Hi,
since some days i'm not getting any new workunit from any project I'm attached to when the nes my PC is working on are finished.

I tried rebooting but without any improvement. I also tried upadting the projects from the project page, the requests to the scheduler succeed but o new workunit is downloaded.

I got boinc 5.2.13 on win2k and I'm attached to the following projects:
BBC Climate Change Experiment
rosetta@home
boincsimap
climateprediction.net
Einstein@home
LHC@home
QMC@home
SETI@home
SZTAKI Desktop Grid
cpdn seasonal

Any idea about what the problem is?

Thanks
darkpella

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.... I got boinc 5.2.13 on win2k and I'm attached to the following projects:

BBC Climate Change Experiment
rosetta@home
boincsimap
climateprediction.net
Einstein@home
LHC@home
QMC@home
SETI@home
SZTAKI Desktop Grid
cpdn seasonal

Any idea about what the problem is?

Thanks
darkpella

darkpella,

Yes. The problem is that you wandered into the candy store and greedily helped yourself to every flavor and variety on the shelves, and kept gobbling until you could stuff no more in. Where is your sense? You walk into a project, having no idea what's going on nor what the ramifications could be, read nothing in the way of instructions or documentation anywhere.
The upshot is that you've attached your computer to too many projects, especially too many projects (emboldened above) with huge long worktimes. It doesn't take long under those conditions to reach the point where deadlines on the longer projects, even though far distant, become endangered. Then BOINC goes into EDF mode, refusing to accept work, because at least it recognizes that there is not enough computer to go around. The problem can get much worse more quickly if you do not commit your computer to work 24/7.

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"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward Justice"

The 3 climate projects are the longest, most maths intensive projects on offer.
They are prone to catastrophic failure on all but the most stable of computers, and require constant vigil to ensure that they are still running.
Frequent backups are essential, and a restore when running multiple projects is tricky.
Also, the Seasonal project is short lived, and by the time that you run all of the projects to a finish, it will long over, and the research papers written.
It also needs 1Gig of ram to be successful.