Dust buildup in your fans can usually cause a system to slow down. Try opening the case and using a can of compressed air to blow out all the dust in the CPU fan and in the GPU fan as well and see if that helps.

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It looked like you had a couple of VLAR tasks on there too. Those will slow things down a lot when you get them especially on Cuda.

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It is suggestable that you run the VLAR optimized CUDA app if you are worried that your scans are taking too long. It will prevent your computer from processing the "very-low-angle-range" tasks that increase processing time.

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How can I tell if a WU is a VLAR?

If it takes a really long time to process its a VLAR.
2 Hours would be a normal work unit (less if its a shortie)
8-10 hours is a VLAR.

Bob

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How can I tell if a WU is a VLAR?

If it takes a really long time to process its a VLAR.
2 Hours would be a normal work unit (less if its a shortie)
8-10 hours is a VLAR.

Bob

That pretty much depends on your machine.

A better way would be to search for the string <true_angle_range> in the projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu directory. Values found there below 0.05 are considered VLAR (I think).

Gruß,
Gundolf

[edit] With windows, one way to find the angle range would be

find "true_angle" *.*.*.*

in the abovementioned folder; with *nix, a similar grep command with a numeric file mask.[/edit]

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