Hello! I'm new here so I hope you will go easy on me. I started folding about 4 days ago, and everything seems to be running smoothly, but I have noticed one peculiarity that I haven't been able to quite get my head around. I had been checking my stats by clicking on my name from the V7 client control panel. It would bring up the FAH stat page with my name and how many work units I had completed etc. etc. with seemingly instant updates whenever I'd complete a unit. But at one point, while I was on the stat page, I ran a search for my passkey instead of my name and the stats that came up were 5 work units shy of what my stats were when I searched for my name. I initially chalked it up to lag between the server and my specific passkey, or something like that. So I went a day without doing any folding to see if the stats that were pulling up with my passkey would catch up to the ones my name was pulling up. They didn't. I've been folding all day today and both stats seems to be updating without fail but my name is still 5 work units ahead of my passkey. I mean, it's not the end of the world. I'm more curious about it than anything. I just hope my little inquiry wasn't too rudimentary, so let me apologize if I bored you with my story.
Thanks!
Is this normal? *Question about stats*
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Re: Is this normal? *Question about stats*
Welcome to foldingforum.org, rossalthor.
The passkey is optional, so it's possible to submit WUs without a passkey and submit them with a passkey. Thus there can be WUs which match both your Name and Passkey or which match only one of them.
There is a lag between submitting a result and it being added to the stats. Typically it happens soon after the top of the next hour, but not always. I have never seen a different lag, though, based on whether the passkey was recorded or not. I assume that the difference is actually what go credited.
One possible explanation is that perhaps early in your folding process you changed or added the passkey resulting in different totals.
Another possible explanation is that you've completed some WUs for which a passkey is not used. I have not tested it recently, but at one time, the servers that distribute WUs for the GPU didn't use a passkey so if that's still true, that could indicate that those servers have not yet been updated. The passkey is certainly recorded by any server which distributes WUs that earn bonus points which includes all SMP assignments, many Uniprocessor assignments, and does not yet include GPU assignments.
The passkey is optional, so it's possible to submit WUs without a passkey and submit them with a passkey. Thus there can be WUs which match both your Name and Passkey or which match only one of them.
There is a lag between submitting a result and it being added to the stats. Typically it happens soon after the top of the next hour, but not always. I have never seen a different lag, though, based on whether the passkey was recorded or not. I assume that the difference is actually what go credited.
One possible explanation is that perhaps early in your folding process you changed or added the passkey resulting in different totals.
Another possible explanation is that you've completed some WUs for which a passkey is not used. I have not tested it recently, but at one time, the servers that distribute WUs for the GPU didn't use a passkey so if that's still true, that could indicate that those servers have not yet been updated. The passkey is certainly recorded by any server which distributes WUs that earn bonus points which includes all SMP assignments, many Uniprocessor assignments, and does not yet include GPU assignments.
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Re: Is this normal? *Question about stats*
Thanks for your lightning quick response, bruce!
From my point of view your last paragraph seems to be the perfect explanation. I created and entered my passkey before installing the v7 client, and then as soon as I saw that it was running, I shut off my monitor and forgot about it for 2 days before checking my progress. So given that fact there's no way I could have fiddled with my passkey by accident or otherwise.
My mind has been eased, thanks!
From my point of view your last paragraph seems to be the perfect explanation. I created and entered my passkey before installing the v7 client, and then as soon as I saw that it was running, I shut off my monitor and forgot about it for 2 days before checking my progress. So given that fact there's no way I could have fiddled with my passkey by accident or otherwise.
My mind has been eased, thanks!