The minimum requirements are listed at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=minimumreq

Don't run HDC unless you have almost a gigabyte of memory. FAAH will run in 256 MB. Which means you can run at full speed without a lot of page swapping if you have 384 MB even while surfing the web. Minimum is a tricky word.

Lawrence

RickTheBrick..... thought that by now it was common knowledge that HPF2 is on hiatus...should return soon. For FAAH we have work till at least Jan'07. HDC (Help Defeat Cancer), we dont know, but there are only about 20,000 WU's available daily, where the global all projects total is presently > 125,000 daily.

If u have selected all projects in your profile, u should be getting at least FAAH. If Help Defeat Cancer is available, u should be getting that, presently, 1 HDC to 8 FAAH.

U posted this in the UD agent section, so not sure, but in BOINC device profile u can specify a work preference and a 'alternate' work option, if any of the preferred projects runs out permanently or temporary.

If your schedule is to crunch only a limited time like 10 hours a day, than u should still get FAAH....the deadline is 7 days. Suggest, if u dont have more WU's in the buffer to hit the reset button on WCG in the project tab.

Cannot place exactly why u would be getting the 'not finish in time' message. If u post a part of the message log, 10 lines before and after that, we can have a look in context.

Oh and if the ol Crimbo does come by, say hello for me and do a good word...... like 512mb extra as well ;>)

ciao

I just received the same messages from the WCG server, even though I had unchecked HDC in the profile for that machine. I just reviewed the profile that machine uses and the All projects box was checked for some reason. I unchecked the HDC box again. I'm not sure how/why it was reset to run all projects.

RickTheBrick,

I'm not sure how smart BOINC is in respect to knowing not to request work and just give u one at the time. We really need a piece of your message log to follow the sequence, so if u please go to the 'message' tab in BOINC, hilight 10 lines before the 'no work' message and 10 or so after, hit the copy button, then past it into a post, we can maybe reason with u.

If u go to your BOINC profile on the website, there is a field on how much work to buffer. The default is 0.1 days (2.4 hours). Set that to 1.0 days. Save it. Then return to BOINC's Project tab and hit update to copy the updated preferences to your machine and see what happens.

Possibly, your disk allocation is too small? Set it to like 2gb. That also caters for the Help Defeat Cancer minimum needs. With enough disk space and buffer at 1 day, u should get new work, while the current one is completing.

Here some of my settings


And please if running FAAH, use Hibernation. Depending on the number of segments, just switching it off can loose a significant amount of crunch time, as the WU will restart from the last segment saved.

Let us know.