Posts by old_user180849

1) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Auto updates for the main application? (Message 31055) Posted 21 Oct 2007 by old_user180849 Post: Hello, I was curious if any know. Each project has a main application that was loaded at very start of the project when you join up. The applications in the task window has the version numbers at the end of names. Well, question is: When a project releases a new application to replace or update the old, will a new application auto load up? Or will I have to go to main website to see a new application is being used. Shut down the old and reload a new? Or will a new one just upload and replace with new tasks being uploaded??? Many thanks, God bless you all.
2) Questions and Answers : Preferences : How to assign a priority to one task/project (Message 31028) Posted 20 Oct 2007 by old_user180849 Post: [quote]... have violated the 60 minute rule ... This rule is overriden by another rule: If a WU is very close to finishing, continue with it until it does finish. This was added in the newest series of BOINC versions at the insistant (and persistant), requests of people who often found that a WU only had, e.g. 2 minutes left to run, but was getting swapped out for hours to run other WUs. DON\'T keep fiddling with priorities etc, to \"fix\" things like this; you\'ll just make it worse in the long run. The more projects that you have on a computer, the more you need another hobby that keeps you too occupied to spend a lot of time staring at what BOINC is doing. Just let it get on with it. It\'s very good at managing lots of projects OVER THE LONG TERM. I left the 2 high priority status jobs keep running. One was 30 and the second 36 hours. Some time thru the night after roughly over half of there task times. Shut off their high prioritys and allowed 2 other tasks to run. Still not sure why they uploaded tasks saying high priority instead of normal status. Looks like they had to run 45 to 60% of the high priority time length before switching themselfs off to regular priority.
3) Questions and Answers : Preferences : How to assign a priority to one task/project (Message 31017) Posted 19 Oct 2007 by old_user180849 Post: Hi, I also kinda new. Last several days have ran 3 projects on a hyperthread HT computer. 2 projects run at same time. I have Resources set So Climate always has 50% and the other two 25%. Lets Climate always run and other 2 switch out every hour. So ran pretty good. Thought to add new projects today. My problem is this. Today loaded 7 new projects. Adjusted all settings so all say an hour and climatepredictions still has 50% resources and other 9 split with 7%. However two of the new jobs uploaded with status of: High Priority. They immediately shut down the 2 active running jobs that just said running. Now, both of the 2 jobs that say high priority have violated the 60 minute rule while both say use only 7% usage. They are not stopping at the end of the hour marks to allow other jobs to run. Figured this is because they loaded up with saying high priority. Is there something somewhere to knock down those from high to regular?