On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:44:48 +1200, "~misfit~" <misfit61nz@yahoo-mung.co.nz>
wrote:

Ahhh, but Strat my friend, what do you do when you are in my situation? I
have one machine that runs 24/7, one that runs 14/7 and one that just gets
turned on for a few hours whenever it's needed. All on the same account. All
have been given work for 1-3 days.

You can have different preferences for home/work/school. ;)

Also, every machine has "active frac" that is based on how much time it's
actually crunching, on install this is not correct since always starts on 1, but
after some days the 14/7-machine should have around 0.5 as "active frac". Then
assigning work, BOINC takes your "active frac" into consideration, so if
otherwise the same the 14/7-machine will get half the wu to crunch on compared
to the 24/7-machine. :)
The minimum used in calculation is 0.1, to make sure even occasionally
crunching-machines can get work. Of course, if it's also a slow machine this can
push you over the dead-line and therefore you'll not get work.

Berkeley needs to allow us to set different prefences for each machine. I'm
waiting to see if my machine that is only on occaisonally actually crunches
the units it has once they're expired (if they do) or wether it'll
communicate with the server and dump them. I don't like tha fact that
someone, posibly even myself, will be waiting for the confirmational results
for those units to get claimed credit and it won't happen from that machine.

It's already possible to have customized preferences for every single machine.

I'd like to bump up my WU cache to make allowances for server outages. I
know that at this early stage we're all chomping at the bit waiting for
credit confirmation but later a few days here or there won't mean nearly as
much. However if I set my preferences to, say, seven days, there will be a
hell of a lot of WUs being given to the machines I have that aren't on so
often that have to be re-sent to another cruncher at a later date.

Wait some days before increasing the cache, and due to the "active frac" you
should get wu more closely to your actual requirements for every machine.

You could say "Forget about crunching with the machine that is only on for
around 24 hours a week" but you know I don't want to do that. If I wasn't on
such a limited income I'd happily leave them all on 24/7. However the
Invalid's benefit doesn't pay enough for that.

As long as you're crunching 1 wu/week personally can't see a reason to not
crunch. :)

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