I see sometimes that a task that is not due for several days will start running. Other tasks due sooner just sit there. Why?

Latest BOINC, Einstein at Home, XP.

Mark

BOINC runs work in a first-in, first-out order. This to ensure that all work gets done by the deadline.

For consider this, if BOINC would do work based on deadline first, and you'd do e.g. Einstein and CPDN, there's a good chance that the CPDN model doesn't get fully done, or at all, as BOINC will be busy doing 14 day deadlined Einstein all the time, and will not start on the 1 year deadlined CPDN model until it's well too late to finish.

And that's just one example. There are 50+ projects available under BOINC, all with their own deadline cycles. If you run Malariacontrol.net (3 day deadline) and Seti@Home (7 days to 4 week deadlines) together and BOINC only runs work by deadline, it'll only do Malaria, until Seti's work is almost due.

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