Brian wrote:

After reading all the comments, I have learned (& a little more confused)
about caching workunits. I think that from now on I will send/receive
workunits 2 times per week.

Sounds reasonable if your total cache size is about 5 or 6 day's worth to keep your machines busy, yet still avoid any WUs lingering for more than 1 week.

... I will go for the 'friends to look after' option. One of them is now
looking forward to having another pc so he can LAN game at home & my father
will look after my other pc.

Good idea. With the rate at which these things get out of date and depreciate, you may as well get maximum use out of them!


Keep crunchin',
and roll on BOINC soon.

Regards,
Martin