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[kriesel]

Could someone contact Daniel Procopio somehow? He has 13 exponents that are the last expected completion dates to the 86M milestone and appear to be on mprime/prime95 at 45.2 to 45.8% complete and making zero progress in the past several days. It's another 39 days before they expire and get reassigned.

[rudy235]

Originally Posted by kriesel

Could someone contact Daniel Procopio somehow? He has 13 exponents that are the last expected completion dates to the 86M milestone and appear to be on mprime/prime95 at 45.2 to 45.8% complete and making zero progress in the past several days. It's another 39 days before they expire and get reassigned.

There is another user "ptgie" that has over 60 assignements. Yes, almost all will expire pretty soon, but it seems to me that no one should be able to hold so many assignments especially when there are less than 200 other assignments left.

[Chuck]

Originally Posted by rudy235

There is another user "ptgie" that has over 60 assignements. Yes, almost all will expire pretty soon, but it seems to me that no one should be able to hold so many assignments especially when there are less than 200 other assignments left.

I commented on this in another thread; somehow he keeps getting the same exponents reassigned to himself when they expire. This has been going on for months.

[kriesel]

Originally Posted by rudy235

There is another user "ptgie" that has over 60 assignements. Yes, almost all will expire pretty soon, but it seems to me that no one should be able to hold so many assignments especially when there are less than 200 other assignments left.

patgie is now at 49 assignments in the 86M milestone list, down from 58 at August 9. See also https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=24678 Dozens of those expire today, and all or nearly all the rest in 3 days. Occasionally at expiration some other user gets one or two before patgie regains the rest. He has dozens of exponents that have each been assigned to him 9 or more times. He does occasionally finish such regained assignments. While Daniel Procopio and WR hold dozens each, with Procopio appearing to be completely stalled but not expiring for more than a month, and progress is being made by others, patgie's pattern is not yet a big issue. Perhaps someday if it is really holding up all progress to the milestone some sort of intervention might be done at the server. And there is certainly plenty of work to go around. The next DC milestone is coming up too.

[rudy235]

Originally Posted by kriesel

patgie is now at 49 assignments in the 86M milestone list, down from 58 at August 9. See also https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=24678 Dozens of those expire today, and all or nearly all the rest in 3 days. Occasionally at expiration some other user gets one or two before patgie regains the rest. He has dozens of exponents that have each been assigned to him 9 or more times. He does occasionally finish such regained assignments. While Daniel Procopio and WR hold dozens each, with Procopio appearing to be completely stalled but not expiring for more than a month, and progress is being made by others, patgie's pattern is not yet a big issue. Perhaps someday if it is really holding up all progress to the milestone some sort of intervention might be done at the server. And there is certainly plenty of work to go around. The next DC milestone is coming up too.

Well I really don't know if pigtie is not a big issue. Yes, his assignments are about to expire, but even counting with him not getting them back again (something we can't be totally sure of) the fact is that, while he had those those exponents on his plate and not in the hands of others –hopefully not in the hands of Procopio (LOL!)– they might have been progressing nicely and concluded instead of being recycled.

I know it would need some creative programing but perhaps as soon as a user has over 15% of the remaining assignments on a milestone, a temporary block could be placed and no new assignments would be given to that user until it his share goes down to 10%.
In other words once s/he crosses the 15% threshold s/he is placed in a watchlist and every time a new exponent becomes available they get a message saying that until some conditions are met, there will not be any further assignments given to him/her.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by rudy235

Well I really don't know if pigtie is not a big issue. Yes, his assignments are about to expire, but even counting with him not getting them back again (something we can't be totally sure of)...

Indeed! It will be interesting to observe what happens around midnight tonight (UTC). 23 of his assignments are due to be recycled...

Madpoo, is there any information you can share about what's going on here?

[dcheuk]

Would be nice if mersenne.org has some sort of notification system that allows admins send one way messages to users after logging in, something like "dear <your name here>, we noticed that your machines have <insert potential wrong doing here> and <suggested action>. If you have any questions please email us or message us on the forum." lol

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by chalsall

It will be interesting to observe what happens around midnight tonight (UTC).

They expired, and were then recaptured. This happened slowly (over several minutes). And some reported a tiny amount of LL, so are listed as expiring again in 20 days rather than 7.

It's almost like they're doing this by hand, rather than a script. And they're only targeting these candidates; other candidates which expired in 85M weren't taken.

Bizzare!

[Prime95]

Originally Posted by chalsall

Bizzare!

Or perhaps they have configured the client to contact the server several times an hour. Prime95 will try to register work in worktodo.txt that does not have valid assignment IDs.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by Prime95

Prime95 will try to register work in worktodo.txt that does not have valid assignment IDs.

Please compare and contract this report with the language from the assignment "Rules".

Particularly the language for "Cat 0": "Computer must have no expired assignments or bad or suspect results in the last 120 days."

[Prime95]

The get-me-a-new-assignment and register-this-assignment-from-worktodo has two different code paths on the server. The register codepath may not be adhering to the assignment rules.