I am new to this project. I also crunch for Climate Prediction, and sometimes SETI. My problem is that I am receiving too many WUs that I can complete in three days. The ones I have are estimated to take ~8 hours and I have 9 of them, 72 hours. I have three days in which to do them, or no credit for me. I have my preferences set to maintain 0.5 days of work. How can I adjust things so as two maintain a comfortable two day reserve so I can crunch all my projects but not lose credit?
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I am new to this project. I also crunch for Climate Prediction, and sometimes SETI. My problem is that I am receiving too many WUs that I can complete in three days. The ones I have are estimated to take ~8 hours and I have 9 of them, 72 hours. I have three days in which to do them, or no credit for me. I have my preferences set to maintain 0.5 days of work. How can I adjust things so as two maintain a comfortable two day reserve so I can crunch all my projects but not lose credit?
One thing Boinc does is a poor job of managing itself over the short term. It is designed as a set and forget type of thing and over the long term, a month or more, it will settle out to a good balance of getting work. But for those that do multiple projects and like to micro-manage, me included, it is not a very good manager. Unfortunately it is all we have right now, what I do is change the settings so it sort of kinda works for me. There are 2 places to change the settings, the website or in Boinc itself on the desktop. I personally like the desktop settings, others prefer the website settings. It is your choice and not all are available in both places. To start with I do a right click and open the Boinc Manager, then I go to Advanced and Preferences and then under the Network Usage tab I have 0.25 in the 'connect about every' box and then the same 0.25 in the 'additional work buffer' box. I have cable internet and it is always connected. The second box is where I would make adjustments if I were you. You can make them in 0.1 size increments. Make sure you click okay at the bottom and your website saving will be ignored and your local settings will be used instead. I have 17 computers crunching and this works best for me, the above settings are available on the website so if you chose you can make them their instead.
The other setting, and this is done on the website, is the percentage a particular project gets of the total amount of your cpu. It is accessed thru the main Malaria Home Page and then Your Account, Resource share and graphics, and then the top line. That tells your pc you want x percentage of your cpu crunching for this project and on your other projects you can tell it a different number. For instance right now I have my Malaria percentage at 25% so my other projects are getting more of my total available cpu time right now. This is the you would change to give one project more crunching time than another project, but still be able to crunch for several projects. Again Boinc is lousy at doing this so give it some time to settle down as you make changes.
One other thing you are running into is deadlines, you have chosen Climate Prediction which has had units in the past that have taken as much as TWO YEARS to finish and will mess Boinc up too. You are also crunching for Seti which has fairly steady deadlines but days where they are offline!! All this will affect Boinc and how it tries to figure out a way to crunch within your parameters. Be flexible and give it time to sort itself out. In the end you may find that your pc may not be able to crunch for all those projects the way you want it too and end up adding more pc's to your little neck of the World and become a rancher like me!!
Good luck and patience will help.
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