How to Get new Work units

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CT-ET@seti Send message Joined: 23 Jul 02 Posts: 19 Credit: 967,620 RAC: 0	Message 824379 - Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 0:18:55 UTC I was wondering how I could get new work units beyond the ones downloaded by the program / can I manualy get units Me in front of the RED BEAR INN in Freiburg, Germany in 2000 ID: 824379 ·

petros Send message Joined: 10 Jul 03 Posts: 72 Credit: 141,587 RAC: 0	Message 824382 - Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 0:20:51 UTC Last modified: 29 Oct 2008, 0:21:03 UTC this is a good question! personally im out of work there is no new units to crunch! ID: 824382 ·

CT-ET@seti Send message Joined: 23 Jul 02 Posts: 19 Credit: 967,620 RAC: 0	Message 824383 - Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 0:22:20 UTC - in response to Message 824382. i know when i came home my units were all finished and i couldent get any more I was interested if there is another download site Me in front of the RED BEAR INN in Freiburg, Germany in 2000 ID: 824383 ·

petros Send message Joined: 10 Jul 03 Posts: 72 Credit: 141,587 RAC: 0	Message 824385 - Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 0:25:24 UTC Last modified: 29 Oct 2008, 0:25:44 UTC Perhaps we are getting no more work ..because we found something like this? ID: 824385 ·

Ianab Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Jun 08 Posts: 732 Credit: 20,635,586 RAC: 5	Message 824386 - Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 0:27:15 UTC - in response to Message 824383. Last modified: 29 Oct 2008, 0:28:15 UTC i know when i came home my units were all finished and i couldent get any more I was interested if there is another download site There is no alternate download server, but you can increase the number of work units that your machine fetches. Look in the advanced preferences and you can increase the 'additional work buffer'. If you set it to 2 days then your machine will fetch enough work to keep it going for 2 days, and you wont run out if there is temporary server shutdown like there is every Tuesday morning. Right now the system is catching up after routine maintenance, so there may be delays gettting new work, but the backlog should clear soon. Ian ID: 824386 ·

CT-ET@seti Send message Joined: 23 Jul 02 Posts: 19 Credit: 967,620 RAC: 0	Message 824391 - Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 0:34:02 UTC - in response to Message 824386. DAMN I did 10 days and got a crap load of work tks for the info Me in front of the RED BEAR INN in Freiburg, Germany in 2000 ID: 824391 ·

OzzFan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28	Message 824504 - Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 3:41:54 UTC - in response to Message 824391. DAMN I did 10 days and got a crap load of work tks for the info Be careful with overly large caches. I would try a more conservative setting, such as the maximum you would expect the servers to be down in a worse case scenario. Something like 3 or 4 days would suffice. 10 days is just asking for deadline trouble. ID: 824504 ·

Josef W. Segur Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0	Message 824541 - Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 5:37:24 UTC - in response to Message 824504. DAMN I did 10 days and got a crap load of work tks for the info Be careful with overly large caches. I would try a more conservative setting, such as the maximum you would expect the servers to be down in a worse case scenario. Something like 3 or 4 days would suffice. 10 days is just asking for deadline trouble. It's also worth mentioning that if everyone set a 10 day cache, the project would definitely overrun available workunit storage. They're already periodically having trouble, going to nearly 4 times as many "Results out in the field" would be a disaster. Joe ID: 824541 ·

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