Has anybody else noticed -- my processing times per work unit have almost doubled since the upgrade to SETI@home ver 4.5. Can anybody explain why?

I don't know exactly if the processing time has doubled, but I noticed that the new WU, I downloaded was 5.09 Mb big instead of usually about 600 kb. And it runs more equally (it this the right word??). Instead of finishing the first about 65 % in 3 minutes, it has finished about 30 % in about 30 minutes.

I doubt seriously that it was the WorkUnit you downloaded, more like the new Seti Cruncher. Why not give us a copy&paste of your GUI or your transfer window?

As for doubling of processing times, I am still crunching on 4.03, maybe that the 4.05 version went back to Beta basics. In that case, welcome to Beta. :)
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4.05 seems to have increased WU crunch time by a couple of hours on my Pentium 4 1.9GHz.


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> I doubt seriously that it was the WorkUnit you downloaded, more like the new
> Seti Cruncher. Why not give us a copy&paste of your GUI or your transfer
> window?
>
> Jordâ„¢
>

I actally KNOW it was the WU as I was watching it download

I have at the moment ONE WU size 6.25 Mb



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The large files are usually pdb (?) files, the one I downloaded when I updated to 4.05 was just over 5mb.


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> The large files are usually pdb (?) files, the one I downloaded when I updated
> to 4.05 was just over 5mb.
>
What is a pdb file?? I just upgraded to 4.05.

Hi All,
I don't believe your WU is processing slower, it is actually is running as it is supposed to. One of the fixes in the newer version was the movement of the progress bar in a more linear direction. I think we have been used to seeing the first part of the processing appear to zoom by, and then the program slow down. Now you should see equal prgression to time processed.

Regards,

Rocky

My processing time on a pentium 4 3.2 went from 3.5 hours on the 4.3 units to 5 hours on the first 4.5 unit I downloaded to 6 hours on the second 4.5 unit I just crunched. Granted my processor is hyperthreaded and I am doing two wu's at once but it slowed way down since the upgrade. Plus, the wu keeps going when it says 100.000% done.

> > The large files are usually pdb (?) files, the one I downloaded when I
> updated
> > to 4.05 was just over 5mb.
> >
> What is a pdb file?? I just upgraded to 4.05.

the pdb file is a debug file


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Hey all,

The .pdb file is..correctly..a debug database file.
It is only used if/when there is a seti worker crash.
(not boinc the manager, seti the worker)

It is then used by a special piece of code to backtrace
and determine the function name where the crash happened.
It then also traces backward to find what function called
the crasher..and what called that...and so on.
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I have only seen the 5 Meg .PDB myself.
No WU has been larger than approx 360K.
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WU times. Yea mine increased alot also.
I note the 4.05 worker is 80K larger than the 4.03 worker.exe

I checked the CVS (source code updater) for the worker
and only found the status bar accuracy fix and the more elaborate
graphix fix.

So I'm guessing that work units beginning with 01mr04ab have more
interesting results in them.

I checked the graphics display for my long WU (when it was still calculating while over 100% on the bar)
and it was "finding pulses / triplets"...whereas normal WUs at their
end typically seem to alternate between
"computing fast fourier transform" and "chirping".

=Ben

> I don't believe your WU is processing slower, it is actually is running as
> it is supposed to. One of the fixes in the newer version was the movement of
> the progress bar in a more linear direction. I think we have been used to
> seeing the first part of the processing appear to zoom by, and then the
> program slow down. Now you should see equal prgression to time processed.

No, they are very definitely slower. Not looking at the progress meter, but the completion times.

Same here, my completion times on the P4 1.9 have gone from around 5 hours 10 minutes to 7 hours 10 minutes.

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Mine too, from 2 hours, 50 mins, to about 4 hours and 10 mins on Athlon XP thorton @ 2,2GHz

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Credits will make everybody feel high! ;-)

I tend to agree the WU has doubled in completion time on my amd 3000 from 2.15 to almost 5 hours. on my amd 2500 it has completed 17% in just under 3 hours.
I have shut them both off - I smell a bug somewhere.

Oh bugger...I wonder what the completion times will be on my 533MHzP3 running W98SE?
Paul
(S@H1 8000+wu's)

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I would like to mention that it don't change anything as for credits.
It does not matter if WU takes longer to process since the computer
time count and not the amount of WU.

Hello All,
First off I WAS WRONG!, Result times are slower. I have added approx 1.8 to 2.28 hours longer times on all boxes. I wonder also if it is coencidence, but the benchmarks on 2 of my machines are lower than before 4.05.. Just curious

Happy Crunching To all, and I will not be so quick to make assumptions in the future.

Have A Great Day And A Better Tomorrow!


Regards,

Rocky

> but the benchmarks on 2 of my machines are lower than before 4.05.. Just
> curious

Just a fluke. The project application has no bearing on the benchmark. 4.09 has slightly lower benchmark results due to a bug fix, but 4.05 wouldn't affect benchmarking.