As the title says before the feeder problem I was getting a total of 80 work units cached in buffer at a time now it's just 40 for my ATI cards. Same PC's same settings as before.
An argument could easily be made for double the cache amount not halved, especially with the original milkyway WU's that I use that take about 20 - 25 secs each to run. The way it was before they'd run out for some reason or another three or four times a week or more anyway. Now with half the usual cache amount I have about a little over 14.5 minutes supply worth which will cause a ridiculous amount of short supply problems for me.

Anyone else seeing this?

I have never had more than 40

Mmm odd i've been getting 80 for as long as I can remember on all my PC's. My only guess is that I should have been getting 40 as well all along but because I have an Nvidia & an ATI card in each PC it was seen as from boinc point of view that I had 2 GPU's & thus 80 Wu's it works like that on other projects too. During the outage I did upgrade to the latest stable boinc version so maybe my good luck ran out?

I'll try downgrading boinc on one of my PC's to see if my good fortune returns. Even 80 is still one heck of a short cache. I mean I realize they need a quick turn around but under 15mins worth per GPU? Doesn't anyone else think thats a tad light especially for original milkyway WU's & higher end GPU's?

Thanks for your reply swiftmallard.

That's pretty darn fast, even for a good GPU! Are you sure the tasks are validating and not just erroring out? I'm getting off-topic...

After the feeder comes back from an outage, it's usually overloaded. It has to rebuild the work cache for the scheduler as requests come in. Yesterday, the entire MilkyWay project was running out of work at about 400 tasks per application. Today it's back at about 37,000 for the N-Body Simulation.

I don't have a graphics card, but maybe the application that runs on GPUs is just running out of work, and doesn't want to give all the work to the same person. (tasks have to validate with more than 1 person)

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