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StefanR5R

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Could some of the points deviation also be attributed to a crappy wing man? My graph along with Crash's and Lane's is all over the board, OTOH yours sees an upward trend with only slight variations. I have changed nothing besides turning on a fan here and there.
The trend in my graph is clearly caused by myself switching hosts on gradually during the last three days. IOW what the graph is revealing is my tardiness and hesitation.

I had been lurking on forums of three German teams during the past Formula Boinc and PrimeGrid races. They had quite a few members preparing = bunkering for Wow!-Event for many weeks prior...
 

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What?
It's been a while since I added a host with anonymous platform and don't remember how that went. Maybe the server requires one task to validate before it sends more.

Or it's a badly configured response message which doesn't actually mean what it says.
 

ao_ika_red

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Tesla most certainly has a stock app, and it's called twitter if I remember correctly.
Yeah, it's sad. Tesla was a groundbreaking thing back then, but recently it's just noise machine.
Yeah. I reinstalled the lunatics app, and now SETI says I have reached my quota of ONE task for the day.
I believe seti distributes tasks based on reputation. Once you aborted a lot of tasks (usually happens when installing new custom app) then you won't get the usual 100 + 100 tasks for, I assume, first 24 hour.
 

StefanR5R

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Flawed planning on my part:
When I moved computers into a single room for the last PrimeGrid challenge, to retain life-supporting temperatures in another room, I had plugged all boxes behind a single 16 A breaker. (Nominal Voltage is 230 V, but actual is ~220 V.)

Just now I wanted to boot a second dual processor host, in order to compensate for the GPUs being briefly away to a top-secret mission. But just before flipping the switch I had a look at the power meter... and noticed that I would come awfully close to those 16 Amps then.

I could go looking for a long enough cord to plug the one box into a different circuit. But I am overdoing it here already, so I leave it off.
 

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@lane42, very generous offer, but: The internet weather forecast claims that temperatures will drop by 9 degrees next weekend. While I have a hard time believing that, I still don't want to be unprepared.
 
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Well, I'm late to the party, but I'm in now!
Glad to see I wasn't too late.

Now to see if I can get my rig to run a little cooler, I'm getting CPU temps of up to 68C with a mild room temp of ~23C. (That is with the SETI optimised app).
Their might be dust issues...... [edit] yep, looks like the HS is nearly solid with dust! Time to shut down for a few minutes.
 
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StefanR5R

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Ouch!

Some time earlier today, the fans on the MO-RA3 of my triple GPU host stopped spinning due to bad contact at their power connector, and only the 280 mm radiator kept cooling actively. Still, GPU temperatures went up to mere 77 °C, and power draw and GPU clocks remained at normal levels.

And meanwhile on a dual GPU host, boinc and nvidia-smi became unresponsive, and the kernel log showed "watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 23s! [irq/134-nvidia:1227]". Rebooted it now.
 

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Ouch!

Some time earlier today, the fans on the MO-RA3 of my triple GPU host stopped spinning due to bad contact at their power connector, and only the 280 mm radiator kept cooling actively. Still, GPU temperatures went up to mere 77 °C, and power draw and GPU clocks remained at normal levels.

And meanwhile on a dual GPU host, boinc and nvidia-smi became unresponsive, and the kernel log showed "watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 23s! [irq/134-nvidia:1227]". Rebooted it now.

WHOA!! Good thing you were home?

Only thing gone wrong for me so far is the cat knocked over a cup of coffee on to my keyboard of my DD yesterday............I couldn't get it unplugged fast enough to stop all the crazy things from popping up. Finally got the correct USB unplugged and untangled to stop the mayhem and put in my temp keyboard. Lots of closing stuff out, but nothing lost (or so I believe)
 

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Lol, bad cat!

Stefan
Wow! That's some radiator you've got on their to keep temps to just 77c with no fans!

I cleaned out the dust earlier from my CPU's HS, & temps have dropped to 60-61C despite room temp going up 1C , much better!
 

StefanR5R

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Last year's result.
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We had some tussles with l'AF, BOINC_Italy, and Planet_3DNow! along the race and then some RKN member(s) dropped their 35 days worth of bunker in last day and suddenly they jumped right behind us.
This year, RKN will drop a massive count of bunkers near the end of the event again. Though whether they manage to come as close to us as last year remains to be seen.
 

ao_ika_red

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Well, I'm late to the party, but I'm in now!
Glad to see you onboard. Let's hammer GridCoin down, shall we?
Only thing gone wrong for me so far is the cat knocked over a cup of coffee on to my keyboard of my DD yesterday
Pet + beverage near electric appliance never ends well. Glad it's just minor problem.
Some time earlier today, the fans on the MO-RA3 of my triple GPU host stopped spinning due to bad contact at their power connector
I believe those were Noctuas, weren't they? It should be easy to claim the warranty.
I cleaned out the dust earlier from my CPU's HS, & temps have dropped to 60-61C despite room temp going up 1C , much better!
Thank goodness the dust has settled. (pun intended)
This year, RKN will drop a massive count of bunkers near the end of the event again. Though whether they manage to come as close to us as last year remains to be seen.
And it's something worth to worry about as I remember they were quite huge bunker.
 

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Some time earlier today, the fans on the MO-RA3 of my triple GPU host stopped spinning due to bad contact at their power connector,
I believe those were Noctuas, weren't they? It should be easy to claim the warranty.
No, Noiseblocker BlackSilent Pro (they are easier on the eyes, and the MO-RA doesn't need a lot of air flow, and hardly any pressure). But the bad connection was a 4 pin Molex connection (like the one on older HDDs and ODDs) in the single power cable which goes from PSU to external radiator. I need something more robust than the Molex there; something which doesn't weaken after repeated disconnection.
 

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No, Noiseblocker BlackSilent Pro (they are easier on the eyes, and the MO-RA doesn't need a lot of air flow, and hardly any pressure). But the bad connection was a 4 pin Molex connection (like the one on older HDDs and ODDs) in the single power cable which goes from PSU to external radiator. I need something more robust than the Molex there; something which doesn't weaken after repeated disconnection.
Noiseblocker? This must be another european brand I never heard of.
Well, molex prone to short. I lost my dad's IDE HDD thanks to that thing. How about using external 12v power adaptor to run those fans? It would be more robust I think.
 

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No, Noiseblocker BlackSilent Pro (they are easier on the eyes, and the MO-RA doesn't need a lot of air flow, and hardly any pressure). But the bad connection was a 4 pin Molex connection (like the one on older HDDs and ODDs) in the single power cable which goes from PSU to external radiator. I need something more robust than the Molex there; something which doesn't weaken after repeated disconnection.

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