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This WU is too large. Instead of a reasonable 250,000 steps, the log reported over 7,000,000 steps! My Mac Mini got a hold of this WU and gave a projected completion time of 40+ days Currently, I am not Folding on this client as every time I connect to the Assignment Server, I receive this WU. Maybe someone with 16 cores can finish it in time, but not my Core 2 Duo...

Could someone in the SMP group examine this WU, please, and pull it?

When a WU is unreasonably bigger than its clones, it's a bad WU. I'll go mark it bad.

Meanwhile, check your queue.dat to make sure you have no other WU waiting to be sent back to stanford.
If you have none, then delete your queue.dat and work folder, and change your machine ID. Then restart folding. The server will think your machine is a new one and will probably not reassign you the problem WU.

(Later, after checking the database) Oh wow. Someone else FINISHED this WU uneventfully and logged it into the server at 2009-04-11 00:11:27. That must mean, first, that multiple copies of this WU were issued, and second, that they were not all the same OR that something outside the WU itself established the length of the unit as your machine read it. Very strange.

I"ll definitely tell the PG about this one. Meanwhile, please check that the WU you reported was really the correct one - post a bit of its FAHlog.txt here for incontrovertible proof -- then scrub it out of your system as I explained above, and start over with a different WU.

Thanks Foxery for reporting this very strange occurrence!

I already blew away the FAHlog.txt, queue.dat, etc., so I can't post it here, sorry. BTW, this isn't the first ginormous WU I've received, but it certainly took the cake. The 40 days to complete was InCrease's estimate based on the 2 days my Mac Mini had spent to get to 3%...

Thanks for taking care of this; my Mini is now Folding P2669r1c80g112, a nice, normal 250,000 step WU.