Terry, Work done is more of a measure of the computational difficulty of the tasks you completed, not the number of tasks - some tasks are shorter/simpler than others :)
Hamish On 29/03/2020 10:26, Terry Coles wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone else out there using the BOINC client? As related a few days ago I > had problems > with F@H (which Tim is using) so I installed BOINC from the repository and > have been > running it ever since. > > As also related, I found it initially overworked my CPUs and caused serious > overheating so > I throttled back. For several days the 'Work done for this project' read 0 > because the first > Task was yet to complete. Yesterday morning I was informed that the work > done was 1, as > expected, but I definitely didn't expect to log in this morning and be told > that the work > done was now 762! > > I've opened the Help, but the Views shown see https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/ > Simple_view[1] do not match what I get and the Help is not particularly > helpful. In > particular I can't find anything that explains what the Work done number > actually means. > > Here (http://hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/[2]) are screenshots of what my Views > look like, > including the remarkable change in Statistics since Friday. > > Can anyone shed any light on this? >
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