Hello SETI@Home community!

I have a question. I am will soon be going off on holiday (vacation, if you reside in America!) and I would like to take a considerable amount of work units with me to process. I will not be able to connect to the Internet as there will be no Internet Connections that are freely available. Is it possible to manually add work units (preferably not due within the next 2 weeks). I would quite happily take 100 to 150 work units with me to process whilst away. Is this possible?

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Me

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Hello SETI@Home community!

I have a question. I am will soon be going off on holiday (vacation, if you reside in America!) and I would like to take a considerable amount of work units with me to process. I will not be able to connect to the Internet as there will be no Internet Connections that are freely available. Is it possible to manually add work units (preferably not due within the next 2 weeks). I would quite happily take 100 to 150 work units with me to process whilst away. Is this possible?

From
Me

There is no direct way of doing this but you can try the following procedure.

The first thing to do is to set your Account Computing preferences - Network usage to
Computer is connected to the Internet about every 10 days
Maintain enough work for an additional 10 days
This should maximize your cache.
Do a project update to get the new preferences.
If you haven't set any local preferences in the BOINC manager then you should start downloading additional work. If you have been using local preferences then the above settings should be done in the Advanced menu - Preferences - Network usage tab.

Now the tedious part.
Suspend each WU with long crunch times (Report Deadlines after you will have access to the Internet again). This will force the short one to be processed immediately. Continue to do this until you have build up as much cache as the project will give you. This could take some time, possibly a couple of days.

There may be a way to trick additional work from the project once your cache is full, but it involves editing the BOINC client_state.xml file. If you're comfortable doing that, then post the following information from your account.

% of time BOINC client is running xx.xxxx%
While BOINC running, % of time work is allowed xx.xxxx%
Average CPU efficiency x.xxxxxx
Task duration correction factor x.xxxxxx

It is on your computer info page. View Computer - click on computer ID number - it is near the bottom of the page.

I'll provide further information on what, where and how to edit the info, once I see what your numbers are.

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Boinc V7.2.42
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