Qo'nos has grabbed itself a tinker. Those are some weirdly constructed software puzzles, and are the strangest of the three types of workunits currently available.
As long as it's reporting frames completed, let it's weirdness reside in peace, and be content, that thine computer, is verily folding.
If it chokes on you, hold up a picture of a mac. It'll straighten up :)
I have two processors--one Mac, one PC. The Mac is shiny and new, with a 1.x ghz processor. I thought it would be out-pacing my really old 533 mhz PC. But, no--they both have 400-frame Tinker units, and the PC processes Tinker in about 75% of the time it take the Mac to do a Tinker. Frustrating.
Interesting: My PC is doing Tinker P1152 for the 5th time. Why?
Qo'nos is a slower machine, running WinME. It actually only recently finished it's first WU since starting on the 23rd of January. Several misstarts, a couple of power-outages and it would "recover" by restarting the project from scratch.
With this new project, it seems to be working fine. I noticed, however, that over the last couple of days while it was operating, my "completed" WU count on the team page went from 60+ to 187!
After shutting down Qo'nos overnight... and accounting for lag... I'm holding steady at 217 WUs "completed". It appears that Qo'nos was somehow responsible for all these extra WUs.
While it's running, the percentage complete keeps going up, and I'm willing to allow it to keep running-- I just don't want to adversely affect anything at Stanford, or skew our results in any fashion.
I'll restart it and see what happens...
I'm tinkering to beat hell now.