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Message 24548 - Posted: 25 Apr 2009, 10:09:09 UTC

I am concerned as the BOINC seti unit i am currently running has an estimated time to run of 466 hours. This is much longer than it used to be. My average has been within 24 hours per unit. I have checked my computer out and nothing is taking CPU time. This appears only to have happened since i upgraded to BOINC 6.6.20. I appreciate units will take differing amounts of time but 466 hours is ridiculous. I had a message that the unit had timed out, 4 days overdue etc
Does anyone else have this issue and is there anything i can/should do to speed things up again, please? Thank you, Chris W.
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Message 24550 - Posted: 25 Apr 2009, 10:55:17 UTC - in response to Message 24548.  
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They are Astropulse tasks and they take that long. Had you posted and asked this on the Seti forums, you would've gotten that answer as well.

You can disable Astropulse by following these pointers.
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Message 25041 - Posted: 25 May 2009, 19:11:03 UTC - in response to Message 24548.  

Hi Jord, thank you for the info. I've followed the steps and i'm back to normal. I wasn't aware there were different units. I've just let my PC do as its always done since joining in 1998. As for the Seti forum, i thought this was it. I'll have look for the correct one. I appreciate your time. Regards Chris Wareham.
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Message 28405 - Posted: 30 Oct 2009, 23:25:55 UTC
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I have noticed that my BOINC projects are also taking a lot longer than they used to. I had uninstalled BOINC for a while earlier in the year and have just recently picked it back up. I am currently running Einstein@home on 3 cpu's and Enigma@home on my mac... Earlier in the year both Einstein and Enigma would complete workunits in only a couple hours or so (had 11,000+ credits in a relatively short amount of time.) Einstein had similar times. Now it takes 1.2 days p/ work unit or so this is the same for both my laptop (AMD Turion 64 1.3ghz) and desktop (Dell 2x 2.3ghz p4)... I would sort of expect it on the mac as it's an older G3, but like I said, the laptop used to do the work very quickly and the desktop should be doing circles around the laptop yes? (both the desktop and the laptop are not used often, and BOINC is running 24/7) Has something changed with BOINC or the projects or have I inadvertantly done something wrong or ...? From what I've gathered Einstein@home has changed somewhat now using Arecibo data, but with Enigma showing the same decrease in speed it had me wondering...
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Message 28416 - Posted: 31 Oct 2009, 14:31:23 UTC - in response to Message 28405.  
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You can't really expect of projects not to release newer versions of their science applications, which a lot of them have done in the past couple of months. Einstein certainly, Enigma probably (their awgly100 application runs slower than the older hceyz72 app does)

But in any way, since BOINC doesn't do any science and is just the manager, it cannot slow down your science applications, unless you told BOINC to use the CPU throttle function. If you didn't, it's really something you'd have to ask at the projects themselves.
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