Ultra long Arecibo WU?
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7 Jun 2009 9:07:09 UTC
Topic 194375
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Hello,
yesterday I got a WU (129385369) which has a very slow progress while crunching, after 3.5 h about 2.2 %.
No my question: Is it a "monster" WU or is something wrong with it?
Thank you for your answers!
Nowi
Ultra long Arecibo WU?
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There are apparently some monsters out there. I have one on my Core 2 Quad Extreme machine that's doing the same thing.
RE: Hello, yesterday I got
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While it could be a monster wu (you'd have to look in the BOINC directories to see how big it is compared to other wu), its possibly a problem with BOINC. Sometimes these happen. We think its a "feature" of BOINC but doesn't occur too often. It happens for other projects too.
I'd suggest shutting BOINC down and rebooting the PC and keep an eye on it after you restart.
BOINC blog
RE: I'd suggest shutting
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I don't know about rebooting. But shutting down BOINC doesn't spur it into action. Shortly before 5 each morning, my BOINC install gets shut down for log rotation and then restarted.
Kathryn :o)
Einstein@Home Moderator
Thank you for your
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Thank you for your answers!
Restarting of BOINC and rebooting the machine take no effect.
@KSMarksPsych: Do you have such a WU too?
My question is: Am I wasting crunching time for a faulty WU? The estimated calculated finishing time is about 150 - 160 hours on my C2Q . This is a long time to wait, if the WU is faulty or not.
How can I compare the size of this file to other files? In my BOINC directory I have only this WU. What is the standard-size of an Arecibo-WU? This one has a size of 2050 KB.
Edit: I compared an old stderr.txt with the actual one.
old: Data size (bytes): 16179201
actual: Data size (bytes): 1067827201
I think this is a MONSTER-WU! :-)
RE: Thank you for your
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I agree that it's a monster, and not faulty. On my Extreme Edititon Core 2 Quad (X9650 model), the fastest machine in the house, the WU is progressing. It's just that it's progressing very slowly.
Since I made the first post, I noticed that one of my old P-4 class Xeon machines also has one. It's not near as fast as the X9650, so I guess I'll just have to wait and see how it goes.
I just did some quick math on
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I just did some quick math on my X9650 machine. It shows an estimated completion time of about 170 hours.
I sure hope that none of my old P-III machines gets one of these.
I think on slower machines it
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I think on slower machines it is hard to hit the deadline. Not everyone is crunching 24/7 and so imho the deadline of 14 days is challenging.
Yes, I have one processing
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Yes, I have one processing right now.
I also rebooted to pick up a kernel update and that had no effect on it. So I think it's a monster. I've sent an email to the dev team about them.
Kathryn :o)
Einstein@Home Moderator
RE: I think on slower
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I just checked on my P-4 Xeon machine. With hyper-threading enabled--meaning that each work unit would process slower than usual, anyway--it's projected to run for 1236 hours.
Ouch!
That´s the problem and I see
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That´s the problem and I see another one for the faster machines:
You must have a partner for the WU, who is nearly as fast as you. If he is not, I mention, that we will have a huge amount of pending credits for a lot of time. I mean the devs must think about that.