I'm seeing unusually long frame times on this WU. Frame times on this machine are usually around 20-25 minutes, and this one's at close to 2 and a half hours. The only other project I see in my work unit history with times this long was 7039, but that one had a final deadline of 72 days.
There's no way I'm going to hit project 7087's 5-day deadline at this speed -- my ETA is currently 9 days.
Are any other background processes running which could have a negative impact on the TPF? Have you considered restarting the system and seeing if the TPF is shorter?
ETA:
Now ↞ Very Soon ↔ Soon ↔ Soon-ish ↔ Not Soon ↠ End Of Time
PantherX wrote:Are any other background processes running which could have a negative impact on the TPF? Have you considered restarting the system and seeing if the TPF is shorter?
No unusual background processes. The fahcore seems to be taking the same amount of CPU it usually does. I tried rebooting based on some other threads here, but that didn't have a noticeable effect.
Unusually long frame times are only meaningful in relation to the deadlines. If the ETAs are predictions and they may or may not be accurate. Assuming it is a good prediction and your hardware can't meet the deadline, how many hours per day have you been folding?
I'm not saying that the problem does not exist, but we do need additional information.
You've probably been getting a lot of assignments for FahCore_a4 which have less strenuous deadlines. The Txxxx CPUs are often the slowest two-core CPUs and the Pande Group may need to make some additional allowances for them. (I have one, too, and need to check on it.)
You are not alone. I saw a similar report a few hours ago: viewtopic.php?f=61&t=24877
bruce wrote:Unusually long frame times are only meaningful in relation to the deadlines. If the ETAs are predictions and they may or may not be accurate. Assuming it is a good prediction and your hardware can't meet the deadline, how many hours per day have you been folding?
I'm folding 24/7. When I checked the frame time last night, it had crept down to "only" 1:55:00. I was hoping that was going to be a trend, but now its back up to 2:20. HFM's ETA calculations have been consistently close. I don't think it could be wrong enough to bring a 9/12 finish inside the 9/7 deadline. I guess I'll just hope that assignments aren't so tight by then and the odd projects aren't getting handed out so much, so when this one comes in late it's not redundant.
bruce wrote:You've probably been getting a lot of assignments for FahCore_a4 which have less strenuous deadlines. The Txxxx CPUs are often the slowest two-core CPUs and the Pande Group may need to make some additional allowances for them. (I have one, too, and need to check on it.)
You are not alone. I saw a similar report a few hours ago: viewtopic.php?f=61&t=24877
You're right about the A4's. Thanks for the explanation on the other thread on why unusual assignments are happening.
My old laptop has a T2060 which has two cores and runs at 1.60 GHz. I got a new assignment of a p8579 last night and it has now completed 7% at a frame rate of about 1h 33m. That means that it can finish that project in 6.3 days which is less than the 8.0 day timeout and significantly less than the 13.3 day expiration. The baseline points are 1657 and the kfactor is 3. By running 24x7 I'll be earning a bonus. While those characteristics are not identical to p7087, the kfactor is similar so I expect that the level of difficulty isn't significantly different.
This is very similar to what this machine has been getting for many months, now. I conclude that the server relocation has not introduced any new issues (though I'm open to new evidence). My choices for this machine have always been (A) The default configuration of SMP:2 can beat the timeout by a small factor as long as it runs very nearly 24x7 or (B) I can configure folding to use only one CPU which will force it to receive WUs from projects which earn lower points per day and which require a lower level of performance.
First of all: set CPU-usage to 100% - you set it to 90%.
Second one: Do not use uniprocessor, use flag -smp to use both CPU-Cores (and delete the setting: smp=false) but - check the temperatures of the CPU
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