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Message 1595043 - Posted: 31 Oct 2014, 18:56:57 UTC

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.

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Message 1595088 - Posted: 31 Oct 2014, 20:16:02 UTC

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.
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