Just wondering whether this is normal.

I have been happily processing a work unit for 400 hours - I was on target to complete the unit in about 600 hours in total - so only had 200 hours left to go.

I have also been sending trickles a couple of times a day.

I noticed that I had not sent a trickle for the last couple of days, checked the “To Complete” time in BOINC, and it had jumped to 10,477 hours to complete.

Is this normal? Will this go back to about 200 hours as it was and send trickles? Or is it really 10,000 hours left to process? As 10,000 hours is over a year, I'm not going to complete it before my deadline.

I am using a P4 2.66Ghz processor and running version 4.43.

Regards,

Si.

It's definately NOT normal. It should only take the original estimated time.
Did anything happen around the time of the change?
Are there any error messages in the Message tab, or one of the stderr, stderrdae, or stderrgui (xml) files?

There was a user with a laptop a few months ago, who had a similar problem. It was only when he dismantled the machine and looked at the air intake to the fan, that he found it was full of dust. When cleaned, the processing time went back to normal.

It may also be that the program is having problems and is "rewinding". It can rewind a day, then a month, then a year to try and continue. I'm not sure how you could check this unless you have been looking at the model year in the viz on a regular basis. And remember what it was up to.
And Oxford is currently having trouble with the trickle server, so you may be missing some on your account page.

Post again if you find anything that may help someone to help you.

Les

I had such an effect with BOINC 4.13 just after an "unplanned shutdown" (i.e. BOINC caused a freeze and I had to switch off hard), it went back to trickle 0 with some thousands of days left when I restarted.

BOINC told the server about the crash but still tried to continue the model.

I did a reset on CPDN to fetch 2 new models, I think the data have been inconsistent after it happened so it didn't make sense to continue the models.

No such problem with BOINC 4.19 anymore.