Hi again, Jean,
You'll be happy to hear that after 60 CPU hours, the
TTC clock started moving down again., though CPU time and TTC time are on different planets. Data at the end.

Re fpops...Word did find it for some other WUs but not for the monster. But I've survived this long without knowing about fpop boundaries, so am giving up the search (and someone already took care of it).

What apparently did impact me though, was that on 4/27, the day the monster downloaded, three other WUs erred out. The WUs are detailed below the info on the error code. The last line of the error code repeats for several pages. If the error codes are useful, I'll be glad to grab them and post them, but they'll probably reach to the moon and back. Just noticed the 4th WU was from 4/26, so not sure if it's related.

Thanks for the info re the cores. I sort of figured it out when I suspended the other 3 and quickly unsuspended them again when the monster still kept trudging along with no increase in speed. BOINC is the only program where I ever see which core is doing what...I mostly run a stock market program on this computer, and as long as it does what I want (heavy duty charts and financial info), I don't care how it does it. I just want to fill the tank and drive, not worry about which cylinders are firing or how how fast each wheel is rotating (good thing there are people who know abut those things!).

Yes, VISTA definitely knows a thing or two about hogging memory. Debated whether to go back to WinXP pro, but then I would lose the use of more than half my DRAM. But on May 5th I will be downloading Windows 7. Win7 will be a world-changing event (half+ of the PC world will be using bad language, no doubt), and I hope for the better. Is anyone going to track how it impacts BOINC?...faster, slower, more problems, less problems...

Thanks,
Jeanne

---(The error code for the WUs that got killed off)--
<core_client_version>6.2.28</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
too many exit(0)s
</message>
<stderr_txt>
Unrecognized XML in parse_init_data_file: computation_deadline
Skipping: 1241630240.000000
Skipping: /computation_deadline
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 0 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 1 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 2 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 3 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 4 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 5 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 6 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 7 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 8 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 9 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 10 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 11 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 12 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 13 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 14 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 15 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 16 iteration of outer loop.
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 17 iteration of outer loop.
Unrecognized XML in parse_init_data_file: computation_deadline
Skipping: 1241630240.000000
Skipping: /computation_deadline
Can't acquire lockfile - exiting
FILE_LOCK::unlock(): close failed.: No error

---(The four WUs which ERRed out)----
X0000097580244200802271202_ 0-- jeanne-PC Error 4/27/09 05:44:39 4/27/09 13:22:43 0.30 5.0 / 0.0
X0000097570518200803251243_ 0-- jeanne-PC Error 4/27/09 04:20:14 4/27/09 13:22:43 1.20 20.1 / 0.0
X0000097570843200803041046_ 1-- jeanne-PC Error 4/27/09 02:29:20 4/27/09 13:22:43 2.25 37.5 / 0.0
E000564_ 477A_ 006w7o00j_ 0-- jeanne-PC Error 4/26/09 22:49:36 4/27/09 13:22:43 4.74 79.0 / 0.0







---(The TTC starts decreasing after 60 hours!!!)-------
60:25:37 78.148 13:25:12 13:39
60:34:13 78.189 13:25:33 13:54
60:50:31 78.279 13:25:33 14:21
60:56:42 78.328 13:25:25 14:33
60:59:04 78.360 13:24:30 14:35
61:15:31 78.458 13:24:20 15:02
61:25:47 78.532 13:23:45 15:19
61:47:42 78.679 13:22:50 15:55
61:49:50 78.720 13:21:45 15:59
61:51:56 78.736 13:21:32 16:02
64:27:51 79.790 13:12:44 20:21
64:51:59 79.954 13:11:04 21:01
64:57:12 79.986 13:10:49 21:10
65:24:47 80.134 13:10:24 21:56
66:19:04 80.477 13:07:09 23:26
66:27:24 80.567 13:05:07 23:39
66:43:05 80.722 13:01:46 0:06
67:36:10 81.122 12:55:21 1:44
67:45:00 81.188 12:54:29 2:01
72:52:53 83.427 12:12:09 10:44
72:59:42 83.476 12:11:06 10:56
75:10:06 84.440 11:48:18 14:38
75:25:58 84.546 11:45:53 15:06
75:34:36 84.653 11:42:18 15:20
75:44:57 84.734 11:40:07 15:37
81:38:59 87.480 10:35:00 1:33
82:00:43 87.684 10:10:06 2:11

I just found out I'm also running a huge WU:
BETA_CMD2_0001-PP1BA.clustersOccur-TPM1A.clustersOccur_40_6

After 10:25 hours I'm at 5,753% so by these numbers it will take about 180 hours to complete. I guess i will try to edit the xml-file and see if I can can get this WU to 100%, it has already been errored out:

610 Error 25-4-09 05:18:43 29-4-09 01:56:29 57.09 681.5 / 681.5
610 Error 25-4-09 05:18:38 27-4-09 14:00:13 52.04 716.2 / 716.2
610 Error 25-4-09 05:17:38 27-4-09 16:41:39 55.16 662.6 / 662.6

Je viens de terminer une unité Beta qui a occupé mon Q9450 pendant 92 heures pour finir à l'état "trop tard", pourtant terminée un jour avant la deadline.
voici ci-dessous le log de cette unité :

---

I just finished a Beta who held my Q9450 for 92 hours to finish in the state "too late", though completed one day before the deadline.
Below is the log of this unit :


Nom de l'unité / Unit name :
BETA_ CMD2_ 0001-PP1BA.clustersOccur-TPM1A.clustersOccur_ 23_ 3--

Log de l'unité / Unit log :

<core_client_version>6.6.20</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<stderr_txt>
INFO: No state to restore. Start from the beginning.
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>
]]>

TBird,
Don't worry about the "too late" status. The deadlines do not really matter for this particular beta test, at least as long as WUs are returned within 14 days. Also I suspect that "too late" is used to flag some groups of WUs as "do not send any more copy" sometimes.

Cheers. Jean.

Oh je ne m'inquiète pas pour cela, j'en suis à presque 100 unités Beta dans mon historique, je commence à les connaître.
C'est juste que je constatais que malgré l'upload avant la deadline elle est apparue en "trop tard". Avant toutes les unités Beta qui affichaient "Trop tard" avait été uploadées après la deadline, ce qui était logique.
Ok pour la suite de l'explication.
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Oh I do not worry for that, I'm almost 100 Beta units in my history, I begin to know them.
It's just that I realized that despite the upload before the deadline she appeared in "too late". Before all units that showed Beta "Too late" was uploaded after the deadline, which was logical.
Ok for the rest of the explanation.