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I've got three work units hanging around that won't upload to that server, and no WU's being assigned. Time to shut the client down... :( 02:26:21:WARNING:WU00:FS01:Exception: Failed to send results to work server: 10001: Server responded: HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE 02:26:22:WARNING:WU02:FS01:Exceptio...

Thread resurrection. Just an update - on my dual-core or PIII machines, I changed the CPU slot to be uni-processor then over-ride the NT parm using the expert configuration setting to be NT=2. On my work desktop, the cpu slot is set to two threads and I over-ride it to be NT=4. BUT - if it's a core ...

This could play a part but to what extent, is anybody's guess. And there is the problem - the data to measure what is going on across the whole community doesn't seem to exist. I contribute three machines, and two of them have been dumping work units because they miss the expiration time - what per...

I'd actually made that post in the "number of active folders going down?" thread, as I was wondering if this was because the failure rate had increased leading to people dropping out. ie. If Fahclient V6 defaults to single threading and works, then people install fahclient7 with SMP and it...

Out of interest - and because I don't know where to look - what is the %age of WU's being assigned that are missing the timeout/expiration by month? I've only been folding since last August but have moved up into the top 10% of contributors - but recently most of my efforts have been wasted because ...

I read the FAQ's, there's nothing that I would call "definitive" re. expected hours, hardware selection etc. After going through the logs on the three machines I "donate" time from, only the 24x7 box has had much chance of completing work recently, the dual AMD box at home (which...

... FAH looks at your hardware config, and client settings, and sends work that it expects the client can complete by folding an average amount of hours per day. If you have slower hardware, or only fold part time, or run other applications at the same time, the defininition of average is not the s...

SMP WUs have shorter deadlines and are usually meant for systems that are powered on for several hours a day. UNI WUs on the other hand, have longer deadlines and are more suited for systems that run few hours a day. Thus, with longer deadlines, you have plenty of time to finish WUs. Moreover, v6 b...

Assuring the client is meeting the deadlines has always been up to the donor, not the project. There is no way for fah to know you only fold a few hours a day, or that you run resource intensive applications in addition to fah. Thats like asking your car to get good gas mileage while towing a huge ...

So... I set it to do uni-processing, and I won't get any SMP WU's? I don't see how this deals with the underlying issue. Given my 24x7 box will have trouble finishing the current WU before the eight day timeout (unlikely now, as I have to power it down tomorrow night for a power outage), how many de...

Horribly laggy desktop response, and the VM desktop (another copy of Win7) becomes non-responsive. Despite the process priority being "low", Win7 doesn't appear to work well with fahclient, and at times I'm forced to set folding to "idle" or "off" to get work done. And ...

My calculation are based on steps completed vs minutes taken, then compared against the timeout/expiration date. I've removed CPU affinity from my normal desktop (not used on the dedicated box), I'll see how I go with the current WU (Project 8583) on the 4-way. By my calculation, it will take 39.09 ...

And, while I'm on the subject, I just had a look at my 'other' pc which is used to drive some screens up on the wall - so it's available 24x7 running on an old hyper-threaded P4 @ 3.2GHz where it gets > 90% of the processor. The current WU will probably just miss the timeout after 8.5 days of proces...

As mentioned in another thread, I recently had to dump a series of work units recently because not only couldn't I complete within the timeout limit, they wouldn't make it before hitting the expiration limit either. The box is a quad-core, it's available for ~ 8.5 hours per day, and a lot of the tim...

...The timeout and expiration limits are not sufficient. The current work unit required approximately 32 hours of processing in 6 days before the expiration limit, it's Friday, it's not going to complete. I dumped my previous work unit after a week of processing because it wasn't going to complete ...