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Thread: Restrict WUs to non-rigid? |
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jayrope
Cruncher Joined: Jul 23, 2016 Post Count: 46 Status: Offline |
Is there any way i could restrict my downloads to only non-rigid WUs?
My computers run much faster with those and i feel the rigid ones are wasting resources massively. Thank you for any insight! |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7545 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The simple answer is no. You get whatever the feeder is dishing out for that project. They all need to be crunched anyway. Sorry.
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jayrope
Cruncher Joined: Jul 23, 2016 Post Count: 46 Status: Offline |
;) Thanx for that.
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Speedy51
Veteran Cruncher New Zealand Joined: Nov 4, 2005 Post Count: 1258 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi Jay, I am interested to know why you feel your resources are been wasted massively doing non-rigid work units?
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Maxxina
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Jan 5, 2008 Post Count: 114 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Me guess would be, some remote area with dial up connection. And even if he loads cache. these few minutes one are crunched quickly
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dcs1955
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: May 24, 2016 Post Count: 668 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Dial up connection!! Wow somebody as got to be really dedicated to contribute to WCG under those conditions. It has been 19 years since I used dial up, but I recall my phone bill was horrendous. Do the phone company/ISP have special pricing so there are no long distance charges?
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Speedy51
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Dial up connection!! Wow somebody as got to be really dedicated to contribute to WCG under those conditions. It has been 19 years since I used dial up, but I recall my phone bill was horrendous. Do the phone company/ISP have special pricing so there are no long distance charges? I'm not sure about in the USA but where I'm from here in New Zealand our ISPs used numbers starting with 08 which is free so there would be no extra charges on our phone bills. Of course we had to pay a monthly charge plus fees for any cold calls that we made or packs that were included with our monthly charge |
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dcs1955
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: May 24, 2016 Post Count: 668 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks , I looked online about dial up ISP providers in the states. Things sure have progressed on the dialup front. Charges very reasonable, $20/month (plus charge of a second line ). For Email and non-streaming web it appears to be workable.
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TPCBF
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 2, 2011 Post Count: 1928 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks , I looked online about dial up ISP providers in the states. Things sure have progressed on the dialup front. Charges very reasonable, $20/month (plus charge of a second line ). For Email and non-streaming web it appears to be workable. When I got here to the USA 20 years ago, I first had only dialup and there certainly wasn't any long distance calls involved. Several local number pools, and most web sites back then were still designed in a sane way, no Farcebook,...And as far as crunching WCG goes, a lot of the WU data and the results are fairly tiny, comparable to email, though there are a few "heavy weights" too. FAAH is not one of them. And it would rather be the other way around, the "non-rigid" ones might rather be wasting resources, as due to their ultra short runtime, the overhead for downloading and uploading/reporting is larger than for those "rigid" ones... Ralf  |
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jayrope
Cruncher Joined: Jul 23, 2016 Post Count: 46 Status: Offline |
1- I am not on a dial up connection, don't think that still exists in Germany. But thanx for the - erm - empathy...
----------------------------------------2- My resources are not being wasted by non-rigid WUs - rather the rigid ones (if at all), which obviously is why i asked if i can have my computers working on non-rigid only in the first place. At some point in this thread you guys got all tangled in wild speculation. Why? EDIT: (to Ralf: non rigid produce 5-10 times the points of the rigid in the same time here. In fact upload and download are separate processes and seem to take almost no extra time at all.) [Edit 1 times, last edit by jayrope at Jun 27, 2017 10:32:38 PM] |
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