Is someone piggybacking my username?

[jl1176]

my stats page says I have 3 active client with in 7/50 days.
Problem is that I have only 2 client working (SMP and GPU) pass couple months.
Although there were some people trying to use my username, they tried with team name so it wasn't a great concern.
But, now some one seems to got comfortable with my username.
Is there any way to find out whether someone is piggybacking my user name?

Also I just got my passkey for my user name for this matter, but as far as I understand, only points afterwards are credited towards my ID/PK, right?

Donator rank of 3k isn't that impressive, but still it is "fruit" of my effort. I want to keep those.

Any advice about this matter?

[Zagen30]

Well, the stats system is in the process of being transferred to new hardware, so funky things could be going on. Earlier today my stats said I had 22 active in the last 50 days and 15 active in the last 7, even though I know only had 12 active this past week and don't believe I've shut off 7 clients in the past 1.5 months. As of right now that's dropped to 21/14, and I can't remember ending a client exactly 50 days ago. I'd say wait a couple days until the transfer has been completed before getting too worried.

[PantherX]

I too just checked my stats page (stanford) and found that in the last 50 days i have 7 active clients and 6 active clients for the last 7 days. I have the following setup:
Desktop:
1X Folding@Home 6.23 For CPU With System Tray Icon (uni-processor)
1X Folding@Home 6.23 For Nvidia GPU With System Tray Icon
Laptop:
1X Folding@Home 6.23 For CPU With System Tray Icon (uni-processor)

Username is PantherX and I am with team 69411. I have been using the passkey since I started F@H. I do check my points and they are exactly what i have submitted so was hoping that someone can shed some light on this matter.

Thanks for your help

EDIT- this also happened to me also on the old db, back in November

[P5-133XL]

The number of CPU's is related to reconfigures. Each time you reconfig and change the machineID, you'll get another CPU added. So if you do a lot of reinstalls, or reconfigs then you will have lots of CPU's even if there aren't.

[PantherX]

Didn't know that. i did a complete reformatting of laptop and desktop so that could the reason why.
Thanks a lot P5-133XL

[cdb]

Mine says 10cpus. I have 1xI7 860 running bigadvs and 4x8800gt gpus. I've only had one reconfigure (no machine id change) to update the smp thingy on vmware, so that still leaves 4 unaccounted for.

[Pette Broad]

My CPU figures are vastly inflated. I haven't done any reconfigs for maybe a year yet it says 135 CPU's in the last 50 days If this is typical then I'd say the active total CPU count for the project is out by miles. I do have 120 listed in FAHSpy but I haven't used about 50 of them in 18 months, just old Athlon and Duron XP socket A machines most of which either got sold or broken up for spares....I suspect that 135 figure is close to my total contibution going back to when I started in 2003.

Pete

[ChelseaOilman]

Thanks for pointing this out. I've spotted a glitch that's causing peoples CPU counts to go up and have reported it.