Very strange behaviour
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:41 pm
I have been folding now for some years and have recently encountered a very strange phenomenon.
I have been folding for the team 13790 for quite a while under the name of BILLM66 with 2 Nvida GPUs 1 X GTX290 and 1 X GTX 260 and at a peak produced around 18.000 ppd but about a month ago i started to get fluctuations in the points allocated for each WU where the WUs were being counted but very few points given.
In our small team we have a couple of guys who are knowledgeable about problems related to folding,so we attempted to rectify the situation.
I unloaded the client and restarted it, un-installed it and re-installed plus many other things too numerous to mention.
On two or three occasions this seemed to work and normal service resumed but always after a period things went downhill again so back to the drawing board.
I forgot to mention at the start of the post i also have VMware running an SMP client.
I tied everything we could think of but always the same result and i was just at a point where i was ready to throw in the towel but in a flash of inspiration or just blind fury that i could not solve this problem, i decided to switch my team just to see what if any difference it would make and i reverted to my original folding team 12072 under the name of BILLMCC66 and to my total shock the points started to roll up.
I am not a techie by any stretch of the imagination but i am unable to understand how with the same PCs and set up i can produce points for one team and not another.
At the moment i am leaving my rigs folding for 12072 as it doesn't matter so long as we help the project but i would welcome any thoughts you have or any help you can give to get me folding back on the team 13790.
Thanks
Bill
I have been folding for the team 13790 for quite a while under the name of BILLM66 with 2 Nvida GPUs 1 X GTX290 and 1 X GTX 260 and at a peak produced around 18.000 ppd but about a month ago i started to get fluctuations in the points allocated for each WU where the WUs were being counted but very few points given.
In our small team we have a couple of guys who are knowledgeable about problems related to folding,so we attempted to rectify the situation.
I unloaded the client and restarted it, un-installed it and re-installed plus many other things too numerous to mention.
On two or three occasions this seemed to work and normal service resumed but always after a period things went downhill again so back to the drawing board.
I forgot to mention at the start of the post i also have VMware running an SMP client.
I tied everything we could think of but always the same result and i was just at a point where i was ready to throw in the towel but in a flash of inspiration or just blind fury that i could not solve this problem, i decided to switch my team just to see what if any difference it would make and i reverted to my original folding team 12072 under the name of BILLMCC66 and to my total shock the points started to roll up.
I am not a techie by any stretch of the imagination but i am unable to understand how with the same PCs and set up i can produce points for one team and not another.
At the moment i am leaving my rigs folding for 12072 as it doesn't matter so long as we help the project but i would welcome any thoughts you have or any help you can give to get me folding back on the team 13790.
Thanks
Bill