I have been unable to solve this by searching the forums. I have a 4-processor system running Win7 64-bit. WUs take about 5 hours. No matter what I set the "keep X extra days work on hand", I can only get 6 extra WUs. That is only a total of 10-12 hours. I must be missing a setting somewhere...

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Fear is a path to the Dark Side: Fear leads to Anger; Anger leads to Hate; Hate leads to Suffering.
~ Master Yoda, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Is BOINC Manager not requesting work, or is the server not giving you any?

7/19/10 10:59:12 AM SETI@home update requested by user
7/19/10 10:59:14 AM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
7/19/10 10:59:14 AM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
7/19/10 10:59:16 AM SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
7/19/10 10:59:16 AM SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
7/19/10 10:59:16 AM SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse v5
7/19/10 10:59:31 AM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
7/19/10 10:59:31 AM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
7/19/10 10:59:33 AM SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
7/19/10 10:59:33 AM SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
7/19/10 10:59:33 AM SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse v5

I have ATI graphics, not NVIDIA, but set preferences to yes just to try. I have elected to accept all three types of WUs, not just AP5, but its the only one mentioned as "no work available".

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Fear is a path to the Dark Side: Fear leads to Anger; Anger leads to Hate; Hate leads to Suffering.
~ Master Yoda, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

I have been unable to solve this by searching the forums. I have a 4-processor system running Win7 64-bit. WUs take about 5 hours. No matter what I set the "keep X extra days work on hand", I can only get 6 extra WUs. That is only a total of 10-12 hours. I must be missing a setting somewhere...

Which version of boinc ?
Is it set to use all 4 cores ?
are you using gpu's to crunch that makes a lot of differance

From what i see you have a lot of wu pending credit
that might have something to do with it

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Have you checked the option for accepting work from other applications if none is available?

Which version of boinc ?
Is it set to use all 4 cores ?
are you using gpu's to crunch that makes a lot of differance

From what i see you have a lot of wu pending credit
that might have something to do with it[/quote]

6.10.58
Yes, using 100% of processors. I don't relly see why there is a preference for both the number of processors, and the percentage of total processors.

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Fear is a path to the Dark Side: Fear leads to Anger; Anger leads to Hate; Hate leads to Suffering.
~ Master Yoda, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

7/19/10 10:59:12 AM SETI@home update requested by user
7/19/10 10:59:14 AM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
7/19/10 10:59:14 AM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
7/19/10 10:59:16 AM SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
7/19/10 10:59:16 AM SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
7/19/10 10:59:16 AM SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse v5
7/19/10 10:59:31 AM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
7/19/10 10:59:31 AM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
7/19/10 10:59:33 AM SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
7/19/10 10:59:33 AM SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
7/19/10 10:59:33 AM SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse v5

I have ATI graphics, not NVIDIA, but set preferences to yes just to try. I have elected to accept all three types of WUs, not just AP5, but its the only one mentioned as "no work available".

Ok I see a problem as I under stand it there have been no astropulse v5 wu for ages adjust you settings to accept mb and reg Astropulse

Have you checked the option for accepting work from other applications if none is available?

No, but I have all three applications selected. I will check that option now.

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Fear is a path to the Dark Side: Fear leads to Anger; Anger leads to Hate; Hate leads to Suffering.
~ Master Yoda, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Ok I see a problem as I under stand it there have been no astropulse v5 wu for ages adjust you settings to accept mb and reg Astropulse

Good point; maybe setting Astropulse v505 in your app_info.xml will help.

Which version of boinc ?
Is it set to use all 4 cores ?
are you using gpu's to crunch that makes a lot of differance

From what i see you have a lot of wu pending credit
that might have something to do with it

6.10.58
Yes, using 100% of processors. I don't relly see why there is a preference for both the number of processors, and the percentage of total processors.[/quote]


there is a check box for use gpu

try bumping up the disk space settings

That checkbox seems to apply only to NVIDIA GPUs, but I selected it anyway so I coult try Lunatic's app for the ATI cards, not done yet, wanted to fix this cache issue first.

The No work messages for GPU and AP5 are understandable--but why wouldn't boinc automatically get WUs for the other apps?

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Fear is a path to the Dark Side: Fear leads to Anger; Anger leads to Hate; Hate leads to Suffering.
~ Master Yoda, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Set to use 100GB, and 95% of total, on a drive with 450 GB free.

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Fear is a path to the Dark Side: Fear leads to Anger; Anger leads to Hate; Hate leads to Suffering.
~ Master Yoda, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Set to use 100GB, and 95% of total, on a drive with 450 GB free.

did you just set that or was that already set?
If you changed it click the do network communications
and do an update from the main window

If all else fails reboot winblows and see if it helps

If not you need some one better than me
I tried
good luck

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It may have already been tried, but I like to use SETI preferences but I had touched the local ones causing my system to ignore the SETI ones. Blind as I was, I didn't see that I needed to hit the clear button on the local screen to get it back to the SETI preferences for several days. I fixed it yesterday and now all is right with the world.

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one last dumb thought you did keep the extra days to download within the 10 day limit I hope

I was unaware of this. Can you explain where you find these Local preferences? Maybe I have ignored the seti ones also? I change my preferences on the seti web site...

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Fear is a path to the Dark Side: Fear leads to Anger; Anger leads to Hate; Hate leads to Suffering.
~ Master Yoda, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Yes, Bob, I am only trying to get 4 days worth to get past the 3-day down times. Thank you for all your ideas tho. Maybe you hit it when you said I had a lot of pending credit. I can't do anything about that. I have an XP PC running the same preferences, and there is a nice 4 day cache and all is well. Its just this quad core I am having trouble with.

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Fear is a path to the Dark Side: Fear leads to Anger; Anger leads to Hate; Hate leads to Suffering.
~ Master Yoda, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

I was unaware of this. Can you explain where you find these Local preferences? Maybe I have ignored the seti ones also? I change my preferences on the seti web site...

I run the Apple flavor of the software and preferences is not where Apple suggest they be placed so I can only assume that yours are in the same place. Bring up the Boinc menue bar on your PC and you should find Preferences under the Advanced item on the bar. On my screen the clear button is in the upper right hand corner of the box. Good luck.

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I was unaware of this. Can you explain where you find these Local preferences? Maybe I have ignored the seti ones also? I change my preferences on the seti web site...

I run the Apple flavor of the software and preferences is not where Apple suggest they be placed so I can only assume that yours are in the same place. Bring up the Boinc menue bar on your PC and you should find Preferences under the Advanced item on the bar. On my screen the clear button is in the upper right hand corner of the box. Good luck.

You can easily see if the local preferences are used: they are if there's a global_prefs_override.xml file in addition to the global_prefs.xml file in the BOINC data directory.

Gruß,
Gundolf