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[Joe]

[poozle]

There apears to have been an update somewhere as I've just noticed a 50 WU unit on my system, I'm just making sure that this is right and other people have been receiving them as well (it says x of 50 now not x of 30).

[Mattie-Liz]

[myf]

I've been getting the "exception that could not be handled" thing as well, on both my computers. It's a pain when it happens, so any suggested solutions appreciated.

[QBKooky]

[myf]

I saw that somewhere earlier in this thread, and tried it, and it still didn't solve the problem

Maybe I did something wrong so I'll give it another go. Hopefully it'll work! I get upset when I think my pc has been merrily chugging away overnight, only to discover the message of doom staring at me when I switch the screen on.

[poozle]

I have a feeling something has gone wrong somewhere along the way because if you look at the stats as of arround 11 am yesterday (28th may) there was a sudden decrease in the production rate, the number of clients dropped twice (guessing an inactive flush) which just seems VERY strange to me, maybe the switch to 50 wu units didn't go so well.

http://13thlabour.tk/HTML/stats/24hours.htm

[chimera245]

No, the switch to 50 MWUs went well.

Basically yesterday the load exceeded the size of the MWU I had set (which was 30). I tried briefly to raise it to 40 - but the congestion prevented that from taking. This manifested itself as clients not getting new WUs - the first client drop.

I sent out the 'Client Shutdown message' for 45 minutes last night to get the queue down, then installed 50 as the MWU size and removed the Client Shutdown. All has been well since. Of course as a lot of machines are unattended - it will take time for these to come back onstream.

The second (and much more major) drop was me expiring ALL clients prior to 1_2_0 (something I should have done a while ago really). This led to 706 inactive clients dropping off the perch.

[poozle]

Ahhhh, ok, I think it must have been off during the client shutdown because I never saw mine close, I did notice the 50 as you can see though

I tend to check the stats a lot and when i see that sort of info on the stats it makes me think something has gone wrong. glad to hear its fine though

Looks like it'll take a few days for us to get back to the production rate we were at.

[Seej]

[manleym]

[Seej]

Perhaps that's true - I've not bothered to clock it - but that wasn't what I was saying . I was just pointing out that there's not much point to running multiple clients on a single computer, not talking about how fast an individual client will now process a WU.

[poozle]

[Kender]

I noticed that the program rejects any decoded result if there is a byte higher than 0x7E present in it.
Are we sure that the correct solve does not have any higher bytes in it?
How do we know the result should be a plain ASCII text, and not a ZIP, GIF or something like that?

PS: as a C# developer I may be able to work with the source to make the program more stable (and perhaps even faster), PM me if you're interested.

[chimera245]