"John Rehill" <iwp52@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:AOOMc.400$q91.20@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...

Hi all,

Have transferred over to BOINC but it just seems to sit there and do
nothing, says it has a work unit but the time scale for completion and the
progress report just dont' change so decided to switch back to classic

until

all major problems (ie server down, no wu's, program bugs) have been
resolved.

But my question is this:

How high as anyone set the cache in Setidrive to?  I normally varify

between

15-21 as some weeks i use my pc a lot other times not so much and i don't
want to be stocking up on wu's when there's no need.

I'm heading over for about 3 weeks and was gonna but it to 65 as i reckon

my

pc would work 1 wu in about 8hrs give or take so figure that's a good bet.

Any ideas to what i'm just throwing out there?

I guess ones mileage may vary.  I've semi-retired from Seti (I'm using
laptops for the most part, you see), so I've reduced my cache sizes, but I'd
typically give each machine enough for a week of continious WU crunching, or
for my expected return to the machine plus a week (round numbers, so if a
machine punted through three WUs a day I'd just cache twenty).

If your machine is crunching a WU in eight hours, 65 would be about right.

Some people have said that if a WU isn't returned in a fortnight* or so, the
Seti server sends it out to somebody else... however you still get the WU
credit and, if you find ET, you'll still be given the credit for it.

I've "found" old WUs on my machine that I've had for months, crunched them,
then returned it, and I've been given the credit.

*Fortnight, or longer, something like that.

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