The time remaining for new SETI@home work units has gone through the roof recently for no apparent reason. For example I have a work unit running now on my Windows PC that was downloaded a few days ago with a due date of 1/2/2016 and shows a time Remaining of 4074:18:56. It is never going to make the deadline. I hardly ever use this PC for anything else but BOINC crunching so I don't diddle with the priorities. Can anyone tell me what might be going on?

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This is wrong estimate.
If previous tasks run for too long (e.g. because CPU is too busy for a long time to do video encoding, gaming) this will make BOINC think the computer is too slow.
It may also be some hang process that uses the CPU

Today I needed to reboot a computer (was running 50 days) because NVIDIA CUDA was in 'bad' condition - task restarting every few seconds (monitored from other computer)
If you didn't reboot this computer for a long time I suggest you do it (restart Windows)


You may check "Duration correction factor" (which is usually ~1.0)
Projects tab -> select SETI@home -> Properties (bottom of window)
http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/w/?title=Advanced_view&oldid=6098#The_Projects_tab

I'm not sure "Duration correction factor" exists in newer BOINC versions

Which computer ID is this?
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php?userid=62424

You probably see this estimated time to drop fast while the task is running...
 

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The Acer. Remaining has not changed significantly. Will try restarting.

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After restart "Remaining" is much lower, but Progress is much too low for Elapsed and Remaining. Also,Deadline dates in Boinc manager do not match dates on the SETI web page.

I am going to download and install the latest BOINC.

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Progress percentage is still about the same as are other numbers that do not match, but it looks like it could make the deadline now as remaining is 22
:50:57 and dropping rapidly.

Thanks for the help.

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The Acer

??? What is this? Computer name? Only ID is visible to others, see my computers:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php?userid=8647488

Deadline dates in Boinc manager do not match dates on the SETI web page.

Local (in BOINC Manager) vs UTC time (on web page)

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Computer 5844020.

Deadline dates are off by days, not just hours.

I think we can close out this thread. Since I got the new version things seem to be clearing up.

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They will be until you have run sufficient tasks for the time estimator to get a good estimate - this takes between ten and twenty validated, normal tasks to have been completed (I can't remember the exact number).

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Computer 5844020

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5844020

Deadline dates are off by days, not just hours.

Do you have (see in BOINC Manager) only these 2 tasks now:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=5844020&offset=0&show_names=1&state=0&appid=

The 30oc11ab.8281.20108.3.12.134_1 that say 12 Dec 2015, 1:26:43 UTC
will be on 11 Dec 2015 in USA which is -5 to -9 from UTC
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/aboututc.html

They will be until you have run sufficient tasks for the time estimator to get a good estimate

He have "SETI@home v7 7.00 windows_intelx86":
Number of tasks completed 805
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/host_app_versions.php?hostid=5844020
 

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