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Message 2002546 - Posted: 14 Jul 2019, 14:23:49 UTC

Can one of the regular gurus have a looksee at this computer's tasks, 33,000 seems a tad excessive for built in graphics ;-)

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It's fairly obvious the pc is doing nothing with the tasks at the moment despite it polling every day, but how on earth can anyone amass that many tasks?

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Message 2002559 - Posted: 14 Jul 2019, 16:05:21 UTC - in response to Message 2002546.  
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Can one of the regular gurus have a looksee at this computer's tasks, 33,000 seems a tad excessive for built in graphics ;-)

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It's fairly obvious the pc is doing nothing with the tasks at the moment despite it polling every day, but how on earth can anyone amass that many tasks?

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Yes this person has been mentioned before, I even sent him a PM but got no response.

Look here https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=69782 at the last few posts.

He also has another machine doing the same 8481944

He is obviously using something to fool the servers, what I don't know.
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Message 2002561 - Posted: 14 Jul 2019, 16:29:51 UTC - in response to Message 2002559.  

He’s not fooling the servers. He’s just doing something odd with his system or he’s got some hardware or software issue that’s ghosting all his tasks.

He downloads tasks. Ghosts them. His client thinks he has none. Asks for more, and on and on.
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Message 2002564 - Posted: 14 Jul 2019, 16:39:16 UTC

The question could be: Why the servers still sends new WU above the 100 limit to a non productive host?
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Message 2002565 - Posted: 14 Jul 2019, 16:41:23 UTC

There was someone a couple of years back who thought the object of SETI was to accrue as many tasks as possible and not return any results. He took some persuading of the error of his ways....

I suspect in this case it is an over-zealous AV software kicking off and dumping the tasks more or less as soon as they arrive
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Message 2002571 - Posted: 14 Jul 2019, 17:19:46 UTC - in response to Message 2002564.  

The question could be: Why the servers still sends new WU above the 100 limit to a non productive host?

Yes this is the question, 33000 tasks!! On that machine his "Max tasks per day" is 1 but 33000 days is 90 years ;-)

Why can that machine download more tasks without returning anything, that must be wrong.
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Message 2002588 - Posted: 14 Jul 2019, 20:08:22 UTC

One could understand an upper limit of say double the "normal allowance" of 100 + 100 per GPU to allow for ghosts, but 33k is just taking the proverbial - something along the lines of if a cruncher exceeded double the "normal max" then stop sending until the number on the cruncher was below half of the "normal max".....
Having looked at the server code I think it would be a fairly simple task to insert such a "sanity limit".
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Message 2002596 - Posted: 14 Jul 2019, 21:03:45 UTC

As I always said, the max number of WU on a host must be related to the host returning (valid) WU per day not a fixed limit line we have now.
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Message 2002601 - Posted: 14 Jul 2019, 21:43:07 UTC - in response to Message 2002588.  

But with ghosts. You’d have to wait ~6 weeks for them to time out before you can contribute to the project again.
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