Just stumbled across AP WU 1302371780 (not one I'm involved in) that ultimately got sent to 8 different hosts, 7 of which ended up with "Completed and validated" and full credit of 619.14. Six of the 7 appear to have the same result in STDERR, while the 7th (5408166) got a 30/30 overflow, yet still got credit.

Since I assume the WU will probably get purged soon, here's what the WU detail looked like, for future reference:



I'm mostly just curious to learn how a WU gets sent out that many times, when it appears like it should have validated within the first 2 or 3 hosts. And perhaps also how the runaway host with the 30/30 overflow got credit (one of his few validated tasks lately).

[edit]Looks like it got purged before I even finished writing the post![/edit]

Two possibilities:

Because AP is set to allow up to 10 "Success" results, and there can be up to 69 signals involved in a validation, it is certainly possible to have one pair of results be strongly similar and 5 other results with one or more non-matching signals but good enough to be granted credit as weakly similar.

More likely, a credit granting script was run.

                                                                   Joe