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Message 5977 - Posted 19 Aug 2010 0:51:02 UTC

Am I the only one whose work units are completing so quickly. It takes about 24 seconds to complete 1%. Then about 26 seconds to complete 3%. Then the rate goes exponential to 100% in 38 seconds. I am going through a large number of work units. I have a quad core processor and on three of the cores I have older work units that are going to take about three hours to complete. It is just the most recent work units that are completing so fast.

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Message 5978 - Posted 19 Aug 2010 1:11:33 UTC - in response to Message ID 5977 .
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Am I the only one whose work units are completing so quickly. It takes about 24 seconds to complete 1%. Then about 26 seconds to complete 3%. Then the rate goes exponential to 100% in 38 seconds. I am going through a large number of work units. I have a quad core processor and on three of the cores I have older work units that are going to take about three hours to complete. It is just the most recent work units that are completing so fast.



Apparently most people are having this happen as they went through all their available workunits in record time. Got a feeling this isn't right but will have to wait till the Docking people notice it. My 3.4GHz quad core usually finishes a workunit in about 2.5 hours. So since these are taking less than a minute these must be an error or something special they are testing.

They do seem to be validating and giving the default credit though.

Any Docking project administrators out there that know what's happening?
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Message 5979 - Posted 19 Aug 2010 1:42:49 UTC - in response to Message ID 5978 .
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Am I the only one whose work units are completing so quickly. It takes about 24 seconds to complete 1%. Then about 26 seconds to complete 3%. Then the rate goes exponential to 100% in 38 seconds. I am going through a large number of work units. I have a quad core processor and on three of the cores I have older work units that are going to take about three hours to complete. It is just the most recent work units that are completing so fast.



Apparently most people are having this happen as they went through all their available workunits in record time. Got a feeling this isn't right but will have to wait till the Docking people notice it. My 3.4GHz quad core usually finishes a workunit in about 2.5 hours. So since these are taking less than a minute these must be an error or something special they are testing.

They do seem to be validating and giving the default credit though.

Any Docking project administrators out there that know what's happening?



You are right about the getting credit. I am getting 102 credits for every work unit completed! So in 12 hours I'll get more than 115,000 credits. I don't know if I get that many work units or not, but I have been getting them for the last hour no problem.
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Message 5980 - Posted 19 Aug 2010 8:56:49 UTC

I have same "problem". WU completed in 1 minute and 102 credites granted.

Whats happend?

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Message 5981 - Posted 19 Aug 2010 16:03:28 UTC

Well, I'm just not getting work at all.

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Message 5982 - Posted 19 Aug 2010 16:04:53 UTC
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You've all got so slow machines, mine only took 27 seconds

I just wanted to ask the same question, somethings quite fishy with those WUs. I got an older one with 102 credits that crunched the normal time of 8500 seconds.

Well, I'm just not getting work at all.

Me not as well, perhaps the actual bunch was ready too fast. Or someone saw the problem and stopped the sending.
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Message 5984 - Posted 20 Aug 2010 1:52:57 UTC

I think the reason that little work is now available is because we all burned through those 40,000+ workunits in under a minute each and so they've mostly all been vlaidated now. I too am now only getting a few a day (probably someone's aborted units).

Hello Docking project administrators!!!
Is there anybody out there who can tell us whats going on or fix this?

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Message 5988 - Posted 20 Aug 2010 18:16:34 UTC - in response to Message ID 5981 .

Well, I'm just not getting work at all.

Hi, the reason of not getting tasks is that docking was not generating enough workunits so there was a "starvation". But now the problem should be solved. Can you please check to see if it is normal now? Thanks a lot!
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Message 5989 - Posted 20 Aug 2010 18:19:42 UTC - in response to Message ID 5984 .

I think the reason that little work is now available is because we all burned through those 40,000+ workunits in under a minute each and so they've mostly all been vlaidated now. I too am now only getting a few a day (probably someone's aborted units).

Hello Docking project administrators!!!
Is there anybody out there who can tell us whats going on or fix this?

Hi, we are investigating the problem, there are some work going on in the server room, we don't know for sure whether it is related to that. We will keep you posted.

Please let us know if the short time tasks observed again, thank you very much!
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Message 5990 - Posted 20 Aug 2010 19:51:58 UTC
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Miracle ! I just have a small 2.8GHz Pentium 4 Core Duo, and in the last 24 hours my credit burst out with a huge number of tasks completing in only 1'45" when it usually requires around 9 hours. Now it has turned back to more realistic performances.

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Message 5991 - Posted 21 Aug 2010 1:35:51 UTC

Looks like Docking is back to producing what is for my PCs a normal duration WU of about 2.5 hours again. And it looks like its got some WUs available again.

Thanks to the Docking staff for taking care of this!

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Message 5992 - Posted 21 Aug 2010 3:39:20 UTC - in response to Message ID 5991 .

Looks like Docking is back to producing what is for my PCs a normal duration WU of about 2.5 hours again. And it looks like its got some WUs available again.

Thanks to the Docking staff for taking care of this!



Thank you for letting us know! Please let us know if the problem observed again.
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Message 5993 - Posted 22 Aug 2010 18:10:15 UTC

Everything seems OK now. Thanks to Docking Team.

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Message 5994 - Posted 23 Aug 2010 14:19:25 UTC

Yes, Thanks Docking Team for getting everything fixed and running smoothly again.

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Message 5995 - Posted 23 Aug 2010 21:50:18 UTC

I'm still not getting workunits on any of my machines and some have already run dry. I hit update and it does check but then says "0 workunits sent."

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Message 5996 - Posted 23 Aug 2010 21:51:03 UTC - in response to Message ID 5995 .

I'm still not getting workunits on any of my machines and some have already run dry. I hit update and it does check but then says "0 workunits sent."


errr, "Scheduler request completed, got 0 new tasks."
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Message 5997 - Posted 24 Aug 2010 14:29:45 UTC - in response to Message ID 5996 .

I'm still not getting workunits on any of my machines and some have already run dry. I hit update and it does check but then says "0 workunits sent."


errr, "Scheduler request completed, got 0 new tasks."


How about now? Still getting the 0 new tasks error? Thanks!
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Message 5998 - Posted 25 Aug 2010 20:17:21 UTC

I get WU, but again they are completed in 1 minute,

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Message 5999 - Posted 25 Aug 2010 21:38:51 UTC - in response to Message ID 5998 .

I get WU, but again they are completed in 1 minute,

Hi, we noticed that the workunits '1ajx1dif' are the ones that complete within 1 minutes, can you please abort the tasks that run '1ajx1dif', and see if other workunits take longer? Thank you very much!
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Message 6000 - Posted 26 Aug 2010 18:27:00 UTC

Now I have 1d4h1diff and they take more than 3 hours. For now it is OK.

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Message 6001 - Posted 26 Aug 2010 18:32:50 UTC - in response to Message ID 6000 .

Now I have 1d4h1diff and they take more than 3 hours. For now it is OK.

Thanks for the update!
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Message 6008 - Posted 31 Aug 2010 6:36:27 UTC

Hi.

Getting these short one's again, there only running for about 40min each.

1g351dif_mod0014crossdockinghiv1_9522_172920_0

So your running out of tasks to send.

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Message 6009 - Posted 1 Sep 2010 11:33:20 UTC - in response to Message ID 6008 .
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Hi.

Getting these short one's again, there only running for about 40min each.

1g351dif_mod0014crossdockinghiv1_9522_172920_0

So your running out of tasks to send.


Looked at my host's doing Docking, but only seeing 'normal runtimes'
of about ~3 hours to 3:30 hours.
All 1d4idif_mod14crossdockinghiv_1xxx_yyyyyy_0 , found 1 with 2:20
hours, but none with only ~40 minutes, to complete.
SETI@home sometimes has ' Ghost's WU's' or empty WU's
through heavy RADAR Blanking, they take a few seconds to 'complete'.

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Message 6010 - Posted 2 Sep 2010 2:57:54 UTC
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Hi.

I'm still seeing some odd run times, is there something going wrong here?

b.t.w. I'm not complaining about the credits ;)

Top ones are most recent.
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1hsg1dif_mod0014crossdockinghiv1_7635_127548_0 / Over__Success__Done__29.37__0.13__102.00

1hsg1dif_mod0014crossdockinghiv1_7636_275327_0 / Over__Success__Done__339.94__1.50__102.00

1hps1dif_mod0014crossdockinghiv1_459_354027_0 / Over__Success__Done__1,437.39__5.61__102.00

1hps1dif_mod0014crossdockinghiv1_460_318036_0 / Over__Success__Done__1,056.72__4.13__102.00

1hps1dif_mod0014crossdockinghiv1_458_317096_0 / Over__Success__Done__4,025.28__15.72__102.00

Edit/ And of course your running out of work.
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Message 6011 - Posted 2 Sep 2010 10:17:08 UTC

In addition to the short run times, I'm getting a lot of Compute Error WUs.

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Message 6012 - Posted 2 Sep 2010 22:57:58 UTC

Hi.

I got a few Compute Error's last night too.


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Message 6016 - Posted 4 Sep 2010 20:24:51 UTC

I had a heap of wu's that either had very short run times or errored out last night. They were all on my Linux box and all from the 1hsg1dif series.

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