My puny little machine seems to be behaving itself a lot better now.

Thanks to all for the effort to fix this irritating issue.

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Credits are calculated, but only once.
So, it looks like - the very old bug, when credits are calculated only sporadic, still exists.

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Credits are calculated, but only once.
So, it looks like - the very old bug, when credits are calculated only sporadic, still exists.

I'm seeing a second update, roughly in line with my 'RAC' or daily average, making its way slowly through the very long credit calculation and reporting pipeline: it's reached "...from the daily update + 622.08 since then" in the BOINCstats system.

CPDN credit is a long and slow process. A huge script - the one we've been missing - has to work its way through the entire database: we worked out yesterday that it took at least five, possibly six, hours. Because of the problem with double-counting Beta stats (noticed after the first run), it had to be run twice on Wednesday - once on an overnight schedule, then again manually at lunchtime. After that has finished, the updated stats have to be exported in a format the external sites can use, and after that it's up to the external sites themselves to collect, process, and display the results.

None of these processes can be allowed to overlap, else one or more of the scripts will be working on partial - corrupt - data. Better that we miss a day and get it right, than allow that to happen.

Now that the admins have an idea how long the various steps take on the new hardware, they will be able to work back from the optimal 'collection' time, and schedule next the export script, and then firstly the update script, to start their respective tasks at the right time of day (or night). It may take a few attempts to get that timing absolutely right, but I think the admins are to be commended for the progress they've made this week.

Metalius, it was decided a year or two ago (I can't remember exactly), long before the recent credits problem, only to run the credit script I think three or four times per week. That was a deliberate decision, not a bug. I don't know whether Jonathan and Andy will now want to run the script every day or just a few times each week. If they take the alternate-day decision it will be understandable because of the long-running nature of the script, as explained by Richard.

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Cpdn news

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