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Buster Gunn
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I saw this when I went to check my machines to see if I'm ready for an upload. (Maybe on Sunday). One of my w/u's had a status of Computation Error. It had run for 45 hours 25 minutes and 18 seconds. I thought that was unusual because most of the w/u's run between 6 and 8 hours. I went to the messages and found this.

Maximum CPU Time Exceeded 46:25:18.

No who in their right mind would program a maximum CPU time of 45:25:18. Oh, I answered my own question. WCG strikes again with more bizarre crap.

I guess I'll have to check in more often on those machines in case WCG increases the maximum time to 98:15:31. LOL

Seriously, I'll begin looking at them more often. I hate losing 46 hours. :cry: :cry:
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I wondered if it was because everything has to be specified in terms of seconds - but that gives a maximum of 167118 seconds which doesn't seem to make any more sense that the h:min:sec value.... :?

Ah well, at least they don't normally run for more than about ten hours - on my machine anyway.
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The thing that frosted me more than anything is the fact that most w/u's run in less than 10 hours. One would think that they would know know well in advance of 46 hours, if something was wrong. I could have run 4 or 5 more w/u's in the time it took them to figure out something was amiss. DUH
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