After I got my new GTS 450 we ran into a string of outages. I had my cache set for four days but was running out in about two days. I bumped my cache up to six days and have managed to get through all the short outages we have had since but it looks like I might run out tomorrow if this outage lasts that long. I thought I was running out on the four day cache just because it hadn't caught up with the changes I had made on my computer but now I don't know what it is doing. It should have caught up and given me more than enough by now but.....

Oh well, I've run dry before and it hasn't killed me yet. Guess I can play solitaire or something until the work flows again. :-)

---

PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

Here is Jeff's explanation of the most recent server issues.

---

Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

If I set every 10 days connected and 0 days additonal, always if shorties came down, BOINC gone in 'high priority mode' (no work request until calculated).

Yes. If you get too greedy, sometimes you don't get anything at all. That happens in life, too - often for children, but hopefully most of them grow out of it.

Now, can we get back on topic, please? We're supposed to be panicking about the SERVER'S problems, not our own.

I see from the front page that

We are having difficulties with one of our storage servers. Until we fix this we are unable to generate new work.

Please help the servers by not requesting, or holding on to, more work than you really need. Don't fight against them.

You are now a forum mod?

You want to start again to gibe me?

---

Maybe if you set 10 + 10 in the prefs and let it run for a while with the appropriate logging set in cc_config, I can convince you that

864000.00 + 864000.00 sec

equals a 10 + 10 = 20 day cache?

If you actually manage to grab 20 days worth of tasks is a different question but BOINC WILL try to get as much as you ask for.

And that's without going into the deeper parts of client state to tamper with how much you'll be asking for.

If it's like this, then the project should set a limit of 10 days.

This would reduce unneeded scheduler server load/resources (work requests).


- Best regards! - Sutaru Tsureku, team seti.international founder. - Optimize your PC for higher RAC. - SETI@home needs your help. -

---