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Message 77466 - Posted: 31 May 2025, 15:37:50 UTC

Until today I've been running multi-thread tasks with few problems, but in the last few hours all (or at least most) recent multi-thread tasks have finished in a couple of seconds.
Here's a sample stderr for one of them:
<core_client_version>8.0.2</core_client_version>
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<stderr_txt>
<search_application> milkyway_nbody 1.86 Windows x86_64 double  OpenMP, Crlibm </search_application>
Using OpenMP 2 max threads on a system with 16 processors
Running MilkyWay@home Nbody v1.86
Optimal Softening Length = 0.000009592866537 kpc
Dwarf Initial Position: [-14.409031131699335,-30.844504601163589,18.410780502468469]
Dwarf Initial Velocity: [-153.189313559738309,-24.153658999874594,145.770489734315504]
Running MilkyWay@home Nbody v1.86
Running MilkyWay@home Nbody v1.86
Number of particles in bins is very small compared to total. (0 << 1). Skipping distance calculation
Running MilkyWay@home Nbody v1.86
Number of particles in bins is very small compared to total. (0 << 1). Skipping distance calculation
<search_likelihood>-9999999.900000000372529</search_likelihood>
<search_likelihood_EMD>-9999999.900000000372529</search_likelihood_EMD>
<search_likelihood_Mass>-0.000000000000000</search_likelihood_Mass>
<search_likelihood_Beta>-0.000000000000000</search_likelihood_Beta>
<search_likelihood_BetaAvg>-0.000000000000000</search_likelihood_BetaAvg>
<search_likelihood_VelAvg>-0.000000000000000</search_likelihood_VelAvg>
<search_likelihood_Dist>-0.000000000000000</search_likelihood_Dist>
strftime() failed called boinc_finish(0)

</stderr_txt>
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Is this problem or is it expected behaviour?
Bob Smith
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Message 77467 - Posted: 31 May 2025, 17:14:04 UTC - in response to Message 77466.  

This is normal, some tasks are like that.
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Message 77469 - Posted: 31 May 2025, 17:22:07 UTC - in response to Message 77467.  

Ta - I'll go back to sleep then :-)
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