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Dorsai Send message Joined: 7 Sep 04 Posts: 474 Credit: 4,504,838 RAC: 0 |
Hi all. Boinc shows me a time for "remaining" and a time "Elapsed." A Wu that has not been started might show 1:23:15 remaining, meaning Boinc thinks it will take that long. Once it has finished it just shows the "elapsed" time X:Y:Z, with remaining time as 0:0:0 (obviously, as it has finished!) I would like it to still show the original "estimate" so I can see if the estimate and the time taken were close. EG, Elapsed/remaining/estimated. "Elapsed 1:15:14, Remaining 0:0:0, estimated 1:23:15." OR in other words it took about as long as expected. In my job it is as important to know how it did take to do a job as it is to know how long we estimated it would take, as if we constantly underestimate we lose money. Foamy is "Lord and Master". (Oh, + some Classic WUs too.) |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22160 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Displaying the initial estimate would in many cases be very misleading information as there are a number of reasons why a task takes less time than this initial guess. The first reason is that on a new system there is insufficient data for the estimate to be anything other than a wild guess; then there are tasks which actually contain "poor quality" data, and so finish early, or task where the contained data takes a lot longer to process than the norm, then of course there are tasks that get "check-pointed" while running and effectively re-process the same bit of data more than once. All in all that would be more worries to most people than real information. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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