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Many Invalid Results produced by the FAAH client

Many results produced by the FAAH client running on my PC are marked with 'Invalid Result'. According to the log file everything is ok ('AutoDock finishing with return code: 0') and I receive the credits for those work units. How to interpret the message 'Invalid Result' ?

I'm running XP Pro and CC 5.6.0. But the invalid results appeared with previous CC versions too.
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Re: Many Invalid Results produced by the FAAH client

Hi ifg@work,

Question1....did anything change on the hardware since you started seeing 'Invalid' results.... Maybe Overclocking or other changes?

Question2....have u run any hardware diagnostics to determine failures like for instance RAM tests...... for all the tools see the "Useful Utilities " post.

Few invalids are being discussed here on the forum with respect to FAAH. If as u state u ran it before with all 'valid', the conditions on your end are very likely not the same and

Don't know a CC 5.6.0 ??????? BOINC version 5.6.0...been using it a few days and is positively stable!

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Re: Many Invalid Results produced by the FAAH client

You receive credits for those invalid results because they returned error free, as you said, with return code 0.

Many crunchers would simply take the credits and not worry that a 4th WU needs to be sent out. Glad to see you're taking the time to fix the problem, WCG needs more dedicated crunchers like you smile

Take a good look at the suggestions Sekerob offeres, run the diagnostics, etc. Yes, overclocking will sometimes cause the problem you are seeing, other times overclocking causes no problems.

If Sekerob's suggestions turn up nothing then (and only then) consider the following... Another possibility is that the result files get corrupted when you upload them. The "report and upload" process is a 2 stage affair. First your system uploads the result. Later, your system uploads the report. The report is a much smaller file and it tells the server whether Autodock exited with 0 or an error. Small files like the report are less likely to get corrupted during upload, large files like the result have greater chance for corruption.
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Re: Many Invalid Results produced by the FAAH client

No overclocking, no CPU overheating (CPU temp. < 45°C all the time), no memory errors, nothing. I think it's not related to upload problems because the 'Invalid Results' are not related to network connections (I use up to three different ones). The OS is WIN XP Pro. The CPU is a Pentium M 1,6 GHz. Maybe the results are somehow out of bounds defined by the project ?
As I've told you: many, but not all results are marked to be invalid. Some of them are valid.
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Re: Many Invalid Results produced by the FAAH client

U did not answer the BOINC version query..... what Dagorath is pointing at is, i think , the possibility of antivir / firewall or other security software doing odd things.....unpacking / repacking then letting thru can do odd things too...put a bit the wrong way and u have no match.

BOINC had an issue with McAfee (latter doing something none-standard), so Berkeley released a new version....the recommend version by WCG is actually 5.4.11
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Re: Many Invalid Results produced by the FAAH client

Hello ifg@work,
I must have hit Preview rather than Post when I answered your post early this morning. I cannot remember anybody else having this problem with FAAH so I am assuming that it is a hardware problem rather than a software problem. All that I can suggest is that you look over the hardware diagnostic utilities at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=2490 such as CPU Tester: http://7byte.com/index.php?page=download

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Re: Many Invalid Results produced by the FAAH client

U did not answer the BOINC version query


Well, as mentioned in my first post: I'm using BOINC Client Version 5.6.1 in the meantime. CC stands for Core Client which is the same as the BOINC Client.

How to check if the Firewall is the source of the problems ? I'm using CyberArmor Personal Firewall.
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Re: Many Invalid Results produced by the FAAH client

Please will you go to your Result Status page and cut and paste the first page for us to have a look at? Thanks.
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..... what Dagorath is pointing at is, i think , the possibility of antivir / firewall or other security software doing odd things.....unpacking / repacking then letting thru can do odd things too...put a bit the wrong way and u have no match.


No, that is not what I was pointing at. I was suggesting maybe the phoneline, DSL cable, ethernet cable or some other copper between him and his ISP is bad. He replied saying he has ruled that possibility out becaue he has used 3 different connections. That's a decent test of my theory/suggestion but I wonder if he has used the same cable to connect his computer to the modem in all 3 cases. If it's an internal dialup modem then it could be flaky too.

I doubt a firewall or anti-virus would corrupt the files. A firewall would simply not let the file upload. Anti-virus would decompress to inspect the file but would not waste time recompressing, it would just send the original file, unless it's really stupid anti-virusware which is possible but I doubt it. Anyway, I doubt he's using compressed uploads, compression is not allowed yet, AFAIK.
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No, that is not what I was pointing at. I was suggesting maybe the phoneline, DSL cable, ethernet cable or some other copper between him and his ISP is bad. He replied saying he has ruled that possibility out becaue he has used 3 different connections. That's a decent test of my theory/suggestion but I wonder if he has used the same cable to connect his computer to the modem in all 3 cases. If it's an internal dialup modem then it could be flaky too.


I'm using a DSL, LAN and a WLAN infrastructure. Each one is used at a different location. AND: this is the only project showing such problems.
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