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Bullocks · Duke Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 416 Location: Here.

Can the amount of work Boinc downloads for projects be made to behave itself? I have played with the settings, both Boinc general prefs and project prefs now both set at 0.5 days + 0.5 . But the downloads still exceed these limits on both Einstein and Pogs and about 5 days 24-7 and this machine isn't 24-7.

I shan't go into Prime grid again, I have never had to cancel so many units, it was absolutely ridiculous.
It isn't such a big problem with Einstein , I stop it downloading for a few days and let the time limit extend but Pogs is still a problem and the same solution hasn't cured it.

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KWSN-HoC · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 2:36 am Post subject:

Unfortunately work downloads are calculated by the internal scheduler of the Boinc client and can't be configured manually.

So if there are more than 1 active projects the scheduler calculates the download based on the settings and some project parameters.

What I've seen is: the more you'll try to tune the download or stop projects or temporarily halt projects the scheduler will be irritated and is behaving stranger than before. So if you leave the Boinc client untouched with his settings and scheduler it should work out after a few days.

Maybe an account manager like BAM can catch your needs in a better way ...... http://boincstats.com/en/bam/

Cheers

HoC
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branjo · Prince Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 746 Location: Slovakia

[s]What version of BOINC are you using? AFAIK (and from my own experiences), the v7's are dealing quite good with this issue.[/s]

ETA: Try setting (1) projects "Resource share" (in "Preferences for this project") to zero and/or (2) 0.5 days + 0.0
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Bullocks · Duke Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 416 Location: Here.

Thanks Hoc but sadly leaving it for days hasn't cured the problem. but you might have identified my problem.
Is Pogs, primegrid calculating on the, graphics, shared fourth CPU being used by Einstein?

I will try our Bam thanks for the heads up. Very Happy

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Gemjunkie · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:20 pm Post subject: Re: Making Boinc behave?

Bullocks · Duke Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 416 Location: Here.

Gemjunkie · Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 10:50 am Post subject:

Have you tried 0 and 0?
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Bullocks · Duke Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 416 Location: Here.

Bullocks · Duke Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 416 Location: Here.

And before I let her download any more WU;s I am going to alter my prefs to allocate only 1 processor to pogs. . It's just a little a white lie.

I'll change it back when she is isn't looking. Wink

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Gemjunkie · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 4:38 am Post subject:

There have been a few projects that send more work than wanted but I haven't seen anything as bad as that. Confused

There are a lot (too many) places for settings, though. At each host, at each project, at the BAM manager, through BoincTasks. Makes it hard to track down a wayward setting, if that's what it is. At times I found a weird setting that I know I would never have entered, change it, only to see it return. I suspect it's a value the project admins think is peachy and somehow inject it into preferences. Laughing

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