Folding Forum

Something very strange is going on...
I normally have 5 folding clients active 24/7 ( 3 GPUs and 1 CPU in 1 machine then 1 CPU in my work laptop on the NaCl folding software)

This registers as 5 clients on the F@H contributions website.

Occasionally I have a GTX680 also folding (generally on FATs) and this adds a 6th client.

Today the contributions page is showing that I have 7 clients folding...but I have not personally added anything!

has anyone else seen a jump in the number of clients active in last 7 or 50 days?

Cheers,

Mitche01

EDIT - OK someone is folding for me!! I have just received 21k and none of my clients are due to score that (3 gpus are at 70%, 23%, 64% on core 17 9202 WUs - normallscore around 16k for my 650tis) my CPU in the folding rig is at 97% for a 1.4k score and my NaCl folder doesnt score more than 625 an hour!

All I can say is thank you to whoever is folding on my username/team/passkey!!

Oh and how the heck they get that!!! - I have not emailed anyone this information

It is highly unlikely someone can use your passkey, unless you actually display it in a post or give it to them.

Sometimes what we consider to be a minor configuration change can cause what you're seeing. You say you have one NACL client running but I can see 3 different CPUid that have returns for 125 points over the last 3 days. Any time the CPUid changes your count will go up. If you make absolutely no changes during the next 7 days your count will probably return to what you would consider normal.

One example that could cause this is a re-install of Chrome ... this would cause your count to be inflated for 7 days as the newly installed software would identify your client differently.

Hi Bollix47,

I could account of the change in CPU-ID as was upgraded to Win7 ar work so did re-install the software (inc chrome).

So that is 2 CPU ids accounted for.

What isnt accounted for is the score of 21k. Nothing I am monitoring would have scored that at the time in which I received the score!

The addition of the following two returns plus a few 125 point units and the total would be ~21K.

Hi Mitche01 (team 37726),
Your WU (P9202 R70 C2 G165) was added to the stats database on 2014-09-25 02:04:46 for 16776 points of credit.
Hi Mitche01 (team 37726),
Your WU (P7504 R16 C193 G90) was added to the stats database on 2014-09-25 02:13:02 for 3741.64 points of credit.

You should be able to find the above in you current or previous logs.

I will have to double check the log when I get home.

I am still unsure of how a re-install of chrome would jump the client count from 5 to 7 though...surely that is only 5 to 6?