Sounds right to me. For the most part, GPUs have higher PPD these days, except if you can get a high end CPU and -bigadv gets way more PPD.

rjbelans

The 40 min. may not be accurate for the current wu. Have you looked directly at the log file to see if it has updated?

 
I got it to register the correct % complete. I shutdown the tracker and rebooted my system. When everything came back up and restarted, the % complete jumped from 39% to 51%. If all else fails, reboot! 
 
Thanks for the reply! I appreciate it. 

Another tracker problem,
I'm at work and noticed my rig was down so I had my wife fire it back up. When she clicked on the tracker shortcut, it disappeared. Gone. No where to be found, what could have caused this?
I had her reboot the rig, no luck. It's not in the tray it's just gone.
 
Well, I got home this morning and yes the icon was gone. Easy fix though but weird why it would disappear.

jakeace1

I could not find a way to monitor other clients... like a 2nd computer. Is that possible for this program?

 
The Tracker can only monitor the clients that it controls on the local machine. For remote monitoring use HFM.NET.

Antecbuilder

I have a few questions: 

I'm seeing 17k PPD from each of my 580's, is that about right? Also, would enabling SLI in the control panel increase the PPD or can I even have it enabled as I know some folding workload don't work if you have it enabled. 

I just want to make sure here about one other thing, SMP is basically the CPU right? Because I've noticed everyone's says the CPU is disabled despite knowing it isn't in the Setup. 

Those numbers sound about right for stock clocks. SLI on/off should not affect your PPD, but some people have had problems when folding with SLI on. If it works fine with SLI on for you, you can have it whichever way you want.
 
In Tracker, CPU folding refers to uniprocessor (single core) folding. Yes SMP is using the CPU, but with as many of the core as you tell it to use.

As far as the science goes, yes it's worth it.
 
For you personally, you have to make that decision. Is it worth it to you to do them for the power that the unit uses.
 
I believe I have heard that they get more like 1000-1100 PPD for most people.

You could start a new thread about it and solicit advice from other folders on it.
 
Many people don't come into this thread too often and it's probably best not to hijack it for too long.

Sounds like you are saying you restarted the computer? If so, did you stop all clients and exit Tracker before shutting down? And Do you have Tracker set to start any clients automatically?

2. Or having clients start when you start the Tracker.
 
 
It almost sounds like it is trying to run SMP folding twice at the same time. Can you stop all clients and wait for a bit (30 sec.). Then go into Task Manager and look at the processes to see if there are any FAH....exe or FahCore_...exe files still listed. If there are, you need to stop them by ending the FAH...exe processes, the FahCore ones should automatically disappear once the Fah ones are stopped. Then you should be able to start the clients in Tracker again.
 
This could be caused by not shutting them down properly before the restart, or if you had past installations of F@H before you started to use Tracker that may be getting started on boot.

Just remember to shut down properly from now on.

It's easier to diagnose these things when you've seen them first hand before.

jakeace1

I was prompted today if I wanted to update to the newest version of the tracker, I opted yes and after it installed and I rebooted when I start the clients I get two command prompt windows opening one for the FAH GPU Tracker V2\FAH.EXE and one for FAH GPU Tracker V2\FAH_GPU3.EXE and it will not let me close they windows. When I try it closes and pops right back up with the normal boot-up info then shows [link=mailto:Folding@home]Folding@home[/link] Core shutdown: Client_Died.  Can the Command Prompt windows be removed from coming up so that it is only the tracker running?

 
Did you check the box for "Disable hiding clients" in the Tracker's config? That option will cause this exact behavior and it is intended for troubleshooting only.

I currently get a wrong PPD prediction with my current 6900 bigadv workunit. I get a PPD of 4,914 but HFM correctly shows it as 44,000 PPD. This didn't happen with my previous 6900 workunit and restarting the tracker doesn't change it.
 
I love the program and will always use it to setup and run my clients but I hope the PPD can be fixed.

Junglekorak

Jedi...

Little problem.
So far the whole thing is working great, but I noticed that when my first SMP done. I got 8955 Point,
but client stats shows that I have generated 64.854 points on SMP. (only 8955 is correct)

I think that counting my points that time, it someway counted to my SMP and GPU points also to SMP totals.
All Clients showing 157k, while my GPU stats are 92.388 points

GPU 92388 + SMP 8955 are the correct points.

 
This is a regional settings issue, 64.854 - 64,854 and 92.388 = 92,388. Also, the reason the SMP points show more than expected is because of bonus points. There is absolutely no way to tell if a user is eligible for bonus points so the Tracker assumes that all WUs returned within the deadline will receive bonus points.

Version 3.47 has been released.
 
This version corrects a number of issues with psummary and the Tracker's own internal projects list. The most significant problems include bonus points calculation being applied to WUs that don't have bonus points and the last line of psummary being ignored.