CPU folding

amishallin · March 22, 2020

It's been a loooong time since i've used folding@home. The computer I originally used was an Apple "Blue & White" G3 450mhz beast that I still use for things today.

Upon installing the client both my GPUs start working. My CPU seems to have issues (I think). A snippet from the log is as follows:

06:13:47:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 65.254.110.245:8080
06:13:47:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
06:13:47:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 18.218.241.186:80
06:13:48:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
06:13:48:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment

Is this an issue or just the project's way of saying there are no CPU tasks available?

Right now I have the CPU slot "paused" so I can continue to run out the remaining tasks for Seti@home on 9/12 of my threads.

Spotty · March 22, 2020

11 minutes ago, amishallin said:

just the project's way of saying there are no CPU tasks available?

^This

Lots of demand on F@H at the moment and they're struggling to keep up with demand. Lots of people are reporting issues with not receiving CPU work units.

If in 30-60 minutes it still hasn't downloaded a work unit try pausing the client and then start folding again. This will force it to check for a new work unit (after a while if it can't find a work unit it slows down how often it checks, this resets it so it starts checking again more regularly).