Something is very wrong between BAM! and SRBase causing BOINC clients not to receive work. I've observed the same problem with a different project, also: Asteroids@Home.
The characteristic symptom is the BOINC client not requesting any tasks from the project scheduler with the following message:
[SRBase] Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: account manager prefs; NVIDIA GPU: account manager prefs)
This will happen even if there are no such preferences set in the account manager, and the project computing preferences (CPU, ATI GPU, NVIDIA GPU, etc.) are all enabled in both places.
If the account manager user toggles any one of the project settings in BAM, e.g. "Do not use Intel GPU", then manually synchronizes the BOINC client with BAM and then updates the SRBase project, the BOINC client will begin requesting tasks from SRBase until the next synchronization with BAM.
This began happening sometime in the latter part of 2024, between August and October. It is unclear what the exact cause is, but it is obviously reproducible (removing the host from BAM, reattaching the host to BAM, removing the project from BAM, reattaching the project from BAM, resetting the BOINC client; all have no effect) and project-specific. As noted above, I have only observed SRBase and Asteroids@home to behave this way. The only other common indicator between these two projects I can observe is this:
[SRBase] Project URL changed from http:// to https://
The BOINC client logs this (for both projects) because the projects once did not support TLS. Though they do now, their URLs have not been updated in BAM. This could possibly have some subtle effect on the BOINC client tracking project preferences, but I have not proven this; there could be other hidden differences I have not yet found.
Additional research is needed. Please advise.
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Its a BAM issue, for boinc v7 its working, v8 not.
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