What you do forget here is that there are scientists behind all the projects who expect results back.

I mostly crunch for biological projects!!! So I well understand this.

Malariacontrol has a deadline of 3 days. Not much and it may make BOINC go into high priority even when you've been attached to that project for more than a year

Crunch for it too since long, it does not go into high priority for me.

What is it with the overwhelming need to tell BOINC what to work on next?

Huh... No... I don't want to tell Boinc what to do!!! I want it to be fair. I think after the two previous posts, my point was clear: I don't want to interfere, except when I suspect something wrong.

Why are you running BOINC, to help the science or to gain all those credits? Does it then matter where you get them from?

I could have asked you the same question when you argueing around a technical point of view, rather than admitting that some projects doesn't set their deadlines correctly. Which is a fact, not a conspiracy theory.

As you asked, I'm crunching quietly but surely since years, I've been quite coherent with my different posts in different boinc's forums to assure you that credits doesn't matter, science does, and particularly projects for fighting disease or biological research. I think you may have sense this through my previous words.

Is someone forcing you to stay with the project(s) that in your eyes do things so damn wrong?

Nope!!! It's exactly what I concluded in previous post!!!

It's set to a connect to of 0.1 days and cache of 0.5 days. Furthermore, BOINC only runs between the hours of 9pm and 7am when electricity is cheap (5pm and 7am in weekends). It will suspend all work when I start games

Glad for this, we have the same parameters! And the same behavior in scheduling time for electricty and games. Except my home servers which run 24/7.

I have yet to see any project's tasks run in high-priority.

Have you give EoN a try? Have you played with Volpex? I think I was clear enough by precising that there was two kind of high priority projects: newbies and dummies. Again, as previously said: I give time to newbies, I quit the dummies! But, but, but...

You are forgetting that you have set project resource shares. Yes, Lattice is getting extra time now but eventually BOINC will not download more Lattice tasks and then your other projects will be paid back the time Lattice took from them. Therefore it doesn't matter if Lattice gets extra time now. What matters is what happens over the longterm and over the longterm your project shares will be honored.

Ok... Both Dagorath and Ageless made your point: I though that I was precisely considering the long term, because for me the goal is that the project get all its WUs done (science), not that my clients have their WUs done (credits). In this way of thinking, going into high priority wasn't needed because if the client won't finish a WU in time, the project can remove it and re-assigne it to another client.

So, if you both assure me/us that the scheduler is well balancing shares, ressources and downloads, even after a run in high priority, and that there is no stealed or spoiled time possible. I will monitor my clients with a different point of view.

Regards

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He for got to mention one reason: projects that have a resource share that is much smaller than other projects will tend to run in high priority mode when they don't need to.

I forgot another one, the one where when resource share is zero (backup project), all the work that comes in will run in HP.

I probably forgot others as well. ;-)

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As of my problem I'm going to solve it (and bunch of others); But excuse my arrogance, I'm going to do it my way.

That's not arrogant. I like solutions that demonstrate originality, individuality and innovation. Perhaps you could share your solution in order to help others who feel the same as you.

A long time ago I was made into GNU GPL cult (v3 for now), so sharing is inevitable. Although I can die before.

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I'm counting for science,
points just make me sick.