I currently have 2 projects running. Single P4 2.53 WinXP SP2 computer. Seti is at 100% resource while ClimatePrediction is at 200%. Now isn't ClimatePrediction suppose to run for 2 hours and Seti for 1?

Instead my computer runs Seti for 2 hours then switches to ClimatePrediction for 1 hour. It's been doing this for a while too since i have 800 CP credis and 400 Seti credits. I also added LHC@home today and I noticed the deadline is in 2 days. What would be the correct resource share to set this up so it would compute more than Seti?

Im figuring since:
CP 200%= 1 hour
Seti 100%= 2 hours on my computer
Then i should set:
LHC 50% = 4 hours??(or it would at least compute more than Seti)

Very interesting, I noticed the same thing with my resource share. I have CPDN set to 60% and Seti at 40%. After a while I started checking my log, and it turns out that seti is crunching 60% of the time... I was considering to try and reverse to see if Seti would crunch 40% if i set it to run 60%... :)

i set LHC to 50% last night and it still only crunched 1 hour while seti did 2 hours and CP did 1 hour. It's kind of interesting, i wonder if Seti has some code in it to do double the crunching :) i doubt it but i wonder why it does.

> i set LHC to 50% last night and it still only crunched 1 hour while seti did 2
> hours and CP did 1 hour. It's kind of interesting, i wonder if Seti has some
> code in it to do double the crunching :) i doubt it but i wonder why it does.

Maybe it doesnt work for 50/50 resource share (that was my first setting, and resource share was completly random)... :) Anyway i have set it to 60% for Seti and 40% for CPDN. I ll give it a day or two and then i ll check the log. It would be interesting to see what would happen...

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My name is Pascal and this message has my approval...

It is 10 oclock, do you know what your WUWUs are doing tonight...

This was a bug with 4.05, try upgrading to 4.09.

@Pascal

I m well aware of that. I read all the post I could find on preemption problem, and also I read all the faqs I could get... You must be aware that none of those helps, and fact is that preemption is quite random...

@John McLeod VII

yes, i wanted to ask somone about that... I m participating in two projects (obviously), and I m concerned that upgrading will reset both of them. It happens that my computer crunched 50% of the CPDN wu. so the question is: Will i lose that wu if I upgrade?

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> @Pascal
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> I m well aware of that. I read all the post I could find on preemption
> problem, and also I read all the faqs I could get... You must be aware that
> none of those helps, and fact is that preemption is quite random...

It is not random on my machines CPDN 200 = 2hrs Seti@H 100 = 1hr..........



> @John McLeod VII
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> yes, i wanted to ask somone about that... I m participating in two projects
> (obviously), and I m concerned that upgrading will reset both of them. It
> happens that my computer crunched 50% of the CPDN wu. so the question is: Will
> i lose that wu if I upgrade?
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My name is Pascal and this message has my approval...

It is 10 oclock, do you know what your WUWUs are doing tonight...

> yes, i wanted to ask somone about that... I m participating in two projects
> (obviously), and I m concerned that upgrading will reset both of them. It
> happens that my computer crunched 50% of the CPDN wu. so the question is: Will
> i lose that wu if I upgrade?

If you just exit BOINC (don't detach) and install 4.09 over the top of your existing .exe, you will just pick up where you left off. No work will be lost.

> If you just exit BOINC (don't detach) and install 4.09 over the top of your
> existing .exe, you will just pick up where you left off. No work will be
> lost.

Thanks... It worked... ;)

Now we will see if resource share is going to streighten up... Before upgrading CPDN was set to 200, and Seti at 100, and Seti runned 2 hours, and CPDN 1... :))

I still have no clue how the share works....

what is the effekt if i set it to 50%
or 100%
or 200%

how the heck do u configure it for each program ?

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> I still have no clue how the share works....
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> what is the effekt if i set it to 50%
> or 100%
> or 200%
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> how the heck do u configure it for each program ?
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You change it on the web page for your account in each project.

The setting is not actually a percent, it is a number. Add all the resource shares for the projects that a particular computer is attached to, and that is the total resource share for that computer. For example I have a machine that has Predictor:50, S@H:50, and LHC:50 for a total of 150. Now for each project divide that projects resource share into the total resource share and multiple by 100 to get the percent of time that that project should be running on that computer. In the example given, the result is that each of the computers will have a 33 1/3 % share of the CPU time.

I have my resource shares set up as follows: S@H:50, Predictor:50, CPDN:50, LHC:50, Alpha:10, Beta:10, LHC Alpha:10, Pirates:10. Now on different machines, I have different projects attached. I have some machines that are attached to all 8, and I have some machines that are too slow for CPDN, and I have a machine that doesn't have enough RAM for LHC or LHC Alpha, I have one machine on which I do not have permission to install Alpha or Beta code. So I have some machines that are 50:50:50:50:10:10:10:10, some that are 50:50:50:10:10:10:10, one that is 50:50:10:10:10 and one that is 50:50:50. Each of these is pulling the resource share numbers from the web sites of the projects that the host is attached to and doing their own calculations of how much CPU time should be allocated to each project.

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