The easiest and best solution is.......................delete Simap

As I recall, SIMAP doesn't have work available all of the time. They have a sizable batch of work to be done each month and when it's gone, it's gone. I can't see how that would affect resource share though. I have crunched other projects along with WCG, just not recently. I dealt with which project I got work from by simply setting "No new work" for all but the ones I wanted wotk from. I need to go look at what BOINC has to say about resource share again.

Working from memory, I want to say that SIMAP usually runs out of work for the month after about seven or so days. If you look at the doc on the BOINC site, it doesn't really say much at all about how it works. From googling BOINC resource share, I've found a bit more. Basically, it appears that, if it works correctly, it is not the way folks normally expect it to work. It does not crunch for 80 percent of the time and then switch to the 20 percent. Resouce share has nothing to do with what WUs BOINC crunches when. What it is supposed to affect is which project it goes to to get new work when that is needed. In other words, it affects what gets downloaded, not crunched. It seems that the average work done numbers a the main factor in deciding which project to get work from. If you've been running WCG for a while and just started Simap, AWD for SIMAP is probably quite low compared to WCG and thus why you see it getting so much SIMAP work. You can google BOINC resource share and browse the results to see more details.

Apparently so far only units for SIMAP have been running, but the WCG units that are close to their due date are then run with high priority so at least they won't be lost and incomplete.

I guess then I just have to wait for it to average out and it will run normal like I intended. BOINC should really put a feature or a control that lets you decide how many work units should come from which project that starts as soon as you add in a new projects instead of waiting for the new one to average out.

Thanks for the info everyone. Appreciate all the support from this forum.

Ok so here is the way I and many others do it...

In the "boinc-client/project/project-name" folder add a notepad file and save it as "app_config.xml" (no quotes of course)!

For the simap project, add the following to the file and save:

<app_config>
<app>
<name>simap</name>
<max_concurrent>4</max_concurrent>
<cpu_versions>
<cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
</cpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>

The max_concurrent... line defines how many workunits to run at a time for that project.

For WCG create another app_config.xml file in the WCG folder add

<app_config>
<app>
<name>cep2</name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
<cpu_versions>
<cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
</cpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>fahv</name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
<cpu_versions>
<cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
</cpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>mcm1</name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
<cpu_versions>
<cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
</cpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>

Once you have these files, you can create shortcuts on the desktop by copying them and then right click on the desktop and select "create shortcut", rename each one so you know which is wich...

in the above

mcm1 = Mapping Cancer Markers
cep2 = Clean energy
fahv = Fight Aids @Home Vina

You can add or change the Aids one if you run it to mamage the Autodock wu's by adding:

<app>
<name>faah</name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
<cpu_versions>
<cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
</cpu_versions>
</app>


As an example the above allows one wu for the 4 projects

NOTES:
I assume you are running Windows something
I assume you have installed Boinc to the default location
You should ensure the total <max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>+<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent> etc for all running projects should not exceed the total of threads the CPU can run
To get Boinc to recognise these files you must be running one of the latest versions and select Read Config file from the Advanced menu after making and saving any changes

Hope this helps...