Anonumous host throwing only errors, 3223 right now

Host
6469701 has a lot of overflows or -9 errors.
Yet another anonymous host with an GTX 560 and a GTS8800!

i just looked at my own tasks, and I have 4 of these -12 errors on my laptop (Gtx 8800M)- I remember these errors happening and all of them happened when my GPU was overloaded because I have SETI crunching enabled 24/7 on both CPUs and GPU, and if I load up a video on youtube or media player etc.. without suspending the BOINC usage first, that happens every now and then.

Further to my post below I found these as well

Host 6112618 Host 4202271 Host 6257665

Pending 3257 5041 65
Valid 1 102 8
Invalid 397 353 3
Error 44 12 24

All these are in my pending as inconsistants, with another wingman, having to redo the work.

Why don't people check their results periodically, to see if they are throwing out crap results, and take action if they are.

I agree with the comments, below, aand would go further, and blacklist those who are consistantly, throwing out erroneous results.

We all have the occasional bum result, but the majority of us do not have the large number quoted above, and in my previous post.

Don't understand this error. any advice on how to solve. error occur near 90% completed.

msg from system
Stderr output
<core_client_version>7.0.25</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
Incorrect function. (0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
setiathome_enhanced 6.02 DevC++/MinGW
libboinc: 6.3.6

Work Unit Info:
...............
WU true angle range is : 0.011385
Optimal function choices:
-----------------------------------------------------
name
-----------------------------------------------------
v_BaseLineSmooth (no other)
v_vGetPowerSpectrumUnrolled2 0.00057 0.00000
sse3_ChirpData_ak 0.01955 0.00000
v_vTranspose4np 0.01383 0.00000
BH SSE folding 0.00453 0.00000
Restarted at 0.21 percent.

</stderr_txt>
]]>

i just spent some time looking through a lot of the tasks that my computers have completed and seeing how the various wingmen are faring, and i was suprised to see how many of the wingmen's systems are throwing out hundreds of invalid and errored tasks. i sent private messages to all of the non anonymous wingmen to give them a heads up about their systems. i suggest other people do the same. but we still need a permanent solution for alerting or blocking all of those anonymous crunchers out there..

I still think it's time for server-side intervention.


Others have mentioned the same thing.. If someone out there had their heart set on screwing with our DC project, they could setup two or more PC's in the same way to throw errors on both and reinforce tons of bad validated results.

This is not cool. there needs to be an error quota. If you screw up over 50% of any type of given task, you should not get any more of that task type without getting your stuff fixed and contacting us here to get your account reactivated.

I still think it's time for server-side intervention.


Others have mentioned the same thing.. If someone out there had their heart set on screwing with our DC project, they could setup two or more PC's in the same way to throw errors on both and reinforce tons of bad validated results.

This is not cool. there needs to be an error quota. If you screw up over 50% of any type of given task, you should not get any more of that task type without getting your stuff fixed and contacting us here to get your account reactivated.

exactly. i'm relatively new around here so i don't know the answer, but is there somebody this can be addressed to? has anybody done that recently? some of us spend a lot of time & money on this project (and other BOINC projects) and really believe in the work we are doing here and want to see that the integrity of this project isn't in jeopardy!

I did a bit of homework today to find out how many machines are mucking my end of things up (and many others to I bet) so here they are,

Computer 1334363
Computer 2699082
Computer 3378825
Computer 3440890
Computer 5007852
Computer 5236541
Computer 5292089
Computer 5345364
Computer 5461131
Computer 5485240
Computer 5542882
Computer 5762247
Computer 5874840
Computer 5889577
Computer 5927348
Computer 5935169
Computer 5967897
Computer 6126443
Computer 6148459
Computer 6229518
Computer 6247292
Computer 6249179
Computer 6253461
Computer 6256705
Computer 6271384
Computer 6283429
Computer 6318737
Computer 6365602
Computer 6401198
Computer 6441935
Computer 6469701
Computer 6568123
Computer 6586696
Computer 6589662
Computer 6633670
Computer 6640112
Computer 6643594
Computer 6643620
Computer 6650172
Computer 6650230
Computer 6651362,

and I bet that there would be many others besides them but the bigger question is, what are these doing to the load on the databases?

Cheers.
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Hal, you speak like our fearless leader, Dr. D.A.
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Another one with a bunch of invalids

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=6247549&offset=0&show_names=0&state=4&appid=

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Computer 5345364
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Sad though this is (to the extent it makes a complete mockery of our efforts to produce good results), and given that the project has the capacity to black-list hosts should they want to, I can only assume that the impact of these hosts is considered largely insignificant. Either that, or the project just don't want to get into the business of micro managing individual hosts.....

The trouble with the quota system as it is, is that it doesn't really protect against invalids - as they don't materialise until quorum cannot be reached (by which time, a rogue host has downloaded another 1,000 tasks). Fixing that would alleviate a lot of the issues....

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