What is wrong?

HI guys, my boinc its set to Minimum work buffer: 10 days, Max additional work buffer: 10 days, Use at most: 1 GB of disk space. All of the WUS have 5h to execute. It is normal ?

And if i have 1 days cache, and an additional 0.01 days the WUS will decrease the completion time? I thought that rising the days cache i would have more WUS to crunch.

Nope.

The work units will take the same amount of time, just the system will queue more of them up.

All that setting does is download extra work units, to keep you going if you can't talk to the server for a few days.

Ian

Setting to 2+.01 gives me roughly 3-4 days of work for some reason, always has since 7.xxx

(I'm currently running my server out of tasks and it's been 3.5 days so far and still crunching away on all cores... ;-))
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So if you put 10+ 10 it will give 10 days plus another 10 ?
And why all WUS have 5h to complete?
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I think using 10 +10 will give you a very lumpy ride. It will give you a 10 day stock, but only check that you need new work every 10 days. Far better to go for a something like 5 day cache and check every 0.1 days (or less) that way you will "always" have a nearly full cache.
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Bob Smith
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And why all WUS have 5h to complete?

The short answer is they don't. maybe all the ones you have now do, but the next batch, with different Angle Ranges, could be different. It seems you only have work for your CPU; CPU's are much slower than GPU's.

The time to complete is how long the task take to run once it starts. This is determined by the processing power of your computer (not a lot you can do about that)

The cache is the amount of work you have waiting to run - you can control the size of your cache.

There is a relationship between the two - the time to complete is used to calculate how many tasks are in your cache. For example: If your computer takes 6 hours to complete an "average" task, and you have a cache size of 4 days then there will be about 16 tasks sitting in your cache waiting to run, if you double to size of your cache to eight days then the number of tasks in your cache will increase to about 32.


(Fun starts with cache sizes when you get tasks that are expected to take vastly different times to complete, the sums get harder....)
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Bob Smith
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By the way it takes 5h to complete. This CPU (GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 380 @ 2.53GHz [Family 6 Model 37 Stepping 5]) was suppose to be faster dont you think?
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By the way it takes 5h to complete. This CPU (GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 380 @ 2.53GHz [Family 6 Model 37 Stepping 5]) was suppose to be faster dont you think?

Where i can find them?
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Where i can find them?