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Message 759143 - Posted: 27 May 2008, 0:23:30 UTC

Is it one of those basically meaningless things like the benchmarks?

Why I ask is on one of my Q6600 boxes I'm seeing:

% of time BOINC client is running 95.1339 %
While BOINC running, % of time work is allowed 99.9862 %
Average CPU efficiency 1.029262
Task duration correction factor 0.187926

On my other Q6600 I see the more expected:

% of time BOINC client is running 91.2938 %
While BOINC running, % of time work is allowed 99.9905 %
Average CPU efficiency 0.996526
Task duration correction factor 0.196616

Thanks for any insight,

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Message 759244 - Posted: 27 May 2008, 6:22:17 UTC

The calculation is CPU time divided by wall time. Most likely you had a misbehaving application that had more than one processing thread.
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Message 759252 - Posted: 27 May 2008, 6:57:25 UTC - in response to Message 759143.  

Is it one of those basically meaningless things like the benchmarks?

Nope, it's used to help determine the amount of work to download depending on your cache setting.
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