Hi.


My question is: How is to set priorities for tasks.
My problem is, that i have 8 different projects running, with more than 10-12 tasks waiting for run.
Some of those deadline is only a few days away with many hours to compute, but Boinc manager put them on a waiting list and make other tasks running instead of them.
Despite their deadline are weeks or months away.

If sum1 knows, please let me know, how do i set priorities by manually...?

Thanks in advance.
Cheers

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My question is: How is to set priorities for tasks.

You don't need to. BOINC is programmed to take care of that. If it sees that a task would miss the deadline otherwise, it switches to "high priority" or "Earliest Deadline First" mode.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

It seems to me, that it doesn't take care of that :(
That's why im asking.

My thinking is, that it should be in "Earliest Deadline First" mode, by default.
Am i able to check or set it somewhere...?

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Do NOT hate the Hacker ! Hate the code... :)

...set the additional buffer lower than the shortest standard deadline, so if you have a project that is 4 days deadline, don't run cache above 3 days.

Where to set this buffer/cache ???

Online, in your Computing preferences, Network usage section:

Computer is connected to the Internet about every __ days  
Leave blank or 0 if always connected. 
BOINC will try to maintain at least this much work.

Maintain enough work for an additional __ days

Or in the local preferences with similar wording, which will override the online ones.

Gruß,
Gundolf

Boinc Manager work very strange....
I have a few projects in queue and at first it look ok, but then i notice it run tasks in very STRANGE order.

Like it will start other task of same project before it will finish the first one and there are 5 other tasks unfinished from other projects.

strange strange strange....

Now i have a few tasks(of same project) that got started and are at 60-70% when instead some could allready be done. But are not and still wait in queue to be started because now other projects are beeing processed.


Procesing tasks priority sure need a better optimization.

That's the way BOINC (currently?) is processing tasks.

You could change it a bit to the way you would like to have it by modifying the "Switch between tasks every ... minutes" preference to a couple of hours instead of default 60 minutes. The tasks will keep crunching longer (possibly often until finished) and switching between them will get rarer.

Peter