And as Ingleside explained in his post yesterday, it has an effect for dial-up users and, in general, for users who cannot be connected all day long.
Maybe it would be less confusing if this parameter were named "Connects every ..."?

I've got it set to 1.0 days connect (just now) plus the scheduler option for 15 minute contact before 00:00 UTC for longer if that interests you. Clears everything in one fell swoop once per day, if I'm not there to hit "update" at strategic moments on which I'll not elaborate here :D

Once again, Ingleside, you provide advice which may be correct at other BOINC projects (I didn't bother checking) but that is wrong for World Community Grid.

I only mention it because you seem to be making a habit of this. If you want to help other members, please help them with the correct facts.

OK. Since you want quotes here is one:
It's taken from the "Workunit Cache Settings" section of WCG's current profiles which is what we are generally talking about in WCG's support fora.

Now, about quoting your messages where you are confusing people with historical considerations on the whole range of BOINC versions since many years, or how BOINC works in other DC sites, or what WCG techs should change to please you, sorry I will not try: that would become a full time job.
If you really do not remember when you did that this forum now has a decent search function which can help you to reread all your previous posts.

I am generally trying to stay peaceful and not to start arguments, therefore I have not made too many comments about your attitude but you must know that I am in total agreement with Didactylos on this precise topic.

Thank you for understanding. Jean.

Well, this goes under the heading "BOINC Manager and WCG has a little different wording"...


But granted, could have made my comment to your suggestion to change it to "connects" more accurate, something like (oh no, not another 'historical consideration')...

When the "Additonal..."-parameter was introduced back in 2007, at the same time the meaning of "Connect"-parameter was changed, both in how BOINC-client uses this parameter, and the valid range of the parameter, most notably that permanently-connected computers should use zero and use "Additional..." for cache-size instead. To go along with these changes, client-defaults, preference-defaults and the wording on web-page for this parameter was changed, to be more in line with the new behaviour of the parameter.

Unfortunately, when WCG added the "Additional"-parameter to their web-pages, they overlooked the changes to the "Connect"-parameter, this means WCG-web-pages shows a wording that isn't in line with how client now uses the parameter, and a preference-default that isn't in line with what the client expects for permanently-connected computers.


Now, as already commented in this thread, for anyone running only WCG, the defaults being 0.1 or 0.2 days doesn't matter, except as part of the total cache-size. So, until WCG-only users changes the parameters, it doesn't really matter the WCG-web-description is inconsistent with BOINC-client.

For multi-project-users on the other hand, even a setting of 0.1 days "Connected..." can influence things...