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Message 1837247 - Posted: 21 Dec 2016, 22:38:51 UTC

I would like to get more work units cached in my system.
Several of my crunchers go dry during the Tuesday maintenance.

I have the storage set to 10 and 10 in preferences, but I seem to only get about one day's worth of work for each server.

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Message 1837253 - Posted: 21 Dec 2016, 23:21:23 UTC

You can get only MAX 100 WUs total for all CPUs in a machine, plus 100 for each GPU. So, if you have (say) servers w/o GPUs and running lots of threads, you can run out during an 8+ hour PM (like both of the last 2 weeks).

For example, my 32-thread server (running 24 of CPU work) ran out both times.
Even though it takes ~2 hours/WU, with 24 running in parallel, runs out in just about 8 hours.
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Message 1837257 - Posted: 21 Dec 2016, 23:52:47 UTC - in response to Message 1837247.  



I have the storage set to 10 and 10 in preferences, but I seem to only get about one day's worth of work for each server.

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I suggest that you change that to 10 and 0.01 which will check for new work more often.

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Message 1837269 - Posted: 22 Dec 2016, 1:02:25 UTC - in response to Message 1837247.  

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