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1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Why does BOINC take tasks in advance?
Message 98505
Posted 14 May 2020 by ProfileWeAreHugh

    1) Go to the Project tab
    2) Select the project you want to stop taking new tasks
    3) On the "Commands" column on the left, click on "No new tasks" right under "Suspend"


The "No new tasks" button will change to "Allow new tasks". Click this to start accepting new tasks for the project again.

Unfortunately, this will not help you with tasks that are already downloaded. You can "Abort" them if your computer won't finish them in time and you don't want to waste CPU cycles. Bear in mind that work units are sent out to a minimum of two clients so results can be checked, so aborting work units will not hasten the end of the world.
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Message 97868
Posted 19 Apr 2020 by ProfileWeAreHugh 		BOINC runs just fine on a VM, with or without Xwindows running (in the case of *nix). However, if you are using a VM from a VPS provider (Amazon, Linode, etc.), you will almost certainly be in violation of their terms of service, so please use BOINC only on a VM running on hardware you own.

There is not a huge benefit in running BOINC on a VM, because BOINC provides all the controls over system and resource usage that you might want to control by running it in a VM. Compared to not running in a VM, the VM will provide some overhead that isn't necessary.

My comments are based on having tried running BOINC on a server running CentOS configured with OpenVZ virtualization. In the end, I wound up running BOINC on the host OS over bare metal.

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