You guys were quick, but i was quicker... lol .... the Sunday numbers were tell tale already and it's not BOINC. Yes the HDC's were loong already, the FAAH's are taking 8+ on my C2D and the HPF2's are well into the 6th hour too... that should translate to some Tuesday booming

The HPF2 beta was validation from the 15th and a set of 25, but now in production that was scaled back to from the 11th and 19 in a set.

Buona Notte.

Aloha David...
I crunch w Team Andrax, and there is Jonathon Murphy, and Dick Dastardly that produce roughly 100 times my daily bread. I figure my daily average to be about 400-500 points, regardless of what agent I am currently crunching. Amazing, but I am really proud to be with them. I believe we have less than 20 active members, yet the mix of ordinary, yet sleek and fast home pc's like mine, and the monster crunch nets of theirs, makes for amazing returns. Paraphrasing Johnny Cool, our small, potent team represents WCG in the best possible way, with all helping to the common good...

Well, there's the problem in 5.8.8 where it made your DCF value go up when it should go down. That's not good for keeping a small queue of work on hand. So I tried 5.8.9. I found that it would fill my queue to what I first set. If I increased that, I would get more work. But keeping it that way was proving to be another matter. Everything seemed to get ignored until you were down to your last WU at a point where it was closing in on finishing. That computational deadline that a WU has seems to cause royal havoc if you ever cross it and it seems like if you have any WU for more that 48 hours, you'll cross it no matter your settings. Cross it and you get nothing until that WU is basically done. What seemed especially frustrating was that if you ever suspended a project, WU or maybe even hit the update button, the scheduler seems to go schizo on you. I literally had 5.8.9 BOINC Manager telling me that I had TWO WUs in Running status - this on a 1.5 Ghz Pentium M!! I've seen it skip over Waiting to Run (the old Preempted status) to start a Ready to Start WU that had a LATER report deadline. If you're going to run 5.8, don't keep a big queue and don't ever click on any of the buttons. That's the best conclusions I can make at this point and I hate them. I conceptually understand (at least I think I do) where they are trying to go with BOINC. Trying to prevent WU's from missing their report deadline is a good thing. Not letting you get more work than you can complete before the report deadline is a good thing. However, they have to have made some pretty major changes that probably work just fine if you never deviate from the "ideal path". Take one step off and, so I suspect, you get into some serious logic conflicts. The intended direction is good; the goals are good; the early growing pains can drive you crazy.

We've seen a couple of reports of HDC using above-average amounts of memory.

FAAH is running normally here. Not running HDC at the moment.