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Claimed Credit Problem
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MikeSW17 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1603 Credit: 2,700,523 RAC: 0 |
Ummm, is there a problem? Since upgrading to 4.35 yesterday, one of my systems is claiming Zero credit - even on 11,000 second work. Here: http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=643488 7 results for 1st May (since 4.35) claim zero credit, yet one has been granted 25. Only seems to be happening on this 1 system (of 4 - 3 on 4.35, 1 still on 4.25) |
Dorsai Send message Joined: 7 Sep 04 Posts: 474 Credit: 4,504,838 RAC: 0 |
I don't know, but will hazard a guess it's something to do with the validater's & the current backlog that is building up of unvalidated results. Once the system catches back up, you may find the claimed credit figure for those WU's that did not error in a few seconds to show a more reasonable figure. Foamy is "Lord and Master". (Oh, + some Classic WUs too.) |
FalconFly Send message Joined: 5 Oct 99 Posts: 394 Credit: 18,053,892 RAC: 0 |
The actual Probem is here : http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=643488 The Benchmarks are either disabled on that host or an override is set (I've heard there are switches to allow the newer BOINC Clients to modify the Benchmarks). With 0 MFlops FPU/ALU, I'd recommend to manually run Benchmarks again (that 'should' fix it) or look for similar related Problem Threads for the solution if it doesn't help. For as long as the Benchmarks are 0, your System will always claim 0 Credit (x secconds CPU time multiplied by 0 will remain 0) The only cause I could imagine leading to a Zero-Benchmark Result would be BOINC doing it while the System is under 100.0% load from other Applications (not getting any cycles), but it might be a quirrel with the used BOINC Version (after all, it remains a Beta for willing Users to test, likely still holding Bugs that cause funny things to happen). |
MikeSW17 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1603 Credit: 2,700,523 RAC: 0 |
> The actual Probem is here : > http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=643488 > Well spotted, thanks FalconFly. Benchmarks manually run - should fix it. I hope this isn't an inherrent problem and mine was a one-off. If the upgrade to 4.35 doesn't always correctly benchmark, it could cause a lot of complaints if a significant number of users claim zero and the validator gets them and grants zero. I only got credit because the other 3 claimed non-zero. |
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