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Tom Gutman Send message Joined: 20 Jul 00 Posts: 48 Credit: 219,500 RAC: 0 |
Are the new time estimates for real? Units used to be estimated at abut 3.5 hours. That was fairly reasonable, with actual time varying from about 2.5 hours to 5 hours. Suddenly the last two units came with estimates of 21 hours. Have the work units changed, so that these are reasonable, or has something gone bonkers with the estimation mechanism? I checked my CPU, and the benchmark values shown seem reasonable. |
Heffed Send message Joined: 19 Mar 02 Posts: 1856 Credit: 40,736 RAC: 0 |
The WUs will actually process in the same length of time as a normal WU. <a> [/url] |
Jaaku Send message Joined: 29 Oct 02 Posts: 494 Credit: 346,224 RAC: 0 |
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mbiker1999 Send message Joined: 13 Jul 99 Posts: 13 Credit: 33,307 RAC: 0 |
I suspect they are doing it to throttle the number of WU's going out. Since the caching algorithms work on time, it would mean a user would d/l less number of wu's to fill the cache requirement. But that's only a guess. |
Heffed Send message Joined: 19 Mar 02 Posts: 1856 Credit: 40,736 RAC: 0 |
> I suspect they are doing it to throttle the number of WU's going out. Since > the caching algorithms work on time, it would mean a user would d/l less > number of wu's to fill the cache requirement. But that's only a guess. No, it was a mistake that should be remedied soon. They wouldn't need to limit downloads like that anyway. Remember, they have absolute control over how many WUs a host receives per day. There is a current limit of 50 WUs per host. They could just as easy make it 4 WUs if they wanted to limit downloads. <a> [/url] |
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