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Old woman(mann, sorry)
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Much as I hate to admit defeat, today, after nearly 200 hours of crunching, it decided that I'd completed about 3% of it.
Enough is enough. Who do they thing they are, doing this kind of thing to people?
SETI is why I crunch in the first place! It satisfies part of my soul, I cancelled all other projects and devoted 100% of my PC to it and the only result is a waste of time, electricity and one pissed off volunteer.
I unchecked the AP boxes.
Mostly in sorrow.
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Lloyd M.
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| Old woman(mann, sorry) wrote: | Much as I hate to admit defeat, today, after nearly 200 hours of crunching, it decided that I'd completed about 3% of it.
Enough is enough. Who do they thing they are, doing this kind of thing to people? |
Golly, that sucks.
BTW, are you running optimized apps? Would you consider another project like Milkyway?
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Lloyd M.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Adam Alexander wrote: | | I've noticed on some projects that when you initially download WU's the estimates are very high, but improve as you do more work units. |
I've found that it is pretty much the opposite, in real time, with Astropulse WUs
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Lloyd M.
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| KWSN glidersaur wrote: | | You can set up a simple proportion. I have an AP WU that originally was benchmarked at 212 estimated hours to completion. [snip] |
Well, you could if the math didn't keep changing while the WU was running, which is how it always seems to work with Astropulse WUs.
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Lloyd M.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Idan wrote: | | Is it possible to change to the optimized client while crunching with the normal client? I mean, close the boinc manager, putting the optimized client in place and starting the boinc manager again without damaging the work done so far? I still have an AP WU half way through with 200+ hours of crunching that I wouldn't like to lose... |
I hear you. If you stop BOINC entirely before updating the client, it should be fine.
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Idan
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Location: Tel-Aviv, Israel
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Lloyd M. wrote: | | Idan wrote: | | Is it possible to change to the optimized client while crunching with the normal client? I mean, close the boinc manager, putting the optimized client in place and starting the boinc manager again without damaging the work done so far? I still have an AP WU half way through with 200+ hours of crunching that I wouldn't like to lose... |
I hear you. If you stop BOINC entirely before updating the client, it should be fine. |
I will lose about 350 hours of crunching in case it won't work... I'll try to backup everything before I do that, but if it won't work and I won't be able to restore it anyway, I will blame you and punish you by sending Sir Fart to release his bowels in your general direction 
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KWSN glidersaur
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Location: Land of the Sacred Cheddar
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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My first (and only) AP WU ran 109 hours, 59 minutes and 42 seconds. My estimate of 111 hours came pretty close. But I will not tie up one of my cores (I have only 2) on an AP unit again. I am now crunching the old multi-beam units and they list at 6+ hours, but I manage to get them out in about 4. I don't know what the folks at SETI are thinking with the AstroPulse B.S. I agree with those of you who are pi$$ed. A visit from Sir Fart to SETI is definitely in order!
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