If you glance up the thread, you will see this is one of the options I'm currently trying to test. Personally, I feel other approaches will yield a better result, but cancelling work units can be done in combination with those approaches - so throughput can be absolutely optimised.

faah0448_ d011cb492_ x1hpv_ 00 Valid 04/28/2006 23:25:00 04/29/2006 14:39:10 10.75 69 / 69
faah0448_ d011cb492_ x1hpv_ 00 In Progress 04/28/2006 23:25:00 05/19/2006 23:25:00 0.00 0 / 0
faah0448_ d011cb492_ x1hpv_ 00 Valid 04/28/2006 23:25:00 04/29/2006 14:03:08 9.60 70 / 69
faah0448_ d011cb492_ x1hpv_ 00 Valid 04/28/2006 23:11:48 04/29/2006 10:19:12 7.56 52 / 69

that is interesting, my machine pent 4 3.ghz 1gb ram, so far has taken 45 hrs to do 16.8 of this w/u, i was wondering whether or not to continue, i thought i would stuggle on and try make the may 20 deadline, i looked at the boinc device manager staus thing and noticed that this wu is already done, the 3 puters took average of 9 hrs ,, i wonder why mine took so long for so little progress, anyway i see 3 valid results thus satisfies quorum 3 so i was very happy to dump this w/unit, if i had of takenmy own advice i would have dumped it 24hrs ago grrrr,, am a little puzzled to explain it,
1- dumping wastes some points but i think it is silly going for another 10 days ( projected) just for points..
2- now i have dumped that sus w/u i can start on a new one, at last, glad i looked, cheers...

still dont get it..

no lawrence, thanx for asking, i did have 2 threads running but as i saw painfully slow progress, i clicked "dont allow new work" then i suspended one of the w/u for a while to see if it made a difference, did not seem to do much , might have accelrated it a bit, then i unsuspended that 2nd w/u to let it finish - which it did but then let the 1st w/u go by itself , after antoher 12 hrs with only a few % i gave up ( once i noted that others had completed and validated the same one) .. no i cant explain it, especially curiuos is the fact that other machnes wre reasonably consistent in time etc, 9 hr -10 hrs..
fyi i now have 2 threads running each on 2 hrs one at 20% :) and one at 10 % :) , so i am at a loss, nouthin else different, alli can say is that the quorum method has saved the day and i am on new w/unit..

also i not that i had a long unit way back on the 24th and was waiting for a long time (5 days for validation, i saw that a 5th w/u was sent out as the other s 3rd and4th were still inprogress (?) (someone else completed 2nd unit so only needed one more , nice work in sending out extra w/u to complete, i must go and look for interest to see if 3 and 4 ever completed cheers btw i amnot switching between projects, at least noton this machine, i have not seen any proteome things on my boinc setups default is for faah asfaik... i thought at 1st boinc did not do proteome? i have not changed it since and (for now) i only do boinc with wcg exclusivley ... cheers thanx for your interst

exactly, one of my main points - i am glad u agree as soon as i saw valid - then instant dump - d/l new work-unit get on woth job yay, next time i will look a bit earlier if i have extra long w/u, interesting that others went way faster for same w/u, my puter usalual average or better.. in fact my amd dualy is very ofetn 1st one back with result waiting for others to catchup, i only have 3 computers but last week i had a decord of 10 completed w/u waiting for oters to catchup.. the amd is going very well, in fact that puter does nil else but crunch 99.9 % of the time.. the xp pentiums are still playing with HThreading until i hear i am convinced one way or the other..

yes thanx i have a bunch of profiles i play with , some are set for 2 w/u on my dually and i have ones for the pentiums for either 1 or 2 w/u at a time depending on my mood, is easy enough tp swap beween profiles thanx.. i think i have a small advantage with HT with 1gb ram etc, but am not totally convinced.. if HT is usefull or not cheers, than x for comment i hope others find it useful, i just type in a dif name for a few dif profiles to see how they go, for example i have tried changing the write to disk option etc etc to see wot differences happen etc, am happy playing around cheers, main thing is i want to get max crunch possible (without overclocking - i to chicken for that)