At the moment there seems little point in requesting more work, as all this will do is generate more results to add to the ever growing pile.

But I would like to return work I have, once it's done.

I think that it is possible to create a file, in the relevant place, that will cause Boinc to stop requesting more WU's.

I see that the Berkeley house is on fire, and I don't wish to stand there, throwing fuel onto the fire.

I can wait till the Fire Brigade have arrived and put the fire out.

Once the house has been rebuilt, I will happily stand there putting fuel into the fuel tank.

This PC will run dry about 6PM Friday 12th. Once all the SETI Wu's are done, I want to return then and get no more. I will Pick another project, and wait for SETI to be rebuilt.

It's A hard think to decide to do, but all my returning & getting & returning & getting WU's is doing is making the situation worse.

I will think Einstein will do. It's space orientated. That's what I like.

How do I achieve a "graceful shutdown"?

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Foamy is "Lord and Master".
(Oh, + some Classic WUs too.)

Well I use boinc view and you can disable work requests for a project but I think it continues uploads. So...I assume there is a command line parameter also if you need it. Hope that helps.

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At the moment there seems little point in requesting more work, as all this will do is generate more results to add to the ever growing pile.

But I would like to return work I have, once it's done.

I think that it is possible to create a file, in the relevant place, that will cause Boinc to stop requesting more WU's.

I see that the Berkeley house is on fire, and I don't wish to stand there, throwing fuel onto the fire.

I can wait till the Fire Brigade have arrived and put the fire out.

Once the house has been rebuilt, I will happily stand there putting fuel into the fuel tank.

This PC will run dry about 6PM Friday 12th. Once all the SETI Wu's are done, I want to return then and get no more. I will Pick another project, and wait for SETI to be rebuilt.

It's A hard think to decide to do, but all my returning & getting & returning & getting WU's is doing is making the situation worse.

I will think Einstein will do. It's space orientated. That's what I like.

How do I achieve a "graceful shutdown"?

Open Boinc manager, got to the projects tab, highlight Seti@home, on the left pane of the window, you should see a 'no new work' button, click it; job done.

Come back soon :)

Ken Phillips

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Ken Phillips

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"The beginning is the most important part of the work." - Plato

Open Boinc manager, got to the projects tab, highlight Seti@home, on the left pane of the window, you should see a 'no new work' button, click it; job done.

Come back soon :)

Ken Phillips

I dont have a version of Boinc up-to-date enough to have a "left hand pane"

I have 4.19 on both hosts. I guess I could set my "connect to" to 0.001 days, to let things drain.

I'll be back, like a shot, once things streighten out.

It "hurts" to have just become a farmer (built a 2 CPU cruncher last week) only to find out that what I am trying to farm wont grow any-more...Deep sadness.

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Foamy is "Lord and Master".
(Oh, + some Classic WUs too.)

Set to 0.0 instead and you won't receive no more WU!

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Set to 0.0 instead and you won't receive no more WU!

Won't this 'connect to time' then propagate via updates, to the other science applications as well? Thereby causing all of Dorsai's projects to stop downloading?

I can't readily test this, as I don't have 4.19 installed on anything anymore.

@Dorsai, If you upgrade to 4.45, then you can just suspend, stop downloads, etc., from the boinc manager, however, I'll understand if you are a bit wary of doing so, purely because of 4.45's quirks.

TTFN

Ken

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Ken Phillips

BOINC question? Look here



"The beginning is the most important part of the work." - Plato

I'll be back, like a shot, once things streighten out.

It "hurts" to have just become a farmer (built a 2 CPU cruncher last week) only to find out that what I am trying to farm wont grow any-more...Deep sadness.

Dorsai, the status page shows more than 428,000 units available to send as of 18:20 UTC. Are you having problems connecting?

I have aleady tried at an earlier date the connect to setting of 0.0 Just putting in a 0 will change to 100. So put in 0.0 and no more work will download from that project but the other projects continue on.

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98SE XP2500+ @ 2.1 GHz Boinc v5.8.8

And God said"Let there be light."But then the program crashed because he was trying to access the 'light' property of a NULL universe pointer.

I tried to dump finished WUs and get no more. I failed, and I got more.....

However, a fair proportion of the WUs I just uploaded have just validated.

I strongly suspect that the the figure of 700,000+ WUs waiting to validate is am aftifice.

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Foamy is "Lord and Master".
(Oh, + some Classic WUs too.)