Time to Completion
5 May 2007 12:13:58 UTC
Topic 192680
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Starting with the 17 hr w/u, "time to compeltion" lost its mind. It's worse with these 75 hr units.
TtC reads 7:12:24, increments to 7:12:25, then drops to 7:12:13. Repeat. Different amount of up and down each time.
Haven't identified any pattern.
That's on Boinc Manager 5.8.16
Thanks for any guidance
Time to Completion
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This is a common effect with many BOINC projects, and happens when the percentage of completion figure provided by the science app is updated slower than the "time to completion".
Example:
Science app. estimates that the job is 34.567 % done. Task is running for 1:23:45 and BOINC estimates that Time to completion is another 7:12:25 .
A few seconds later, the science app has not yet updated the percentage of completion figure, and BOINC must think that no significant progress was made, therefore it has to correct the Time To Completion figure upwards (as the measure "percent done per second" is now lower). After completing a bigger junk of work, the science app finally updates the percentage figure, and thus the time to completion makes a rather big leap down, only to rise again. BNo big problem and probably not worth to fix by a smarter predictor.
CU
BRM
Thanks. I just found where
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Thanks.
I just found where someone else had the same problem. Please ignore my blindness before noon local ;)