Two questions from a newbie

[maxorsson]

Hello there,

Two fast questions for you,
1st> I am using an AMDx64 machine with win10 installed on it, but F@H says I'm using a Win32 OS. Why is his?
2nd> Is it possible to edit lets say a cfg file where I can define which kind of WUs I want to compute? I want to avoid project 18806 WUs.
Thank you!

[calxalot]

Client uses win32 api, despite being a 64-bit app. Servers expect platform to be win32.

No. You can’t specify particular projects. You can specify a preferred cause.

[maxorsson]

No. You can’t specify particular projects. You can specify a preferred cause.
Define this a little more clear, please.

[calxalot]

Please read the guide.
https://foldingathome.org/guides/v8-4-client-guide/

[maxorsson]

This link does not help me at all, my question was Is it possible somehow to disable downloading specific WUs?

[calxalot]

I said no. Unless you want to play with blocking ip addresses.
Why do you want to block assignments of that project?

[calxalot]

If the assignment is inappropriate for your configuration, you need to post what your hardware is and how your client is configured.

It is possible that the constraints for that project need to be adjusted.

[arisu]

I said no. Unless you want to play with blocking ip addresses.
Why do you want to block assignments of that project?

Wouldn't blocking IPs cause the WU to expire and be counted as failed? Or does the timeout and deadline only start ticking once the WU is downloaded, and not after the assignment tells the client where to find its assigned WU?

[calxalot]

Yes probably.
Timeout and deadline are calculated from assignment time.

So, bad idea.
I know someone was doing it anyway.
They maybe don’t care about random failed units.

[arisu]

Yes probably.
Timeout and deadline are calculated from assignment time.

So, bad idea.
I know someone was doing it anyway.

It might be that the assignment times out very shortly (within minutes?) if the WU isn't downloaded. I say this because sometimes, a WU server will give me a 503 please wait error (maybe due to a VPN rate-limit). The client will then contact a different assignment server and will receive an entirely new assignment, basically ignoring the first one rather than re-trying the download. And yet no failed WUs have showed up on my bonus stats many days later.

Which also makes me think the client should probably retry the work server if it gets a 503 from a work server, instead of pretending the assignment it got seconds ago never happened and asking for an entire new assignment.

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20:08:18:I1:WU162:Folding@home Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT                                                                             
20:08:19:I1:WU162:Core returned FINISHED_UNIT (100)                                                                                     
20:08:19:I1:Default:Added new work unit: cpus:7 gpus:         
20:08:19:I1:WU162:Uploading WU results                        
20:08:19:I1:WU164:Requesting WU assignment for user Grimoire_of_Lolice team 230362                                                      
20:08:19:I2:OUT30:> CONNECT vav21.fah.temple.edu:443 HTTP/1.1                                                                           
20:08:19:I2:OUT31:> CONNECT assign1.foldingathome.org:443 HTTP/1.1
20:08:19:I1:WU162:UPLOAD 100% 77B of 77B                                                                                                
20:08:20:I2:OUT31:> POST /api/assign HTTP/1.1                    
20:08:20:I2:OUT30:> POST /api/results HTTP/1.1                                                                                          
20:08:21:I1:WU162:UPLOAD 100% 6.25MiB of 6.26MiB                                                                                        
20:08:21:I2:OUT31:< HTTP/1.1 200 HTTP_OK                      
20:08:21:I1:WU164:Received WU assignment zhMNYI95IaCoSvZEurBTpX-bakAtTiDAh2wZGD97lxY                                                    
20:08:21:I1:WU164:Downloading WU                                                                                                        
20:08:21:I2:OUT32:> CONNECT vav17.fah.temple.edu:443 HTTP/1.1                                                                           
20:08:22:I1:WU164:DOWNLOAD 100% 19B of 19B                                                                                              
20:08:22:I2:OUT32:> POST /api/assign HTTP/1.1                                                                                           
20:08:32:I2:OUT30:< HTTP/1.1 200 HTTP_OK                      
20:08:32:I1:WU162:Credited                                                                                                              
20:08:32:I1:WU164:DOWNLOAD 100% 231B of 231B                                                                                            
20:08:33:I2:OUT32:< HTTP/1.1 503 HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE     
20:08:33:E :OUT32:HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: {"error":{"message":"Please wait","code":503}}                                              
20:08:33:I1:WU164:Retry #1 in 2 secs                          
20:08:35:I1:WU164:Requesting WU assignment for user Grimoire_of_Lolice team 230362                                                                                                                                                                                              
20:08:35:I2:OUT33:> CONNECT assign2.foldingathome.org:443 HTTP/1.1
20:08:35:I2:OUT33:> POST /api/assign HTTP/1.1                                                                                           
20:08:37:I2:OUT33:< HTTP/1.1 200 HTTP_OK                                                                                                
20:08:37:I1:WU164:Received WU assignment 7UsnBFIMfmlVIotDiesvxTjQRG4Zt45AyIs0de23lfk                                                    
20:08:37:I1:WU164:Downloading WU                                                                                                        
20:08:37:I2:OUT34:> CONNECT highland1.seas.upenn.edu:443 HTTP/1.1
20:08:38:I1:WU164:DOWNLOAD 100% 19B of 19B
20:08:38:I2:OUT34:> POST /api/assign HTTP/1.1
20:08:39:I1:WU164:DOWNLOAD 100% 219B of 219B
20:08:41:I1:WU164:DOWNLOAD 15% 914.61KiB of 5.79MiB
20:08:42:I1:WU164:DOWNLOAD 28% 1.63MiB of 5.79MiB
20:08:43:I1:WU164:DOWNLOAD 43% 2.51MiB of 5.79MiB
20:08:44:I1:WU164:DOWNLOAD 62% 3.61MiB of 5.79MiB
20:08:45:I1:WU164:DOWNLOAD 83% 4.83MiB of 5.79MiB
20:08:46:I1:WU164:DOWNLOAD 100% 5.79MiB of 5.79MiB
20:08:46:I2:OUT34:< HTTP/1.1 200 HTTP_OK
20:08:46:I1:WU164:Received WU P18240 R909 C4 G116
20:08:46:I3:Running FahCore: /var/lib/fah-client/cores/fahcore-a8-lin-64bit-avx2_256-0.0.12/FahCore_a8 -dir 7UsnBFIMfmlVIotDiesvxTjQRG4Zt45AyIs0de23lfk -suffix 01 -version 8.4.10 -lifeline 903868 -np 7