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Message 46073 - Posted: 27 Apr 2013, 18:06:57 UTC

I have two jobs running where the BOINC displayed status on the TASKS TAB doesn't make sense. These are being processed on my computer ID = 1266353

Task 15729887 shows 67.9% progress, but 94 hours elapsed and 144 hours are remaining.

Task 15732406 shows a similar situation.

If I remember at one time I stopped/ended BOINC and elapsed time started at zero again when I restarted BOINC on these two tasks. Is there a problem with BOINC not picking up the right total elapsed time from the processed CPDN data file when it re-starts (and instead starts the elapsed time over)?? Not sure which version of BOINC I was running when I did this...was 7.0.60 or 7.0.62, I think. Haven't tried to stop processing on 7.0.64 and restarting to see what happens.

I've notice some other strange things (See thread below � �Zero Progress after 33 hours�) where the info in the TASK TAB doesn't correlate to the info displayed on the "show graphics" data details in the lower left corner).

Wondering if there are some small problems with BOINC picking up the correct CPDN status data�.
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Message 46079 - Posted: 27 Apr 2013, 19:38:01 UTC - in response to Message 46073.  

The elapsed and remaining times are calculated using different methods, so may not agree for various reasons. The 67.9% looks right for a model that has done 27 / 40 trickles = 67.5%.

There is no general problem with BOINC picking up elapsed time, but there might of course be some local difficulty that has, for example, prevented the elapsed time be written to disk.

From the sec/timestep I get ~97 hours remaining for 13 trickles to go, so that looks like the number to trust on this occasion.
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