This past Monday my Total Credit was 8,326,478 and RAC was 12,444.16.
Today it went way up, Total Credit is 8,451,578 and RAC is 21,440.98.
I have looked at the before and after results at others in my Team and none had as large of increase.
Now do to this I don't feel quite so bad for the server outage.

Yeah I saw about the same amount of change. However I credit it to the servers having all the results in the field coming in, none going out, and the validators having a good crack at doing their job. The point jumps will stop once your pending credits get dried out, and I don't think you will see another jump.

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Traveling through space at ~67,000mph!

See Matt's post in the Tech News.

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I have received new wu's. I have a question for anyone. Did you notice that they are much longer to complete? About 3-4 times longer, so far.

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thats not so for me wu.s 2hrs10min about the same

Yes, cuda tasks are taking longer. Cuda tasks from 26ja10 tape are taking about 3 times as much time.

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are you sure those CUDA WU's aren't VLAR WU's. I D/Led about 20 for my ATI GPU and they all were VLAR. Though the ATI GPU can crunch the VLAR in about 75 minutes on my 5850 as opposed to 6+ hours on a CUDA

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These particular ones are VLAR units, that will take about 10 hours vs. the previous 2.75 hours time. I will be crunching some that are not VLAR units soon, then I will know better. I hope the credit is also 3-4 times higher for these ones. I do not mind longer ones, less hassle when we have outages.

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Since my older PC which used to take twice as long as the Quad to crunch one unit, I wonder if the Quad lost its opportunity to use the optimized version it used until the outage. Is there a way to find this out. 8-9+ hours seems way too long for wu on the Quad. It never happened before.

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if that WU is a VLAR and its being crunched on a CUDA GPU expect very long times. since the "tasks" portion of the website has been disabled we aren't able to check on the WU's. Optimized apps won't turn off and the WU's aren't taking any longer than usual.

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

Thank you for the reply. I am looking at my Cuda and it will take about the same for a VLAR and regular unit to get done, nearly 8 hours. Quiet a shock.

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Miklos,



I don't see a gpu to run cuda in your computers.

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You are correct, but my wu's are still taking 8 hours as opposed to the previous 2.5-3.0.

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You are correct, but my wu's are still taking 8 hours as opposed to the previous 2.5-3.0.

Look in task manager what process steals CPU time. Maybe you got some unwanted "guest" on your PC...

Thank you for the idea. I checked and it is 24-25% on each of the four cpu's.

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My somewhat older dual CPU (no CUDA) usully takes about 3 hours for a regular WU or a VLAR unit, about 1 to 1.5 for a "shortie". Now I have a batch that are each taking almost 6 hours, which is double what I have ever seen before. So you are not dreaming when you see the longer WUs.

I didn't get any of the super-long ones on my quad.

Speaking only for the kitties.........

I was very grateful to see the credits pour into my account.
No rotten tomatoes here.
They were recognition for work done that was never properly credited for whatever reason.

Although it is hard to take that I can't be crunching Seti at the moment, it is a wonderful thing to see the database being whittled down somewhat.

I salute Eric and his minions (LOL) for making the hard choices that have had to make over the last few weeks.

I await the dawning of the new Seti with much anticipation.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Are they really taking that long or are they only estimated to do so?

I too have some tasks that are estimated for double duration, but the "To completion" value shrinks rapidly.

Gruß,
Gundolf

Are they really taking that long or are they only estimated to do so?

I too have some tasks that are estimated for double duration, but the "To completion" value shrinks rapidly.

Gruß,
Gundolf

Dunno, don't matter.

Whatever the 'estimate' is......as the saying goes, it is what it is.

And most Boinc versions are wonky in their use of it anyway.

Joe or Richard might give you a more defined answer.

But I have ignored it for years now.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Actual time elapsed is 8.5-9.5 hours on the quad and "only", 7 hours on the older computer. The older one used to take about 5-6 hours before the BIG OUTAGE. Looks like many of us are in the same "spaceship", so I will just have to wait and see if the credit increased too, in proportion to the longer time required to crunch.

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