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Message 6044 - Posted 10 Oct 2010 11:44:26 UTC
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I'm running Docking on several crunchers - most of them being dual core 3 Gb with about 2 Gb of ram running on Windows XP Pro.
What has me curious is the large swings in run times going from around 9000 sec of CPU time to around 40000 sec. I've seen times of anywhere from 8 hours to over 40 hours on the same box.
My question is - why the huge difference?

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Message 6052 - Posted 18 Oct 2010 13:51:10 UTC - in response to Message ID 6044 .

I'm running Docking on several crunchers - most of them being dual core 3 Gb with about 2 Gb of ram running on Windows XP Pro.
What has me curious is the large swings in run times going from around 9000 sec of CPU time to around 40000 sec. I've seen times of anywhere from 8 hours to over 40 hours on the same box.
My question is - why the huge difference?


some other program must be eating up your ram, causing the processor give more cycles to the other program...

I've seen this when i play a game or just have more than 3 browsers open on my laptop which is old...

it could also have something to do with heat. how hot your processor gets.

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Message 6054 - Posted 22 Oct 2010 7:11:05 UTC
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Nope - most of these units are used for nothing but crunching - and those are the worst culprits. And only there is only one project on each of them. The units that get the most use have the best times.
From what I can find out so far - heat is DEFINITELY not a problem - lots of cooling in each box.

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