Only short work-units available - why?

Arion
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I've been getting a slew of

I've been getting a slew of the smaller units as well and its a hassle when you're waiting vor whoever else downloaded them to send in their results. Lately it seems a lot of NOT sending theirs back. Still have some from early dec waiting for credit.

Also , when the project is down you got everyone of them slamming boinc for internet access. Trying to run 2 projects while one is sending 40+ units non stop to nowhere was a mess. And no way of stopping them without killing the credit process.

Sure glad Einstein is good about running without a lot of problems most of the time. Not like some others....

clownius
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I managed to get 2 long WU's

I managed to get 2 long WU's today :)
Hopefully i get more to go with them soon enough

Annika
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Back to short ones again...

Back to short ones again... like them on my laptop but not on my workstation.

Svenie25
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I treid to get get a cache of

I treid to get get a cache of 4 days in the last hour for my C2D. But with only short WU´s I get very fast the message "reached daily quota of 144"... :(
Mission impossible.

clownius
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Im back to loads of short

Im back to loads of short WU's again :(. Looks like i just got lucky with the 2 long ones and cant seem to get them nemore.

BarryAZ
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I do wonder if there is a

I do wonder if there is a greater load on the server with the short work units - that is the data base has the same workload per each work unit short or long.

Gary Roberts
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RE: I treid to get get a

Message 58314 in response to message 58311

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I treid to get get a cache of 4 days in the last hour for my C2D. But with only short WU´s I get very fast the message "reached daily quota of 144"... :(
Mission impossible.

It's not impossible and you only really have a problem if you can actually crunch more than 144 per day. If not, your cache will gradually accumulate each day and will reach the full 4 day value by steady progression rather than in one single hit. The rate of that progression will depend on the magnitude of the gap between what you can actually crunch per day and 144. For example, if you can crunch 100 per day, your actual cache will increase at the rate of 44 per day until it reaches 400 (4 x 100 = 400 which would be the "full" value).

Cheers,
Gary.

MAGIC Quantum Mechanic
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I just loaded some on this P4

I just loaded some on this P4 3.2 dual and let it get back to work and came back 30 minutes later and saw I just now loaded this.

1/9/2007 12:07:19 AM|Einstein@Home|Requesting 0.250378 seconds of new work, and reporting 2 completed tasks

How will I ever I get that much done in 2 weeks on this processor???

Dex
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RE: I just loaded some on

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I just loaded some on this P4 3.2 dual and let it get back to work and came back 30 minutes later and saw I just now loaded this.

1/9/2007 12:07:19 AM|Einstein@Home|Requesting 0.250378 seconds of new work, and reporting 2 completed tasks

How will I ever I get that much done in 2 weeks on this processor???

With you jokers hat face at the bottom of your post I assume you are joking, but in the event your not. Thats Only .2 secs. 2\\10 of a second. :D

d3xt3r.net

Conan
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> While only short WUs appear

> While only short WUs appear to be left (not really a problem as they actually give you more credit per hour), I have found that some people will get some long ones as a number of users grabbed lots of over the Christmas period and now they are starting to time out.
People go on holidays, buisnesses close down for a while, computers grab the work then get turned off while owners are away. All of these things will allow a number of the long WUs to come back into the mix for others to process (I have seen one host grab over 150 WUs but has not completed any of them).
I have a couple of long WUs and a lot of short WUs that are still pending due to the other computer not finishing or doing any work, most are timing out from 8/1 onwards so you all might get a few more longs as they get reissued.

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