GUYS - I need help - I'll keep it short as I can - I have been on the project now for a few years - Originally I was running Win XP32 - and my numbers where great - since upgrading the same machine to Win7 64 my numbers have been terrible - almost half what the exact same machine used to get on WinXP 32 - but that's life I needed Win7 64 so that s just tough luck - I tried for months to ask for help or figure the problem but it all came to nothing and eventually I gave up.
Just recently due to a change in operational behavior - my crunching PC that was normally online 24/7 started spending a day or 2 at a time offline, from time to time - so to get things moving again when I reconnected it - I would go to the BOINC client - to the
projects tab - and manually hi the
UPDATE button to get things all synced up.
Then I noticed something crazy...
MY AVERAGE RESULTS NEARLY DOUBLED OVER A SPACE OF A MONTH. Pretty much getting back to what they used to be on WinXP 32.
So I looked at logs and all sorts of crap and released that the client was going DAYS sometimes even WEEKS before ever updating - at times it would finish ALL JOBS and just sit there till the report back date expired and not even hand the jobs back in - and once they expired just ask for more, but not all the time.
The machine runs 24/7 and is online 24/7 and my report back graph looks like an earthquake reading of crazy peaks and troughs since Win7 - but if you go back a few years to when I was running WinXP my weekly averages where almost exactly the same every week as they SHOULD be since week to week the client was running on the same machine under the same conditions, as it is still to this very day, but now the DUMB ASS THING just never bothers to report back - or update the project half the time leaving some to expire completely
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I have been running at half output for almost 3 years now since changing to Win7 for NO REASON AT ALL - other than the damn client never bothers to update half the time.
AND I have now proven that if I just press update button every morning - my output LITERALLY doubles - because it actually hands the work in.
And its not as though CANT access the net because pressing update NEVER FAILS - and it WAS handing in at least half its work the whole time - so it COULD see the net - it just wouldn't hand the rest in .. just because.
Man this pisses me off - anyone have any idea how to make this stupid client UPDATE at least once a day automatically??? I have tried to fiddle the settings as much as I can and I cant find any way to FORCE PROJECT UPDATING every X interval.
On this graph it starts at what my average was - and around AUG27 the net disruptions came so i started manually hitting Project Update every day - until around AUG 30 - then the net was 24/7 again so I stopped manually updating, and I noticed there had been a spike in output that then fell off when I stopped Manually Updating every day. So I started manually updating every day again and my average LITERALLY doubled and has been holding double output ever since.