One of the news items in there talks about abuse by some of the stats gathering sites. But, ExtremeOverClocking plays by the rules and is recommended for stats viewing.
"Folding@Home certainly has a competitive side, but running invasive scripts in order to be constantly on top of the competition and pull in points data of competitors with improperly coded scripts is an abuse of the Pande Group's hospitality. Extreme Overclocking and Kakaostats provide all the statistics one could ask for, and offer remarkable performance in so doing, so these are practical alternatives. Follow their example, or abstain!"
Notice the graph in the middle has 4 options, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, and Monthly. It defaults to Daily, which shows a steep declining trend line for justlinux_regulars, Team 36480. But, if you look at the Weekly and Monthly it looks a lot better.
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Well, actual move date is next Tuesday. In the meantime I've be hangin' in there with this one Windows 7 laptop, but for the last 2 days or so, this is all I'm seeing:
Code:
Waiting before retry.
[04:57:03] + Attempting to get work packet
[04:57:03] - Connecting to assignment server
[04:57:08] + No appropriate work server was available; will try again in a bit.
[04:57:08] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[04:57:08] - Attempt #6 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[04:59:59] + Attempting to get work packet
[04:59:59] - Connecting to assignment server
[05:00:02] + No appropriate work server was available; will try again in a bit.
[05:00:02] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[05:00:02] - Attempt #7 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[05:05:35] + Attempting to get work packet
[05:05:35] - Connecting to assignment server
[05:05:39] + No appropriate work server was available; will try again in a bit.
[05:05:39] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[05:05:39] - Attempt #8 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[05:16:33] + Attempting to get work packet
[05:16:33] - Connecting to assignment server
[05:16:41] + No appropriate work server was available; will try again in a bit.
[05:16:41] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[05:16:41] - Attempt #9 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
It says "Attempt #9", but it restarts that count when you kill it and start over, which I've done a few times.
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I seem to have been getting the same thing for the past few days. I've tried all of the fixes I found for the message (changing from big to normal work units, tweaking my memory size, etc.) but nothing has helped. Think it might be time for a post on their forums.
Edit: Scratch that. Apparently right now there are only advmethods work units available. That might explain why I kept getting crappy A1 work units that used <50% of my CPU for a couple of weeks there too.
Well, I got moved, but all my stuff isn't here yet. I moved from a large BQ room with a separate bedroom, to a small, one room BQ room. I may have to cut way back on my production due to heat issues that will come up.
The -smp is telling me there's nothing to do. The -advmethods is downloading and processing, but the .dat files are less than 200K and won't upload.
Maybe I'm done with this altogether! Well, this is my Windows 7 laptop, maybe my Smoothwall system with the linux machines will fair better. It'll probably be a week to 2 weeks before I get that stuff.
Wow, the A3 bonus is pretty sweet. I was getting ~1000 ppd on my initial A3 units, and all of a sudden I hit the 10 unit bonus threshold and now I'm getting something like 5000 ppd. Which seems to be similar to what I was getting last year. 3 million points here I come!
I just discovered yesterday that I have to use both -smp and -advmethods to get anything going. Worked through a whole work unit yesterday, but only got 484 points.
I'm at about 13% on the next one and it has this:
[21:22:14] Core required: FahCore_a3.exe
So, cybertron, I assume that's the A3 you are talking about. ?
Maybe this one will generate more points. This laptop is a Core 2 Duo T8300 2.40 Ghz
Yeah, that's about what I was getting for my first ten. For whatever reason, they decided that you only start getting the bonus for these after you've completed ten. Also, you may need to set up a passkey - I guess they're trying to stop basing points solely on username since they aren't required to be unique.
Only 11. Five of them are little Shuttle X27 64bit Atom computers. (1x270 and 4x330) And let's see, I have a Core I7 920, a quad Q9650, a quad Q9400, a Core 2 Xtreme X7900, a quad Q9300, and a Core 2 something or other. I think I'm using "-advmethods -smp" on all of them.
Edit: Oh, I got a Passkey too. And, I just realized only 3 of the X27's are folding. One of them needs a new chipset fan, so it's powered down, and the other I just started up this morning, so ok, I now have 4 of them folding.
Seems like a lot of points, but there are people out there who get that many points, or more, on single machines.
And I'm still doing this on a 56K dial-up connection. The US Robotics Courier V.Everything 56K modem was a good $250+ upgrade to my system.