The more I watch Boinc with the new scheduler, the less I understand what it's doing.

I run Einstein and Seta as GPU tasks and run a couple of other projects that provide strictly CPU tasks. With the resource allocation I had been using, Einstein was running an average credit around 12,000 and SETI an average credit around 4,000.

This wasn't what I wanted, I wanted SETI to be the primary task and basically only wanted Einstein to run when SETI was out of tasks. So I started dropping the resource share for Einstein. At the start of April, I set it to 1 (0.28%). SETI is set to 100 (28.5%). So I am expecting that 100 times more GPU will be used on SETI tasks than on Einstein tasks.

Now, almost a month later, Einstein is running a average credit of 17,000, SETI is running at 1340, and I have will over 100 hours of Einstein tasks due by 5/1.

Let me get this straight. Is reducing the "Resource Share" supposed to cause a project to run more tasks? What do I need to do to reduce the number of Einstein tasks run? Shut the project off entirely?

What is the BOINC scheduler actually doing here?

++PLS

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What are your Cache settings?

Claggy

Seeing the amount of problems Seti has had in the past couple of months, it's no wonder its RAC stays behind. No work means only Einstein works.

But if you truly want Einstein to only do work when Seti has none, you set Einstein's Resource Share to zero (0). Zero RS in BOINC means this is a backup project for when the other project(s) attached don't have work.

You cannot compare the projects by the amount of RAC they have though, because Einstein pays way more than Seti does, so Einstein's RAC will always be higher than that of Seti.

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Cache is 2 days + 2 days. I wish it were possible to set them by project as this is too short for SETI's long outages.

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I know about the difference in credit paid. But right now I'm running almost all Einstein tasks with only a very occasional SETI task. I want it the other way around.

I'll try setting the resource share to 0 and see what happens. How does the resource share business work when there are multiple resources (CPU, GPU) used differently by various tasks?

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