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My 4 hosts went out of work between yesterday afternoon and midnight, this morning I realized the one I'm renting from vast.ai (best cost effective / cheap for short time rent option for me by the way) that had been having the best stock was actually dry since midnight and doing nothing (for the sam...

Mmm I just wrote the above and then 3 out of 4 hosts don't get any more work

Am I the ridiculous one ?

And well, I don't have that many crunch power compared to the high-end competitors around here, I know, so probably the annoyance is not the same...

The time without task was not long (I have plenty of tasks on all 4 hosts now), the error rate is low and the wasted calculation time is limited (most failing tasks take 1 sec to fail), I don't see the point of wanting to "ban asteroid for sprint", frankly ridiculous.

Amen

I clearly understand the general frustration and why some of you were not lucky against other, but you must also all seriously put the "boinc activity" into perspective, I fully agree with Tamagoch latest message : boinc IS A HOBBY, mainly maintained by unpaid volunteers, this is 100% true...

Thanks for all Tim !!

If some people are capable of doing that for a virtual points race with nothing at stake in real life (I hope so !) then how far would they go in real life ? Or would it be the other way around ? Will we ever know ?

Thanks Tim for all the energy you've had to expend too, and of course thanks to Seb.

Yes this link is included in the conversation he created himself on the boinc forum mentioned above.

David Anderson has an official position for Boinc about this.

And there will always be debates about such topics. But at least, for those of us who live in a (real) democracy, we can debate.