Is there a way to limit the amount of work in the work cache? The problem is that I run BOINC most of the time I'm home (12 hours a day) but it is possible that I'm unable to run BOINC for a week or something like that. (because I'm not home then)

When I'm back home my computer has to hurry to get everything done in time. So, is there a way to limit my work cache to 1 or 2 WU's instead of 6 or more?

To shrink the amount of outstanding work by about 60%, try this:

* View general preferences /
* Edit /
* Change 'connect to network' to 0.03 from 0.1, and also
* Change 'Cache enough work' to 0.1 from 0.25,
* Update preferences, then
* Click 'update' on that project within the boinc manager.

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Just because your connect to is that small doesn't mean you'll hammer the servers. Think about Einstein or Rosetta (with a run time pref of 24 hours). A connect interval like that will give you one WU/core at a time, but it'll take a fair number of hours to complete. Or if you run multiple projects.

Personally I keep mine at .001 with no additional cache. But I also switch the computer back and forth between Vista and Ubuntu and I run multiple projects. So it's easy for me to run down what I have before switching over.

It actually worked out well for me recently. I was in the hospital and my computers were off for 10 days. I ended up only having the 3 running WUs (2 on one and 1 on the other) going over deadline.

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Kathryn :o)

I see that ABC hasn't introduced Work Cache size yet. When I use local preferences it will override the preferences for the project, right? Then i'' use that instead.

Thanks for the help :)

I'm not sure what you mean...

The work request (in seconds) is made by the core client and the server sends back the correct number of work units based on a few different factors.

ABC might have its own setup where it will only send so many work units on each request (I know Cosmology does this). It's been quite a while since I ran ABC, so I can't say for sure.

What I do remember is that their run times can vary dramatically so your duration correction factor (the ratio of how long a unit took to how long it was predicted to take) can get screwed up and result in too many or too few work units being downloaded.

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Kathryn :o)

To shrink the amount of outstanding work by about 60%, try this:

* View general preferences /
* Edit /
* Change 'connect to network' to 0.03 from 0.1, and also
* Change 'Cache enough work' to 0.1 from 0.25,
* Update preferences, then
* Click 'update' on that project within the boinc manager.

I mean "* Change 'Cache enough work' to 0.1 from 0.25", that is not implemented yet. And yes, also because of the very veriabele WU sizes this is very usefull.

To shrink the amount of outstanding work by about 60%, try this:

* View general preferences /
* Edit /
* Change 'connect to network' to 0.03 from 0.1, and also
* Change 'Cache enough work' to 0.1 from 0.25,
* Update preferences, then
* Click 'update' on that project within the boinc manager.

I mean "* Change 'Cache enough work' to 0.1 from 0.25", that is not implemented yet. And yes, also because of the very veriabele WU sizes this is very usefull.

Ah yeah.

I think their backend is pretty old. But if you change it locally through the manager, it *should* work (in theory).

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Kathryn :o)