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Working on GFN, but the overview says I am working on seven different ones.
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I am working on GFN16, I was planning to switch today after having completed 10000 without any finds or checks. Now I see that the hammers symbol, the one that indicates that there are beeing work done shows up on seven different projects.
Is this due to the generalized nature of GFN, or what is the reason? | |
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 Nick 
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On one of your computers it says you are running - or at least haven't yet returned a result - 1 x 321, 1 x CUL, 1 x ESP, 1 x SR5, 2 x TRP, 1 x WOO and many GFN16.
If your computer hasn't yet returned a result for these tasks and you do not have these tasks - they are tasks that the server thinks you have and when they time out, the tasks will be sent to other computers (including yours which is very unlikely but I think possible for LLR2).
It happens occasionally.
I don't know if we have a name for these tasks - phantom tasks? | |
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If your computer hasn't yet returned a result for these tasks and you do not have these tasks - they are tasks that the server thinks you have and when they time out, the tasks will be sent to other computers
This can certainly happen, but doesn't seem to be the issue here, as the tasks in question were downloaded today (all at once, about 43 minutes before this thread was started). I'm not sure what exactly happened here; one possibility is that you unchecked GFN16 in your subproject preferences but the "Send work from any subproject if selected projects have no work" box at the very bottom was checked.
If you have physical access to this computer and don't want to wait for these tasks to finish (which may take several days depending on how fast your computer is), you can abort them in BOINCManager. (Select the task and then click Task Commands -> Abort.)
Finally, let me again recommend reducing your cache in computing preferences (ideally to 0, assuming your computer has reasonably steady internet access). In addition to helping you be a discoverer rather than a double-checker, this should also limit the number of tasks downloaded accidentally in case this happens again. | |
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Ok, thank you both very much for your thourogh inputs and advice. | |
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