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Message 3066 - Posted 16 Apr 2007 13:19:15 UTC

Lately, in the past week or two, I've noticed a huge slowdown in the processing of workunits. My computer is not running at the percentage that it used to, though that doesn't account for the 5X+ amount of time it's now taking me to complete a workunit. I've tried (multiple times):

1) Trashing BOINC and starting over.
2) Installing an older version of BOINC, 5.8.16, thinking possibly that was the problem, even though I know 5.8.17 was working fine.

I'm not really sure what else to do. I believe this may stem from a preference change somewhere, though I can't see any issues with my settings. Any ideas? Have the workunits changed?

Old processing time: ~1.6hrs/workunit
New processing time: ~11hrs/workunit
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Message 3067 - Posted 16 Apr 2007 16:25:27 UTC - in response to Message ID 3066 .

Lately, in the past week or two, I've noticed a huge slowdown in the processing of workunits. My computer is not running at the percentage that it used to, though that doesn't account for the 5X+ amount of time it's now taking me to complete a workunit. I've tried (multiple times):

1) Trashing BOINC and starting over.
2) Installing an older version of BOINC, 5.8.16, thinking possibly that was the problem, even though I know 5.8.17 was working fine.

I'm not really sure what else to do. I believe this may stem from a preference change somewhere, though I can't see any issues with my settings. Any ideas? Have the workunits changed?

Old processing time: ~1.6hrs/workunit
New processing time: ~11hrs/workunit


@John, I'm sure this is a result of the 5.05 WUs. I don't think you can do anything to your IntelMAC until the project resolves the issue.

You can look at Conan's 1569 and see that it doubled the time to process WUs from 5.04 to 5.05.

My Intel Duals on Linux were barely affected......something like 30 minutes longer.

My 64-bit Linux Opterons won't run 5.05s........they were running 5.04s perfectly.

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Message 3068 - Posted 16 Apr 2007 17:36:39 UTC - in response to Message ID 3067 .

Lately, in the past week or two, I've noticed a huge slowdown in the processing of workunits. My computer is not running at the percentage that it used to, though that doesn't account for the 5X+ amount of time it's now taking me to complete a workunit. I've tried (multiple times):

1) Trashing BOINC and starting over.
2) Installing an older version of BOINC, 5.8.16, thinking possibly that was the problem, even though I know 5.8.17 was working fine.

I'm not really sure what else to do. I believe this may stem from a preference change somewhere, though I can't see any issues with my settings. Any ideas? Have the workunits changed?

Old processing time: ~1.6hrs/workunit
New processing time: ~11hrs/workunit


@John, I'm sure this is a result of the 5.05 WUs. I don't think you can do anything to your IntelMAC until the project resolves the issue.

You can look at Conan's 1569 and see that it doubled the time to process WUs from 5.04 to 5.05.

My Intel Duals on Linux were barely affected......something like 30 minutes longer.

My 64-bit Linux Opterons won't run 5.05s........they were running 5.04s perfectly.



Yikes. I just realized you were talking about WUs, not BOINC version!

OK. Thanks!

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Message 3071 - Posted 16 Apr 2007 17:49:49 UTC - in response to Message ID 3066 .

John, we are working on this issue right now. It is our first priority to fix.

Andre

Lately, in the past week or two, I've noticed a huge slowdown in the processing of workunits. My computer is not running at the percentage that it used to, though that doesn't account for the 5X+ amount of time it's now taking me to complete a workunit. I've tried (multiple times):

1) Trashing BOINC and starting over.
2) Installing an older version of BOINC, 5.8.16, thinking possibly that was the problem, even though I know 5.8.17 was working fine.

I'm not really sure what else to do. I believe this may stem from a preference change somewhere, though I can't see any issues with my settings. Any ideas? Have the workunits changed?

Old processing time: ~1.6hrs/workunit
New processing time: ~11hrs/workunit


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Message 3072 - Posted 16 Apr 2007 17:50:50 UTC - in response to Message ID 3068 .


My 64-bit Linux Opterons won't run 5.05s........they were running 5.04s perfectly.
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j2satx, do you mean that 5.05 is crashing on your opteron machines?

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Message 3073 - Posted 16 Apr 2007 17:59:39 UTC

The same here. All Intel Macs needs 11 hours for 1 WU, with 5.04 they need 1 hour 37 minutes. I have reset the project or disconnected to D&H and reconnect, by that doesn't help. So it must be a problem with charmm 5.05, i would say.

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Message 3076 - Posted 16 Apr 2007 19:08:50 UTC - in response to Message ID 3072 .


My 64-bit Linux Opterons won't run 5.05s........they were running 5.04s perfectly.
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j2satx, do you mean that 5.05 is crashing on your opteron machines?

Andre


Yes.........I am running 64-bit Ubuntu 7.04. It was running the 5.04s alright.

Error messages in Message 3009 of Thread: Issues with new 5.05 Linux application.

I didn't mean to imply they were crashing because of the Opterons, but I think it could be the wrapper.

I'm eating other WUs on those two machines until you fix the issue.
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Message 3077 - Posted 16 Apr 2007 19:09:27 UTC - in response to Message ID 3068 .

Lately, in the past week or two, I've noticed a huge slowdown in the processing of workunits. My computer is not running at the percentage that it used to, though that doesn't account for the 5X+ amount of time it's now taking me to complete a workunit. I've tried (multiple times):

1) Trashing BOINC and starting over.
2) Installing an older version of BOINC, 5.8.16, thinking possibly that was the problem, even though I know 5.8.17 was working fine.

I'm not really sure what else to do. I believe this may stem from a preference change somewhere, though I can't see any issues with my settings. Any ideas? Have the workunits changed?

Old processing time: ~1.6hrs/workunit
New processing time: ~11hrs/workunit


@John, I'm sure this is a result of the 5.05 WUs. I don't think you can do anything to your IntelMAC until the project resolves the issue.

You can look at Conan's 1569 and see that it doubled the time to process WUs from 5.04 to 5.05.

My Intel Duals on Linux were barely affected......something like 30 minutes longer.

My 64-bit Linux Opterons won't run 5.05s........they were running 5.04s perfectly.



Yikes. I just realized you were talking about WUs, not BOINC version!

OK. Thanks!


Sorry, I should have been more clear.
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Message 3084 - Posted 16 Apr 2007 22:55:51 UTC - in response to Message ID 3076 .

This has been fixed. Was due to a typo in the 64-bit wrapper. Can only say I'm sorry about letting it slip in!! Now back to the execution time increase problem...

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Yes.........I am running 64-bit Ubuntu 7.04. It was running the 5.04s alright.

Error messages in Message 3009 of Thread: Issues with new 5.05 Linux application.

I didn't mean to imply they were crashing because of the Opterons, but I think it could be the wrapper.

I'm eating other WUs on those two machines until you fix the issue.


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