Boinc should select the next unit of work in the order of their deadline date. But on my system Boinc seems to select the next unit randomly.

As an example say I have three units of work to do wich timeout at the dates

1) 18.02.2008
2) 26.02.2008
3) 28.02.2008

Normally Boinc should select the units in the order 1-2-3. But it starts them in the order 1-3-2. This is not even the order of remaining time but seems to be totally random. In the past I had sometimes to stop one unit manually to get another unit that was nearly timed out to get calculated just in time.

Is there any way to force Boinc to select the work units in the correct order?

BTW: I'm using Boinc 5.10.30 on Windows XP Professional (SP2)
Dirk

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Boinc should select the next unit of work in the order of their deadline date.

Actually, BOINC is not programmed to select the next workunit in order of deadline date. BOINC will process them in order of when they are downloaded unless there's a chance the workunit will miss a deadline, then it will start processing them in order of deadline until everything is OK, in which case it resumes selecting workunits in downloaded order.

In the past I had sometimes to stop one unit manually to get another unit that was nearly timed out to get calculated just in time.

BOINC has a very intelligent scheduler that can calculate precisely how long a workunit will take and can/will pause an existing workunit to finish one that may not. Manual intervention will usually mess up BOINC's scheduler. It's best to let BOINC take care of all workunit deadlines. I assure you, even if it seems BOINC will not get to it, it does 99.9% of the time (my experience over the last 3 or 4 years of using BOINC has been 100% of the time).

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BOINC has a very intelligent scheduler that can calculate precisely how long a workunit will take and can/will pause an existing workunit to finish one that may not. Manual intervention will usually mess up BOINC's scheduler. It's best to let BOINC take care of all workunit deadlines. I assure you, even if it seems BOINC will not get to it, it does 99.9% of the time (my experience over the last 3 or 4 years of using BOINC has been 100% of the time).

Thanks for the answer. So in future I will not mess up with Boinc's scheduler ;-)

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