Is it right for me to presume that a workunit where EVERYONE who has already completed the other 3 workunit samples and have ONLY gotten 4.64 Credit, that I WILL ONLY get that much when I complete mine??? (and the computer in question normally finishes each of its units within 3 hours all the time for the last 9 months.

The reason why I ask is because I've already spent nearly 11 hours with only 6.50% progress... It's P****ing me off and wasting processing time when I'm most likely going to abort that darn thing anyway!!!

With the amount of time already spent plus the calulated time to completion, I should be getting over 500 points for it; which I don't think I will.

Here it is (result ID: 319803702)

Hehehe, already more than 11.5 hours spent and STILL 6.50% completed progress. The estimated time to complete keeps rising and is currently at 17 hours, 52 minutes and 7 seconds and keeps going up..

Thanks for info Tony! :-)

But this is still 11.5 hours wasted.... >8-{ Now to dance for more tips to ease the stress.

Ooo Ooo!!! Found something! Eek!! LOL

Clicking on the WU and clicking "Show Graphics", after it has been working for several hours beyond normal, it generates "Computational Error" immediately!

Sooooo... this is the WORD! For anybody with a similar issue, clicking on "Show Graphics" for a WU taking too long may just trigger a "Computational Error" conclusion and your computer can move on!!!

Lessons learned,
after time has been burned.
No credit possibly earned.
For the one concerned,
Lessons Learned.

*a little drumbeat and head banging*

And dog darn it, it appears I've lost over 21 hours for err-ed out workunits during the past 24 hours!!! Argh!!!

You may be on to something here......No not to run graphics if you wanna stop a wu, but maybe theres some issue with the screensaver, some puters, and enhanced???

hmmm

tony

Well, this problem of a workunit taking forever and not progressing, but still processing, error-ed out work, and the enhanced 5.12 magically appearing do all correlate. From my records, it does appear like the problem began when my systems started running 5.12.

I scream for a debugging team! lol
Because I sense a bug as it may seam! rofl

meow!
Kelly

what I'm starting to wonder is if the wu itself was fine, but the opening of graphics killed it, making it report as -9 for all parties, even if it wasn't noisey. OR, did it take the graphics for the daemon to see it was noisey. either way, I think your thread can be helpful in tracking this down.

sorry about your wasted CPU time

tony=

what I'm starting to wonder is if the wu itself was fine, but the opening of graphics killed it, making it report as -9 for all parties, even if it wasn't noisey. OR, did it take the graphics for the daemon to see it was noisey. either way, I think your thread can be helpful in tracking this down.

sorry about your wasted CPU time

tony=

Graphics did not even show at all. "Show graphics" was clicked, nothing popped up, and the work unit err-ed out.

Based on how the WU was not moving in progress but still processing with completion time increasing slowly, I almost think the WU was bad to begin with, but something made the client think it was good. Then clicking on Show graphics "showed" the client that it was bad. *shrug* I just dance... lol

-Kelly

Before using the enhanced version it took 3 hrs to complete a WU, then it changed to enhanced which originaly took around 5-6, now the latest WU says around 12hrs to complete. done the show graphics, and its still running. no one else has completed the WU. should it take so long??.

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Please post the following information in this thread:

Which WU(s) crashed (preferably with links).
Which OS you use.
Which BOINC version you use.
Which videocard + drivers + DirectX version you use.

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Before using the enhanced version it took 3 hrs to complete a WU, then it changed to enhanced which originaly took around 5-6, now the latest WU says around 12hrs to complete. done the show graphics, and its still running. no one else has completed the WU. should it take so long??.

No, and it probably won't. Your result 320010849, ar=0.026164, is what caused your DCF (Duration Correction Factor) to jump so high and make future estimates long. The splitter estimate for those very low angle range WUs suggests they should only take about 60% of the time of normal work, but they actually take more time than normal work. DCF adjusts high so if you get more of the WUs which run "long" your queue won't be overfilled.

DCF will gradually come back down if you get a series of normal WUs, but until the project fixes the splitter estimates it's likely to jump up again at any time. Now that enhanced is returning many results they should be able to gather the data for good estimates soon.

                                                                 Joe

ar=0.026164

Silly question. What does "ar" stand for?

ar=0.026164

Silly question. What does "ar" stand for?

Angle_range, for more info see Inglesides, deadlines post

Andy

ar=0.026164

Silly question. What does "ar" stand for?

Angle_range, for more info see Inglesides, deadlines post

Andy

YES! Thank You! ;)

*drinks some beer*
-Kelly

i got the Blue screen of death from my windows XP Via processor.
so i do not run the graphics

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didn't you run the CMD classic version, ever ?

I ran one of the earliest versions of SETI@Home in the late 90s. I no longer remember exactly anymore. One of those computers are even already in their graves at the city junk yard. LOL I even think I remember SETI@Home being mentioned on CNN Headline news at one point or I could just be remembering a dream. ROFL

But those were good times. I felt the pull into graphics during 1999.