Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : DCF
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The server should be now ignoring dcf for the time being. Followup. DCF still dropping. Went to 98 and now down to: Task duration correction factor 85.950111 To completion dropping too, it was some 785 hours maybe when DCF was 98 to 100, Last task started with 128 hours to completion estimate. I still do not get another task when one finishes, only way is to suspend other running projects which will force the schedule to request work, then I can resume the other projects. I assume once the DCF drops lower this behavior will stop. ____________ Alpha Tester ~~ BOINCin since 10-Apr-2004 (2.28) ~~~ Join team USA | |
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I manually reset the project after I ran out of work recently. This changed the DCF back to 1, but I still had one or two "High Priority" tasks and had to suspend other project to get work. After those two finished, I now have normal priority GPUGrid WU's processing and it keeps 4 WU's in my queue (2 processing on my 2 8800GT's and 2 waiting). So, I would expect it would do the same for you, eventually. | |
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The DCF is again goof up on my PC. After this WU 161943 the next WU 162890 have again to run with a destroyed DCF of 60.830372 and a estimated runtime of over 80 hours. I'm really one of the hardest while testing software, but the actual situation is annoying. Looks like it's the wrong way to play with the DCF to control the behavior of he GPU work priority. | |
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Anderson says that resetting project will reset the dcf. | |
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The DCF is again goof up on my PC. My DCF is ~0.7 after going back to 1.00 after a manual reset. However, my estimate times for GPUGrid WU's are back in the 100's of hours (starting at about 200 hours). This is after they went back down to approx. normal. I have several other non-GPU WU's crunching, with High Priority as well. Not sure if the DCF is completely to blame. I now have 6 tasks running (5 in High Priority, 1 of those in GPUGrid, with another GPUGrid not running High Priority). I know I could set the processor usage to 99% to get down to at least 5 active WU's (both GPUGrid and not), but don't want to have to apply a fix that will need to be changes when everything returns to normal. It appears that I always have 1 GPUGrid tasks running High Priority and the other not. It will not fetch new work. All this starting after I "upgraded" to client 6.4.5. I'll let it run, only manually suspending other tasks as necessary to get new work for GPUGrid. I'd prefer not to babysit Boinc, though. | |
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My DCF on this host has jumped back up to 100. | |
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I reset several Box's this morning, when the new Wu's Downloaded 2 of them showed 22:00:00 Hours to completion (which is still about 4 times what it should be) & 2 showed 279:00:00 Hours to completion. I'm about 1/2 thru the first Wu & when I checked my DCF in the client_state.xml file it showed only 1.000000 for a DCF Value. | |
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hmm - I have been seeing this message quote: | |
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With the current update of the server everything should more or less work. | |
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hmm - I have been seeing this message quote: I have several Box's dead in the water at the moment because the Server won'r give them work, but it'll try in 24 hours again "rolls eyes" ... ;) | |
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.......... I'm seeing some improvement - last couple of WUs came down with a 30hour ETA. | |
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.......... I'm seeing some improvement - last couple of WUs came down with a 30hour ETA. It doesn't seem to matter if you Downgrade the Client which I did on all my Box's last night, or if you manually adjust the DCF, or if you Re-Set the project, the Wu's still come with hap-hazardly To Completion Times. I can Reset the Project & get 4 new Wu's & 1 will be at 5 hours 1 at 22 hours and maybe 2 at 279 hours. I'm still getting some as high as 27,000 hours even after a Reset of the Project. BOINCView has been even messing up the last few days on me & I think it may be some something to do with the high To Completion Times, could be wrong on that though ... | |
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I'm seeing some improvement - last couple of WUs came down with a 30hour ETA. - Burdett None of my WU's (GPUGRid or otherwise) are running High Priority now. It's been a little see-saw over the past 48-72 hours, but everything appears normal again now. I have two WU's crunching and two pending, 1 with a 5 hr estimate and 1 with a 21 hour estimate. Now, I have 8800GT's and those estimates are both low and high, but certainly much better than the 1000's of hours I was seeing before. It doesn't seem to matter if you Downgrade the Client which I did on all my Box's last night, or if you manually adjust the DCF, or if you Re-Set the project, the Wu's still come with hap-hazardly To Completion Times. - Poorboy I agree. After my manual reset, I did see an improvement but it eventually went back to high estimated times. I didn't do anything at that point (besides suspending other tasks to get GPUGrid work) and it appears that everything is OK for the moment. | |
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about time for a new highscore-thread? | |
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next one: 18300 hours - rising like mad.. | |
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My latest completed WU was back to the shorter ones: Last WU. | |
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Which workunit name? | |
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... I'm back to 'work not available for your type of computer' message - followed by the 24hour 'sod off' back off. | |
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Which workunit name? WU:124466 currently @ 39% showing 6725 hours remaining. host-id is 16930 | |
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OK, Mine dropped again from 100 to 'Task duration correction factor 91.193244' | |
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You should reset project. Your DCF is 88. | |
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... and there must still be an error in the workunits, that's messed up the DCF. After reporting this workunit 170459 my DCF goes up to 7.478452 and the estimated time of the next WU jumps from the regular 6:28 up to over 60 hours, the task fall in high prio mode and blocks the load of another workunit. | |
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... and there must still be an error in the workunits, that's messed up the DCF. After reporting this workunit 170459 my DCF goes up to 7.478452 and the estimated time of the next WU jumps from the regular 6:28 up to over 60 hours, the task fall in high prio mode and blocks the load of another workunit. Try to restart project. `Full restart` with detaching and deleting all files which will be not removed after detaching. ____________ | |
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I know other ways ... it's only a hint, that there still a problem exist. ____________ | |
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Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : DCF