I believe that the system would work better if the minimum short term debt were 0 rather than the mean short term debt being 0. Typically what happens is that the task that has just completed has a negative STD. If this is the last one for the project, many of the tasks with higher STDs are shifted to have a negative STD. If the project then is allowed to download a task immediately (and this does often happen) the project will then have a STD of 0, effectively bypassing other projects that used to have a higher STD.
If the minimum STD were kept at 0, this would not happen. When the lowest value STD project was removed from the STD, the next lowest value STD project would then have a value of 0. This starts all new tasks from projects at the bottom, and they may have to wait for a while for their turn. However, it does mean that projects that have had work on the system will eventually have the STD be high enough to actually run. jm7 _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
