A fix to the time stats messed up <on_frac>x.xxxxxx</on_frac> which means everything is running high priority.

The code that updates on_frac (fraction of time BOINC is running)
was accidentally disabled in Feb. 2009.
6.10.4 fixes this, but it thinks you haven't run BOINC since Feb 2009,
so your on_frac becomes small.
That makes BOINC give long estimates for job completion.
(Eventually on_frac will return to its proper value,
but will take a while).

I'll put a cap on the on_frac decay to deal with this.
In the meantime, you can edit your client_state.xml,
look for <on_frac>, and change it back to 1 (or whatever it should be).

-- David

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Boinc V 7.4.36
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB NVidia 470

On the Alpha mailing list which I just finished catching up on ... they introduced a bug in Feb 2009 by turning off something in DCF ... so, when you start 6.10.4 the DCF goes way low and then recovers ...

From the list (Dr. Anderson):

The key here is "on_frac 0.027".
The code that updates on_frac (fraction of time BOINC is running)
was accidentally disabled in Feb. 2009.
6.10.4 fixes this, but it thinks you haven't run BOINC since Feb 2009,
so your on_frac becomes small.
That makes BOINC give long estimates for job completion.
(Eventually on_frac will return to its proper value,
but will take a while).

I'll put a cap on the on_frac decay to deal with this.
In the meantime, you can edit your client_state.xml,
look for <on_frac>, and change it back to 1 (or whatever it should be).

They mention updating the value in the xml files ... the long and short of it is that any upgrade to 6.10.x with x>3 is going to have this issue ... until you work past it ...

And Jord also posted this message on the BOINC Alpha 6 Versions Change Log thread at the top of this section about 5 hours ago.

For a change, David A's erratic approach to coding and documentation saved us from this one.

The time stats bug was created, according to the checkin notes for the fix in [trac]changeset:19022[/trac], by [trac]changeset:17166[/trac]. That changeset, according to the checkin, was just about "web: fix bug in cached user page stuff from 12/29/08" - even though it also contained a client update.

So, presumably, Rom didn't notice it, and didn't copy it into any release build. In any event, the code doesn't appear in the branches/boinc_core_release_6_6a version of time_stats.cpp, so those of us who have religiously ploughed through all the Beta releases since v6.6.14, but have avoided the Alpha stuff, don't know what all the fuss is about ;-0

Afterthought: Facebook users will have got the full benefit of this one, and it hasn't been corrected yet:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/branches/boinc_core_release_6_8/client/time_stats.cpp

169         if (dt > 100) return; 
170             // client must have been suspended; skip