running backwards

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Dave Cartwright Send message Joined: 21 Jan 07 Posts: 19 Credit: 363,224 RAC: 0	Message 632125 - Posted: 2 Sep 2007, 16:34:32 UTC For some reason thiongs are running backwards on my computer. to completion time is getting longer and cpu time is decreasing. Any idea whats up with this Thanks Dave ID: 632125 ·

Dotsch Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0	Message 632968 - Posted: 3 Sep 2007, 19:18:50 UTC The longer computing times are OK, because the WU crunching time depends on the recording angle rate (AR) from the telescope. ID: 632968 ·

Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 681 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54	Message 647926 - Posted: 24 Sep 2007, 13:57:18 UTC - in response to Message 632125. For some reason thiongs are running backwards on my computer. to completion time is getting longer and cpu time is decreasing. Any idea whats up with this Thanks Dave I don't know if you really mean the cpu time, a workunit has spent is decreasing. But I had a progress reset problem if setting the processor usage to a value < 100% in the Seti@home preferences. Then the science app runs for some hundred milli seconds, and idles for some. I did this to keep the CPU fan silent on my iBook. Using 40 % CPU usage, I observed a random, but frequent reset of progress to 0%. Sometimes it happens, sometimes not. The cpu time was never reseted. So I simply lost the computation time and the workunit starts again from 0%. After setting back the cpu usage to 100% in the preferences, the problem was gone. I don't know if that is maybe also your problem. I can hardly believe the cpu time is decreasing. Maybe continuous changes of the system time is disturbing the Boinc software?? Time server settings in MacOS?? [iBook G4 1,3 GHz, MacOS 10.4.10, Boinc 5.10.7, optimized setiathome app (G4-optimized v7.1mb-nographics) V5.13 by Alex Kan] ID: 647926 ·

Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 681 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54	Message 647933 - Posted: 24 Sep 2007, 14:10:50 UTC - in response to Message 632125. For some reason thiongs are running backwards on my computer. to completion time is getting longer and cpu time is decreasing. Any idea whats up with this Thanks Dave My last idea: ... the iBooks, PowerBooks are fastly loosing system time if power connection is lost and no battery is inserted for some seconds. When using the Mac the next time the system time is wrong, but an automatic connection to a time server will adjust that, but in between the jumping system time may disturb Boinc? It's only a guess.... I observed rapid changes in displayed CPU time of a running workunit some years ago using the old Seti Classic on a Windows system, if manually changing the system time. ID: 647933 ·

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