Hi,

Recently I aborted all my tasks (all overdue since I was out for a week), and today I resumed Boinc. Tasks pane is empty, and I have plenty of CPU and RAM.

I enabled a few projects, but all I get is this message of "not needed", so I got no tasks to run...

Why this?

For instance, this one:

6/24/2014 1:28:03 PM | Constellation | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
6/24/2014 1:28:03 PM | Constellation | Not requesting tasks: don't need

How come I don't need, if I have none at all???

Regards,

Hi,

Recently I aborted all my tasks (all overdue since I was out for a week), and today I resumed Boinc. Tasks pane is empty, and I have plenty of CPU and RAM.

I enabled a few projects, but all I get is this message of "not needed", so I got no tasks to run...

Why this?

For instance, this one:

6/24/2014 1:28:03 PM | Constellation | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
6/24/2014 1:28:03 PM | Constellation | Not requesting tasks: don't need

How come I don't need, if I have none at all???

Eh, Boinc version? OS version? Projects attached to?

When requesting help on these forums.

When you come here on our forums to ask for help, you know what your problem is. You see your problem, now all you have to do is explain to us what it is that you see. It's quite difficult for any of the helping crew to get to help you when you do not give any information about what you actually see. The details on what BOINC version, OS and all that gives us a better understanding of the system and environment, but that's all.

etc

Claggy

Sorry, yes... I forgot:

6/24/2014 1:18:54 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.42 for windows_x86_64

Today it happened with project Constellation, but it has happened with other projects before. Same situation, I have no tasks, when boinc ask projects, this message of "not need"

REgards,

It's possible that all of the tasks for that project have already been assigned, and there isn't anything for your computer to do.

Source code tells you why: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/gitweb/?p=boinc-v2.git;a=blob;f=client/work_fetch.cpp

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6/24/2014 1:28:03 PM | Constellation | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.

stop clicking on update on the project
let the client work it out.
seen this before
after a time the client will ask for work and get it.

I am running 2 projects and 2 NCI projects.
BOINC 7.2.42 on Win XP

Of the 2 projects, one spits out about 1 WU per hour. The other has tens of thousands of WUs available at all times.

I got the dreaded Not Requesting Tasks: Not Needed message (on both projects AND one of the NCI projects) so I came here for a fix. I read this message and figured it seemed reasonable and made sense given the way BOINC "works".

After a 3 day weekend, during which not a single WU was downloaded on any project, I have given up on 7.2.42 and have rolled back to 7.0.64. I am getting all the work my little laptop can crunch.

There's a bug in 7.2.42 but I am not sure anyone else is seeing it. I've also had this exact problem on a MacBook and solved that by rolling back to 7.0.65.