Last batch may be out there now after checking the chart it has one to go....

Just had to abort one for somebody - been nursing it along in a laptop that overheats and shuts down even when I suspended the other cores task but it wasn't going to make it so I sent it back. Happy Crunching!

Hi Yves!
Nothing went wrong. It has always been like that!
It's only that it is probably the first time that you leave a HCMD2-only machine unattended with a cache larger than, say, 2 or 2.5 days.
And you have been caught by the terrific yoyo effect of the unrealistic size estimating of this particular project.

By experience after processing more than 47,000 HCMD2 WUs, the average duration of HCMD2 WUs in my quad is (very roughly to make things simpler):
- parents: 6 CPU hours
- children: 3 CPU hours
- grandchildren: 1.5 CPU hour.

But they have always been estimated by the server something like:
- parents: 2.5 CPU hours
- children and grandchildren: 3 CPU hours.

While that may be correct occasionally in, say, a P4 machine, in a fast machine it has the terrible effect that you have experienced: all parent WUs raise the DCF full size by much, while grandchildren decrease it only by 10 % of the difference for the longer ones and only by 1 % for the many ones which are then completing the process in less than 10 % of their estimated duration.

This effect was also amplified by the fact that the distribution of HCMD2 WUs was usually "by series": series of grandchildren, then series of children, then series of parents, etc...

I presume that the techs wanted the estimates to be closer to the majority of machines, i.e. the "P4 range", but I think that it was not the best choice because these machines are those which run with less jobs in their queues (so, very limited effect of DCF variations) while the DCF wildness had the most detrimental effect on machines with many jobs in queue, i.e. the fastest ones.

Anyway, that will soon be history.

Results Returned 2/20/12 00:06:02 UTC 37,730
Do we have any idea at this point what the rate of re sends are?
I have 8 6 hour work units waiting in PV. I need roughly 9 day of work yo get to my goal of 2 years after PV have cleared. I've set prefs just for 2 days & HCMD2 only until l need to more work then I grab HFCC then set back to HCMD2 only

Two days away from making my 10 years, but I've got enough results to do it. For those of you still looking, the resends should start coming out hot and heavy. Get your buckets out on those reliable machines.