This user has downloaded 1,328 units in very short time.

Once back in December 'he' has returned five (5) units. Half of the many units are beyond the deadline.

The user has a quite ordinary computer, so it seems impossible that he should ever crunch that many units in time.

Whatever happened to the maximum limit? I think this is a shocking example of waste of SAH2 resources.


The account in question

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Kind regards
Kirsten

Hi

Normally the limit is set to 100 WUs per day and host.
But i read about this a few times.

No idea whats happend.

greetz >MIke

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> This user has downloaded 1,328 units in very short time.
>
> Once back in December 'he' has returned five (5) units. Half of the many units
> are beyond the deadline.
>
> The user has a quite ordinary computer, so it seems impossible that he should
> ever crunch that many units in time.
>
> Whatever happened to the maximum limit? I think this is a shocking example of
> waste of SAH2 resources.
>
I just counted thru the 25th and he is downloading less than 100 per day, which is the new maximum. If he were resetting or otherwise having problems with the machine he would be downloading this many units easily if his cache were say 5 days.
There is no setting saying that you only get a unit after you have returned a unit.

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> This user has downloaded 1,328 units in very short time.
>
> Once back in December 'he' has returned five (5) units. Half of the many units
> are beyond the deadline.
>
> The user has a quite ordinary computer, so it seems impossible that he should
> ever crunch that many units in time.
>
> Whatever happened to the maximum limit? I think this is a shocking example of
> waste of SAH2 resources.
>
Did you send the guy an email? I did but I don't speak German so it may not help.
If you click on the owner name you will see his account data, click on his web site, click on the picture and you will see a list of links on the left, click on Seti and then click again on the seti profile and stats link and up will pop his email address.

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> Did you send the guy an email? I did but I don't speak German so it may not
> help. If you click on the owner name you will see his account data, click on
> his web site, click on the picture and you will see a list of links on the
> left, click on Seti and then click again on the seti profile and stats link
> and up will pop his email address.

Just did it, let's have a look wether he does something.
Probably one of his 15 machines running amok;-)

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> > Did you send the guy an email? I did but I don't speak German so it may
> > not help.
> Just did it, let's have a look wether he does something.
> Probably one of his 15 machines running amok;-)

Seems like hid did something, at least he had just few WUs downloaded since yesterday, and most of 'em are crunched.

But the question remains: How is such behaviour (I think of Boinc/Seti, not him intentionally) possible?

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> This user has downloaded 1,328 units in very short time.

There is a known issue in some widely released BOINC clients.

If someone, for example, runs around the computer lab at school and installs BOINC on all of the machines in the lab, and the normal "user" account has insufficient rights, the BOINC client will download work, but not successfully save it.

The result is a bunch of machines that download work, but never return it.

I'm not sure this is "shocking" because:

1) these machines aren't really available for BOINC (or the admin would load it)

2) the resource isn't really wasted, it just slows validation. Since they're now sending out four copies, and it takes three for a quorum, it probably isn't even slowing results for most work units.

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