Why all the New tasks ? been flooded with them
7 Apr 2010 5:17:55 UTC
Topic 194865
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Been given over 700 hrs worth of tasks, to finish in under 300hrs though most are nearer to the fixed completion date than that, and still getting more tasks each day with no chance of doing them ?
Why all the New tasks ? been flooded with them
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I'm sorry for the late reply. I had meant to answer your query some time ago.
Two possible reasons for getting a sudden flood of tasks that spring to mind are
1. Your cache settings (preferences) for connect to internet every X days and maintain enough work for an extra y days have suddenly been increased to much larger values. Can you tell us what values you are using (see computing preferences on your account page on the website).
2. BOINC's estimate of how long a task should take has suddenly been drastically reduced so that BOINC thinks it needs to get a whole lot more tasks to fill your cache. This would be a sudden 'once-off' download as the estimate would be immediately corrected as soon as a task taking the full amount of time was completed. It would leave you with an over full cache of work but you shouldn't keep getting work once the estimate had been corrected.
By looking at your tasks list, you did get a bunch of work in one hit on 03 April and then again on 05 April and 06 April so it doesn't sound like #2.
You are shown as supporting both Seti and E@H but since your Seti RAC is zero, I presume you are not doing Seti work at the moment?
As you don't appear to have received any more tasks since April 06, I presume you have used the 'No New Tasks' (NNT) function to stop the flow. If not, please do so until you get your cache of work down to a more manageable level. Once you have confirmed that you have suitable cache size preferences set, you should plan to abort around 15 tasks - perhaps the most recent ones allocated to you. I would use settings of perhaps 0.1days/4.0days for the two preference values. This should allow you to have about 4 tasks on hand at all times.
If your problem is not an overly large cache setting then you will need to give more details on any hardware or software changes to your machine that might account for its strange behaviour.
Cheers,
Gary.
Hi Gary I got flooded on
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Hi Gary
I got flooded on the 4th so reset the project and before I reconnected to the project, I changed my preferences to connect every Day.
When the tasks are loaded it says they'll take 6 hrs each, but each task takes 30hrs +.
I've not used Seti for a couple of years and updated Boing to the newest version
RE: I got flooded on the
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With recent versions of BOINC, and an always-available Internet connection, it’s recommended that you set the ‘connect-every’ field to zero, using the ‘maintain-additional’ field to control the cache size.