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BobbyB
Veteran Cruncher Canada Joined: Apr 25, 2020 Post Count: 609 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I looked at my machines and on one I saw an MCM WU with an estimated time of 9 days. I have never seen a WCG WU with that kind of time. Everything else on that machine is about 4 hours. It will never finish before March 01.
Application Mapping Cancer Markers 7.61 Name MCM1_0231974_7157 State Running Received 2025-02-23 12:54:32 Report deadline 2025-03-01 12:54:33 Estimated computation size 28,504 GFLOPs CPU time 00:37:26 CPU time since checkpoint 00:08:04 Elapsed time 1d 06:47:54 Estimated time remaining 9d 18:02:31 Fraction done 11.629% Virtual memory size 38.00 MB Working set size 41.57 MB Directory slots/2 Process ID 1684 Progress rate 0.360% per hour Executable wcgrid_mcm1_map_7.61_windows_x86_64 |
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TPCBF
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 2, 2011 Post Count: 1951 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I looked at my machines and on one I saw an MCM WU with an estimated time of 9 days. I have never seen a WCG WU with that kind of time. Everything else on that machine is about 4 hours. It will never finish before March 01. How do you get the idea of an 9 day deadline?Application Mapping Cancer Markers 7.61 Name MCM1_0231974_7157 State Running Received 2025-02-23 12:54:32 Report deadline 2025-03-01 12:54:33 February 23rd to March 1st is 6 days. You do know that the month of February has only 28 days, don't you? Ralf  |
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geophi
Advanced Cruncher U.S. Joined: Sep 3, 2007 Post Count: 104 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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CPU time 00:37:26 Elapsed time 1d 06:47:54 This looks like the problem. For some reason there's only been about 37.5 minutes CPU time (computing time) since it started. It might be looping, or just stuck in progress for reasons I don't know. You could exit BOINC and restart if you haven't done that and see if more normal progress is made after the restart. Or you could abort it. |
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GB033533
Senior Cruncher UK Joined: Dec 8, 2004 Post Count: 202 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi Ralf/TPCBF, I think BobbyB is referring to the estimated time, rather than the deadline;
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TPCBF
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 2, 2011 Post Count: 1951 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi Ralf/TPCBF, I think BobbyB is referring to the estimated time, rather than the deadline; Well, maybe. But I see this at times on my hosts as well. Pretty much all of them are actively used computers (some more, some less) and this sometimes seems to be the case when the computer is heavily used and the default percentage of CPU power to use on the client is low. Around here, AutoCAD or Revit as well as some of the Adobe applications (InDesign, Photoshop), that constantly are "phoning home" seem to screw with the ratio of CPU Time to Elapsed Time. Closing the apps and/or increasing the CPU use percentage helps in most of those cases.Estimated time remaining 9d 18:02:31 And there are some cases where people are running too many BOINC tasks on some of the newer CPUs that have a mix of "high power" cores and "power saving" cores. Having WUs running on one of the later can cause this as well. Ralf PS: And I just realized I forgot a smiley on my original reply...  |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7668 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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If non of the conditions in Ralph's post apply, I would simply reboot the machine as that will reset the machine and then it should run normally. If it doesn't at that point, I would just abort it.
----------------------------------------Edit: Before I would reboot, I would suspend all the BOINC jobs and then reboot. If it is a looping problem, this should take care of it. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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BobbyB
Veteran Cruncher Canada Joined: Apr 25, 2020 Post Count: 609 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Yes I was referring to the 9d 18:02:31 left and today is the 26th.
----------------------------------------Now the times are going up but the fraction done is the same. Elapsed time 1d 15:52:02 Estimated time remaining 12d 14:57:33 Fraction done 11.629% It must be operating near a black hole and our time is slow  I suspended it and another task took over. And this is not an actively used machine. It's my old 4-core laptop and I'm letting it do WCG 24/7 at 90% CPU until it dies. Edited later: I eventually aborted it. [Edit 1 times, last edit by BobbyB at Feb 27, 2025 3:38:05 AM] |
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Spiderman
Advanced Cruncher United States Joined: Jul 13, 2020 Post Count: 117 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I have occasionally seen this problem before -- typically something saying it's going to take over 1-day (I've never seen one say 4-days).
----------------------------------------If I "Suspend" the WCG Project under the Projects tab (which halts *all* Tasks), and then "Resume", it corrects itself and finishes under an hour. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Spiderman at Feb 27, 2025 5:09:16 PM] |
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