Failed workunits?

[lexidobe]

Hello, I am wondering what exactly "failed workunits" are in F@H and how I would know if my workunits are failing. I am folding on 2 970's and a 960, all of which have slight overclocks. I'm running my water cooled EVGA 970 FTW at +70 MHz on the core and +150 on the memory and I'm running my reference 970 and 960 at +50 MHz on the core and +100 MHz on the memory and everything seems perfectly stable and I am getting around 1 million PPD when everything is running, the only problem I am having is needing to wait a very long time to get workunits. When I see that I am on attempt 10+ with a long wait before it tries again I close and reopen the program and sometimes I get workunits sooner, but I don't think that's related to the overclock. 

 

How do I know if my overclocks are stable? I have never gotten any errors or anything, but from my understanding I may not get obvious signs of instability but it could still be having problems. How do know if my overclocks are stable and if I am failing workunits? Thanks in advance and sorry for the dumb question, I am pretty new to folding. 

[Alex Atkin UK]

Rule of thumb, DON'T overclock when folding.  Factory overclocks are usually okay, but manual ones just aren't worth the risk as failed units put unnecessary strain on the servers that are already buckling under pressure as it is.

You'll know a unit failed because it will stop before 100% and you can see it in the log in FAHControl.

[lexidobe]

3 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Rule of thumb, DON'T overclock when folding.  Factory overclocks are usually okay, but manual ones just aren't worth the risk as failed units put unnecessary strain on the servers that are already buckling under pressure as it is.

You'll know a unit failed because it will stop before 100% and you can see it in the log in FAHControl.

Thank you. The only errors I am seeing in the log are when no workunits are available, so I should be good then. 

[Alex Atkin UK]

5 minutes ago, lexidobe said:

Thank you. The only errors I am seeing in the log are when no workunits are available, so I should be good then. 

My last WU just took three attempts to upload as the server kept timing out.