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Message 34770 - Posted: 10 Oct 2004, 6:31:33 UTC

Is ther someone who knows how to to terminate correctly the actual WU and to stop receive any further WU.

With Seti clasic there was the stop_after_send.txt file. And now ???? And for the other projects ???
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Message 34914 - Posted: 10 Oct 2004, 18:24:37 UTC

Set the cache size in your general preferences to 0

"Connect to network about every ... 0 days"
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Message 34919 - Posted: 10 Oct 2004, 18:40:38 UTC - in response to Message 34914.  

> Set the cache size in your general preferences to 0
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> "Connect to network about every ... 0 days"
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Does that work? I thought the work fetch policy was such that there would still be one WU downloaded because the CPU was "starved"...

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Message 34921 - Posted: 10 Oct 2004, 18:44:40 UTC - in response to Message 34919.  

> > Set the cache size in your general preferences to 0
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> > "Connect to network about every ... 0 days"
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> Does that work? I thought the work fetch policy was such that there would
> still be one WU downloaded because the CPU was "starved"...


I am not 100% sure what it does when the last project is empty, I used it to empty a project that I needed to detach on one PC. That worked well.

If it still receives a work unit, it might help to use the CLI with the command line option -exit_when_idle
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Message 34933 - Posted: 10 Oct 2004, 19:29:03 UTC - in response to Message 34914.  

> Set the cache size in your general preferences to 0
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> "Connect to network about every ... 0 days"
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This may be an idea and may be works fine !!!
But I think it's not a good way to manage BOINC. I thing there should be a clear and supported action (and documented) in the BOINC menues.
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Message 34937 - Posted: 10 Oct 2004, 19:45:52 UTC - in response to Message 34933.  

> ...
> But I think it's not a good way to manage BOINC. I thing there should be a
> clear and supported action (and documented) in the BOINC menues.


Agreed.

I'm still using Seti Classic with shell scripts and batch files on several computers and even with those few options one had more influence on individual computers than with only web based settings *sigh*

There will be some more influence on a single computer in 4.10, I have seen a screenshot somewhere. If I recall right, there was a way to suspend project-wise without detaching. Not sure if flush was contained, I don't think it was.
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Message 35992 - Posted: 13 Oct 2004, 15:22:40 UTC - in response to Message 34919.  

> > Set the cache size in your general preferences to 0
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> > "Connect to network about every ... 0 days"
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> Does that work? I thought the work fetch policy was such that there would
> still be one WU downloaded because the CPU was "starved"...



You're right about that, I just tried it. 0 days and it still downloaded one WU

So "boinc_cli.exe -exit_when_idle" seems to be the only way (haven't tested that so far)
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Message 36086 - Posted: 13 Oct 2004, 17:26:51 UTC - in response to Message 35992.  

> You're right about that, I just tried it. 0 days and it still downloaded one
> WU
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> So "boinc_cli.exe -exit_when_idle" seems to be the only way (haven't tested
> that so far)

Set your disk allocation too small to accept work...

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