Thread 'The Seti is Slumbering Cafe'

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Tom M Send message Joined: 6 Jul 14 Posts: 90	Message 95411 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 0:59:05 UTC Got home a bit ago.... where is my megaphone and lighter....... Tom ID: 95411 · Reply Quote

Tom M Send message Joined: 6 Jul 14 Posts: 90	Message 95412 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 1:00:51 UTC Are there any other BOINC projects besides E@H that will allow a resource "0" so they will only run as a backup project? Tom ID: 95412 · Reply Quote

Jimbocous Send message Joined: 1 Oct 15 Posts: 394	Message 95414 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 1:30:19 UTC - in response to Message 95412. Are there any other BOINC projects besides E@H that will allow a resource "0" so they will only run as a backup project? Tom I would think any of them would? It's a BOINC control, after all. ID: 95414 · Reply Quote

betreger Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 18 Oct 14 Posts: 1488	Message 95415 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 1:37:53 UTC - in response to Message 95414. Are there any other BOINC projects besides E@H that will allow a resource "0" so they will only run as a backup project? Tom I would think any of them would? It's a BOINC control, after all. IIRC there are some projects which only allow a a resource of 1 or greater, I don't know what they are. ID: 95415 · Reply Quote

juan BFP Send message Joined: 2 Jan 18 Posts: 170	Message 95416 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 1:44:40 UTC Last modified: 22 Jan 2020, 1:49:51 UTC I`m back from the outrage pub. The world is spinning around my head. Will hollow the moon while sleeping. Host mode is at auto, his large WU cache must hold it working for the next 24 hrs. I hope. LOL Good night all! ID: 95416 · Reply Quote

Jimbocous Send message Joined: 1 Oct 15 Posts: 394	Message 95417 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 1:44:48 UTC - in response to Message 95415. IIRC there are some projects which only allow a a resource of 1 or greater, I don't know what they are. Didn't know that. Interesting ... ID: 95417 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1448	Message 95418 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 2:00:46 UTC Now a bit more than 9 1/2 hours since the outrage began. My neighbors Beagles. are helping me howling at the small sliver of the waning moon (13%) tonight. Lucky for me my other neighbor is not home tonight and the cows are not in the pastures behind my home. So here goes ID: 95418 · Reply Quote

Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 23 Feb 08 Posts: 2495	Message 95419 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 2:06:53 UTC - in response to Message 95417. IIRC there are some projects which only allow a a resource of 1 or greater, I don't know what they are. Didn't know that. Interesting ... That is a server side control. Some projects allow fractional work shares. Older back ends don't nor do they allow zero. Unfortunately, you need to try on each project. Of course you could set the SETI share to a very huge number so that one is nearly zero. I think there are also controls you can set in the app config files to only fetch one work unit at a time, only crunch one at a time, etc. on a project by project basis. ID: 95419 · Reply Quote

W-K ID 666 Send message Joined: 30 Dec 05 Posts: 470	Message 95420 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 2:14:55 UTC - in response to Message 95417. IIRC there are some projects which only allow a a resource of 1 or greater, I don't know what they are. Didn't know that. Interesting ... So adjust the share on your preferred projects so that the emergency project is 1 in a thousand or more. Main project 900, Secondary project 99, Emergency Project 1, or similar. ID: 95420 · Reply Quote

betreger Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 18 Oct 14 Posts: 1488	Message 95421 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 3:11:31 UTC After much deliberation I have concluded neither howling on the moon or setting my hair on fire will help, there for drinking is the only outlet I am able to come up with. ID: 95421 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1448	Message 95422 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 3:23:00 UTC - in response to Message 95421. I concur. Since they warned us by stating "this week's"... We should conserve our resources and wait to start burning hair and howling at the moon once SETI has been m.i.a. 25 or more hours. We don't want to run out of hair or strain our vocal cords too early in this once in a decade super duper grand mal outrage. ID: 95422 · Reply Quote

Dave Help desk expert Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2708	Message 95424 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 6:17:12 UTC - in response to Message 95415. Are there any other BOINC projects besides E@H that will allow a resource "0" so they will only run as a backup project? Tom I would think any of them would? It's a BOINC control, after all. IIRC there are some projects which only allow a a resource of 1 or greater, I don't know what they are. CPDN allows it but you may not want to download tasks when most take over ten days on a fast machine. ID: 95424 · Reply Quote

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129	Message 95426 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 9:53:41 UTC - in response to Message 95420. IIRC there are some projects which only allow a a resource of 1 or greater, I don't know what they are. Didn't know that. Interesting ... So adjust the share on your preferred projects so that the emergency project is 1 in a thousand or more. Main project 900, Secondary project 99, Emergency Project 1, or similar. That might not be the right solution for all. Resource share 1 will allow BOINC to request a full multi-day cache, and when it arrives, BOINC will panic that it won't be able to finish it in time. If resource share 0 is available, it should do a more manageable fetch. Zero is a relatively recent addition, so it'll be the projects which are on the ball and update their servers regularly which have it: projects which leave their servers untouched for years - won't. ID: 95426 · Reply Quote

Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 12 Dec 17 Posts: 70	Message 95430 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 10:55:38 UTC CPDN allows it but you may not want to download tasks when most take over ten days on a fast machine. Climate Prediction is a long beast of a work unit. I remember some taking around 300 plus hours to finish. ID: 95430 · Reply Quote

Tom M Send message Joined: 6 Jul 14 Posts: 90	Message 95435 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 12:19:15 UTC Last modified: 22 Jan 2020, 12:20:29 UTC I have successfully set World Community Grid to 0.0001 resources. I remember it not accepting "0". I suppose I should check that again. If I can get that setup then I could use the relatively well behaved Einstein@Home gpu tasks and use the World Community Grid cpu tasks as the backups on my 100% Seti box. It wouldn't get so bored.... Most of my boxes run a mix of Seti@Home on the gpus and WCG on the cpus. My bias is towards supporting Seti@Home but I want to be directly "socially conscious" and WCG allows me to do that. It is a project aggregator so I get a wide mix. Tom ps. The main website is still down so I presume the DB re-org is still munching along. Tag. Your "it". ID: 95435 · Reply Quote

Tom M Send message Joined: 6 Jul 14 Posts: 90	Message 95436 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 12:22:24 UTC - in response to Message 95435. Last modified: 22 Jan 2020, 12:22:42 UTC ps. The main website is still down so I presume the DB re-org is still munching along. Just got one of my secondary systems back on line so it is munching WCG and E@H. Tom Tag. Your "it". ID: 95436 · Reply Quote

Dave Help desk expert Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2708	Message 95437 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 12:29:40 UTC - in response to Message 95436. ps. The main website is still down so I presume the DB re-org is still munching along. Just got one of my secondary systems back on line so it is munching WCG and E@H. Tom Must be time to get another round in then. ID: 95437 · Reply Quote

Tom M Send message Joined: 6 Jul 14 Posts: 90	Message 95438 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 12:52:41 UTC - in response to Message 95437. ps. The main website is still down so I presume the DB re-org is still munching along. Just got one of my secondary systems back on line so it is munching WCG and E@H. Tom Must be time to get another round in then. Yup. Or the perform the bane of the drinking man. Go to Work! Tom ID: 95438 · Reply Quote

Dave Help desk expert Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2708	Message 95442 - Posted: 22 Jan 2020, 12:58:33 UTC - in response to Message 95438. Go to Work! They would complain if I did that and spread the flu around. My generosity would not be appreciated. ID: 95442 · Reply Quote

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