Bill with your luck you should turn off your computers and go buy a stack of lotto tickets!!! congrats
You may catch Scott yet.
 
I switched out a few days ago myself, with the last three week challenge and this four week TDP. Just a couple looking for a mega badge
It is taking up way too much prime crunching season. If you factor in it is 5 months long it is one third of the cold season.

#11
Dear Primefinder,
Congratulations! Our records indicate that a computer registered by you has found a unique prime number. This computer is running BOINC, is attached to the PrimeGrid project, and is assigned to the Proth Prime Search. What makes this prime unique is that it's large enough to enter the Top 5000 List in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database.
Since you have auto-reporting selected, the following prime was submitted on your behalf:
Added 126156 : 9219*2^1524901+1 (459045 digits)
This prime was found on this workunit which will automatically show as a prime result after verification by the Largest Known Primes Database.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us and we will surely resolve any problems.
Once again, congratulations on your find! Thank you for participating in PrimeGrid.
PrimeGrid staff
 
High Score Today 2559.3103583160614  
Scott Brown is on my 6 2498.557527011102

Damn man! way to go with those finds! 

And i don't know if primegrid's computing preferences section finally started sending its configurations down but i had to change the multiprocessor settings to 1: 
otherwise it was sending down the number it was set to.. even though its set to 0 days of extra work and all that. Never had that issue before. Just a heads up.

Go to your account at the PG website. Then edit preferences, at the top set it to 0 resource share.

cool, fingers crossed that fixes it. I didn't even have this issue a few days ago. So very strange. Very very strange. 

bcavnaugh

devlin85
cool, fingers crossed that fixes it. I didn't even have this issue a few days ago. So very strange. Very very strange. 

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My other Post got moved here http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=8387&nowrap=true#127114
Funny because this one host has been doing this all year or since Posted: 7 Jan 2019
The Host was created back on 2010
https://www.primegrid.com/show_host_detail.php?hostid=153120
 
So until we run all the Failed aborted and timed out tasks this what we get.
But because PG is doing nothing about it we will have Failed aborted and timed out tasks all the time.
Normal time who cares but we are on the Clock for the MT Event going on today.

OK, my rant is over now and I feel much better.

I do not think it matters if some ones system fails, or if people delete tasks. Reason for thinking this.
Every one has the same chance of getting a recycled task, no one person is getting them all, everyone has the same odds.
A set of tasks is not sent out at the same time anyway so the first person that gets one of a set has on average a 10 to 60 minute advantage. Sometimes even longer on some projects with out heavy traffic.
The server makes a set of tasks, then those two tasks (a set) gets sent to a distribution server where the tasks can sit for a while.
The distribution server does not send the set of tasks out at the same time. It send out tasks randomly, not a set at a time. 
This is why they are not so concerned at PG over the rouge clients returning bad tasks. Everyone has the same odds of getting one.
The other one of the set maybe sent to someone else who deletes it, they can go round and round before turned in.
Finding primes suck this year? You found a dozen, I found 2 and one DC and I have ran a hundred thousand tasks.
Finding primes is a matter of luck. The more you process the better chance but it still is a matter of luck.
First getting a prime sent to you the being the first to return it.
Look at it this way Bill. You get sent the prime first and the bad client get the other task in the set. You now have the advantage!!

What % of the tasks you are processing are these recycled tasks? It can not be a very high % it is random.

True

Had to add this to global_prefs.xml and global_prefs_override.xml:
 
<work_buf_min_days>0.001000</work_buf_min_days>
<work_buf_additional_days>0.000000</work_buf_additional_days>
 
Now it grabs a task right when it uploads a finished one. I don't know what changed in the past week but all my computers started downloading as many tasks as there were cores despite it being just 0 in cache and in resource share. I didn't change anything, that's all I know. lol
 
Made it 0.001 on PG too. 

Don't know why it worked for 2 weeks. But making it .001 days of work did the trick for me lol. 

#14
Dear Primefinder,
Congratulations! Our records indicate that a computer registered by you has found a unique prime number. This computer is running BOINC, is attached to the PrimeGrid project, and is assigned to the Generalized Fermat Prime Search n=16 (GFN-16). What makes this prime unique is that it's large enough to enter the Top 5000 List in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database.
Since you have auto-reporting selected, the following prime was submitted on your behalf:
Added 126190 : 55292592^65536+1 (507424 digits)
This prime was found on this workunit which will automatically show as a prime result after verification by the Largest Known Primes Database.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us and we will surely resolve any problems.
Once again, congratulations on your find! Thank you for participating in PrimeGrid.
PrimeGrid staff
 

Keep on chugging Bill! You might get to 17 after all 

This is odd
https://www.primegrid.com/workunit.php?wuid=600136042
Now running 2 Doublechecker Tasks

Woot!  Thanks for the backup RobbySites!
Maybe I can return the favor. :)

bcavnaugh
 for Mektacular  T5K, task 
 
 507477   (log₁₀ is 507476.763211795)
Cool I think but robbysites was the Doublechecker
That is what I call Teamwork

2019 Tour de Primes -- Hard Luck Edition