I've been with SETI for some time and it has always just cranked away with percentage done and credits progressing by the minute.

Since adding the climate work the whole process seems to bog down and nothing happens for hours. Hitting "Stop" and then "Start" seems to get it going again.

What is going on? How do I get the process to run continuously?

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Which Operating System?
Which BOINC version?
What kind of system?

Start? Stop? Ah, you mean Suspend & Resume? Make sure that the buttons are showing Suspend, as the button doesn't show the state it is in, but the option that you have!

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Part of what happens is that CPDN WUs take a looooooooong time to complete, compared to SETI WUs. I'm using the crunch3r optimized science app for SETI, but on my A64, it completes in 44 minutes. This is also with the SS3 A64 version (as I have a Venice core A64, which includes this).

CPDN WUs... Until it got the kill trickle from the network (problem with older coupled ocean models one can see on their site), it was 100 hours into the model, with about 1,760 or so hours being estimated to remain. Mind you, this is on an Athlon 64. An older computer will take longer.

The reason the indicator might not seem to move, is that depending on the actual performance on your computer, as well as the model type you have (sulpher vs. coupled ocean for instance), it could even end up taking over 150 days of CPU time, for your model to complete.

SETI on the other hand, I haven't even seen enhanced take 1+ days on my A64, but I won't rule out there might not be a model on it I hadn't received yet. I think with the default app (though it was awhile), it was doing it in about 2.5 hours or so on this same computer, to give some idea of comparison...

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