25 + hours on a Perseus wu

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My GPU has been crunching a Perseus Arm Survey work unit for just over 24 hours. Is this expected? Seems a bit long.

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25 + hours on a Perseus wu

I had one that took about 29 hours on a 7970. So as long as it's still making progress I'd say let it run.

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hmm, all BRP5 WUs on my 7970

hmm, all BRP5 WUs on my 7970 takes no more than an hour

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RE: hmm, all BRP5 WUs on my

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hmm, all BRP5 WUs on my 7970 takes no more than an hour

Yeah, if you look only at the CPU time used, which means next to nothing in this context.

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RE: Yeah, if you look only

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Yeah, if you look only at the CPU time used, which means next to nothing in this context.

no, it is real time of running. 10 WUs per for a 30600 seconds, for example.

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All my BRP5 work units takes


All my BRP5 work units takes a little

bit more then to 3 hours to complete on my GTX 560 Ti.

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Yeah, if you look only at the CPU time used, which means next to nothing in this context.

no, it is real time of running. 10 WUs per for a 30600 seconds, for example.

So what? That still doesn't change how long each individual task takes to run, as anyone who looks at your hosts results will see.

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RE: All my BRP5 work units

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All my BRP5 work units takes a little

bit more then to 3 hours to complete on my GTX 560 Ti.

jeanguy

Yes, that's more typical for Perseus, but there are still the occasional outliers.

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RE: My GPU has been

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My GPU has been crunching a Perseus Arm Survey work unit for just over 24 hours. Is this expected? Seems a bit long.

Indeed, too long. Your current valid results list has one job listed that took only about 2 h!

One other thing that I noticed in the output of your tasks is this :

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[18:39:05][31212][INFO ] Application startup - thank you for supporting Einstein@Home!
parse_init_data_file: no end tag
18:39:05 (31212): Can't parse init data file - running in standalone mode

This is not normal, and it's not good! I would recommend to update the version of BOINC you are using (the file that the app complains about is written by the BOINC client software).

Hope this helps
HBE

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39+ hours. I aborted the

39+ hours. I aborted the job. I just went through a painful upgrade with changes made to SETI and I am now processing one of their "new" version 7 WUs. It is showing 21 hours to complete. I would like to know how this job is going to process before I start changing out stuff.

My version of BOINC is provided by my Linux distro. Replacing it would not be difficult but I would like to wait until I see how BOINC is going to handle this new SETI WU.

I am not rejecting your suggestion, just putting it on hold for a while.

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RE: 39+ hours. I aborted

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39+ hours. I aborted the job. I just went through a painful upgrade with changes made to SETI and I am now processing one of their "new" version 7 WUs. It is showing 21 hours to complete. I would like to know how this job is going to process before I start changing out stuff.


Something is wrong. Maybe the CPU needs more reserved cores. There is very little time variation in the BRP5 WUs (I've looked back in my results at over 700 and variation is at most a few percent). The slowest SETI v7 GPU WU I've run took just over 30 minutes and that's running 2 WUs concurrently (although I'm no SETI expert :-), most take much less.

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