Workunits wont even start downloading

It usually takes 1 to 4 weeks for resource shares to balance out, that is most likely why you are seeing only P@H work.

John Keck
BOINCing since 2002/12/08

BOINC will not download new work until the low water mark is hit.

yes that does get annoying :)

> I, too, was experiencing this problem. It seems to me that the Predictor work
> units are quite small compared to the SETI work units. When SETI was not
> handing out work units, Predictor filled up the work queue and kept it full to
> the point where a SETI unit never got the chance to be downloaded (even when
> SETI was working normally). To try to solve, I disabled network access to the
> BOINC client (FILE->DISABLE BOINC NETWORK ACCESS) and let all of the
> Predictor work units be processed then, using my firewall, I blocked all
> packets from the Predictor system. Once I re-enabled BOINC network access,
> Predictor couldn't get work units, but SETI was able to fill the work unit
> queue with its data. I then removed the block on the Predictor packets. Now I
> have more SETI work units than Predictor work units in the queue so I'm hoping
> that there will be room in the queue for new SETI work units for every SETI
> work unit that has been processed. Time will tell if this truly is a solution.
> Hope this helps.
>
The queue is based on time, not count. When you join a new project, the new project will dominate the work done until it has caught up. This process can take up to 4 weeks depending on how long you were running the old project before you attached to the new project.

>
> > The queue is based on time, not count. When you join a new project, the
> new
> > project will dominate the work done until it has caught up. This process
> can
> > take up to 4 weeks depending on how long you were running the old
> project
> > before you attached to the new project.
>
> I certainly don't dispute that; however, in my case (on this one machine)
> Predictor was the original project and S@H was the new one (having been added
> after Predictor), so the old project kept hogging the client and the new
> project got nothing. After day after day of watching Predictor run at 100% and
> S@H get 0% and never download a single work unit (even though my other
> machines were downloading many), I was looking for a way to force the client
> to start at least one S@H work unit without detaching from Predictor and
> creating a bunch of orphaned work units. Predictor had already worked
> completely through the queue two or three times, so I will also admit to being
> mildly impatient and I didn't want to wait 4 weeks (or however long it might
> take) to get that first S@H workunit. What I did may not be exactly "standard"
> but it did get me two S@H work units to process without, as far as I know,
> harming anyone else. Since that time, I've received 9 more and no additional
> Predictor work units.
>
It is quite possible that you hit S@H when it was either out of work or down, and it switched to Predictor to get some work to do.

I have never had more that 5 S@H on my P4 3.0 and 2 S@H on my P4 1.8 preferences are set to 3 to 5 day for 3.0 and 1 to 3 days for 1.8, and both machines have never ran out in 5 days. I just hope the WUWUs do not run out, but if they do P@H will take up the slack as I get 10 WUWUs per machine. I have resources set to 10% P@H and 90% S@H.
Low water mark for 3.0 machine is 3 WUWUs to process and 50% to process on last WUWUs for 1.8 machine. Right now I have a mix of S@H and P@H WUWUs on both machines, as I have my resource set to 10% P@H, only 10 will be processed on the 1.8 machine and then it goes back to S@H I do not know how many P@H the 3.0 will do, but I am thinking either 10 or 20 WUWUs

My amount of WUWUs on hand for S@H is based on the inflated time to completion figures of 24hrs 2mins and 2sec for 3.0 mach and 41hrs 20mins and 22sec for 1.8 mach..

Just checked BOINC and I received a WUWU for S@H that has a normal time for completion.....

As far as I am concerned BOINC is a sucess, now all they need to do is to refine the program and get more projects and the rest will be history.