MarcyDarcy
08-14-2002, 06:17 PM
[oke this is gonna be al long story to make it all clear...don't punish me :)]
I was started flushing some saved data (arount 500K), but when the new protein was updated the uploading stopped. (some kind of error i don't remember...client closed himself)
After downloading the update for the new client, i wanted to get credit for my work what i was uploading. So i copied a backup into the new folder and started uploading again (from the beginning...again the 500K)
But when i was watching the Distributed Folding stats updating every 10 minuts, i saw that i was given more credit for then i thought i deserved. What i mean...before the clientupdate i think that he was over the 50% of the 500K. But i saw when i was "reflushing" that i got credit for almost 500K
Not completely conviced that i coused the increase (because we have a couple of users flushing under the same account) i waited for 20 minutes (2 statsrun) en saw that there wasn't a hughe increase of our total. So i decided to "reflush" another folder wich i took from my work (no internet). I had completely flusht it before the clientupdate but wanted to know if there is an error/bug in you statssystem.
I planted the backup folder in the "current folder with the updated client" en started flushing again. I waited 2 statsruns to see i fi coused the increasy en unfortunately i think i coused it.
To make the story clear...after a clientupdate it's possible to cheat by "dubbelflushing" old data witch was given credit for before the clientupdate.
I think after the clientupdate the statsserver isn't checking for "older and given credit for data"
Hope you understand what i mean and that you will look into this situation
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Every user who reads this..please don't try it for yourself. Let the people behind the project look into it
I was started flushing some saved data (arount 500K), but when the new protein was updated the uploading stopped. (some kind of error i don't remember...client closed himself)
After downloading the update for the new client, i wanted to get credit for my work what i was uploading. So i copied a backup into the new folder and started uploading again (from the beginning...again the 500K)
But when i was watching the Distributed Folding stats updating every 10 minuts, i saw that i was given more credit for then i thought i deserved. What i mean...before the clientupdate i think that he was over the 50% of the 500K. But i saw when i was "reflushing" that i got credit for almost 500K
Not completely conviced that i coused the increase (because we have a couple of users flushing under the same account) i waited for 20 minutes (2 statsrun) en saw that there wasn't a hughe increase of our total. So i decided to "reflush" another folder wich i took from my work (no internet). I had completely flusht it before the clientupdate but wanted to know if there is an error/bug in you statssystem.
I planted the backup folder in the "current folder with the updated client" en started flushing again. I waited 2 statsruns to see i fi coused the increasy en unfortunately i think i coused it.
To make the story clear...after a clientupdate it's possible to cheat by "dubbelflushing" old data witch was given credit for before the clientupdate.
I think after the clientupdate the statsserver isn't checking for "older and given credit for data"
Hope you understand what i mean and that you will look into this situation
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Every user who reads this..please don't try it for yourself. Let the people behind the project look into it