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androshalforc Send message Joined: 15 Jun 12 Posts: 25 Credit: 84,225 RAC: 156	Message 1250015 - Posted: 22 Jun 2012, 17:06:59 UTC Last modified: 22 Jun 2012, 17:07:31 UTC
	still fairly new here and got my first inconclusive report today so i tried to do some investigating. i found that the person checking has had some 1500 / 147 invalid / valid calculations is this really helping and is there anything i can do to prevent them from checking files i've checked?
	ID: 1250015 ·

Link Send message Joined: 18 Sep 03 Posts: 671 Credit: 1,182,336 RAC: 592	Message 1250040 - Posted: 22 Jun 2012, 17:35:14 UTC - in response to Message 1250015.
	Inconclusive results are nothing unusual and also nothing to care much about. Only if you get some errors or invalids, than it's time to see what needs to be fixed. ____________ .
	ID: 1250040 ·

KneeDeep Send message Joined: 27 Sep 99 Posts: 129 Credit: 3,491,307 RAC: 8,501	Message 1250071 - Posted: 22 Jun 2012, 18:17:06 UTC
	There's an active thread on the recent rash of inconclusives here ... http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=68321 Unless you're the cause of the inconclusive (and it doesn't appear that you are) then, as Link said, there's really nothing you can do. The WU will be sent to another host for validation.
	ID: 1250071 ·

Fred J. Verster Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 21 Apr 04 Posts: 3232 Credit: 31,585,541 RAC: 1	Message 1250074 - Posted: 22 Jun 2012, 18:32:07 UTC - in response to Message 1250071. Last modified: 22 Jun 2012, 18:39:39 UTC
	There's an active thread on the recent rash of inconclusives here ... http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=68321 Unless you're the cause of the inconclusive (and it doesn't appear that you are) then, as Link said, there's really nothing you can do. The WU will be sent to another host for validation. Welcome to Number Crunching Forum..... Yep, I started a thread about hosts, making (too) much inconclusive and faulty results. Often anonymous hosts, it'll take quite some time to 'check-out' all your wingmen ;-) I don't think it's recent, but don't know if there are more nowadays. But it's a waste of resources, can overload the servers and bandwidth and takes an extra host and time. ____________ Knight Who Says Ni N!, OUT numbered.................
	ID: 1250074 ·

Sten-Arne Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Nov 08 Posts: 2687 Credit: 7,624,125 RAC: 23,948	Message 1250090 - Posted: 22 Jun 2012, 19:58:07 UTC - in response to Message 1250015. Last modified: 22 Jun 2012, 20:01:58 UTC
	still fairly new here and got my first inconclusive report today so i tried to do some investigating. i found that the person checking has had some 1500 / 147 invalid / valid calculations is this really helping and is there anything i can do to prevent them from checking files i've checked? This part of your questions jumped out, and needs to be addressed: is there anything i can do to prevent them from checking files i've checked? Every WU must be checked by initially two computers, one result is not enough to make good science. Both computer must agree on the result, then and only then are the WU validated. However it's more than common that the inital two computers does not agree on the result, or one computer errors out on the WU, so another computer will be sent the WU, this goes on for a number of times (I have forgotten the exact number of times), until there is an agreement on the result. When there's finally an agreement, the result is validated and credit is awarded. ____________ /The grumpy old Swede. "I'm so old, that 98% of all trees in the forest, are younger than I am"
	ID: 1250090 ·

androshalforc Send message Joined: 15 Jun 12 Posts: 25 Credit: 84,225 RAC: 156	Message 1250105 - Posted: 22 Jun 2012, 20:42:17 UTC - in response to Message 1250090.
	still fairly new here and got my first inconclusive report today so i tried to do some investigating. i found that the person checking has had some 1500 / 147 invalid / valid calculations is this really helping and is there anything i can do to prevent them from checking files i've checked? This part of your questions jumped out, and needs to be addressed: is there anything i can do to prevent them from checking files i've checked? i meant this particular user since they seem to have a large imbalance in validated and invalidated data
	ID: 1250105 ·

Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 1482 Credit: 62,474,713 RAC: 86,881	Message 1250242 - Posted: 23 Jun 2012, 3:22:54 UTC - in response to Message 1250105.
	Oh yes, Computer 3378825 (In progress (565) \| Pending (15370) \| Valid (134) \| Invalid (1415) \| Error (6) ), is 1 of about a half dozen or so of the worst PC's in a list of over 120 (and growing) of bad hosts that I've been teamed up with so far this month and likely most of those pendings it has will turn out to be invalid as well. :( Cheers. ____________
	ID: 1250242 ·

Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 3885 Credit: 357,419 RAC: 781	Message 1250301 - Posted: 23 Jun 2012, 6:20:53 UTC - in response to Message 1250105.
	still fairly new here and got my first inconclusive report today so i tried to do some investigating. i found that the person checking has had some 1500 / 147 invalid / valid calculations is this really helping and is there anything i can do to prevent them from checking files i've checked? This part of your questions jumped out, and needs to be addressed: is there anything i can do to prevent them from checking files i've checked? i meant this particular user since they seem to have a large imbalance in validated and invalidated data No, you have absolutely no control over who gets assigned as your partner/wingman. It is the luck of the draw as to who hits the scheduler with a request at the same time as you do. ____________ Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired
	ID: 1250301 ·

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