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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/03/27 18:14:50
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You might need an account to view that particular forum thread. It loads just fine for me when logged in.
Already had an account...Smookin_Joe Just reached out to one of the mods Wish me luck Hopefully the slight difference in user name won't cause a problem... Joe
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/03/28 08:12:20
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How are some people getting WUs? Is there some kind of work-around or setting that we're missing? Looking at the stat pages, I find it hard to believe that these are random assignments.
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/03/28 08:29:00
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Advanced or beta flags for me. occasionally pausing and restarting. It really is just down to the limits if the main assign servers. They can only handle so many connections per hour and you can see the assign1 gets upwards of 40k transfers per hour. The assign2 server picks up the slack. The WS servers actually send you the actual work units and those mostly top out at 28k for the main one and half that for the others. As the extra servers cone online, especially that linustechtips server, the capability of doling out more units will increase greatly.
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/03/28 09:18:12
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Advanced or beta flags for me. occasionally pausing and restarting. It really is just down to the limits if the main assign servers. They can only handle so many connections per hour and you can see the assign1 gets upwards of 40k transfers per hour. The assign2 server picks up the slack. The WS servers actually send you the actual work units and those mostly top out at 28k for the main one and half that for the others. As the extra servers cone online, especially that linustechtips server, the capability of doling out more units will increase greatly.
I just turned my beta flags back on...one computer 3 slots had no WU's..other had 2 out of 3 WU's
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/03/28 09:59:38
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Its been about three days for consistent wu's for me. I haven't tried on my second rig though.
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/03/28 10:32:44
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I had a little lull about 2 days ago. Consistent WUs since.
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/03/28 11:01:32
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SmookinJoe
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/03/28 20:22:55
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lol... Just can't stand the 2 cpu slots not workin I need help...shouldn't bother me but... Just sayin SMH... Sigh Guess I should remove one of them Sorry for the Rant Thought I would share...
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/03/29 09:01:34
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My slots are staying pretty full lately. It seems like the servers are catching up.
What's this about cpu slots. I run a cpu slot on 1 system. It has no problem maxing out 6 cores. So making 1 slot per 6 to 8 cores should get you solid work. I turn off hyperthreading and the like.
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/03/29 10:27:55
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My slots are staying pretty full lately. It seems like the servers are catching up.
What's this about cpu slots. I run a cpu slot on 1 system. It has no problem maxing out 6 cores. So making 1 slot per 6 to 8 cores should get you solid work. I turn off hyperthreading and the like.
I only have one slot for the cpu When I first created a folding computer it didn't have a gpu in it and the FAH installer only gave it one slot. Should I create more slots, for the cpu? It now has 1 cpu, and 2 gpu slots. Oh I guess I should mention the 2 cpu's were for 2 different computers. 2 computers...2 cpu slots...4 gpu slots total I wasn't getting much gpu work (consistent) until I turned the beta flag back on...
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/03/29 14:02:07
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I misunderstood then.
I've been getting very consistent work now.
You probably shouldn't worry about it too much.
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/03/31 17:38:59
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My rig out in the shop has had activity almost all day, yet my GPU on my gaming rig has had very little.
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/03/31 17:49:53
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OK I feel this may be kinda dumb but I have one 1080 that has been having trouble getting work. I've done the pause/fold a few times and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. But, (now for the dumb part) I have had success 5 times in a row now and figured I'd share and see if it works for anyone else.
Right click on the "ready" card>pause
wait about 5-10 seconds and left click finish at the top
wait another 5-10 seconds and click fold
Mine has picked up work at the next attempt all 5 times. Witchcraft lol
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/03/31 18:05:30
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I swear it's vodou. It worked for me.
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/04/01 06:31:37
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Nothing over here. Either there's so many folders and no work left or something's wrong with their backend OR the scientists are occupied with the virus, understandably so since we aren't seeing much regular work.
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/04/01 06:51:00
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I ended up putting the beta flag back on that 1080 and its been non stop.
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/04/01 06:58:23
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Beta flag for me has bought back constant WU's
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/04/01 07:32:33
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/04/01 07:55:23
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ec2spot should nick name this person = Hoover - they a sucking up a LOT of WU ..... 29 March they did ~ 37,000 WU - 2.57 Billion Points in 1 day
amazing what 25,000 servers, CPUs ... whatever can do .... https://stats.foldingathome.org/donor/ec2spot
That is quite a few clients. Hahahaha. Definitely a WU vacuum.
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/04/03 11:50:53
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With a "National Emergency" declared yesterday ... by the President [No political replies - TOS  ]
Time for FaHd to have those severs Hosted by the Pros .... Get Google, Microsoft, Amazon ... to step up and run this Professionally
It is beyond irksome - that I want to Help with some reasonably high end "home" equipment ... and I cant get a WU because Sanford is mismanaging their work
edit: replace "Stanford" with FaH ... cause Servers are not at Stanford now
Actually, if you look at the " Server Status Page" several of them actually are hosted on Azure servers. Linus has even spun up an assignment server because he was made aware of the WU shortage with all the uptick of demand. He appears to be live and working now. I think we also need to keep in mind that most of the people managing this are grad students and volunteers.
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/04/03 12:55:41
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I've figured out I just need to stay up all night to restart my client. My GPU apparently sleep when I do.
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/04/03 13:01:03
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I've figured out I just need to stay up all night to restart my client. My GPU apparently sleep when I do.
beta flag it
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/04/03 13:18:17
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The advanced flag is probably better for most folks. Most units work through the beta quickly and the chance of really bad units still exists in beta.
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/04/03 13:19:46
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The advanced flag is probably better for most folks. Most units work through the beta quickly and the chance of really bad units still exists in beta.
ok Just sayin to Flag it...lol Remember I know nothin
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/04/03 16:48:24
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So to add a flag, open Advanced Control.
Select Configure, click the expert tab.
Add a flag with the little plus symbol.
Name it Client-type
Enter Advanced as the value.
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/04/03 16:49:55
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So to add a flag, open Advanced Control.
Select Configure, click the expert tab.
Add a flag with the little plus symbol.
Name it Client-type
Enter Advanced as the value.
And ipkha what would the Advanced option do? Just curious...I know the beta isn't giving me an issue...
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/04/03 16:58:54
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Beta are usually first run units. They have been known to fail. So it is a risk to your production and points. Advanced gets you tested units that were checked in the limited beta run but can still sometimes fail.
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SmookinJoe
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/04/03 17:01:18
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Full Advanced in field or just Adv?
I can try it on one of the cards..
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Re: Anyone else having trouble getting work tonight..
2020/04/03 17:36:45
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