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Thread: Problem: Invalid Working Units in large numbers. Please help. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
For you UPS with all the bells and whistles would be very expensive. The batteries alone would buy a couple nice machines. Bells and whistles include automatic OS shutdown/hibernation triggered by the UPS and a fairly long runtime after the mains go down.
UPS without the bells and whistles is much cheaper. One battery can supply hellacious current for a brief period and sometimes that's all you need. I am referring to the outages that last 1 or 2 minutes or even as short as 2 seconds. I built my own UPS for about $40 including battery. It cuts in very fast and will keep 8 machines going for about 5 minutes. It doesn't have auto system power down but oh well, sometimes I lose a few work units, it's not like they pay me to do this if you get my drift. |
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Movieman
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Sep 9, 2006 Post Count: 1042 Status: Offline |
Thanks Meshmesh for taking the time to do this.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi mike047,
I have just noticed that a lot of these indicated invalids are from a similar time frame. 11-17 thru 11-20, friday thru monday of last weekend. Any event here take place during that time frame??  Up in Known Issues we list two problems. One of the two BOINC feeders went down, causing connection failures for half of the BOINC commo attempts. And the UD server got misconfigured, causing a long string of UD errors. But we don't (yet) know of any BOINC problems that would match up with what you are experiencing.Lawrence |
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BlackAdder1
Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Post Count: 15 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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All of my FAAH wu's in the last few weeks have been invalid also.....
----------------------------------------Name Device Name Status Sent Time Time Due / Return Time CPU Time (hours) Claimed/ Granted BOINC Credit faah0980_ d126n991_ x1AJX_ 01 main Pending Validation 11/21/2006 05:37:17 11/23/2006 06:44:10 7.04 191 / 0 faah0980_ d126n128_ x1AJX_ 00 main Invalid 11/21/2006 05:37:17 11/23/2006 20:22:50 5.60 152 / 32 faah0980_ d126n156_ x1AJX_ 00 main Invalid 11/21/2006 05:37:17 11/24/2006 04:37:03 6.86 186 / 38 faah0980_ d127n373_ x1AJX_ 02 main Invalid 11/21/2006 05:37:17 11/22/2006 12:13:44 4.88 133 / 22 faah0980_ d126n701_ x1AJX_ 00 main Invalid 11/21/2006 05:37:17 11/22/2006 07:07:53 5.35 145 / 31 Return to Top any idea's ?????  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Looks like you are still using a optimised boinc client, because your claims are really high.
Try running the standard 5.4.11 client and your problem should be gone. |
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BlackAdder1
Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Post Count: 15 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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That's not a very good reason to give me half credit and declare my work invalid is it ???
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Movieman
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Sep 9, 2006 Post Count: 1042 Status: Offline |
That's not a very good reason to give me half credit and declare my work invalid is it ??? That's a debatable point but WCG has taken the position that using a modified BOINC client that claims significantly more than the stock one is cheating and to put a stop to this any client that claims way above the norm is given 1/2 points. The intent is to put us all on a level playing field and I can't argue with that logic. Install the stock client and you'll be fine. Good Luck! |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
The intent is to put us all on a level playing field and I can't argue with that logic. Install the stock client and you'll be fine. Good Luck!  Has hell frozen over?  Welcome to WCG, Movieman --- |
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Movieman
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Sep 9, 2006 Post Count: 1042 Status: Offline |
The intent is to put us all on a level playing field and I can't argue with that logic. Install the stock client and you'll be fine. Good Luck! Has hell frozen over? Welcome to WCG, Movieman --- Yes, froze over for me back in August. Boinc is still not fair to Intels but I'm not going to fight it. Just build systems that so totally overpower the AMD's that it equals out any disadvantages from BOINC. Thanks for the welcome |
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mike047
Senior Cruncher Joined: Aug 22, 2006 Post Count: 262 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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All four invalid work units[inclucing the posted one] have cleared from my list. I do not know if they were judged to be accurate or if there is a display time limit.
----------------------------------------Is it common for the invalid wu's to delete themselves after a period of time??
mike
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