Questions on Preferences home/work/school

I have a few PC's all connected up and running. There are all in the Home Preferences, how can I move one PC into say the Work Preferences.

What I want to achieve is on one PC I want to run SETI as the primary project and have Milkyway as the secondary (Only when there are no SETI WU available)

What setting do I need to do to achieve this?



Also, currently I have set my WU to cover 10 days worth of WU but I never get 10 days worth of units in the Boinc client, only several WU max which for 2 PC's is about 9 hours worth.
Is the amount (10 days) only worked out on the slowest PC in the accounts or does the Preference work with each individual PC's specs.

Thanks
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I have a few PC's all connected up and running. They are all in the Home Preferences, how can I move one PC into say the Work Preferences.

What I want to achieve is on one PC I want to run SETI as the primary project and have Milkyway as the secondary (Only when there are no SETI WU available)

What setting do I need to do to achieve this?

Also, currently I have set my WU to cover 10 days worth of WU but I never get 10 days worth of units in the Boinc client, only several WU max which for 2 PC's is about 9 hours worth.
Is the amount (10 days) only worked out on the slowest PC in the accounts or does the Preference work with each individual PC's specs?

Thanks Gundolf,

I have managed to change the location, but one point I would like to mention is that I never put the PC's into the home location in the first place. I just installed the optimized client and away I went.


As for getting hold of x days WU's, yes I know there is a problem with SETI (only for the last week) but I have had the 10 days supply ticked for more than 3 months now and would like to have a good supply of WU's to cover me during the outages that SETI has like it is now.

Does anyone else know why if you select 10 days yo only get a few WU's. I shall not use SETI but say Milkyway as an example TODAY. I have 10 days set there in the prefs yet it has only pulled in 6 WU' each taken 1:50hrs to completion. I have a dual core so it process 2 units at a time, therefore those 6 units will be all completed within 5:30hrs which is not 10days. I hope you see what mean.
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the Home account is the default account for your PC's, that is unless you choose to change them from it.
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the Home account is the default account for your PC's

I have identified why I only get a few WU's to work on at a time even though I had the prefs set for 10 days.

When I loaded up the optimized clients for SETI a few months back it appears that I also created a global_prefs_override.xml file. Why I can not remember now or if someone instructed me to do it. Anyway, in the global_prefs_override.mxl file it had 0.250000 set for the days.

I have now set the global_prefs_override.xml to be 6 days and I had quite alot of files now loaded up.
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Great tip. I remembered of the local override file and I cleared it, returning to the web based settings (10 + 1 days). At the 1st moment I got a lot more non-cuda WUs and I have now - and for the first time - an equilibrated amount of each WU type. But still just for a couple of days only and the CLIENT IS NOT REQUESTING MORE WORK. Let's see if it fills up.

Meanwhile, where did you find that global_prefs_override.xml file?

I couldn't find one.

Thanks,

Eduardo
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Correction: I have now about 9.25 days of cuda WUs and just 1.1 days of regular, non-cuda WUs.

How to get an equilibrated amount of both?

Thanks,

Eduardo
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I remembered of the local override file and I cleared it

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Meanwhile, where did you find that global_prefs_override.xml file?

Thanks, Jord.

And please how can I get an amount of regular, non-cuda WUs?

As I sad, I have 9.25 days of cuda WUs and just 1.1 days of non-cuda. It makes me ask for more work everyday.

Thanks again,

Eduardo
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