BBC CCE - What year are you on?

[Frederic Brillouet]

CNPS7000B-AlCu is my cooler. I have an msi mainboard equipped with a core center chip. There's also a core center utility that allows you to oc your cpu a little bit. This utility measures system and cpu temperatures. This utility provides me with information on my cpu temperature. I hope this clears the issue a little bit.

[Lagu]

Hi Frederic

My experience of compressed air is that it isn´t enough. I have bough a little bottle containing Isoprophylalcohol of my pharmacist. I got this tip from Vaughan and it is perfect.
Using a cotton pin you can clean every blade on your fan from dust and smell of cooking if it have hit your fan. It dryed fast and make no damage of the blade.

Lagu ;)

[dAVE]

I hope this is the right place to post this. My recent credit has stopped rising. I am still going along at just over 2sec/TS and doing a year every 14 hours approx. 3 days ago I got up to about 6800 points with a recent average credit of 317.52 then things started to drop. The BOINC manager says that I am down to 310.2 and I am in the team as 302.19. My computer number is 144423. But my years still keep crunching on as normal. I am up to 1956.
I thought that I had just reached my maximum Recent Average Credits but I see that people who have longer secs/TS are still rising. I have probably clicked something I shouldn't have. Any ideas? Dave. :cry:

[Empty_5oul]

i don't think you clicked something you shouldn't. There is very little to change within BOINC itself

if you have viewed the progression recently you can hit "ctrl,alt and del" to check it isnt still open. It will be using a fair percentage of your CPU if it is running in the background somewhere.

have you installed or unistalled any software recently, or added/removed any hardware since noticing the change?

[dAVE]

No new programs and the two BOINC processes are each taking a steady 47% to 50% each as normal. The trickles are still going in at 1 or 2 a day and my user total graph is still going up in a roughly straight line. It is just that my user average has peaked and is now going down. Dave. :?

[Empty_5oul]

monitor it over the next couple of days, there is a possibility that you WU were slightly slower than usual hence the reuced RAC. If you did something processor intensive or rebooted the machine this would be the reason.

See what happens in the next few trickles. hopefully it was a one off!

[NeoGen]

The Recent Average Credit should never stop growing as long as you keep crunching 24/7.

But if you notice performance (s/TS) decreasing maybe you should stop it a bit and do some optimizing. A defragmentation is known to speed up things a little.
Also, if you use cpu intensive applications or games for long periods on the computer where the experiment is running, it will get less cpu time, even tough it is running.

[dAVE]

I'm off for 4 days so I'll leave it running as it seems to be going through the years OK and see if it has straighted itself out on my return. Dave.

[spikey_richie]

Does the credit get allocated once you finish a unit? Or is it calculated say once a week based on the current progress?

[Empty_5oul]

it is known as a "trickle". The WU is massive taking many hours. So the project knows you are still processing the unit you send a trickle to it every so often.
For each trickle you receive credit - the time for these varies on the processor.
I think you are granted what you claim as you claim it - it works differently to other BOINC projects without the WU validaiton.