One of my machines has been showing "To Completion" times in the range of about 600,000 - 1,000,000 hours, even though the computer typically completes workunits in about 2 hours (dual core AMD FX-60). I can't get it to correct, tried re-starting and "update" and CPU benchmarks. Its been doing this for a week. The machine won't cache any workunits even though preferences say 5 days worth, I assume because it "thinks" that each workunit will take over 5 days. When it completes work, it downloads a new workunit, but there are never more than 2 workunits (dual core). Any recomendations on how to get this fixed?

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Exit boinc

Open the file "C\\programfiles\\boinc\\clientstate.xml with notepad, wordpad, any text editor.

scroll down to the seti section

look about 20 lines down from where seti starts and locate "duration correction factor" or DCF. between those two tags will be a value.

Here's what mine looks like from a project I've yet to get work from so it's high:
<duration_correction_factor>5.256412</duration_correction_factor>

I assume it's not anywhere near 1.000000

If it's way up there, then edit it to read 1.000000 (6 zeroes).

save the file

restart boinc

NOTE: if you mess up the clientstate.xml it will crash boinc and take the work with it.

tony

Thanks Astro (ranks rastro?)
You were 100% correct. My duaration_correction_factor was 83446.321844!
As soon as I restarted the client, the To Completion times look correct, and it downloaded a bunch of WU's. Many thanks.

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no problem. If you set it any lower than that, you can really be flooded with work you'll never have time to finish, and the first wu would think it'd take 2 seconds run and after that the estimate to completion would actually rise. LOL

It will "normalize" as you return work.