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Hi Guys,
I started crunching PSA work again a bit over a month ago after a lengthy break but haven't seen any change in my stats. Just checking whether that's correct or if I have something set incorrectly in my config.
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 Sysadm@Nbg Volunteer moderator
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your stats look fine
http://u-g-f.de/PRPNet/user_search?uid=Gary
congrats to the prime found today (and the others previous)
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my current lucky number: 3749*2^1555697+1
PSA-PRPNet-Stats-URL: http://u-g-f.de/PRPNet/
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Hi,
Thanks but getting back to the point. My PSA stats haven't changed since around the end of April. I know from experience that there are several of us using the same user name, so they may not even be all mine, although the machine name is correct, but again may not be unique. None of this explains why my PSA credit has been at 1,194,260.00 since I re-started and not changed. So, my original question again - has there just not been an update or have I made an error in my config., perhaps?
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Maybe 2 years ago, when I first ran PSA work, I made the mistake of putting a space in my username in the prpclient.ini file, rather than replacing with an underscore. So, I had some small amount of work (I think on the 27 project, mostly, maybe 200K PRPnet points) show up as being credited to "Gary", and so did not transfer to my PG account. I don't know if this is contributing to this issue or not, but I thought I should mention it.
I should add that for a long time now my PSA credit for "Gary_Craig" has been rolling over to my PG "Gary Craig" account with no problems. Thanks admins! And no, I'm not worried about the missing work... it wasn't much.
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Maybe 2 years ago, when I first ran PSA work, I made the mistake of putting a space in my username in the prpclient.ini file, rather than replacing with an underscore. So, I had some small amount of work (I think on the 27 project, mostly, maybe 200K PRPnet points) show up as being credited to "Gary", and so did not transfer to my PG account. I don't know if this is contributing to this issue or not, but I thought I should mention it.
I should add that for a long time now my PSA credit for "Gary_Craig" has been rolling over to my PG "Gary Craig" account with no problems. Thanks admins! And no, I'm not worried about the missing work... it wasn't much.
--Gary
You can ask Sysadm@Nbg to combine 2 names to one. The rest of credits should be add to your account here. | |
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Authoritative Answer:
If more than one person is using the same username with PRPNET, it's pretty much guaranteed that someone is going to lose credit.
It doesn't matter if your user ID on PRPNET matches your BOINC username, however.
But if you notice that someone else is using the same username on PRPNET as you are, the best thing to do is to switch your username on PRPNET to something someone else has never used. You can contact me to ensure it's unique (or I'll suggest one for you, if you wish.)
Here's how the credit process works, so you can understand what might cause problems:
1) NGB picks up the stats from PRPNET, and has a webpage that lists every user and how many points and tasks they've done in every project.
2) PrimeGrid (which means me, in this case) keeps a spreadsheet that lists PRPNET usernames and their corresponding BOINC PrimeGrid user ID numbers. Note that there's no method for determining who is who if more than one person uses the same ID on PRPNET. Whomever used that ID first gets all the credit for everyone who uses that ID.
3) When a new user ID shows up on that webpage, I compare the email address used in the PRPNET configuration to the email address used in the BOINC registration to figure out the proper BOINC ID. I then enter that information into the spreadsheet.
If you want to ensure that the user ID you're using on PRPNET is actually sending credit to your account, just drop me a PM with the relevant information (usernames and the account number of the BOINC account here.)
--Mike
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Maybe 2 years ago, when I first ran PSA work, I made the mistake of putting a space in my username in the prpclient.ini file, rather than replacing with an underscore. So, I had some small amount of work (I think on the 27 project, mostly, maybe 200K PRPnet points) show up as being credited to "Gary", and so did not transfer to my PG account. I don't know if this is contributing to this issue or not, but I thought I should mention it.
I should add that for a long time now my PSA credit for "Gary_Craig" has been rolling over to my PG "Gary Craig" account with no problems. Thanks admins! And no, I'm not worried about the missing work... it wasn't much.
--Gary
You can ask Sysadm@Nbg to combine 2 names to one. The rest of credits should be add to your account here.
Its not only me; it is a quite difficult interaction between admin and me!
the steps are as follows:
1) identify the two unique across all PSA subprojects (!) usernames which had to be merged
2) modify server-side statistics as far as the subprojects are affected (in other case my database changes would be overwritten on next update)
3) modify my statistic database according to the server-side changes
4) regenerate the not dynamic webpages
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my current lucky number: 3749*2^1555697+1
PSA-PRPNet-Stats-URL: http://u-g-f.de/PRPNet/
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I should add that for a long time now my PSA credit for "Gary_Craig" has been rolling over to my PG "Gary Craig" account with no problems. Thanks admins! And no, I'm not worried about the missing work... it wasn't much.
--Gary
This scenario isn't as problematic as you might think.
I've got a spreadsheet that has PRPNET usernames in one column, and BOINC ID numbers in another column. As long as all the PRPNET ID names you may use are associated with the correct BOINC account number, all the credit goes to the right place.
The only problem with switching IDs is that it's extra work for me: I have to manually look in the appropriate database tables to match up the email addresses. But that only happens once per name.
The REAL problem is when you use the same name but with different capitalization, such as sm5ymt and SM5YMT. For some reason, the stats website seems to randomly reverse the numbers between them, so each time I assign the credit, there's a 50% chance that the numbers are reversed in those two.
Most people recognize that as Lennart's ID, and he's got a whole lot of credit. Most of it's on "SM5YMT", but there's a little bit on "sm5ymt". When they get reversed, suddenly one ID seems to have accumulated hundreds of millions of credits in one week, and the other one impossibly accumulates NEGATIVE hundreds of millions in credit.
(I used Lennart as an example here, but this is not a criticism of Lennart, nor of anyone else who has similar user names. The procedures for granting PSA credit have evolved over the years, and those usernames undoubtedly pre-date the procedures currently in place to grant credit. There's also nothing Lennart (or other users) can possibly do to correct the problem. And it's not really that big of a problem as long as the person granting the credit knows to look out for this.)
Fortunately, there's only a few accounts like that, so I have a manual procedure in place to detect and correct it. Other than this scenario where you have different capitalizations, having multiple user IDs on PRPNET isn't really a problem.
Sysadm@Nbg: If you decide you want to correct this (it's not necessary unless we get a lot more accounts like this), the fix would be to ensure that each username gets the correct credit. Please do not combine them together; that would cause more problems than it would solve. Thanks! (That's making an assumption that the problem is in how you're correlating the stats; it's possible that the problem is on PrimeGrid's end in how the raw stats are produced.)
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