IMHO a major improvement to the BOINC system would to be to setup BOINC to accept a "hibernation mode" and/or "standby mode" command from project admin that would put the project in hibernation on the client and let it fire off a "status query" once a day (hibernation) or once every X hours (standby) rather than constantly checking?

Project admins would be able to reduce their incoming bandwidth when projects are down (for whatever reason) and people wouldn't have to be constantly checking project status because they suspended a project to reduce *their* bandwidth.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Projects are able to request a communication delay at any scheduler RPC. A hibernate/standby mode would not be acceptable since that would block other projects as well.

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Projects are able to request a communication delay at any scheduler RPC. A hibernate/standby mode would not be acceptable since that would block other projects as well.

I don't mean for the client as a whole .. just for the specific project.

For instance Predictor is currently in "hibernation" with no real return date, if the project put *itself* in that mode on my client so it shifted to a once-a-day status check rather than constantly being on 1-4hr delay it seems like a better way to go about it.

Projects are able to request a communication delay at any scheduler RPC. A hibernate/standby mode would not be acceptable since that would block other projects as well.

I don't mean for the client as a whole .. just for the specific project.

For instance Predictor is currently in "hibernation" with no real return date, if the project put *itself* in that mode on my client so it shifted to a once-a-day status check rather than constantly being on 1-4hr delay it seems like a better way to go about it.

Like John said, projects can set the delay to what they want (up to 24 hours?). You'll see this if you attach to a project that doesn't have an app for your platform. Unfortunately I don't have a log example of it.

How much bandwidth or server processor power does it take to process an RPC? I'd assume not a whole lot, but that's out of my realm of knowledge.

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Kathryn :o)

How much bandwidth or server processor power does it take to process an RPC?

The client side bandwidth and client side processing is trivial; however, it seems to cause a lot of concern when folks continually see their client trying to get more work from a project when there isn't any.

Maybe some **DEFAULT** setting in the set of files a project downloads to implement BOINC can be increased from what appears to be 4hrs to 24hrs.

And a note sent to all project admins with SPECIFIC entry to change to 24hrs.

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