The evil witch came by last night while i wasshut-eye and hazed my crystal ball. You have to tell us alot more of the problem machines howit behaved before versus now and provide us copy of the startup message log and the content of the global_prefs.xml / global_prefs_override.xml.

Seeing you posted same in the HCC forum, please delete that post and i'll ask for this to be moved to the BOINC support forum.

ttyl

Added: Also look in the client_state.xml and find the <Duration Correction Factor> and <on_frac> values

You said,

"...Seeing you posted same in the HCC forum, please delete that post and i'll ask for this to be moved to the BOINC support forum....."

I tried to delete it and was unsuccessful.

I looked in the BOINC Support forum and do not see that it has been moved.

I must say to you, there are a great many of us out here who are thrilled at the opportunity to participate in worthwhile projects with our computer time, instead of just doing work and mp3 downloads.

But that does not mean that we are so technically proficient as to know immediately the meaning and direction of what is for us but not for you arcane jargon. You need to tell us exactly what you want and where to find it and we will certainly attempt to help solve our problems.

I participate on many forums on computer issues. In many cases, Mozillazine, Winamp, Windows Community, they had this problem in the past and have become much more user friendly.

I mean no disrespect and I am looking for help.

I don't think that it serves any purpose for the grid community to be just an elite core of technologists.

I am a cancer patient, I was first on the project at Oxford, and then on the last project at WCG. I want to be on the new cancer project.

Tell me what I need to get for you.

This computer is running Vista Business, 2gig dual core processor, 120 gigs of strorage, 2 gig of DRAM.

Thanks so much,

Here they are:

11/12/2007 8:40:24 PM||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.22 for windows_intelx86
11/12/2007 8:40:24 PM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
11/12/2007 8:40:24 PM||Libraries: libcurl/7.16.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
11/12/2007 8:40:24 PM||Data directory: C:\Program Files
11/12/2007 8:40:24 PM||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6]
11/12/2007 8:40:24 PM||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni mmx
11/12/2007 8:40:24 PM||OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Professional Edition, (06.00.6000.00)
11/12/2007 8:40:24 PM||Memory: 2.00 GB physical, 4.21 GB virtual
11/12/2007 8:40:24 PM||Disk: 81.11 GB total, 50.03 GB free
11/12/2007 8:40:24 PM||Local time is UTC -5 hours
11/12/2007 8:40:25 PM|climateprediction.net|URL: http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID: 795121; location: (none); project prefs: default
11/12/2007 8:40:25 PM|Einstein@Home|URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID: 1039621; location: (none); project prefs: default
11/12/2007 8:40:25 PM|Spinhenge@home|URL: http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/; Computer ID: 64679; location: (none); project prefs: default
11/12/2007 8:40:25 PM|malariacontrol.net beta|URL: http://www.malariacontrol.net/; Computer ID: 62143; location: (none); project prefs: default
11/12/2007 8:40:25 PM|World Community Grid|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 380504; location: (none); project prefs: default
11/12/2007 8:40:25 PM||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 2007-11-11 10:28:54)
11/12/2007 8:40:25 PM||Host location: none
11/12/2007 8:40:25 PM||General prefs: using your defaults
11/12/2007 8:40:25 PM||Reading preferences override file
11/12/2007 8:40:25 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1534.39MB
11/12/2007 8:40:25 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1534.39MB
11/12/2007 8:40:25 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 3.73GB
11/12/2007 8:40:26 PM|climateprediction.net|Restarting task hadsm3fub_0366_005910448_8 using hadsm3 version 506
11/12/2007 8:40:27 PM|Spinhenge@home|Restarting task 2_Fe30_map_562_571_1 using metropolis version 310
11/12/2007 8:40:59 PM|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message
11/12/2007 8:40:59 PM|climateprediction.net|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks)
11/12/2007 8:41:04 PM|climateprediction.net|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509]
11/12/2007 10:07:48 PM|Spinhenge@home|Computation for task 2_Fe30_map_562_571_1 finished
11/12/2007 10:07:57 PM|Einstein@Home|Restarting task h1_0406.05_S5R2__89_S5R3a_1 using einstein_S5R3 version 415
11/12/2007 10:07:58 PM|Spinhenge@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work
11/12/2007 10:07:58 PM|Spinhenge@home|Requesting 9300 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 completed tasks
11/12/2007 10:07:59 PM|Spinhenge@home|[file_xfer] Started upload of file 2_Fe30_map_562_571_1_0
11/12/2007 10:08:02 PM|Spinhenge@home|[file_xfer] Finished upload of file 2_Fe30_map_562_571_1_0
11/12/2007 10:08:02 PM|Spinhenge@home|[file_xfer] Throughput 1167 bytes/sec
11/12/2007 10:08:03 PM|Spinhenge@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 601]
11/12/2007 10:08:03 PM||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 2007-11-11 18:49:37)
11/12/2007 10:08:03 PM||Host location: none
11/12/2007 10:08:03 PM||General prefs: using your defaults
11/12/2007 10:08:03 PM||Reading preferences override file
11/12/2007 10:08:03 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1534.39MB
11/12/2007 10:08:03 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1534.39MB
11/12/2007 10:08:03 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 3.73GB
11/12/2007 10:08:03 PM|Spinhenge@home|Deferring communication for 2 min 1 sec
11/12/2007 10:08:03 PM|Spinhenge@home|Reason: requested by project
11/12/2007 10:08:05 PM|Spinhenge@home|[file_xfer] Started download of file 2_Fe30_map_572_1038.xml
11/12/2007 10:08:05 PM|Spinhenge@home|[file_xfer] Started download of file 2_Fe30_map_572_1038.jj
11/12/2007 10:08:06 PM|Spinhenge@home|[file_xfer] Finished download of file 2_Fe30_map_572_1038.xml
11/12/2007 10:08:06 PM|Spinhenge@home|[file_xfer] Throughput 2234 bytes/sec
11/12/2007 10:08:06 PM|Spinhenge@home|[file_xfer] Finished download of file 2_Fe30_map_572_1038.jj
11/12/2007 10:08:06 PM|Spinhenge@home|[file_xfer] Throughput 570 bytes/sec
11/12/2007 10:08:06 PM|Spinhenge@home|[file_xfer] Started download of file 2_Fe30_map_572_1038.nn
11/12/2007 10:08:06 PM|Spinhenge@home|[file_xfer] Started download of file 2_Fe30_map_572_1038.ww
11/12/2007 10:08:08 PM|Spinhenge@home|[file_xfer] Finished download of file 2_Fe30_map_572_1038.nn
11/12/2007 10:08:08 PM|Spinhenge@home|[file_xfer] Throughput 661 bytes/sec
11/12/2007 10:08:08 PM|Spinhenge@home|[file_xfer] Finished download of file 2_Fe30_map_572_1038.ww
11/12/2007 10:08:08 PM|Spinhenge@home|[file_xfer] Throughput 1144 bytes/sec
11/12/2007 10:15:51 PM||Running CPU benchmarks
11/12/2007 10:15:51 PM||Suspending computation - running CPU benchmarks
11/12/2007 10:16:22 PM||Benchmark results:
11/12/2007 10:16:22 PM|| Number of CPUs: 2
11/12/2007 10:16:22 PM|| 1936 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
11/12/2007 10:16:22 PM|| 4199 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
11/12/2007 10:16:23 PM||Resuming computation
11/12/2007 10:16:24 PM|climateprediction.net|[error] hadsm3 not responding to screensaver, requesting exit
11/12/2007 10:16:26 PM|climateprediction.net|Task hadsm3fub_0366_005910448_8 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
11/12/2007 10:16:26 PM|climateprediction.net|If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.
11/12/2007 10:16:26 PM|climateprediction.net|Restarting task hadsm3fub_0366_005910448_8 using hadsm3 version 506
11/12/2007 10:16:26 PM|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message
11/12/2007 10:16:26 PM|climateprediction.net|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks)
11/12/2007 10:16:31 PM|climateprediction.net|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509]

Thanks so much for your help. I am just too enthusiastic. I wish I could put 100 CPU's to work.

I talk to people about this all the time, Windows people, Mac people.

I will think about winnowing my list.

BTW, another little hitch, I have this thread marked to watch, I know my email address is correct; but I am not getting notices of replies.

Thanks again for your help.

O.K., thanks.