Hi

I would like to know the witing time to update credits in my profile

Thanks a lot!

The credits are updated once a day.

Usually once a day, but there have been times when it\'s taken a few days.

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Here\'s a very good explanation posted by Richard Haselgrove some time ago:

CPDN, like other BOINC projects, periodically dumps a \'snapshot\' of everyone\'s statistics into a public location. That\'s the only information available for BOINCstats (or any other stats site) to use. It\'s a massive job, so CPDN only does it once every 24 hours: until recently, it used to be round about 12:00 GMT, but it\'s been slipping - Saturday\'s was exported at 15:39, as you can see from the signature below.

Similarly, BOINCstats keeps an eye on the project stats every hour or so - their \"incremental update\" - but only updates the graphs, rankings etc once every 24 hours: again, sometime in the mid-late afternoon. I suspect that 15:39 was just too late to be included in yesterday\'s full update, so it will be this afternoon/evening before all the details are visible.

And there\'s a third delay: recently, it\'s been taking a lot longer for trickles to appear on the CPDN result pages. It used to take 5 minutes or so, but one I sent at 21:30 (BST) last night wasn\'t \'received\' until 07:17 (UTC). The one I sent at 01:57 this morning hasn\'t arrived at the time of writing.

Add together 10 hours (trickle in transit), plus 24 hours (just miss a dump, wait for next), plus 24 hours (dump just too late for a stats site run), and you get a delay of possibly 58 hours on current timings - longer if there\'s a server breakdown, maintenance or rearrangement.

The good news is that they always arrive eventually - you just have to have patience. (As you have to to run the CPDN project itself). You\'ll get a nice big bump in the stats when the timing issues are resolved and normal service is resumed.

PS I forgot a step! Trickles \'received\' are converted into credits just once a day, sometime round about 05:00 UTC, so my 21:30 (Saturday evening) trickle was received on Sunday, will be credited on Monday morning, dumped on Monday afternoon, and become a statistic on Tuesday evening.

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