Unfortunately this solution is not a solution. What too often happens is that the primary project will run out of work for an instant and the "backup project" then DLs massive amounts of work that has to be aborted or will go into panic mode because of the low resource share. The situation is completely untenable for projects that allow only limted WU downloads (like Yoyo ECM, MilkyWay, GPUGRID, etc). Many of us have tried workarounds for years and the only solution that ever worked was to use an alternate BOINC clone such as BoincStudio. These options should be simple to add as they've been implemented by hobbyists before. If you don't want them to be generally available to novice users simply put them in an "expert" section or implement them in one of the text files if you must. Even that would be better than the current situation.
Please don't get me wrong, I feel that BOINC has been a great accomplishment. It's getting better and better. Most recently the ATI support has been a wonderful addition. There is a lot of grumbling out there among the experienced users though and almost all of it has to do with the inability to manually control the application better. Regards/Ed 2010/1/26 <[email protected]> > > Set the resource share of the backup project to be really tiny compared to > the primary project. A ratio of a million to 1 is possible, and that would > have the backup project only doing an hour of work every century on its > own, after a few tasks to get it into the overworked state. Set your > "Connect every X" to match reality (0 if you are always connected), and > your "Extra work" to be a couple of days (long enough for most outages)l. > An overworked project (and the low resource share project in this case is > almost certainly going to be overworked) will only be asked for work if the > total queue is < "Connect every X". > > 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.
