with 171.67.108.xx servers
Any chance to try a different LAN switch? But it still may be something totally different.
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Re: Sporadic issues with 171.67.108.xx servers
For entirely unrelated reasons (the 8-port that was there was needed elsewhere), the 4-port that they share was just replaced on Saturday (and my issue started on Wednesday). And I'm nearly certain that there are 0 issues with the 24-port that the Win 7 box is on.foldy wrote:Any chance to try a different LAN switch? But it still may be something totally different.
I'm at wits end over this, mostly due to what all else is connected and working in the totality of the networking.
Re: Sporadic issues with 171.67.108.xx servers
Does your router (or Proxy) use a smart protocol that drops "unnecessary" packets? I've seen cases where that caused errors.
I'm particularly interested in any one thing that's between each of your machines and the internet so the idea that it might be a flaky switch was a good one.
I'm particularly interested in any one thing that's between each of your machines and the internet so the idea that it might be a flaky switch was a good one.
Re: Sporadic issues with 171.67.108.xx servers
Do you by any chance have multiple ISPs with load balancing between the connections?
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Re: Sporadic issues with 171.67.108.xx servers
The routers are just C7s (issue remains with "DoS Protection" on or off; as far as I know, that's the only such filter of that type) and we use base-model TP-Link switches (which show all "bad packets" rows to read 0).bruce wrote:Does your router (or Proxy) use a smart protocol that drops "unnecessary" packets? I've seen cases where that caused errors.
I'm particularly interested in any one thing that's between each of your machines and the internet so the idea that it might be a flaky switch was a good one.
Sadly, 1 ISP (and 1 connection per) is all we can get here._r2w_ben wrote:Do you by any chance have multiple ISPs with load balancing between the connections?
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Re: Sporadic issues with 171.67.108.xx servers
If we cannot find out the reason for the stuck download problem, a workaround could be a script which checks every 1 min if a gpu slot is idle then waits for 20 min if it gets running again (max download time is 15min I think until server closes connection). If it is not running again then the FahClient is restarted.
I'm not sure about the server timeout of a download, is it 15min? Because if we restart too early then a good big download may never finish in our timeout.
A similar workaround could be implemented in the FahClient itself except that it would only cancel the download and restart the slot.
I'm not sure about the server timeout of a download, is it 15min? Because if we restart too early then a good big download may never finish in our timeout.
A similar workaround could be implemented in the FahClient itself except that it would only cancel the download and restart the slot.
Re: Sporadic issues with 171.67.108.xx servers
The default server timeout is, in fact, 15 minutes. If an upload or download cannot be completed by the timeout, the connection is dropped.foldy wrote:I'm not sure about the server timeout of a download, is it 15min?
In the example posted on the previous page, we see
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11:36:24:WU01:FS01:Connecting to 171.67.108.102:8080
11:36:34:WU01:FS01:Downloading 7.06MiB
11:36:40:WU01:FS01:Download 94.77%
11:36:40:WU01:FS01:Download complete
There are some cases where the server timeout is adjusted (increased). The goal is to down-/up-load the data package over especially slow donor connections without unnecessary interruptions.
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Re: Sporadic issues with 171.67.108.xx servers
Well, as inexplicably as it started, it stopped. Not a single problem in the last 48 hours.
Thanks to all that tried to help. Good folding to all...
Thanks to all that tried to help. Good folding to all...
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Re: Sporadic issues with 171.67.108.xx servers
Well, it looks like I'm going to have to get off my lazy butt and write that, because I'm having it all over again.foldy wrote:If we cannot find out the reason for the stuck download problem, a workaround could be a script which checks every 1 min if a gpu slot is idle then waits for 20 min if it gets running again (max download time is 15min I think until server closes connection). If it is not running again then the FahClient is restarted...
Re: Sporadic issues with 171.67.108.xx servers
It would be helpful to identify SPECIFIC servers that are having this problem. I suspect that the problems are not shared equally across the various 171.67.108.xx servers. f possible, specific error message(s) associated with each server would help, too.
From the previous page, this is lacking that sort of information
From the previous page, this is lacking that sort of information
ComputerGenie wrote:It has happened with more than one (ironically, .102 is usually the most afflicted; however, that could just be because it's also the one most designated).rwh202 wrote:That log shows a failed download from 171.67.108.157:8080 and a successful one from 171.67.108.102:8080
Have you ever had success from .157 or a failure from another server that has sometimes worked e.g. .102...
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The "Assigned" time (and eventually, the Upload-Complete time) are based on the Server's clock. (That way adjusting your local clock does not alter the deadlines or the bonus calculation.) The timestamps in your log are based on your local clock.ComputerGenie wrote:Is there a possible chance that it's a time sync issue (either in the software or on my end)?
I'm looking at the most recent WU...
on the "Status" tab, it says "Assigned: 2017-06-12T19:02:46Z"
in the log is: "19:02:22:WU00:FS00:0x21:Completed 187500 out of 6250000 steps (3%)"
Meaning that 24 seconds before status claims it was assigned, it was 3% done.
Apparently your local clock was not aligned with the server clock, but that shouldn't cause any significant problems..
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Re: Sporadic issues with 171.67.108.xx servers
Did I miss your answers somewhere?bruce wrote:1) please reset verbosity to the default value.
2) The key piece of information in that log is GPUs: 0. Why do you need to restart?
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Re: Sporadic issues with 171.67.108.xx servers
That 0 was do to a clearing of files. Basically, in FAHClient's mind it was a 1st run. Successive boots showed correct # of GPUs.bruce wrote:Did I miss your answers somewhere?bruce wrote:1) please reset verbosity to the default value.
2) The key piece of information in that log is GPUs: 0. Why do you need to restart?
The why reboot and why dump files was there not much left to try and I was willing to try anything.
Seems "Cancer" is the answer for me; Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and "Any" all lead to the no download issue (and Huntington's was "hit and miss" as to if it would work right or not). I'm not sure why it is that way, but after this much time messing with it and this many hours of no science being done (vs the Parkinson's that I actually want and the reason I got started folding), any science filed is better than nothing.