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csbyseti wrote: ↑Fri Jun 27, 2025 11:48 am it would be better to block Asteroids for Sprint,

my best Card, the 4090 runs every ~2 hours out of work and the retry time incrases to 2 hours or more.
The huge number of faulty Wu's makes this situation not better.

csbyseti

Hi

Please see my response (to another members issues) here:

https://www.formula-boinc.org/forum/vie ... 4137#p4137

regards
Tim

v-AMD wrote: ↑Fri Jun 27, 2025 3:41 pm Sometimes I manage to get some Asteroids tasks but it is not consistent. Then I see the message that Project has no tasks available. I don't like having idle CPU and GPU when they cost $$s to rent regardless of if they crunch work or not.

I agree ban Asteroids from Sprints.

Hi

Please see my response (to another members issues) here:

https://www.formula-boinc.org/forum/vie ... 4137#p4137

regards
Tim

UBT - wbiz wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 9:05 pm Yep, server out of work.

Hi

Yes, I just saw this issue on the Asteroids server page:

https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/server_status.php

Hopefully, members have enough tasks in their respective bunkers and that the server will be reloaded with new tasks in due course...either failed tasks that are resent or new tasks will be created soon to keep everyone happy.

regards
Tim

Tim, I read your reply. Thanks for your efforts in trying to run the Sprints.

Unfortunately, I will have to pull out of this particular sprint as I cannot get a reliable supply of Asteroids tasks for either my local machines or those I hire from the cloud. In the former case its a waste of my electricity at AUD$0.54 per kWh. In the latter case it is a huge opportunity cost where the cloud machines could be working constantly at PrimeGrid.

Hope the next sprint is engaged with a better run project.

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 same cost, I didn't think about adding a spare project), so I decided to stop it and save a few buck, at the moment it seems the sprint is over for me (none of the remaining 3 host I have can get any work).

But this is absolutely not against you Timbo, on the contrary, this is a project issue.

Asteroids may not be good for sprints but sprints are good for Asteroids as we eating a whole batch of WUs within one weekend )