BOINC manager counts wrong direction

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Hanuman
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10 May 2010 12:11:50 UTC
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    Dear all,

    unfortunately after updating my BOINC manager counts 'upside down'!

    So I have to dismiss all functions. It only happens to the Einstein projects.
    Everytime the manager downloads a new file, in the beginning it starts computing correctly clockwise - then after a short period it swaps direction and it constantly adds time.

    Anyone else such experience?
    Any help greatly appreciated.

    Cheers, Barong

    PS. Ah, yes I reinstalled the manager already. No change.
    OSX 10.4.11.

    Gundolf Jahn
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    BOINC manager counts wrong direction

    10 May 2010 13:56:45 UTC
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      Do the tasks finish finally? If so, the behaviour should correct itself.

      Gruß,
      Gundolf

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      Hanuman
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      RE: Do the tasks finish

      11 May 2010 7:02:42 UTC
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        Quote:

        Do the tasks finish finally? If so, the behaviour should correct itself.

        I'll give it a try. Most time I got nervousa and I dismissed the task.

        Thanx. I'll keep you posted.

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        RE: RE: Do the tasks

        12 May 2010 3:16:20 UTC
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          Do the tasks finish finally? If so, the behaviour should correct itself.

          I'll give it a try. Most time I got nervousa and I dismissed the task.

          Thanx. I'll keep you posted.

          What I am used to seeing is the time to completion slowly, sometimes not so slowly, counting up while a chunk of work is processed. Time to completion then jumps down at each completed chunk of work (when the progress % changes).
          This is not noticable for work that completes a chunk/segment of work within a few seconds. It may correct itself somewhat after a while but may never go away on long work units. A long segment with no progress makes the computation result show that it will take longer to complete until a segment is completed.

          A few versions ago it was more pronounced. Matter of fact it used to count up while not processing (computations paused)! I am currently runing BOINC 6.6.31 on my main machine.

          Tinker
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          I too am experiencing the

          30 May 2010 9:02:30 UTC
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            I too am experiencing the same problem. See details below.

            My Einstein tasks are behaving strangely. My SETI tasks are not.

            My Einstein tasks' time "To completion" incorrectly goes up instead of down. Their "Elapsed" time correctly goes up. Eventually, the tasks do complete but it's weird to see the time to completion incrementing up instead of down.

            This time to completion bug seems to occur only in Einstein jobs using an application of "Global Correlations ...". For example, right now on my iMac (Apple desktop computer), I have two (2) Einstein jobs running. The first job is a "Global Correlations S5 search ..." & the second is a "Arecibo Binary Pulsar Search ...". Only the Global Correlations job shows an incorrectly increasing time to completion. The Arecibo job displays it correctly (decreasing)

            The time to completion bug (incrementing instead of decrementing) happens on both my iMac desktop and my Mac Book Pro laptop. Currently, I am running BOINC v6.10.56 on these Apple computers under Mac OS X 10.6.3 (Snow Leopard).

            Gundolf Jahn
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            RE: I too am experiencing

            30 May 2010 11:18:44 UTC
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              I too am experiencing the same problem. See details below.


              Why are you still posting the same question even if it has been answered in your own thread before you repeated it here?

              Quote:
              My Einstein tasks' time "To completion" incorrectly goes up instead of down.


              The time to completion (computed every second) absolute correctly goes up if the progress, as returned by the application (any application, not just Einstein's), doesn't change for several minutes.

              Quote:
              The time to completion bug...


              So, this is no bug but a necessity, which is only poorly interpreted by you.

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