pvh513, I agree with you that members should be allowed to make up this decision in their own mind. But there are more things to consider other than, "give us the choice".

1. Some members may not even know CFSW was released ( they are on vacation but were opted into the project as their preferences allowed for it )
2. BOINC client does not properly report that there is an issue, just that a work unit is running for a long long time.
3. To create a mechanism to allow for linux users to choose how many they want for cfsw would take time and divert energy away from actually solving the issue at hand.


Also, please note that we are not these other BOINC projects, we have a set of personal project rules that we try to achieve. A major one is, have little impact on a members machine. This means we strive to have BOINC run on your machine without you knowing it is there. Think of the normal computer user that only uses it for email and surfing the internet. They may have installed World Community Grid months ago, but have not checked on it since.

We know there is a risk involved with all work units, but we try to keep these to a minimum and since we know there is a potential issue with multiple core machines running CFSW only, then to minimize this risk took an action that still allows members to contribute towards CFSW with little risk.

I know for the badge hunters and people trying to get to the top level fast this puts a road block in their plan. Many of my machines (90%) are Linux so it would slow me down quite a bit. On a side note, it has slowed me down to 0 because all of the devices are testing within alpha for a potential fix.

I'm sorry if this information is a bit winded, but I am just trying to point out the other side of the coin, which in good faith is the best option.

Thanks,
-Uplinger

(edit: fixed some grammar)

Keith,
For 3 hours now I am trying to get this 1 unit per device without success.
As it says, there are only tasks "committed to other platforms".
And now there is not even any HCC available to spend time in the meantime.

What is going wrong ?

79 linux cores on this project that are Idle and waiting for the solution :P

!

I think with the memory requirements of this project both windows and Linux this may be very useful like it was for Clean Energy 2. I have a Windows 7 machine running 6 of these and it is making it difficult to use that machine. I would like to see something like this implemented as it may be hard to keep the right balance of these running even with a mix of projects. It also seems a windows xp machine running 12 cores(dual 6 core opterons) and to many cores starting this project at once may be causing work units to error.

Thanks for the help and info on the stuck work units. I'll be interested to see the fix for this or if its an issue with the 64 bit Ubuntu.

Thanks again,
Jason