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KC5VDJ - Jim the Enchanter Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 81 Credit: 4,083,597 RAC: 0 |
I'm completing and getting new work units, but my points seem to be stuck since yesterday. I should be up another 10k +- 2k right now. Is this a case of pure new work units that are virgin, and everyone is getting different ones? We are going to get credit for these, I hope. Delidded i7-4790K (CLU/CLU) at 4.7GHz @ 1.310Vcore 24/7, 32GB DDR3-2400, Corsair H100i v2, Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming G1 WIFI-BK, MSI Radeon RX 480 Gaming 4G, HX-650 PSU, Corsair 750D |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
There was a short period of no work getting sent out, which means everyone's average drops. The date the data is recorded has no affect on how quickly you are granted credit, which is determined by how quickly your quorum partner returns their copy of the same workunit (assuming it validates against yours). |
Andrew Sanchez Send message Joined: 10 Apr 14 Posts: 69 Credit: 471,907 RAC: 0 |
I'm completing and getting new work units, but my points seem to be stuck since yesterday. Every work unit must be run by 2 different computers to confirm results before credit is granted. So after you complete a work unit it will be sent to someone else (your "wingman" for that WU) who will validate it. If everything goes smoothly the WU status will go from "Completed, waiting for validation" to "Completed and validated". Often, you will complete many work units but may have to wait for your wingmen (Note: you are other peoples wingman also, so people may be waiting on WU's in your queue). Eventually you start running WU's faster than they can be validated and you may go a day where none of your WU's are validated, which is where you are at right now. Don't distress, after being on the project for awhile everything starts to level out and your "Average work done" will stablize. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22200 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
...Not quite right - When a Work Unit is first sent out two copies (tasks) are sent to two different crunchers at the same time. These two have the same deadline (target reporting date). When the SETI servers are running in a stable state yo will find you have a fairly constant number of tasks pending validation, with your system I would expect that number to be in the hundreds, compared to mine which is rarely below a thousand, and has reached ten thousand! Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Andrew Sanchez Send message Joined: 10 Apr 14 Posts: 69 Credit: 471,907 RAC: 0 |
...Not quite right - When a Work Unit is first sent out two copies (tasks) are sent to two different crunchers at the same time. These two have the same deadline (target reporting date). Ah! Thank you for the correction :) When the SETI servers are running in a stable state yo will find you have a fairly constant number of tasks pending validation Yes, when that happens is when your Recent Average Credit will "stablize" (as i ineloquently and inaccurately put it, haha!) |
Andrew Scharbarth Send message Joined: 29 May 07 Posts: 40 Credit: 5,984,436 RAC: 0 |
I'm not holding my breath. My backlog of validation pending tasks is over 450 now. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13736 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
I'm not holding my breath. My backlog of validation pending tasks is over 450 now. And mine are around the 1,000 mark, and those with more & more powerful machines would probably be in the 10s of thousands. Grant Darwin NT |
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