Huge number of resends for the 3rd, 4th etc time.

The returned tasks are all ending into the status Completed, validation inconclusive

I am new for this project but all my tasks today has the same status Completed, validation inconclusive

Seems excessive. Are there any that actually finish at 4,5 or 5,6 or 6,7 or 7,8???
max # of error/total/success tasks 8, 8, 8
I have 10,227 WUs Completed, validation inconclusive waiting for someone to get lucky as 7 & 8.

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My last task returned that got the status Valid was at 22 Jan 2021, 12:56:28 UTC.

All tasks thereafter got the status: Completed, validation inconclusive.

The highest number for initial replication, I could find so far is 6.

Same here.
This needs to be fixed,soon.

I'm seeing this problem, also. Is the validator capable of marking ANY results as valid? I suspect it is not, and needs major changes.

I've got replication as high as 9. This is lots of wasted resources that people are donating, not a very nice approach.

Calm down, its a relatively new project with a big growth of users in short time.
sometimes errors just happen.

I have an overlap of valid/inconclusive tasks around 14:36 UTC.
Also some Invalid foa all 8 (Completed, can't validate).
Plus this one with 2 valid then inconclusives!
TARGET_3_nb3di_006543_2 https://www.sidock.si/sidock/workunit.php?wuid=2803646

Paul.

count me in
RxDock on BOINC v1.00
https://www.sidock.si/sidock/workunit.php?wuid=2811533
and also
CurieMarieDock on BOINC v1.01
https://www.sidock.si/sidock/workunit.php?wuid=2824646
are invalid with 8 error results

when the validator is not changed or working wrong, than the source data has wrong parameters or data

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Matthias

On 22 January, I had 706 valid and 680 invalid. Whether that is too high to conitnue is a matter of personal judgement.
It is 706 more than if I weren't doing them, but then there are other options too. I hope it is fixed soon.

I have three machines on it now. Maybe I will just leave one on to see when it is fixed.

It seems that the validator is working again.

All tasks are validating now, except tasks that reached the maximum replication of 8.
Those finished tasks got the state 'Can't validate' :(

Calm down, its a relatively new project with a big growth of users in short time.
sometimes errors just happen.

I see no significant lack of calm. In fact, yours is the only transgressive post that I can identify, the only one that presumptuously tells people what to do. I'd tell you what to do in turn, but that would not be "kid friendly."

My own calm choice will be to stop running this project until the issue is addressed.

I have to agree with this response. There are a number of good Distributed Computing projects. I am most willing to donate my CPU and GPU time, but not for naught.
True, a learning curve is to be expected. However, the administrator(s) did not appear to be addressing the problem, at least not in the forums.
LLP, PhD Prof Engr.

looks like something is going on
I found some results that went from invalid with to many result to valid for all 8 tasks of the result
https://www.sidock.si/sidock/workunit.php?wuid=2802060
https://www.sidock.si/sidock/workunit.php?wuid=2837016

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Matthias

Hi folks! Some tasks was revalidated.

Hi
A couple of things that concern me:

Quite a few of my tasks are being validated within an hour, but others are still pending validation after 4 days
All of the WUs for my tasks seem to have been given out 2 or 3 times

Is this expected? I'm not overly worried about the delay, although it does seem odd that they are not being validated in some sort of time order. But I am a bit perturbed that I'm just repeating work that others are doing simultaneously, without even waiting for a chance to do them in a timely manner. That certainly isn't happening with the other project I am working on.

Or am I misinterpreting things? Thoughts?

Thanks, Chris

Hi
A couple of things that concern me:

Quite a few of my tasks are being validated within an hour, but others are still pending validation after 4 days
All of the WUs for my tasks seem to have been given out 2 or 3 times

Is this expected? I'm not overly worried about the delay, although it does seem odd that they are not being validated in some sort of time order. But I am a bit perturbed that I'm just repeating work that others are doing simultaneously, without even waiting for a chance to do them in a timely manner. That certainly isn't happening with the other project I am working on.

Or am I misinterpreting things? Thoughts?

Thanks, Chris

OK, so both of these points are a result of this project being configured with quorum=2. Nothing gets validated until 2 hosts have returned identical results. And most of my tasks that are still pending validation haven't yet reached their deadline and were also given out to a host that hasn't been online for quite a while. The other project I am contributing to has quorum=1 so it doesn't happen there.

I'm curious how necessary it really is to gain consensus on each WU. Presumably it is there for a reason but it is a huge overhead...

cpalmer wrote:

cpalmer wrote:

Quite a few of my tasks are being validated within an hour, but others are still pending validation after 4 days

And most of my tasks that are still pending validation haven't yet reached their deadline and were also given out to a host that hasn't been online for quite a while.

The owner of these hosts is waiting for the upcoming contest to start.

(BTW, there were and are other projects in which workunits can easily take several months until 2+ valid results came together. E.g. SETI@home, QuChemPedIA. It happens comparably quickly at SiDock, actually.)