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Koptyubenko_Evgeniy

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Message 59536 - Posted: 13 Feb 2009, 8:01:01 UTC

Good day. I have a problem with Boinc. I participate in Rosetta@home and now I get only one task so I can't use two cores. Every task is about 500 hours to complete. But it is counted normally - only about several hours.
How can I cure this desease?
My Boinc version is 6.4.5
wxWidgets version is 2.8.7

In my Boinc manager I have the following preferences:
On multipprocessor systems, use at most 100% of the processors
Use at most 100% CPU time.
I have also set additional work buffer to 10 days.

All the way when I get a task its time to completeion is about 500 hours.
Only for about a week ago everything was fine. I computed two tasks at a time.

Please help!!! I want to count and participate.
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Message 59538 - Posted: 13 Feb 2009, 8:12:13 UTC
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The Duration Correction Factor (DCF) has gotten out of whack. If you wait and just do work it will slowly correct itself. If you are in a hurry, well, you can edit a file and set the DCF to a value closer to 1 which will have the effect of you seeing initial times that are closer to reality.

One of the recent causes to corrupting the DCF is the installation of one of the beta versions of the BOINC Manager.

Bottom line, if you wait, it will correct itself to the right value.

Another quick way to try, complete the task in progress, report it, then reset the project. Do an update and hopefully you will be good to go ... remember to report the task before the reset!
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Message 59539 - Posted: 13 Feb 2009, 8:25:26 UTC - in response to Message 59538.  

Thanks a lot. It helped.
I have reset the project and I can count!!!
Oooo

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Message 59544 - Posted: 13 Feb 2009, 16:07:07 UTC - in response to Message 59539.  

Thanks a lot. It helped.
I have reset the project and I can count!!!
Oooo



Yes, but is Rosetta working correctly now? :)
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