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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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How does the size of one's work queue affect if you get sent beta WUs? It seems that if the additional work buffer is set to 0, I get betas when they're available. If it's set to anything else, I get nothing. Since the betas have short deadlines anyway, why would that matter?
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David_L6
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 24, 2006 Post Count: 296 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I think it's because your computer communicates with the project more often if you don't have a lot of work cached so it's able to get some Betas while they are available.
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Since the betas have short deadlines anyway, why would that matter? You are right, it does not.  What matters is to ask for work right when there are beta WUs ready to be distributed. Your settings may have an effect on the probability to get some, but they are not used by the servers to send you some or not. I think that most beta testers have set their extra work buffers to "anything else" and they do get beta WUs too. Cheers. Jean. |
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