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Message 31087 - Posted: 16 Sep 2009, 23:40:38 UTC

BOINC and MW has started this very irritating behavior where it downloads 1 work unit
– crunches it – uploads it – requests more work – and then repeats the stupid process over and over again .

I have a core 2 duo and, it used to always send me 12 at a time.

I am using the new 0.20 app. Win XP 32bit – Catalyst 8.12 – on a
Radeon 4850.

I am using BOINC 6.10.5 – it was doing the same thing with 6.10.4 and 6.10.3

I think I remember reading about this behavior in the past on the forum but, I cannot find it.


Thanks,

Bill
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Message 31088 - Posted: 17 Sep 2009, 0:11:59 UTC - in response to Message 31087.  

In Boinc is your 'connect every' set to over 3 days? It needs to be under 3 to get more than 1 wu.
Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
If it makes sense, DON'T do it.
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Message 31091 - Posted: 17 Sep 2009, 0:45:41 UTC - in response to Message 31088.  

In Boinc is your 'connect every' set to over 3 days? It needs to be under 3 to get more than 1 wu.



Thanks Banditwolf !

That is “exactly” what the problem was ! I had changed it a few days ago
to connect every 4.5 days because one of my other projects
(Einstein) was not sending me enough cpu work.


It must have something to do with the 3 day completion time limit
on Milky Way.


Thanks a Lot !!!


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Message 31092 - Posted: 17 Sep 2009, 1:54:59 UTC - in response to Message 31091.  

In Boinc is your 'connect every' set to over 3 days? It needs to be under 3 to get more than 1 wu.



Thanks Banditwolf !

That is “exactly” what the problem was ! I had changed it a few days ago
to connect every 4.5 days because one of my other projects
(Einstein) was not sending me enough cpu work.


It must have something to do with the 3 day completion time limit
on Milky Way.


Thanks a Lot !!!


Best Regards,

Bill

Your welcome. To compensate for the short time raise the 'buffer' setting in Boinc. I used to run 10 days connect, and ended up at .5 connect and 6.5 buffer. It works just as well to me.

Yes with a greater than 3 day return Boinc thinks the wus wouldn't get returned in time so only 1 is requested.
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Message 31093 - Posted: 17 Sep 2009, 2:06:30 UTC

What I'd like to know is how you got 6.10.5 since its not on either the Boinc download_all or Index of /dl pages.
Questions? Answers are in the BOINC Wiki.

Boinc V7.0.27
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470
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Message 31095 - Posted: 17 Sep 2009, 2:45:22 UTC - in response to Message 31093.  

What I'd like to know is how you got 6.10.5 since its not on either the Boinc download_all or Index of /dl pages.



Howdy Aurora,

Crunch3R released it the other day. See his post here for the
DL links.

Bill


http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=1135&nowrap=true#30951

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Message 31096 - Posted: 17 Sep 2009, 3:21:37 UTC - in response to Message 31095.  

What I'd like to know is how you got 6.10.5 since its not on either the Boinc download_all or Index of /dl pages.



Howdy Aurora,

Crunch3R released it the other day. See his post here for the
DL links.

Bill


http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=1135&nowrap=true#30951


Thanks for the link... I think I'll wait for the official alpha version. I don't have a GPU, so I have no pressing need for most of the bug fixes.
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