How often are stats updated? One hour? Three hours?

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agrikk
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How often are stats updated? One hour? Three hours?

Post by agrikk »

On the F@H statistics page (https://foldingathome.org/statistics/) it says "The donor and team stats are updated every hour, although this can be delayed if there were a lot of work units to come back during that hour. "

But on the stats-teams-usernames page (https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/s ... usernames/) it says "These files are updated every 3 hours."

What is correct?
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Re: How often are stats updated? One hour? Three hours?

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I think it is 3 hours, I know EOC updates every 3 hours

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Re: How often are stats updated? One hour? Three hours?

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Stats seems to be updated more often, maybe once in an hour to varying degrees, EOC from stats database once in 3 hours.

They both are usually always late.

It doesn't matter in long term.
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Re: How often are stats updated? One hour? Three hours?

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TPL wrote:Stats seems to be updated more often, maybe once in an hour to varying degrees, EOC from stats database once in 3 hours.

They both are usually always late.

It doesn't matter in long term.
It does matter to me as I am building a folding site and want to know how often I should pull the stats files.

So somewhere between one and three hours then. :roll:
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Re: How often are stats updated? One hour? Three hours?

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There is an article on EOC Folding Stats pages where the person who runs it states it is currently every 3 hrs the main stats update …https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ … 2nd down article "Why do things break …"
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Re: How often are stats updated? One hour? Three hours?

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They slowed the updates down to help the stats server load.
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Re: How often are stats updated? One hour? Three hours?

Post by Crawdaddy79 »

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but the text file for all stats is updated every three hours.

Buried here under "How can I get a copy of all current stats?": https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/s ... usernames/
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Re: How often are stats updated? One hour? Three hours?

Post by bruce »

agrikk wrote:It does matter to me as I am building a folding site and want to know how often I should pull the stats files.

So somewhere between one and three hours then. :roll:
There are two methods of obtaining the stats from foldingathome.org. You can query the database directly and you can download the flat-files. Those flat-files are generated explicitly for those who which to obtain up-to-date snapshots of the entire db. The other 3rd party stats sites do download the flat files every three hours. A direct query of the database should not be used in a script in an attempt to get more frequest updates.

The stats are maintained in a massive database and the computer resources required to add each hour's updates can be delayed by excessive random queries.
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