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Message 63506 - Posted: 3 May 2015, 17:58:44 UTC

So after leaving my computer run all night (and almost half a day) making calculations for Milkyway@Home I noticed a certain task that had been running on all of my 4 CPU cores and for almost 17 hours straight despite being at 100% according to BOINC.
I aborted this task and didnt bother to do any research, a few hours pass by, I check my account and past tasks and by curiosity i check that workunit that had run for 17 hours on my machine ...

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/workunit.php?wuid=748201419

I'm not the first one that aborted this task, infact, everyone has.( one person even let it run for a whopping 5 days and a half before aborting) I have absolutely no idea how everything works on the backend as i'm really new to this whole BOINC thing ( been here for aboout 2 days ) but couldnt this task simply be taken out? cause it basically clogged up my system for a considerable amount of time and didnt allow it to continue on other tasks.
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Message 63516 - Posted: 4 May 2015, 11:38:33 UTC - in response to Message 63506.  

So after leaving my computer run all night (and almost half a day) making calculations for Milkyway@Home I noticed a certain task that had been running on all of my 4 CPU cores and for almost 17 hours straight despite being at 100% according to BOINC.
I aborted this task and didnt bother to do any research, a few hours pass by, I check my account and past tasks and by curiosity i check that workunit that had run for 17 hours on my machine ...

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/workunit.php?wuid=748201419

I'm not the first one that aborted this task, infact, everyone has.( one person even let it run for a whopping 5 days and a half before aborting) I have absolutely no idea how everything works on the backend as i'm really new to this whole BOINC thing ( been here for aboout 2 days ) but couldnt this task simply be taken out? cause it basically clogged up my system for a considerable amount of time and didnt allow it to continue on other tasks.


It's an 'n body' unit, they can be troublesome for some pc's, I have seen people say that a 3 to 5% error rate is standard. If it becomes a problem you can just uncheck them and you will get other kinds of units instead.
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Message 63531 - Posted: 5 May 2015, 20:50:59 UTC - in response to Message 63516.  

okay i'll definitely do that cause my pc was stuck again on one of those 'n-body' for 15hours :/

Thanks for the little clearup by the way :)
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Message 63532 - Posted: 6 May 2015, 10:32:11 UTC - in response to Message 63531.  

okay i'll definitely do that cause my pc was stuck again on one of those 'n-body' for 15hours :/

Thanks for the little clearup by the way :)


No problem...they are coming out with a new version of the n-body code today or tomorrow, you might give it a few days and then try again to see if it works for you.
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