Runtime estimates

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JohnMD Send message Joined: 3 Jun 15 Posts: 23 Credit: 37,592,471 RAC: 27,311	Message 7029 - Posted: 27 Nov 2020, 14:01:09 UTC Last modified: 27 Nov 2020, 14:02:05 UTC
	I requested 2 days WU's (enough for the weekend, I thought). Due to SRBase's poor estimates, I got enough WU's for a whole week. unfortunately, they time out after 4 days, so the server wastes effort both in sending the extra 3 days' data and in cancelling them. Results are also delayed. After so many years, SRBase ought to be better at estimating.
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rebirther Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 2 Jan 13 Posts: 7479 Credit: 43,682,241 RAC: 42,410	Message 7031 - Posted: 27 Nov 2020, 14:09:10 UTC - in response to Message 7029.
	I requested 2 days WU's (enough for the weekend, I thought). Due to SRBase's poor estimates, I got enough WU's for a whole week. unfortunately, they time out after 4 days, so the server wastes effort both in sending the extra 3 days' data and in cancelling them. Results are also delayed. After so many years, SRBase ought to be better at estimating. The estimation runtime is a BOINC server issue while the runtime is changing in every batch.
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