Subject: Re: Problems with BOINC?
From: Martin 53N 1W
Date: 01/02/2005, 11:01
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Klaatu wrote:
[...]

Didn't see servers in your earlier post.  The main boinc client for S@H,
E@H, and others has gone from 4.13 to 4.19 is just the past few weeks. There are issues that haven't been addressed yet that effect S@H.  For
example, if you are running multiple projects on a single computer the main
boinc client doesn't track the cache versus deadline for the projects.  The
result is wu's, including S@H, get churned unnecessarily.  This is on the
books to be addressed in the future.  Others will undoubtedly will show up.

There were similar problems and version jumps for when Climate Prediction had its huge WUs added into the mix.

I would expect the caching algorithm to need tweaking for some time yet. Especially so for the widely varied WU requirements across the different projects.

Happy crunchin',
Martin

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