As the Work Unit Crunches

[Ragnar Dan]

Ragar Dan - looking at my stats on extreme oc - it appears my recent wu's were credited between 6pm and 9pm on 12/14. Much smaller point totals than yours. Have you been credited yet?

They seem to be crediting everyone today and until they catch up, in some odd fashion or another. I'm not sure if it was just in those 2 updates or if they'll continue further, but it may well be as you say.

I know one of my WU's submitted yesterday morning was putatively worth ~58000 points because it was a bigadv WU that was restarted after ~4 hours, and then there was an hour where my machine decided to lock up or something, which appears to be the HD giving me warning it's going to die at some point even though I can't get any software to show me a problem with it. Be that as it may, none of my extreme oc updates quite look like they contain that one, but maybe I'm just wishing for more points than I would have gotten had things gone normally. But I think not.

[just brew it!]

Definitely a major glitch in the servers from 12/10 thru 12/13 -- looks like WUs turned in on 12/11 and 12/12 got credited on the 14th.

[Ragnar Dan]

I had another problem the other day on my VMwared Linux client. After restarting it, for some reason it acted as though it was caught in an infinite loop or something, making no progress. So I killed the fah6 process and waited a bit, and then restarted it. I thought it was OK then, but did not notice that it chose to wipe out my personal information in client.cfg without telling me. So for a couple of days it wasn't able to do -bigadv (if any were available) because of there being no passkey, and worse, was crediting user Anonymous and team 0 with all the WU's turned in. I discovered it last night.

Makes one wonder. But it's a bit late in the life of this software to care much any more.

[just brew it!]

One of my systems just completed a WU. The end-of-WU disk thrash on this one caused the hard drive to make so much noise I thought the bearings on the CPU fan were starting to fail! (The system in question isn't currently mounted in a case, so there was no HDD activity light to let me know the disk was getting hammered...)