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How the “to completion” is calculated while running multiple projects on Boinc?

I have one box that runs both SETI and WCG. I have noticed that every time it goes back to WCG it adds few more minutes (15 minutes in one occasion!).

The Boinc recommendation is to round robin every hour. This seems to me like a huge waste of time.
Am I missing something here? confused

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[Dec 27, 2006 4:10:03 PM]

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Re: How the “to completion” is calculated while running multiple projects on Boinc?

The WCG recommendation is 6 hours. As far as I know, BOINC don't recommend anything.

Projects vary.

[Dec 27, 2006 5:07:09 PM]

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Re: How the “to completion” is calculated while running multiple projects on Boinc?

Maybe “recommendation” is a bad choice of word. I guess I mean the default value is 60 minutes.

I you go the your boinc preference both for WCG and to Seti you have “Switch between applications every “
(recommended: 60 minutes)

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[Dec 27, 2006 5:35:38 PM]

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Re: How the “to completion” is calculated while running multiple projects on Boinc?

The default value of 'switch every 60 minutes' is very wasteful. After all, on average you will lose half the time between check points. It is a much better idea to run each project for several hours. The 6 hours suggested by Didactylos sounds quite reasonable.

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[Dec 27, 2006 5:51:58 PM]

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Re: How the “to completion” is calculated while running multiple projects on Boinc?

Exactly! What’s the point creating a wasteful default value? How many people out there just attached few projects and let them run?

[Dec 27, 2006 6:18:57 PM]

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Re: How the “to completion” is calculated while running multiple projects on Boinc?

No one looses a second of crunchtime long as the 'keep in memory' option is on in the profile and the OS's 'hibernation' option is used to suspend a Computer when u dont want it to be on.

The latter goes for UD agent too (for readers who strayed from the UD-Support into the BOINC-Support section).

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