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Send message Joined: 2 May 15 Posts: 3 Credit: 5,184,042 RAC: 0 |
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. |
Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3321 Credit: 520,643,828 RAC: 32,412 |
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. 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. |
Send message Joined: 2 May 15 Posts: 3 Credit: 5,184,042 RAC: 0 |
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 :) |
Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3321 Credit: 520,643,828 RAC: 32,412 |
okay i'll definitely do that cause my pc was stuck again on one of those 'n-body' for 15hours :/ 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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