Posts by cyberus11

1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : My Wish List - part 3. (Message 35202)
Posted 12 Oct 2010 by cyberus11
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Sometimes a Boinc task will stop with 2 or 3 minutes left as it flips to a different project. Once, there were only 10 seconds left. I would love to have a FORCE START option to finish these WUs. The only way I have managed it is by suspending other tasks, but a) this is cumbersome, and b) if you're not fast enough, other tasks get downloaded and start.

So my wish is a "force start" for a particular WU in order to let it finish sooner. Anyone agree?


I had something like this in mind when I asked for a "finish WU if time remaining is less than X minutes/seconds" option but I don't think I was clear about it.

I like the force start concept but mabye "force finish" would be better? Or even going back to the idea of having an option to always finish a WU if the time remaining is less than X?
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : My Wish List - part 3. (Message 28462)
Posted 2 Nov 2009 by cyberus11
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2. When a WU is 5% or so from complete BOINC should over ride the 1 hour between projects or how many that was set and complete that WU. This way a WU would not stop at 98% and have to wait another hour to the last 2% of work and the WU could be uploaded faster.

Can't be done. Requested plenty of times, but impossible to do. Not all tasks for all projects run the same length of time. So where for project A 2% would take another 5 minutes, for project B this could well be several hours or days.

So just let it run, it will get done in the end.


So rather than a % how about a box to allow a WU to run if there is less than XX seconds/minutes to completion, with a selection box for how many seconds/minutes.

It need not be fancy with open ended or widely variable time, I think many would be happy something in the 1-5 minute range.



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