Monitoring clients
After you have added some clients for FahMon to monitor you will notice that there is a small colored square at the left of each line in the list. There are 5 different colors:
- Black
- FahMon is unable to access to the directory where this client is located.
- Red
- The client is currently stopped.
- Orange/Yellow
- The client seems to be inactive or in an unknown state. The former happens most of the time when the elapsed time since the last completed frame is too high (this happens if another process is using the processor). An unknown state occurs when FahMon does not have sufficient information to decide whether the client is running or not. Check the Messages Window to find out what is happening.
- Blue (optional)
- The client has been flagged as having an asynchronous clock, this state is also triggered when the monitoring machine passes over 00:00 local time. The basic meaning of this state is that the client is still working, but you "may" need to check on it.
- Green
- Everything is Ok, FahMon should display all information about this client, as long as the project database is up to date.
On the right side, you will see which core is being used by the selected client, and which project is being processed. You will also see the preferred and the final deadline. The former is the date by which Stanford would like to get the result back. The latter is the date after which you will get no points, because it's simply too late. If you see N/A instead of a date, this just means that there is no deadline.
The ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) is the date by which FahMon thinks that the current work unit will be finished. It is based on the time per frame for this client and this particular project, so you will sometimes see no ETA when FahMon does not know the average duration of a frame (e.g. when the work unit has just been downloaded for the first time by this client). The ETA can be calculated in various different ways, each one giving a slightly different value. Keep in mind that this is just an estimation!
