"Martin" <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote in message
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Zebra wrote:

Well, after 5 years of running S@H, my PC farm finally fell silent

yesterday

[...]

When I started noticing messages like "Deferring communication with

project

for 2 hours, 29 minutes, and 28 seconds" I quickly came to the

conclusion

that BOINC isn't for me.

What other projects are out there that are similar to the original S@H?

Take your pick from:
http://www.aspenleaf.com/distributed/distrib-projects.html

Meanwhile, check out the connection & cache options on Boinc. The rush
of existing and new people all starting Boinc at the same time can be
expected to overload the s@h servers for some time. I would expect
things to settle down over the next few days.

I have two distributed computing tasks running on this machine so that
if one project pauses, the CPU is still kept busy with the other.

I agree with you concerning things settling down, Martin. I did make a less
gracious post in another forum, though, when Berkeley put out the front
page notice that "they had 2X the amount of Beta testers, & still climbing".

Seriously, w/~500K active SAH1 users, what did they expect? 2X beta, is
a drop in the bucket, with respect to the current active user base.

I'm doing dual proj's on my HT'd machines too. SAH2 + CPDN. I've
got my BOINC pref's set to 1 cpu. When I'm out of SAH2 work, CPDN
kicks in 100%. It's a nice set-up. There's nothing to do manually, and if
either proj messes up, I'm still crunching at 100%.

Nice.

Yeah, I like HT; a lot!
-- 
Strat