Question?

FattyMcFat
FattyMcFat
Joined: 15 Apr 08
Posts: 1
Credit: 510,894
RAC: 0
Topic 195365

For awhile i was pulling WU's that would take 2-3 hours to complete... But now all my machines have all 6+ hour WU's and i seen to never get the shorter wu's anymore!

Should i just let them crunch or is there a setting to get 50/50?

archae86
archae86
Joined: 6 Dec 05
Posts: 3,157
Credit: 7,211,784,931
RAC: 966,698

Question?

The ones that were taking you 2-3 hours were probably ABP2 tasks of the sort that packed 4 actual pieces of work into a single BOINC task.

As of a few days ago new issues of ABP2 work pack 10 of the same size pieces of work. At the moment the only source of the smaller ones you refer to would be resends where the original quorum attempt had someone terminate, error out, fail to validate, or fail to return by deadline so that old work was resent. I still see a few of those but expect them to decline in number rapidly.

The other current major task type is Global Correlation. Depending on host, they take a similar amount of time to the 10x ABP jobs.

So my answer is that you don't currently have a choice to get an appreciable amount of shorter work, and in fact you'll see the small remaining supply declining.

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.