Hi,

I'm getting WU's with 180+ hours to be completed in one months time. This is impossible to complete in this short time span due to running another nine projects. I have a Intel 3.2E 800Hz FSB processor (has two cores) Is there any errors in the programme that is or may not be detecting that you are running multiple projects and therefore not able to process such large WU's in such a short space of time.

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"All man born has a right to life and no man born has the right to take that life"

Hi,

I'm getting WU's with 180+ hours to be completed in one months time. This is impossible to complete in this short time span due to running another nine projects. I have a Intel 3.2E 800Hz FSB processor (has two cores) Is there any errors in the programme that is or may not be detecting that you are running multiple projects and therefore not able to process such large WU's in such a short space of time.

BOINC will stop downloading more work and pay attention to the work it has when there are deadline problems. It will also run much of the work in Earliest Deadline First order. S@H will get more CPU time now, but it will be last in line for work fetch for a while after it is done in order to give back most of the CPU time it borrowed.

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It shouldn't be a problem. I have 15 projects (10 Active at the moment) including Seti and Seti Beta which supply Astropulse WU. My system is slightly slower then yours. I've never missed a deadline. I just let Boinc do its job of sorting things out.

You could go into your SETI@home preferences and change the settings to
SETI@home Enhanced: yes
Astropulse: no
Astropulse v5: no
If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications? no

This should stop Seti from assigning Astropulse WU to your computer in the future.

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Boinc V7.2.42
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470

Thank you Aurora Borealis that's resolved the problem. I was set to receive all three applications. The Astropulse V5 was automatically going in to 'High Priority' as soon as it was downloaded and robbing time/resources off my other projects. The only concern I have is that I have had many Astropulse v5 wu's before and had no problems with them, So why now is a mystery.

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"All man born has a right to life and no man born has the right to take that life"

Hi

I seem to have a similar problem.
I have just received a WU which states a deadline <30 days from now but with a projected Completion time of c.2000 hours. There is no way that this can be met.
So I aborted the WU - only I got either the same one or one just as bad.
There is no way these can be completed on time on my system.
My system should still be able to cope with most AP WUs.

How can I prevent BOINC or SETI from giving me these impossible WUs without turning off AP WUs?

Those 2000 hours are probably strongly overestimated. Since you have only run MultiBeam tasks until now (mostly on your CUDA device), the Duration Correction Factor (DCF) is out of whack for AstroPulse tasks.

Let them run, if you want to; the estimated runtime will adjust over time and they will probably run in much less than the given 30 days.

If you don't want to reveive AP tasks anymore, you can disable them in your SETI@home preferences. [edit] As you obviously already knew :-) [/edit]

The problem with differing DCFs will be addressed in a future release of BOINC.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours