At least 6-7 years ago, noting that 're-reading' does not effectuate all flags of the cc_config part of the options section i.e. at times a client restart is still needed.

I am not doubting you on what you say, but i find it incongruous that an I7-3740QM can not finish an ARP unit in 7 days. Since it is a laptop, I suspect it is throttling itself due to heat issues, if it is running as slow as you say it is. I have a desktop I7-3770 which takes about 24 hours to finish an ARP unit. Your processor shows a Passmark score of 5647 while the I7-3770 shows a Passmark score of 6371, a little bit faster but not too much. I would think an ARP unit would take something around the 30 to 32 hour mark. Just one more question: How many are running at a one time ?
Edit: Are you running with or without hyperthreading ?
Cheers

Clive

You say you work on 8 units at a time, but are they all ARP? You should not use more than 4 of the 8 on ARP. Use the other 4 on something else.

ARP has a deadline of 7 days, normally, but re-sends are only allowed 3.5 days. Recently, there have been a lot of stragglers being crunched which have also been allowed only 3.5 days. Has that been the problem?

I would agree with Sgt. Joe about the machine speed because my i7-3770 hyperthreaded runs 4 ARP, 3 MCM and 1 OPN at a time and the ARPs finish in about 24 hours.

I use WIN7.

Mike

I just started processing the ARP files and I find the "Elapsed Time" to be completely wrong. I'm running a total of 8 processes but only 2 at a time are ARP. Since the deadline for one of them is early morning july 24, I let the computer run over night, so the computer worked on both of them from about 2 in the afternoon until 8:45 this morning when I had to shut down for a few hours. After continuing on at about 10:30 a.m. I just noticed that the "Elapsed Time" for one process is 3 hours & 29 minutes, and for the other it is 1 hour & 50 minutes. The other 6 tasks, mostly Mapping Cancer Markers, are processing normally. I seem to be wasting my time with ARP, not to mention the time of the ARP project which would benefit from faster throuhput. I'm running on a Windows 10 desktop, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 3600 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s).

I guess my main question is, why is the "Elapsed Time" only about 1/10 of actual time?

Stating CPU time as well as elapsed time might have helped. I suspect that for some reason your machine is shutting down and restarting of its own. Checking the event log would have helped to see what is happening.

Your machine is 4 generations newer than my i7-3770. I find mine takes about 3 hours for each checkpoint which is every 12.5% as Falconet has said.

I would suggest that you check the 'Properties' of your ARP units when they reach each 12.5% (let it go slightly past the point) to see what the elapsed and CPU times are. If you leave it to run overnight and you still have a problem, check the event log to see if it has restarted at some time.

Otherwise, it is possible that your settings are too restrictive for ARP.

Mike