"Derek Lyons" <fairwater@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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"David or Eunice Boucher" <dlb613@charter.net> wrote:

On the preferences pages, I seem to remember that the previous version had
fields where the user was asked to select the minimum and maximum number 
of
days work to keep on disk, and it would seek more work units when the 
cache
got below that level.

Those parameters seem to be gone now, or at least I couldn't find them.
Anyway, I am wondering now:

There's a parameter now for 'contact the network every x days'.  It
seems to work by filling you up to that level, but I've been unable to
determine how it figures you need more (I.E. what the 'floor' is).

a.  How does Boinc decide that you're ready to receive more work units?

See above.

b.  How does it allocate between climatepredicition workunits, which can
take up to a year to process, versus seti work units, that can be finished
in less than a day?

It spends an hour on S@H, then an hour on CPDN, then an hour on S@H,
and so forth.  (The exact amount of time depends on a: how many
projects you have and b: the relative priority settings between them.)

D.
-- 
Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.

So how do you make them both run. I had climateprediction humming away 
nicely by itself. I decided to get really adventurous & give seti another 
try. I've re-attached to the seti project, downloaded lots of workunits & my 
project page is showing credits for my previous attempts with seti & 
climateprediction.
My problem is that despite downloading seti work units, seti doesn't appear 
to be doing anything & the climateprediction appears to be hung.
Is there something that has to be done to make them both work together?