any reason why i jumped 100 WU's in 3 hours?

[Chintan]

The only thing I did was add an AMD K6-2 500MHz to my herd today and I downloaded the beta 2.7 client for all the comps in my herd. Around 3pm PST, I was on 268 WUs completed, and now its 6pm PST and i have 360 completed?? what is going on??

and whatever it is... i like it

go TA!!

 

[Russ]

I wonder if the SETI people are getting some action from the PhF? It seems there was another team member mentioning that they were getting some gift units.

Russ, NCNE

 

[dawks]

Maybe just a CGI error? Sukhoi also just mentioned that he has more blocks on SETI stats then on Nexus9's page. Might just be an Error with the SETI@Home servers. I think its happend before.

Edit: SP

 

[Sukhoi]

viztech was doing WUs for me. He's a very nice guy! :) I don't know how you'd get that many WUs from viztech unless he dumped his entire account into yours. :) I doubt we have a PhF though..

 

[Viztech]

Whoa....I wish that I could do that, but it's not me. I'm 110% OGR/RC5 right now.

I've been preaching how great K6s are though...on OGR.

What kind of WU time did you get out of the K6 500...about 14 hours?

Maybe we should work out a Seti/OGR output trade

viz

 

[Chintan]

Thanks for the info everyone.

The problem is still happening. I just upgraded to version 2.7 beta. Before, I ran version 2.04, and I had no problems with this tremendous output. But it seems like that this new version is going through the WU's really quickly. It seems to be only happening on my PIII 650@884MHz computer.

Is it possible that by overclocking my cpu so much, that while analyzing the data, errors are being generated? If an error is generated in a WU, does SETI ignore it, download another WU, or just continue analyzing and send in the WU to the servers and count it?

thanks for the help. I really would like to figure out why my output is so high. I don't think other people are "accidentally" giving me WU's.


EDIT- I've been watching the analysis screen, and even before the Overall % reaches 0.1%, the program thinsk the WU is complete and sends the WU to the server and downloads another one. Am i just getting lucky with these WU's and that they don't have the signals that SETI cares about??

Thanks again
GO TA!!!

 

[Sukhoi]

No, that isn't running right. There's no way you should be under 4 hours/WU with that computer. I'd reinstall 2.04 and see if the problem goes away.

 

[Orange Kid]

I say, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Let it run wild and enjoy

Probably got lucky and got a bunch of noisy WU,s. It will most likely settle down.

 

[Chintan]

I have reinstalled twice. Version 2.04 seems to be running fine. I've noticed that after it finishes the searching through the Pulses/Triplets, it sends the WU's to the server and gets a new one.

Will SETI actually count these WU's or will they take them off of my account 'cause they are messed up?

 

[Sukhoi]

They'll probably stay in your account. :)

 

[Chintan]

fine with me! but any ideas why the WU time is so nuts?

 

[Sukhoi]

It's an error of some type. I really don't know if it's related to your overclocking, or an error in the client.

 

[Chintan]

i really think its an error b/c of overclocking now... i'm at 444 WU's completed, and this has all been in the last 8 hours!!

should i let SETI run like this, or clock down to where it properly completes the WU's?

 

[blade47]

Clock it down so that it correctly completes the wu (if that is actually the problem). After all were supposedly doing this to help the seti people with their scientific research. If you clock down and it's still doing it then I'd say it's the client or bad work units. Have you tried the same wu with client v2.04?

 

[dawks]

What if its counting the WU's as actually done. Maybe one of those WU's has a signal in it!! LOL
And were missing it!

 

[JWMiddleton]

Chintan, I assume you are "Chinny" on the S@H stats. How many work units (WU) do you download at a time? I have had two WUs over time that took only a minute or two to process. If the WU has a lot of interference in it the program will terminate as if it had completed the file. It then uploads the results and starts on a new one. This situation is mentioned in the S@H FAQ. It is hard to believe that you could get a huge batch of this type of WU, but according to your stats you've done something. At the time I am writing this message you are at 527 WU.

I have four overclocked systems; two of them PIIIs, cranking WU's and the overclocking does not cause this type of anomaly.

I just checked again and you are at 535! So the MAGIC is still working!

 

[blade47]

It could be possible for overclocking to cause errors if the system is not 100% stable. Although I've never heard of one doing what yours is and doubt if it would disrupt your wu's so badly and not the other files on your system. I don't know what the problem is but something is definetly wrong somewhere. If seti does leave the units on your account then you and the team will have an outrageous output for the day.

Since it's only doing it on one system and v2.04 works just fine on that system and the client giving you problems is a beta client I would assume the client is having problems with something else on your system causing it to not handle the wu's correctly. Beta clients are put out to help the software programers to find problems like this. If indeed it's a problem with the client. Many people are running v2.7 with no problems but hey there's a first time for everything.

You've got me stumped. BTW as I write this your about to blow past me.

 

[Michael]

Please contact SETI@HOME and tell them what is happening. The stats are good, but remember that this is a science project as well. I doubt that they'll remove the WU's that you've already been creditedfor, but they need to know that their beta client may have a major problem.

Michael

 

[Sukhoi]

There's a good chance if this is a problem with the 2.7 client, that it's already been fixed in 2.74

 

[Chintan]

DAMN!!! It has to do with my overclocking. I dropped it downd to 848, and it runs fine. Now i just need to figure out what the optimal speed... doh!! :|

Has the 2.74 client been released on any sites and does it process WU's faster on a PIII than 2.71?

thanks for the help everyone. I guess the excessive WU output is going to stop now.

go TA!!!

 

[Hellburner]

Almost sounds like a memory error vs a CPU error. Even with Micron I've seen some definite variation between sticks, barely meeting the spec they're sold at.

 

[Assimilator1]

My SETI partner has a PII 333 working for me which suddenely started throwing sub 5 mins WU's ,at 1st it was just the odd one but about 1 month latter within a space of 1 week it was doing them all in under 5 mins! ,it did about 30WU's in one night! ,I told him to kill it untill it behaves itself.
It turned out to be a faulty stick of RAM ,a few days after the problem occured on SETI it stopped the whole PC! ,after the new RAM was fitted it was fine

 

[blade47]

Seti v2.74 beta is slower than the v2.7 beta and the official v2.04 client.

 

[JWMiddleton]

Hey Chin, What gives? You still seem to be cranking out over 100 WUs per day? In less than a week you have gone from the mid-200 range to 1,000!

 

[Chintan]

oh boy!!! i just got the email that this thread was updated, and then i checked SETI on the machine that was messing up, and its still messing up. When i clocked it down, it ran about 10 WUs perfectly... but i think its acting up again.

that probably is contributing to the massive amount of WU's... but i also added a lot to my heard. A SUN Quad processing server, 8 PIII 600's with RAMBUS, and about 10 PIII's of various speeds that i don't know exactly b/c my friends friends got them hooked with SETI for me.

i'm gonna clock down some more, and see what happens. i think its doing a WU about every 4 hours. its kinda whack!