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Aperture_Science_Innovators
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confused RAC Oddness?

This is sort-of a BOINC question; if there's a better place to put it, please let me know.

I've noticed looking in BOINC that my recent average credit (RAC) has absolutely cratered in the last ~12 hours. At 00:00 UTC on 10 April, BOINC reported my RAC at just over 200k. Since then (~16 hours at the time of this post), BOINC reports that I've earned slightly over 1 million points, but my RAC has dropped from 200k to about 130k.

I'm not sure how this is even possible! The BOINC Wiki says that if you earn no new points, RAC follows an exponential decay, dropping by 50% per week. Yet, somehow, my RAC has dropped by about a third in about twelve hours, all while my devices have continued to turn in work (and this ignores that even the RAC of 200k is still well below what my devices are going...).


Anyone else seeing this sort of thing?

EDIT: And down another 15k off of the RAC (10%) in about 50 minutes. Looks like it might end up negative at this rate
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Re: RAC Oddness?

Open a new thread in this BOINC forum: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=10

It's there the real BOINC experts resides.
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Re: RAC Oddness?

Open a new thread in this BOINC forum: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=10

It's there the real BOINC experts resides.

Is RAC calculated by the BOINC client locally? I thought surely that would be server-side at WCG?
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Re: RAC Oddness?

I admit I'm clueless on the factors in the calculation, I'll state that up front. I was wondering if the fact that all of us did 0 during most of March would play a part in the calculation.
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Re: RAC Oddness?

I admit I'm clueless on the factors in the calculation, I'll state that up front. I was wondering if the fact that all of us did 0 during most of March would play a part in the calculation.

I wouldn't *think* so, because my RAC already dropped from about 800k in February to 50k when they restarted things last week, and then back up a bit over 200k by last night. And now it's dropped further, down to 70k (1/3 of where it was ~20 hours ago). I think (or at least would expect) we've already seen that factored in.
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