It did not help that PG upped the needed time for the PPS Sieve to almost a day on my system, when it took only a few hours before. I have over 2 million credits for that sub-project, but now the time needed per WU is not work the credit returns. I use to get 10K to 18K daily running 4 cores with PPS Sieve, several WUs per core a day. It changed in August for me. Now if I run PPS Sieve, it takes a day or more per WU and it seems to give me less per WU as well.
Yes, the power outage, and other stuff, caused a lot of US East Coast computers not to have any credits. But, for my semi-fast system, I did only 4 WU during the time. The other 4 finished several hours after the deadline. PG still has these very high run times for the WUs for PPS Sieve. Hopefully, it will go back down to normal. Actually, I think they are now meant to be run on GPUs instead of CPUs.
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"but I suspect our lower than usual finish was more the result of a deliberate action as in a protest of PG dropping credits awarded."
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I did not hear this before. When did that happen, what sub-projects, and to who?
I think this might be a bit of water under the bridge and there might have been another thread around the same time but I think this touched upon the issue.
http://www.setiusa.us/showthread.php...on-at-PG/page2