Application: Ghost Detector - find out how big your Ghost Army is

Ghosts are starting to get way out of control around here. Seems like every server run creates a whole slew of new Ghosts.

Almost 50% of the Work Units the scheduler has assigned to me have become ghosts because I did not receive the scheduler request/response.

To make it quicker and easier to figure out how big my Ghost Army has become I decided to write a simple little application.

Its very easy to use so I thought I'd share it with my fellow SETIzens.

If you are interested, you can download it from http://netfolder.in/folder.php?folder_id=iPe7n5V, there you will find 2 Zip files.

Most people will only need the the smaller Zip file which just contains the application and its documentation.

Anyone who is having trouble getting it to run should try the larger Zip file which contains a full installer and should solve any problems.

Version 1.02 should work a little better, it also automatically detects all BOINC projects.

New Host, less hoops so easier to download from. You will find any and all new versions there.
http://www.mediafire.com/?yyy64lh5953d7

Please download and use the installer if you are having trouble getting it to run.

Once you have used the installer please update to the latest version.

cannot get it, how do I download it

Get the basic version to run?
I get a problem with mcinet.ocx......in Win2k again.

I get a run time error, so no it does not work.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64

Its a common problem for an app made from vs6 when its packed for distribution - lots of missing pieces.
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Its a common problem for an app made from vs6 when its packed for distribution - lots of missing pieces.

I uninstalled the old one and reinstalled the newer version
Still get a run-time error '52'
bad file name or number

Works on my Win7 x64.

Downloaded the small zip and ran it, got error message that Mshflxgd.ocx was missing. I then downloaded the big zip file and extracted that file into the folder and all is OK.

706 WU 'In Progress'
476 WU on board
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230 Ghost Work Units

Works on my Win7 x64.
Downloaded the small zip and ran it, got error message that Mshflxgd.ocx was missing. I then downloaded the big zip file and extracted the file into the folder and all is OK.

Haven't tried the new 1.02 but the original worked fine for me from the installer on Vista.

Ok, uninstalled V1.00 and installed v1.02. No problem except it seems to think I have 1 ghost. The old one showed that way too. Not sure why.
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Downloaded the small zip file and it installed and ran just fine in Win 7 64bit.
No missing files.

Says I have 10 ghosts, am I missing something, what do I do now that I know I have them?
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Do know that this application uses page scraping, which adds extra load to the database, which in turn could lead to it crashing. This can lead to your IP address being blocked if you use it too often.
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Jord

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Real is just a matter of perception.

Says I have 10 ghosts, am I missing something, what do I do now that I know I have them?

Do know that this application uses page scraping, which adds extra load to the database, which in turn could lead to it crashing. This can lead to your IP address being blocked if you use it too often.

Yes, as your browser doesn't check all the pages of your work simultaneously. This app does.

From Matt Lebofsky, January 16 2008

In other news, it seems the every day there's a different reason our web sites are so darn slow. Yesterday afternoon we were getting hit by some seemingly nefarious activity which I was able to block quite easily once I discovered it. But we were also getting hit by some scraping of stats pages via a robot (called BoincBot) that was not obeying robots.txt. I blocked these hits as well. We don't allow such activity on our web sites. If you want BOINC stats you can download the daily xml dumps just like everybody else.