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Calculating won't pass 4%- please assist.
My calculations for FAAH won't go past 4%. They do well up until about 3.995, and then go back to 3.000%, over and over and over again. The computer can do this for hours, so I end up aborting the task. I've tried this with about 10 tasks now over the past year, on a different computer as well, and the same thing happens. This doesn't happen to any other project that I do work on.

Does anyone have the same problem, and is there a solution?

Thanks for everything!
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Re: Calculating won't pass 4%- please assist.
Hi Paul,

Yes, that's normal behavior... the program is looking for the lowest docking energy for that attempt. Just let it run uninterrupted. Depending on device speed it can take longer. Then it will rush to near the end of the next docking and tries repeatedly and so on.

See Screen saver/Graphics: FightAIDS@Home - Panel C: Best Docking Energy http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/faah/faq.do for what you can observe in the graphics window [select running task and hit show graphics button on left] or screensaver.

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edit: Can you please tell us the device detail. How much ram has it got and how much is BOINC allowed to use? The information is printed at the beginning of the BOINC message log. Looks something like this:

1 30-06-2011 16:39 Starting BOINC client version 6.12.33 for windows_intelx86
2 30-06-2011 16:39 Config: don't use coprocessors
3 30-06-2011 16:39 Config: report completed tasks immediately
4 30-06-2011 16:39 Config: GUI RPC allowed from:
...
13 30-06-2011 16:39 Config: 127.0.0.1 localhost
14 30-06-2011 16:39 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, checkpoint_debug, cpu_sched, dcf_debug
15 30-06-2011 16:39 log flags: sched_op_debug
16 30-06-2011 16:39 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.5
17 30-06-2011 16:39 Running as a daemon
18 30-06-2011 16:39 Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
19 30-06-2011 16:39 Running under account boinc_master
20 30-06-2011 16:39 Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU
21 30-06-2011 16:39 Processor: 2.00 MB cache
22 30-06-2011 16:39 Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 nx lm tm2 pbe
23 30-06-2011 16:39 OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x86 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
24 30-06-2011 16:39 Memory: 2.00 GB physical, 3.50 GB virtual
25 30-06-2011 16:39 Disk: 52.40 GB total, 4.69 GB free
26 30-06-2011 16:39 Local time is UTC +2 hours
...
37 World Community Grid 30-06-2011 16:39 URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 95711; resource share 500
38 World Community Grid 30-06-2011 16:39 General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 27-Jun-2011 13:19:34)
39 World Community Grid 30-06-2011 16:39 Computer location: work
40 30-06-2011 16:39 General prefs: using separate prefs for work
41 30-06-2011 16:39 Reading preferences override file
42 30-06-2011 16:39 Preferences:
43 30-06-2011 16:39 max memory usage when active: 1739.25MB
44 30-06-2011 16:39 max memory usage when idle: 1943.87MB
45 30-06-2011 16:39 max disk usage: 6.01GB
46 30-06-2011 16:39 (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
47 Quake-Catcher Network 30-06-2011 16:39 Task qcnac_096316_0 is 22.98 days overdue; you may not get credit for it. Consider aborting it.
48 30-06-2011 16:39 Not using a proxy
49 30-06-2011 16:39 Running CPU benchmarks
50 30-06-2011 16:39 Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
51 30-06-2011 16:40 Benchmark results:
52 30-06-2011 16:40 Number of CPUs: 2
53 30-06-2011 16:40 1592 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
54 30-06-2011 16:40 3469 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
55 30-06-2011 16:40 [dcf] scaling all duration correction factors by 1.040053
56 World Community Grid 30-06-2011 16:40 Restarting task c4cw_target04_032094095_0 using c4cw version 640
57 World Community Grid 30-06-2011 16:40 Restarting task E202540_660_C.27.C22H10O4S.00272280.0.set1d06_1 using cep2 version 640
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Re: Calculating won't pass 4%- please assist.
Thanks SekeRob! This would make sense. I've set the project to continue regardless and see where it goes.

BOINC is set to use all of the computer's faculties completely, 1 GB of RAM, but is limited in hard drive space (only allowed 5 GB). Intel Celeron processor at 100% use, 2.60 GHtz. It's old but a year ago it did the calculations without a problem. I think you've solved my issue- I'm just going to let it run.

Thanks again!

Paul Dwaine
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