I have 5 machines. All but one are running 5.4.11 official release. My main laptop (dual core intel Thinkpad note running winxp pro) is running 7.5.7.

I am running 4 projects (HashClash, Pirates, Burp, and Renderfarm) that only occasionally have WU's. I am also running Project Neuron. I notice the for Project Neuron on this one box, I only had 10 WU's (dual core running 2 at a time). My other single process machines had 20 (1 day connection interval). I then set the day inverval to 8 days and the other versions now have about 60-100 units depending on their computing speed. My main laptop now downloads about 8-10 at a time throughout the day. Not sure why it does not have a huge amount since it is dual core (2 concurrent) and 8 days.

I see in messages, where it is requesting 865755 seconds of work but no errors etc. I understand that the project might not allow an endless amount of work to download but this machine only has enough for 2 hours vs 8 days.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled, also they all were on BAM but I have defected from it with no change.

any suggestions?

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Are the time to completion estimates accurate for Neuron?

If they are high then BOINC will base its work request on that.

Check your duration correction factor. If it's something about the 5-10 range that might explain it.

You might want to post this over on Neuron as well.

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Kathryn :o)

Are the time to completion estimates accurate for Neuron?

If they are high then BOINC will base its work request on that.

Check your duration correction factor. If it's something about the 5-10 range that might explain it.

You might want to post this over on Neuron as well.

They are listed as 14 minutes per WU for a total of 4 hours.
I have posted on Neuron. how do I check the duration correction factor? if high, how do I "reset" it?

Thanks

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Duration Correction Factor is the number that tells BOINC how different your running times are from the server side estimate.

Go to your account at Neuron. Click on your computers. Click on the host ID.

That will give you a page of stats for the computer.

DCF is the last number.



For Neuron, mine is 30 (although I've seen projects where it was as high as 90000).

If yours is unusually high, then you have 2 options.

1. Let it be. It will get adjusted downwards every time you complete a WU.
2. Edit the client_state.xml file.

The easier way is #1. Mucking around with xml files if done incorrectly can lead to the loss of all work in your cache. (although this is one of the easier things to fix in that file).

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Kathryn :o)

Duration Correction Factor is the number that tells BOINC how different your running times are from the server side estimate.

Go to your account at Neuron. Click on your computers. Click on the host ID.

That will give you a page of stats for the computer.

DCF is the last number.



For Neuron, mine is 30 (although I've seen projects where it was as high as 90000).

If yours is unusually high, then you have 2 options.

1. Let it be. It will get adjusted downwards every time you complete a WU.
2. Edit the client_state.xml file.

The easier way is #1. Mucking around with xml files if done incorrectly can lead to the loss of all work in your cache. (although this is one of the easier things to fix in that file).

Thanks Kathryn.

I looked and the DCF was 4.3. I did move to 1.0 and let run for a couple of hours. no luck. The DCF is now: 4.157972.

We will just keep BOINC'n maybe it will work out. Could the long term or short term debt have an effect?

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It worked itself out. I now have 110 WU's. Guess it just took a few hours to settle in.

I thought it might have been an issue with 5.7.5 but apparently not so. Guess I need to be more patient next time. :-)

Thanks for assistance. I learned about DCF.

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Debts do have an effect on workfetch.

Glad to hear it worked out for you.

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Kathryn :o)