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Message 129335 - Posted: 28 Jun 2005, 11:24:35 UTC

On weekends I leave my computer on for 36-40 hours, but often my total credits don't change, If I don't get some indication that the completed work has been recieved I can only presume that my work has been "lost".
If so is there any point in running Seti (average time for completing a work unit on my computer is 2.5 - 3 hours)
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Message 129344 - Posted: 28 Jun 2005, 12:19:50 UTC
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Don't forget....

Just because you return a completed work unit... doesn't mean you instantly get credit for it......

Seti holds on to completed work units, untill other users have completed the same work unit, before working out what credit you should recieve.
(Try going into your stats, you can find a list of returned workunits that are awaiting confirmation!!)


And I have noticed, that the project doesn't always seem to automatically update, when uploading work units....

My machine stays on 24/7.. no problems here...
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Message 129345 - Posted: 28 Jun 2005, 12:20:12 UTC

If you look at the results for your computer on your account page you can see if a workunit has been received. Credits are not being granted right now because the validators are down. Once the validators come back up credit will be granted.
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Message 129491 - Posted: 28 Jun 2005, 19:15:14 UTC - in response to Message 129345.  

Here you can see results being returned for the 22nd thru the 28th, so when the validators get back online you'll get credit for all the work your PC did over the weekend.
Help and BOINC documentation is available here.

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Message 131582 - Posted: 2 Jul 2005, 11:42:22 UTC

It would be nice to have in the projects tab a column with the number of jobs done. This would keep us informed of what our computer is doing.

As long as credit won't be given in real time (and I really don't care) and WU will have such nice names easy to memorize (lol), having a simple counter would be a nice answer
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