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Khali
Cruncher United States Joined: Jan 11, 2014 Post Count: 7 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hello, I am a new user of BOINC. I am having a issue with the client jumping from one task to another and not completing most of them without jumping back and forth a few times.
Is there some way to set the client up to do one task until its completed before jumping to another?  |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7847 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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You are probably getting repair jobs to be returned with reduced deadlines. Try increasing your cache to about 3 days and you will minimize the number of repair jobs you get.
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Sgt. Joe
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Alternatively, reduce your cache so that the scheduler feels unworried about finishing your tasks.
Lawrence |
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branjo
Master Cruncher Slovakia Joined: Jun 29, 2012 Post Count: 1892 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I am guessing you are running BOINC version 6
---------------------------------------- If yes, consider updateing to 7.0.x or 7.2.x  Cheers   Crunching@Home since January 13 2000. Shrubbing@Home since January 5 2006  |
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Steve W
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Dec 9, 2005 Post Count: 110 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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In addition to changing the size of the cache to reduce the chance of getting high priority jobs there is also a configuration setting in the Boinc client which sets when Boinc will re-evaluate when to switch applications.
The setting is "Switch between applications every (X) minutes". This option does what it says and sets a time where the boinc client will re-evaluate the tasks to be run. The default for this is 60 minutes. If you set this to a ridiculously high value then it won't switch between applications unless you have a large cache and receive higher priority jobs to run with a shorter deadline than your current task... in theory at least |
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Khali
Cruncher United States Joined: Jan 11, 2014 Post Count: 7 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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My system is a i5-3570k, 32 GB ram, GTX 680, and Win 8. I installed BOINC version 7.2.33 on a 1 TB HDD that had just a few older games on it. The drive was pretty much going unused as it was. I gave 500 GB to BOINC to use.
The first few tasks I ran would run for about 30 minutes then suddenly stop and other tasks would start up. None of them said high priority or anything. I went into the settings and changed the "Switch between applications every X minutes" setting from 120 minutes to 900. That seems to have helped. |
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