Domoso, the one part you did not say was, if you run Rosetta/HPF only, FAAH only or both. In Rosetta/HPF only case, the last few weeks there have been gaps due to absence of new work for that project and faulty batches being suspended. If the Taskmanager is not showing anything in 'unknown to you' spyware, adware or other process, the gaps in work for HPF could be the explanation.

There is a DOS command line where you can check also the real last time your machine booted. Systeminfo | Find "Time" If your machine has been randomly booting in your absence, you might have suffered bad WU's. Coupled with the faulty HPF's you might have been working on from the Hxxxx series, you could have a substantial hole in your time accounting.

There's no simple answer, where as per Lawrence suggestion, some active monitoring is the only way to identify exceptions. Whilst my machine is 24/7, WCG in the days of UD agent never reported in the "My Grid" stats more than 15.5 hours average covering a 9 month period. Since 2 months on BOINC, its been steadily climbing to 16.8 hours, 11 month average. The last 2 months pure CPU time only......figure that

Now something intregues me on your call to a superior being: If your machine/devices sat around unused, and not crunching, how would you have put the "sequestered" cpu/memory to good use if it "idled" for 3.7 days"....did you reserve the machine to exclusively work on WCG? If you did, you've been a saint to WCG.

Hi Domoso,
Easynews is promoting the WCG as an act of corporate philanthropy, like a company offering to match money contributed to a charity. It is not being compensated.

Lawrence

I don't think that it is a false analogy. Whether the work is there or not, if I'm not given the work or told of the work I'm wasting a good 5 hours of the day sitting around waiting for the work. I still expect to get paid. Regardless, I don't think that is the case with UD. Everytime I come to my computer UD is taking as much CPU time as the system allows minus mandatory OS functions.

The few times I've come to my computer and UD isn't using the CPU extensively it is because it is uploading results or downloading a new data set to work on. From what I've observed these are fairly short times. There have been an occasion or two where my network connection was down or the WCG servers were unreachable but these are very few and fair between. These down times are accounted for.

As for throttling, I'm assuming UD has a feature to scale back CPU usage. If I'm correct then, no, I haven't implemented the feature.

If I really want to keep my finger on the pulse I think I'll dig out an old command line utility that checks processes and reports CPU utilization and just write a simple batch file to record the results.

And no, I don't think it's unfair to be credited time that UD is running on my computer versus processing time. My computer's resources are still being used to accommodate UD. Mind if I live in your house? I'll pay rent based on usage of resources: electricity, water, food. I'll move out of your way as you want to use the bathroom, kitchen, bedroom, etc. But, my time just being there won't be included in the rent. Somehow I don't think that's how it would work. Is that a fair analogy? No, a better analogy would be I'll pay rent only when I'm using something in the house. But electricity, water, food, maintenance I'm not including in my rent.

I really didn't want this to become a discussion of philanthropic morality. I run UD because I get something out of it. With the newer version of UD versus the old major version I'm getting a lot less out of the deal. I'm running UD on 4 computers and it's taking almost twice as long to build the same amount of credit as when I was running the old major version on only 1 computer 24/7. Granted 3 of those computers only run about 8 hours a day or less. 1 of the 4 runs 24/7. In the past I was able to get 2GB a month free with Easynews. Now, I get about 1.5GB a month and I've increased the number of computers on my device list. Go figure.

Hello Domoso,
There has been a very recent change in the UD client, but it did not start till well after the 18th. The new work units on the UD client are automatically throttled to run only 60% of the time unless the member chooses to run them at 100% (or some other value). It is explained at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=2683#61655

Lawrence