Unable to post on Einstein@Home message boards
12 Jul 2007 18:27:28 UTC
Topic 192959
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If I try to reply to a post I'm confronted with the message: "Unable to handle request. In order to reply to a post in you must have a certain amount of credit. This is to prevent and protect against abuse of the system."
I'm guessing this is to stop spammers signing up and posting without ever properly participating in the project, but I've got 8301.51 credit at E@H and have successfully posted in the forum before.
How much credit do I need? (And where is that shown on the website?)
Or is the issue that I have got a very low RAC at the moment (BoincManager says 0.21, E@H says 0.18) because I haven't returned a WU recently (due to the issues with the app running slowly on AMD hosts)? In which case, perhaps the message could be changed to show that the problem lies with my RAC and not with my total credit...
Unable to post on Einstein@Home message boards
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Indeed, this seems to be a misleading message as RAC is used to grant or deny access. I'm not sure where the threshold is but I guess submitting a single WU should be enough for a couple of weeks.
Note that AMD CPUs perform about 25% better with the current app under Windows (there never was an "AMD problem" on other platforms in the first place), so you might want to give crunching from E@H again a try anyway.
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Thanks Bikeman. I did
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Thanks Bikeman.
I did re-enable E@H once I saw 4.24 was no longer in beta, but I'm running several BOINC projects, and my machine doesn't run 24x7. E@H is set as my "primary backup project" (Rosetta is my "last ditch backup project"), so it has a low resource share, hopefully it will pick up a WU in the next week, but it might be another week or two before it gets returned and granted credit.
I did wonder if the code that checks RAC actually says "if RAC < 1 then no posting allowed" rather than "if RAC = 0 then no posting allowed", and if I may have fallen victim to a boundary condition bug...
In the New Year, I'll probably go Linux-x64 on a quad-core Penryn, so even with a low resource share that should raise the RAC enough. (My Athlon 2800 is beginning to show signs of its age, and could do with replacing.)