No wonder my pending credit is so high and my RAC is lagging. ![]() Worse, they probably are going to those systems too and I'll be waiting till December for them to complete and get my credit. These should be reserved for 386sx systems running just 2 or 3 hours a week. I have a 3.3 day work buffer and an always-on connection.īeing given WUs with 30 to 60 day deadlines is just plain daft. They all run 24/7 with a 97 to 99 percent BOINC dedication, and only one project - SETI. Even my slowest system averages 3h 5m a WU. WTF do I want these for? I'm processing WUs at an average speed of 34m 36s. WUs with a deadline in November and December? It's early October! If I want to get this machine up to speed quickly and be able to forget about it, I don't need to be paired-up with screen-saver run only machines turning in a task every fortnight. The only reason I'm looking now is I've just resurected a core2duo machine that died a few months ago and wondered why its credit and RAC was growing so slowly. I even missed passing 2,000,0000 (my Sig supplier isn't updating stats) credits for days! This is the first time in about 4 months that I have even bothered to look at any of my BOINC systems. You're absolutely right Richard, don't micro-manage. Please factor that three-way collaboration into your decision-making processes - if you damage any part if it, you will suffer the consequences too. It requires a three-way collaboration between Berkeley, the rest of the SETI user community (represented by your wingman), and yourself. I do wish that people would remember that they cannot earn credit at SETI by their own unaided efforts. As we have seen from the weekend just past, the SETI end-to-end workflow system is balanced on a knife-edge: anything which destabilises that balance for selfish reasons is antisocial. There are also database update costs, and if the re-issue goes to a slower computer, medium-to-long term storage costs. ![]() At the very least, it means someone else has to waste Berkeley's, and their own, bandwidth downloading it. Don't micro-manage, and that means don't abort work that doesn't need aborting. Ignore the silly a**es that try to micro-mange BOINC and then get upset at the result of their meddling - left alone, BOINC does it all just right. Interesting snippet from MikeSW17's profile:ģ. ![]() So I'll just carry on aborting anything more than 10 days off. Congrats to all you octonarians - only 6 more months and I can join the club.Īnd we'll all be becoming nanonarians about then.
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