Yafu
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 7:04 pm
Hi
Not a popular project probably for 1 good reason - the projected timings can be way off!
Tasks can vary from between a few seconds to days. I have a dual core and it uses both cores - if you have a quad core I assume it'll take all 4, and the time should halve.
What you have to ignore is the progress and remaining times - they don't bear any relation to finish times at all. If/when you get a large task it'll quite happily progress to 100% and show no remaining time to completion. This is where most will abort the task as they'll assume it's stuck. How do you know it isn't stuck then?
Go to your computer task manager (I normally just do a right click at the bottom of the screen and select), select the 'processes' tab and sort 'cpu' , At the top of the list will be the 2 (or 4) instances, They will vary CPU usage up to 45+% each (dual core), they will drop as other computer resources are used. At the moment I've got 2 called 'ecm' which is unusual, the names are usually a bit more cryptic.
Credits are good though - the last one took 52 hours for 19,846 credits.
So the best advice is 'Don't panic!'
Mike
Not a popular project probably for 1 good reason - the projected timings can be way off!
Tasks can vary from between a few seconds to days. I have a dual core and it uses both cores - if you have a quad core I assume it'll take all 4, and the time should halve.
What you have to ignore is the progress and remaining times - they don't bear any relation to finish times at all. If/when you get a large task it'll quite happily progress to 100% and show no remaining time to completion. This is where most will abort the task as they'll assume it's stuck. How do you know it isn't stuck then?
Go to your computer task manager (I normally just do a right click at the bottom of the screen and select), select the 'processes' tab and sort 'cpu' , At the top of the list will be the 2 (or 4) instances, They will vary CPU usage up to 45+% each (dual core), they will drop as other computer resources are used. At the moment I've got 2 called 'ecm' which is unusual, the names are usually a bit more cryptic.
Credits are good though - the last one took 52 hours for 19,846 credits.
So the best advice is 'Don't panic!'
Mike