Colin Jones wrote:

Hiya Martin 53N 1W.

Why? What are you trying to do exactly?

  Just check progress from time to time. Maybe get some units in advance.
Just playing at the moment so not really sure of what to expect from it.

Take a look at:
http://www.davidzilch.co.uk/boincstat/

and try it in a second terminal window.


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So far, it's behaved itself fine untouched. The only change I've made is to set the boinc cache to be for 0.5 to 1.0 days on the boinc user prefs (boinc website).

  I have mine set to 5 days, but it's only downloaded one unit so far. I
was expecting about 8 the rate this one works.

Why so long?

The boinc seti splitters are having a hard time of things. Everyone wanting a huge hord of WUs exacerbates the problem.

A small-ish cache will speed up the processing for everyone. To avoid any idle time if the setiboinc servers go offline, just subscribe to a second project. They must have set small defaults of 0.1 to 1.0 days for some reason...

At the moment, they'll likely be frequently rejigging the servers and so some down time is to be expected. When things settle, then outages should become shorter and rarer. Worst case should then be no more than a two day outage should things go wrong over a weekend.


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  Good point. Will have to take it off root at the earliest opportunity.

Also set up a dedicated user for your dist comp projects to 'firewall' them off your main account. You can use group permissions to look in to see what is happening for stats & progress.


I wonder what the "remote access" is that boinc has as a startup option... Any tools for utlising it?


Happy crunchin'
Martin