I have SETI and GPUGrid for projects. When selecting the "computing preferences" in each project, yields two different titles under the "Network usage" section. SETI reports as:

"Maintain enough tasks to keep busy for at least
(max 10 days)."

while GPUGrid reports:

"Computer is connected to the Internet about every
Leave blank or 0 if always connected. "

both will affect the same parameter but, obviously, they do not mean the same thing. I am having trouble configuring my client for GPU usage (posted in another thread) and debugging it becomes obscure when the 2 projects I am involved give different meanings to the same parameter.

As BOINC is the common platform for both SETI and GPUGrid, I posted here, but should I be posting this anywhere other place?

On the GPUGrid forums. They're using the old notation, for BOINC 6 and previous versions. The newer one is for BOINC 7 and up.

Where BOINC 6 would for instance report work and immediately ask a new task, BOINC 7.0 will try to store a couple of "ready to report" results, report them and immediately request work only when BOINC is under the value set by the Minimum work buffer.

This means that when you have left your old BOINC 6 values for "Connect to" + "Additional work" at, example given 0.1 and 1.0, that BOINC 7.0 will ask for 1.1 days worth of work and ONLY renew this cache when it's fallen under the 0.1 days worth of work limit.

Which means that it can happen that your BOINC runs empty, because 7.0 won't request new work before it has dropped below the 'minimum work' setting and will only ask for work up to the 'and additional' setting --and that only from the project that has the highest priority (worst REC to resource share ratio). Only if that project doesn't have work it will ask other projects in order of priority.

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