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Message 312487 - Posted: 21 May 2006, 15:24:22 UTC

My 2 biggest complaints about boinc, as much as I love it, are:
1) Not being able to see what options are currnetly being used.. ie- I run 7 projects on 3 computers so I wish I was able to open the boinc program and look at the options which are currnetly being used, because every project has different settings on their page... I just wish we could do this all under the boinc program for ease of sake.

2) I wish we could control the amount of wu's for each project.. ie - my einstein and predictor run 1 hr or less wu's so I always have a large number fo them, but seti and seti beta run huge wu's. I wish I could have 3 or 4 days of seti, but only .25 days of the others

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Message 312525 - Posted: 21 May 2006, 16:23:18 UTC
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1) Not being able to see what options are currnetly being used.. ie- I run 7 projects on 3 computers so I wish I was able to open the boinc program and look at the options which are currnetly being used, because every project has different settings on their page... I just wish we could do this all under the boinc program for ease of sake.

This is being addressed to some degree by the activation of Boinc Account Manager {BAM} in V5.4.9 of Boinc. Third party websites are being setup as a one stop shopping center to attach and manage your accounts. The only site I've seen so far is the BoincStats BAM. I haven't checked if is fully operational yet.
2) I wish we could control the amount of wu's for each project.. ie - my einstein and predictor run 1 hr or less wu's so I always have a large number fo them, but seti and seti beta run huge wu's. I wish I could have 3 or 4 days of seti, but only .25 days of the others

The size of your cache is set with 'Connect to network about every' setting in the General Preferences and the ratio for the projects by the resource share allocated to a project. Set Seti resource 12 times larger than Einstein and Predictor, and you will get the effect you want.

example
Connect to network about every 4 days
Resource share
Seti 3.5 or 350
Einstein .25 or 25
Predictor .25 or 25
It's not that hard to figure out. The net effect is exactly what you want on the long run.

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Message 312560 - Posted: 21 May 2006, 16:57:03 UTC - in response to Message 312525.  

This is being addressed to some degree by the activation of Boinc Account Manager {BAM} in V5.4.9 of Boinc. Third party websites are being setup as a one stop shopping center to attach and manage your accounts. The only site I've seen so far is the BoincStats BAM. I haven't checked if is fully operational yet.


I will check this out, thanks.


The size of your cache is set with 'Connect to network about every' setting in the General Preferences and the ratio for the projects by the resource share allocated to a project. Set Seti resource 12 times larger than Einstein and Predictor, and you will get the effect you want.
example
Connect to network about every 4 days
Resource share
Seti 3.5 or 350
Einstein .25 or 25
Predictor .25 or 25
It's not that hard to figure out. The net effect is exactly what you want on the long run.


I have my seti at 500 and the other ones at 100 but I will adjust it again. It is just frustrating to see only 3 seti wu's and 6 predictor, even if they do last the same amount of time :)

thanks.

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Message 312587 - Posted: 21 May 2006, 17:41:15 UTC - in response to Message 312560.  

I have my seti at 500 and the other ones at 100 but I will adjust it again. It is just frustrating to see only 3 seti wu's and 6 predictor, even if they do last the same amount of time :)

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Once your system settles down, and the affinity of the new processes are figured out, things will change. Since Enhanced has a wide variety of lengths for the results being crunching, machines are freaking out a little. The software is best when left to it's own resources, to allow it to adjust and calculate how it needs to download.



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