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After a 2nd look, the hard drive shouldn't spin down since the client is writing a check point and updating the fahlog every 15 minutes. Something else spun down to power saving mode, or something took over, like an AV scan. It's also possible a memory glitch or something else put the client in a l...

Hello Bruce, Because you missed the deadline, the same WU was reassigned to someone else who has successfully returned it: The WU (P6897 R378 C2 G4) was added to the stats database on 2012-03-26 05:04:23 for 135 points of credit. Oh.. that's really bad luck, as when I started Folding@Home again, it ...

To Joe_H: Thank you for your message, which I am quoting. I doubt the problem was related to drive spin down. Yes, whoops - I got a bit confused about what I was trying to say, there. Rather than the problem being caused by the drive spinning-down, I think I meant that the drive spinning-down meant ...

Hello, Oh - that's a pity, but it was taking so long to process that I thought that something was amiss. Unfortunately I lack the knowledge to disable the spin-down, because the drive is a USB-connected hard drive. If I use hdparm to address it (I'm using Ubuntu 10.04) I get various errors, dependin...

Greetings, My FAH client (Linux 6.02) is taking a very long time to process this WU. It takes so long that the hard drive spins down and the computer just sits there, using lots of CPU. After a week of processing the same WU, I deleted it from the queue, but just got it back again when I restarted F...

Hello Bruce, Thanks - I am beginning to understand this a bit more now. I didn't think it would be a simple matter of 'bad unit - delete forever!' but when this happened before, I was assigned the same bad WU for about a month solid, and the FAH client was just going around in a loop: load, process,...

Hello PantherX,

Thanks for that, and for explaining why unit is reassigned; I'll keep watching this topic.

There I was, thinking that I'd hit my limit for bad WUs this year (I had one a few months ago), when along comes another one... This log has been edited to remove verbose, repetitive sections (marked with '...'). As stated before, the 'usb_disk' referred to is an ATA hard drive on a USB adaptor. ---...

Thank you - it's good to know that I can get help and advice from those on this forum; should anything else occur, I know where to look.

Lex

To HendricksSA, Regarding 'User disabled assembly optimizations': that was something that I tried after a number of consecutive core failures. Having read the FAH FAQ and not being familiar with the forum, I disabled this feature in case it was incompatible with my system - it's a long shot, I know,...

Thank you for all of your help with this; I am happy to say that my computer is now processing WUs again, and it has done two since I last checked it: Project 6880 (Run 669, Clone 2, Gen 116) and Project 6887 (Run 638, Clone 15, Gen 122); it is currently processing Project 6887 (Run 638, Clone 15, G...

Mod Edit: Copy From (viewtopic.php?f=44&t=18463) - PantherX Thank you all for replying, and I apologise for the late reply - I didn't get an email to tell me that there had been replies. Here is the log (FAHlog-Prev.txt): --- Opening Log file [April 22 22:23:19] # Linux Console Edition ########...