Posts by old_user51669

1) Questions and Answers : Preferences : How to run multiple projects on BOINC (Message 23607) Posted 14 Jul 2006 by old_user51669 Post: To reinforce what Mike said, you have to take the long term view when running more than one project. See what it does over 2-3 months, not over a couple of days. (...) And fiddling with the settings will make it worse (...) Message received and understood ;-) I\'ll try to be patient and keep my hand off the management software ... Again: thanks for helping (and for being frank in the advice given). -- Arlekin\'s Dream Ltd. / Bernd Villiger et al.
2) Questions and Answers : Preferences : How to run multiple projects on BOINC (Message 23600) Posted 13 Jul 2006 by old_user51669 Post: The overcommitted messages explain why you\'re having problems. The Boinc manager thinks it has downloaded too much work to do it all within their deadlines, so it\'s panicing and concentrating on the nearest deadline. Looks like it - since I cancelled some of the SETI tasks, CPDN is getting it\'s share of the cpu time (eager to know what will happen after the next update ...). Thanks for helping.
3) Questions and Answers : Preferences : How to run multiple projects on BOINC (Message 23503) Posted 7 Jul 2006 by old_user51669 Post: It could be that the deadline on the other project is very close, so that Boinc may have decided it needs to concentrate on it for a while in order to make the deadline (this would show up on the messages tab as some gibberish about \'EDF scheduling\'). Alternatively, it could be a \'debt\' issue where CPDN had previously had more than it\'s fair share of CPU time, and so the other project is being given a boost to make up for that. If you cut-and-paste the contents of the messages tab here, that may give us enough information to work out which alternative is the most likely. The messages tab shows these entries: {code] Fre 07 Jul 2006 07:31:17 CEST\|climateprediction.net\|Deferring task hadcm3lbm_bthc_05320691_1 Fre 07 Jul 2006 07:31:17 CEST\|SETI@home\|Resuming task 18mr99ab.11394.5328.228398.3.190_2 using setiathome_enhanced version 512 Fre 07 Jul 2006 07:31:17 CEST\|\|Using earliest-deadline-first scheduling because computer is overcommitted. Fre 07 Jul 2006 07:31:17 CEST\|\|Suspending work fetch because computer is overcommitted. {/code} The strange this is that I the only way to let CDPN take it\'s time is to completely suspend SETI - otherwise SETI keeps taking all of the time (even reloading new tasks if necessary to keep BOINC busy ...). -- Arlekin\'s Dream Ltd. / Bernd Villiger et al.
4) Questions and Answers : Preferences : How to run multiple projects on BOINC (Message 23490) Posted 6 Jul 2006 by old_user51669 Post: When you say they\'re running one at a time, are they taking turns at one hour intervals, or is it behaving differently? On my machine (single CPU) it run constantly (as expected) but doesn\'t take any turn(s) at all - the second project (set on 1/10 of resource) keeps running all day long ... :-( -- Arlekin\'s Dream Ltd. / Bernd Villiger et al.