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Junior Member
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Senior Member
HI,
just a guess: whenever an upload happens automatically (after 5000 strutures), the number of structures done ('Building Structure xyy' as you mentioned) is not reset to zero.
So you have to take care that you don't double-count your structures ...
Greets,
Wirthi
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Junior Member
^BUMP^
?? Someone must have some ideas surely ??
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Junior Member
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Mac since '86
I suspect the people who would know are sound asleep right about now.
I have never heard of anyone losing that many structures, so I suspect the flaw might be in your calculations. It is not clear what numbers your are adding up and at what point in the process.
:sleepy: Speaking of sleeping....its time for this yank to hit the sack. :sleepy:
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Hi Guy's
Thanks for your thoughts - here is the details of my calculations so someone can point out my error.
1st machine crunching on '-df -i f' connected by modem.
Had so far amassed 295500 structures on the stats on it's own
There were also 7 other machines crunching '-df -i f' on my network, but without any internet access at all.
According to their progress.txt and their console screens they had crunched.
149000
10000
167000
118000
154000
71000
141000
These 7 machines were then connected to the net and the clients were stopped and restarted just removing the '-i f' from the batch file.
All machines started uploading structures when they were restarted.
By my maths - which is not that bad...
Already submitted - - - - - 295500
Added from 7 machines - -810000
Total on may stats should've read 1,105,500
Total actually read around the 950,000 mark.
???? Any more ideas ????
Where have I mis-counted ?
I am not on a crusade to prove something is wrong with the client, I am sure the prob is on one of my machines at this end, or on a dodgy transfer back to the server on a structure upload. But can 150K units just disappear.
Richard - thanks for your thoughts, but I have not made use of the '-u' option.
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Senior Member
PenDragon,
Is it possible to upload each PC one at a time, checking after each upload your DF account to see if the total has increased as you expected. Remember to allow a few mins to make sure that all file structures have been credited to your account.
I know you said in a previous post that you had checked all your configuration files, but this is something I would do just to double make sure.
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You cannot rely on progress.txt to tell you how many structures you made. Do dir *.log.bz2 - this is how many sets of 5000 you have (if the program has been running continuously, because you also get a new one of these every time you stop and restart.
The only other reasonable explanation is one of your machines did not upload so again do dir *.log.bz2 to see if there's still files there.
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Junior Member
Thanks for everyone's help
I'll keep a watching eye on it - I do not seem to be dropping any more units. After the weekend I will drop all clients off the network '-i f' and let them build up some finished 5000's and then allow them to upload 1 at a time to make sure they all pull through. It will also give me some times for 5000's structures to average for each CPU to add to the statistics that other people are collecting.
PenDragon
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Senior Member
Great to hear.
Nothing worse than loosing structures.
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