On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:54:50 -0500, Roger
<Delete-Invallid.stuff.groups@tm.net> wrote:

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:08:36 -0000, "Geoff" <fooooooool@hotmail.com>
wrote:

OK I'm cool with this as long as I eventually get those 3910 units 
creditted back to me...

they will

But I would like to know if there is a program like SetiGate that can 
distribute WUs to my LAN using BOINC or do I have to make individual 
installations of BOINC for each machine? Or is there indeed a way of 
configuring BOINC so that I can d/l WUs to the one PC and distribute them 
through possibly the "proxy option".

John Gifford

you don't need to, boinc itself caches work units, you set the cache time 
length in the prefs (which is on the website, which boinc clients download 
any now and then)

The catch time is in days and not direct processing time, so after the
system runs a performance check, which is does to begin and on a
regular basis there after it calculates just how many WUs it can
cache.  I think the default is only 2 days worth.

actually it is .1 days. MOST people change this to at least several,
studies have been done that show that most credits are granted at
around 5 to 7 days after the unit was sent out. 

you shouldn't have a problem unless you run a high latancy contact setup, as 
work units 'expire', they have to be done in a certain time limit or you get 

If the high latency is taken into account the system will only keep a
few WUs cached. Without looking it up I think the max is 10 days
worth.

10 days is the max that will Berkley will give you. You MAY be able to
set it for more but without tricking/cheating you can't get mroe than
10 days worth.

no credit for them
i think it's normaly about 2-3 weeks from when you download them

The longest time on mine is about 2 weeks. However it caches  about 8
days worth currently.  I had it suspended for a couple of days doing
file and disk  maintenance, so it might be a tad more. 

In Seti ALL units expire in 14 days from the time they are sent out.
If you cannot return them within that 14 day window then you will not
get any credit for doing the work unless a very special set of things
happen.

I don't remember how many WUs I had processed on seti classic, but
BOINC seems to be doing well, except for a few burps a while back.
It's still a young process so it could still have a few teething
problems left.

It IS getting better isn't it!