What's going on?

[wirelessenabled]

This cruncher had (had) a long term average of about 3:30. No changes and it takes a day or more to do 6 WUs here and then goes back to 3:17. What gives? Bad WUs? My understanding is that if some other processes are running that extends out the elapsed time but not the CPU time for a WU. Is that correct?

Any ideas?




Completed Ra, Dec AR Client Cpu Time
2003 Feb 06 07:45pm 5.867,11.57 0.723 Epox 3h17m

2003 Feb 06 07:45pm 18.36,20.41 0.468 Epox 3h19m

2003 Feb 06 07:44pm 15.134,28.58 0.961 Epox 1d 0h10m

2003 Feb 06 07:44pm 9.317,25.89 0.641 Epox 1d 0h27m

2003 Feb 06 07:43pm 9.317,25.89 0.641 Epox 1d 0h27m

2003 Feb 06 07:43pm 0.147,23.41 0.527 Epox 1d 0h25m

2003 Feb 06 07:42pm 23.715,21.54 0.446 Epox 1d 0h26m

2003 Feb 06 07:42pm 21.79,17.34 0.418 Epox 3h20m

2003 Feb 06 07:41pm 17.387,16.38 7.34 Epox 2h53m

2003 Feb 06 07:41pm 0.842,25.41 0.551 Epox 3h18m

2003 Feb 06 07:40pm 7.096,21.46 0.437 Epox 3h19m

2003 Feb 06 07:40pm 20.126,26.69 1.622 Epox 2h57m

2003 Feb 06 07:39pm 19.015,28.57 2.918 Epox 23h59m

2003 Feb 06 07:39pm 3.922,19.37 0.428 Epox 3h20m

2003 Feb 06 07:38pm 13.799,27.41 0.64 Epox 3h22m

2003 Feb 06 07:38pm 17.285,15.68 0.613 Epox 3h21m

2003 Feb 06 07:37pm 7.803,26.55 0.652 Epox 3h19m

2003 Feb 06 07:37pm 7.767,26.69 0.663 Epox 3h13m

 

[cakin]

That is starting to happen to my sons PC again. I have an Addtron AWU-120 USB-wireless card in his machine (8kha+, XP1800) .
I haven't gotten around to throwing the darn thing out. This is the third one to do it. The wireless works fine for a few months, then starts flaking out - dragging the machine down. I end up having to reboot the machine each morning, it even impacts the clock. I will look at my queue and see his machine about 6 hours late and his machine has lost 6-8 hours. Once I reboot it, it comes back with the right time.

I have removed the Addtrons from all the other PC's and replaced them with D-Link and I no longer have that problem with the other machines.

It was one of those special buys, I picked up 4 of the AWU-120's for $30 each (way back when). Biggest piece of junk I have ever bought.

 

[Wiz]

I just found out tonight that under Win 98 the cpu time and the elapsed time are the same, however under Win xp & 2K the cpu time counts independantly of the elapsed time.
See my last post in this thread.

 

[wirelessenabled]

Thanks Wiz that answers it. This machine is my kid's gamer which is running Win98.