Posts by David

1) Message boards : Number crunching : MilkyWay not honoring Resourse Share percentage in preferences. (Message 43171) Posted 26 Oct 2010 by David Post: Hi, I've found that that latest batch of MW WU's seem to be targeting "High Priority" in that they estimate a long 'to completion time' but a very short "required by" date (kind of like 273 estimated hours to completion by the morning after next). That has a habit of putting the WU into a "High Priority" Status in BOINC and nothing else will run until the MW WU completes (I generally abort when I see those types running). How do I prevent MW from hogging the CPU runtime (by forcing BOINC to set a "High Priority" status) ?
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Not Impressed (Message 40444) Posted 16 Jun 2010 by David Post: In my BOINC Manager I have Network Usage Allowed everyday between hours of 00:10 & 11:50. Up until last night, I had not detected any network usage by any of the projects during my Peak Broadband period. I have subsequently gone thru the logs for the past two months and there has not been any network usage during that period, except for manual intervention (which I accept). As it was 3 different projects all at the same time, I guess it possibly could be a glitch in BOINC. My apologies, but, as I need my Peak period broadband for work, I do get a bit touchy about it when things use it without my permission. I will enquire on the BOINC site.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Not Impressed (Message 40433) Posted 16 Jun 2010 by David Post: 16/06/2010 7:43:09 PM Milkyway@home Started download of de_16_3s_2_236901_1276679642_search_parameters 16/06/2010 7:43:11 PM Milkyway@home Finished download of de_16_3s_2_236901_1276679642_search_parameters
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Not Impressed (Message 40432) Posted 16 Jun 2010 by David Post: Hi, I am registering my objection at your site's use of my broadband during my peak period. I use my computer for work during my peak/active period and tonight I saw active downloads coming from this BOINC site (I have my preferences set to download between 00:10 & 11:50 GMC+10). I have completely disconnected from Spinhenge as they wouldn't even let me logon to object. I need my peak broadband for work. I don't mind donating my off-peak broadband for university purposes, but, not when it starts to interfere with my work capacity. This happened with Leiden, Milkyway & Spinhenge tonight. I am not happy. I will dis-connect from your project if I see this happen again. I want to help, but, only using my spare capacity (read off-peak)......
5) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : I've got an error (Message 39968) Posted 27 May 2010 by David Post: Trying to upload a report, but, BOINC is reporting the following error: 27/05/2010 10:48:11 AM Milkyway@home Message from server: Server error: feeder not running Is it down for maintenance or something ??? Cheers, David