> ... and if you left it alone, it would reach a nice stable equilibrium, > with a proper DCF (so it can predict deadlines and request work > accurately) but instead you say "oh, no, it's not working!" and make it > stop. No. it wouldn't, I waited long enough.
> Of course BOINC crunches the Einstein work to completion immediately. With > a 1000:1 resource share anything else would devote less than two minutes > per day, and that isn't enough to MEET DEADLINES. > > You'd be really angry if deadlines were missed. Well, what is wrong with this approach: rise low-share project priority only if number of hours needed to complete downloaded task let say 1/2 or even 1/3 of time remaining to deadline? Hope you get the point - it should increase priority when it approaches to deadline, not right after downloading. 1/2 or 1/3 or even 1/4 can be used as safeguard to no miss deadline. But currently we have 6hours/14*24 hours. Too much to really think it could miss deadline! > We also have this amazing ability as crunchers to forget that there are > other stakeholders out there -- that the projects themselves are vitally > interested in how BOINC works. No prob with that, but BOTH sides should be respected. Do you think it would be best for Einstein if I just detach this project completely and will leave my host idle when SETI has no work? Do you really think it would be best solution? If yes, next will be proposal to drop all P3 cause"they only take place in project/BOINC database"... bad way IMO... > It's bad enough that a 1000:1 ratio of shares is allowed, because you take > up room in the BOINC database at Einstein, but you aren't going to > contribute much. Yes, I'm aren't going to contribute MUCH, but I still going to contribute! Feel the difference. > We've seen other projects suffer severe loading problems when s...@home is > down. It makes their capacity planning difficult, and it aggravates their > loyal users when all of the work gets sucked up. It says only about popularity of SETI and probably bad server capacity of other projects :P > If you're willing to add a project as a "backup" you should be willing to > do some work for them in exchange for that privilege. I'm surely WILLING to do work for it, if not I would just leave that project. I just willing to do that work under particular circumtances. If user decides not to do any BOINC work when computer not idle - it's OK. Well, I'm decide to do Einstein when SETI idle, look at this from such point of view. Or we should deny screen-saver mode? ;) _______________________________________________ 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.
