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Checking FH work units for errors??

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Duvie

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Is there a program or a standard bench unit that FH has that users especially overclocked users can use to test the validity of the work units they are completing???

I am prime stable tested for 24 hours and memtested for 12 hours but I have been folding nonstop for 8 days now and I have never ran prime that long....What if I would have prime95 errored at 25th hour???


I would like to know if there is a way to check it for errors....

A good older protein out of circulation and completed could be good to have ppl check the system....
 
Originally posted by Duvie
Is there a program or a standard bench unit that FH has that users especially overclocked users can use to test the validity of the work units they are completing???

I am prime stable tested for 24 hours and memtested for 12 hours but I have been folding nonstop for 8 days now and I have never ran prime that long....What if I would have prime95 errored at 25th hour???


I would like to know if there is a way to check it for errors....

A good older protein out of circulation and completed could be good to have ppl check the system....
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Hey, don't worry about it. :) If you can prime for 24 hrs straight, your CPU is doing math correctly. Even at stock, or underclocked, a CPU might make a mistake every now and then, so there's probably a basic ECC code built into the software or into the server software. :) Basically, your units are valid if you can torture test Prime that long. ;) If you error once or twice in Prime, say, a minor error, it's not a big deal. If you get major errors running Prime (once, I got Windows to boot at 2.5 ghz on my Barton, Prime CTW[crashed to Windows] within 2 seconds of opening Prime), or lots of errors running Prime, it's a different story.

Thank you for asking, though. It shows that you actually care... :D
 
Well I did that awhile ago when I set up the system...You know crap changes as oc'd components stress and may start degrading....

I am thinking abot that as well since I don't think I want to retest prime95 every couple of weeks to make sure 100% stable, if you know what I mean....


It just seems like it would be easy for them to put out a perfect calculated test unit so we can compare to and make sure 100% sound.....

Maybe throw a test unit in every 20 folding units....

I have done 24 WU's on this P4 in just the first week with mostly 1 instance but in a month I may do 100 units...I would hate to have the oc go bad but not flaky and not knwo I was hosing units....
 
Originally posted by Duvie
Well I did that awhile ago when I set up the system...You know crap changes as oc'd components stress and may start degrading....

I am thinking abot that as well since I don't think I want to retest prime95 every couple of weeks to make sure 100% stable, if you know what I mean....


It just seems like it would be easy for them to put out a perfect calculated test unit so we can compare to and make sure 100% sound.....

Maybe throw a test unit in every 20 folding units....

I have done 24 WU's on this P4 in just the first week with mostly 1 instance but in a month I may do 100 units...I would hate to have the oc go bad but not flaky and not knwo I was hosing units....
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I wouldn't worry about that. Actually, there has been evidence posted that as time goes on, your OC might improve it's stability. :)

I'm positive that all of my machines are stable, so adding a 'test' WU every 20 WU would drop my production. :( Keeping production going is my goal with this... I've had far too much downtime on the PIII's, I think it's really going to hurt me. :(
 
Just check your folding logs, if the machine made errors, it stopped folding and sent the error back to stanford and got a new WU. Sometimes the errors are the machine, some have been bad WU's and some have been because of corrupted downloads.

All in all if you don't see tons of errors in your logs your ok

BillR
 
I dont see any errors in my logs and haven't, but I wonder if calculations are out to some astromonical decimal place I could simply have a rounding error which would compromise the data.....

Like I said I am stable abot 1 month ago when I set this up I am just surprised there isn't something to notifies of errors to help check our integrity of the work.....


I am still folding like mad just hope I am doing it right.....
 
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