BOINC Problem

Pilgrim57 · 19 Feb 2009 at 19:39

I decide to upgrade to latest version 6.45. Didn't backup my work for SETI & Climate prediction. This new version stores data in a different folder so lost all old work :mad:

Detched from projects.
Now SETI is running but WU's that take 38-50 mins with optimised client are listed as 12 hours :eek:

to completed. This means I'm only geting 8-20 WUs for mu quad :confused:

despite setting preferences to 10 days :confused:

Have detached from project & rejoined but that didn't solve the problem [climate pred. is counting down OK from the correct start time]
Will I have to scrub BOINC & start again?

SimonB · 20 Feb 2009 at 01:07

Hi,

I may be wrong but after a new install the estimates (to completion) are just that and can be a 'little' out. When a few units have been completed Boinc calculates the estimates more accurately so it should settle down and produce similar times to your original setup.

Cheers, Simon.

Meridian · 20 Feb 2009 at 08:07

Pilgrim57 said:
I decide to upgrade to latest version 6.45. Didn't backup my work for SETI & Climate prediction. This new version stores data in a different folder so lost all old work

Too late now, obviously, but this is why I always create my own BOINC directory and point the installer at it.

As for the other, are they astropulse units? I don't run them so I'm not sure how they are flagged.

M

Grimgoth · 20 Feb 2009 at 10:53

SimonB said:
Hi,

I may be wrong but after a new install the estimates (to completion) are just that and can be a 'little' out. When a few units have been completed Boinc calculates the estimates more accurately so it should settle down and produce similar times to your original setup.

Cheers, Simon.

I have also just done a fresh install of xp and the newest boinc on my machine- updated with the optimised apps, the first day, the estimates were very long and I thought that I'd gotten astropulse units, but the machine munched them up for breakfast, and after a day or two running, the estimates were back down to the old times.

Meridian- I used to do this, installing BOINC to a seperate directory, then a couple versions back (i forget), boinc has an install directory and a "work and projects" are here directory. And they slipped that in without me realising, I think to support multiple users on a computer- there's even a BOINC master user folder under my users directory, so I finally gave up trying to fit old wu's into the new locations. Too much headache trying to match everything up