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Message 1926018 - Posted: 23 Mar 2018, 15:47:47 UTC

I know i have seen some posts on this but after searching a lot I have had limited success to finding the best approach to the following:

I only use 1 computer and it is not a dedicated cruncher, it will do WUs for 2 to 6 hours a day depending on my usage and when I go to bed as I turn off the computer when I sleep.

Seti@home is my Main Project
Milkyway@home is my 1st Backup Project
Einstein @home is my 2nd Backup Project.

I would like to have 2 days worth of WU's for Seti and a half day WU's for the backup projects, Ideally Milkyway would have more than Einstein. After many attempts right now Milkyway has the most WU's followed by Einstein then with Seti having far fewer than the 2 backups.

You can not set computing preferences for each project as the last one edited will propagate to the other projects to keep them all the same. I tried setting my Seti settings to the home computer and the other projects to the default location and while that looks like it should work I am not getting the results I hoped for. Short of managing the amount of WU's I get by using NNT is there a way to have BOINC manage each project differently.

I know some you crunchers with high RACs have to manage backup projects as you run out of WUs during scheduled maintenance.

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Message 1926023 - Posted: 23 Mar 2018, 16:05:02 UTC - in response to Message 1926018.  

I know some you crunchers with high RACs have to manage backup projects as you run out of WUs during scheduled maintenance.

Just change your backup project resource share to 0 (zero).

By doing that you will allow your host receive work from that project 1 WU at a time when Seti is down or has no new work.
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Message 1926024 - Posted: 23 Mar 2018, 16:19:22 UTC - in response to Message 1926023.  


Just change your backup project resource share to 0 (zero).
By doing that you will allow your host receive work from that project 1 WU at a time when Seti is down or has no new work.


That would work if I just wanted the other projects strictly as backup, I think maybe I didn't ask the question properly.
I have the following resource shares for my projects using GPU only.
Seti ---------- 300 (37.6%)
Milkyway --- 96 (15.2%)
Einstein ----- 34 (5.4%)
I also have POGS with a resource share but it runs on CPU only and is the only project that uses the CPU

I think what I am really asking is there a way to have my downloads reflect resource share?

The Zero solution is viable if there isn't a better one.

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Message 1926026 - Posted: 23 Mar 2018, 16:50:22 UTC

No, resource share doesn't work that way :-(
The resource share is a long time average (days or weeks), not an instantaneous work share. The only way to be assured that SETI will run "most" of the time is to set your backup projects to zero and SETI to a high figure (the scale is 0 to 1000). Or to spend endless hours micro managing your computers the whole time, twiddling resource share with almost every call for work - even then blink and things will go wrong.
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