Pending credit
16 Feb 2015 20:04:38 UTC
Topic 197974
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The enormous growth, meaning that the validator miss their job.
or something else.
it is the current plague of each project on BOINC.
logically, what does that mean? - of increasing the number of volunteers. without having to align work on the servers of different BOINC projects.
for God's sake since I have in waiting for validation so much what my daily performance on this project.
and they are now beginning to argue that this is normal. I think they are just lazy.
or whole BOINC starts to collapse.
Pending credit
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I had a look at one of your machines with many pending tasks. They are all finished 1 or 2 days ago.
You have to let your wingmen finish calculating the same tasks before you will get credit. Not all volunteers have such powerful hardware as you do, you have to be patient.
I had the same problem, a
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I had the same problem, a huge backlog of pending tasks on my fast machines. I looked at some other participants fast machine and guess what, they returned their results many days later giving them a high RAC, as their results were validated right away.
So I did the same and extended my work queues to 4 days. And guess what, my RAC steadily increased as I was slower than a slow wing-man, and so got credit the moment my result was returned. I think this is a good equalizer between fast machines and slow ones.
RE: I had the same problem,
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Hmm...shouldn't your pendings equalize at some point and then the rac's would be the same either way?
I don't know what the
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I don't know what the algorithm is for the averaging, but it seems if you wanted to see what the maximum RAC is of your machine in the shortest time, this appears to be the one way. My RAC was flat for 3 or 4 days, and I saw one of my wingman abondening many of the same workunits. Since I had a queue of 1 day, I got no credit for many. After I increased it, it started to rise again. Maybe it was a fluke, but on both machines with 280x/7970 cards?
RE: I don't know what the
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I believe the algorithm is based on todays credits being worth twice yesterdays credits, which is in turn worth twice the days before etc, etc for a total of 7 days.
At most projects it can take up to 2 weeks for the rac to stabilize due to wingmen being faster or slower than we are. Those projects with no wingmen required are of course much faster.