Am I actually contributing?

[Bombastinator]

I had thought I had failed to get F@h to work correctly on my machine, but last night I found the video card screaming to itself while the monitor was on sleep.  I opened up the F@H window and found myself halfway through a WU.  On both the gpu and cpu.  I never did get the passkey thing set up.  I wasn’t interested in the competition element though.  My hardware is crap and I knew I would be at best a pack trailer.  It seemed (and still seems) worth doing anyway though.   It’s giving me estimated daily point total, but I’d kind of like to know how many (if any) WUs actually got ground out though mostly out of curiosity.  I don’t know how to tell that.  Any suggestions? 

[Eigenvektor]

Best bet would be the logs. You should (hopefully) find entries like that:

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14:23:19:WU00:FS00:Server responded WORK_ACK (400)

If you've set a name you should also be able to find yourself on e.g. folding.extremeoverclocking.com, even without a passkey. Just means your name might not be unique.

[lewdicrous]

You'd still be contributing, even if you don't have a team/passkey, it'll just be towards the larger pool (default team) instead of a specific team like LTT, afaik.

[Gorgon]

2 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

I had thought I had failed to get F@h to work correctly on my machine, but last night I found the video card screaming to itself while the monitor was on sleep.  I opened up the F@H window and found myself halfway through a WU.  On both the gpu and cpu.  I never did get the passkey thing set up.  I wasn’t interested in the competition element though.  My hardware is crap and I knew I would be at best a pack trailer.  It seemed (and still seems) worth doing anyway though.   It’s giving me estimated daily point total, but I’d kind of like to know how many (if any) WUs actually got ground out though mostly out of curiosity.  I don’t know how to tell that.  Any suggestions? 

Thanks for contributing. We appreciate all help no matter how many resources you can contribute. You can check your total contribution here on the Folding@Home site but Extreme Overclocking is what most people use to check progress.

[Bombastinator]

2 hours ago, lewdicrous said:

You'd still be contributing, even if you don't have a team/passkey, it'll just be towards the larger pool (default team) instead of a specific team like LTT, afaik.

I got the team code entered but the passkey authentication choked on gmail.

[Bombastinator]

2 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

Best bet would be the logs. You should (hopefully) find entries like that:

If you've set a name you should also be able to find yourself on e.g. folding.extremeoverclocking.com, even without a passkey. Just means your name might not be unique.

I did set a name. I looked at the logs but I couldn’t make head or tail of them.  It looked like a whole bunch of fails.  There were percentages that were never over 30.  I’m afraid I may have done more harm than good    In my defense I thought the thing was broken.  It seems to be finishing stuff now though so I don’t know.

[Eigenvektor]

12 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

I did set a name. I looked at the logs but I couldn’t make head or tail of them.  It looked like a whole bunch of fails.  There were percentages that were never over 30.  I’m afraid I may have done more harm than good    In my defense I thought the thing was broken.  It seems to be finishing stuff now though so I don’t know.

Messages like "Could not get an assignment" are kind of normal. There are so many people folding that a lot of times there's simply nothing available to work on. Failed work certainly isn't ideal, because it means someone else has to do it again, but overall it's designed to be resilient to it. With so many people folding it's probably not that bad.

 

Personally I've set up a name and passkey mostly so I could see I'm doing something, not because I'm seriously trying to compete with anyone (not with my hardware )

[TVwazhere]

On 5/3/2020 at 2:34 PM, Bombastinator said:

I did set a name. I looked at the logs but I couldn’t make head or tail of them.  It looked like a whole bunch of fails.  There were percentages that were never over 30.  I’m afraid I may have done more harm than good    In my defense I thought the thing was broken.  It seems to be finishing stuff now though so I don’t know.

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=1024472

 

You've been completing assignments all throughout the month of April it seems. 162 work units have been completed by your system in the name of science!