Thread 'Downloading More Than 10 Work Units'

Author	Message
Cio Send message Joined: 5 Dec 06 Posts: 11	Message 7386 - Posted: 11 Jan 2007, 0:02:32 UTC Last modified: 11 Jan 2007, 0:03:41 UTC I'm running WCG using Boinc 5.8.0 and I want to download more than 10 units at a time. I posted this matter at the WCG forum but nobody offered any solution. My computer can finish 10 work units in one day and WCG work units have a report deadline of one week. It would mean that I can download more than 50 work units without missing the deadline. ID: 7386 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15561	Message 7388 - Posted: 11 Jan 2007, 0:49:57 UTC Change your "Connect to server" setting in the general preferences to something higher. If WCG uses that at least and I can't check as My Grid is offline. Um, but you can also change it manually. Exit BOINC. Navigate to your BOINC folder (default at C:\\Program Files\\BOINC). Find and edit with Notepad (or another text editor) global_prefs.xml Change the day count in the <work_buf_min_days>X.X</work_buf_min_days> tags. Save the file (not save as..!!) Restart BOINC and update on WCG. ID: 7388 ·

Cio Send message Joined: 5 Dec 06 Posts: 11	Message 7397 - Posted: 11 Jan 2007, 7:56:25 UTC Hello Ageless, I've experimented with different values in the <work_buf_min_days>X.X</work_buf_min_days> tag and in the "Connect to server" settings in WCG but I only get a maximum of 10 work units. Every time these 10 units are finished, BOINC downloads another set of 10 work units and I couldn't get past more than 10 units. I have set the "Connect to server" value between 0.1 and 7 but it doesn't seem to have any effect on the amount of WUs that BOINC downloads. ID: 7397 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15561	Message 7398 - Posted: 11 Jan 2007, 8:16:22 UTC Jeeze, that's difficult to find there. Try setting it in the device manager's options. And try to update to the latest Boinc version, in case it was a problem with 5.8.0 .. 5.8.2 is just released for Windows. Still as an alpha version. ID: 7398 ·

Cio Send message Joined: 5 Dec 06 Posts: 11	Message 7416 - Posted: 11 Jan 2007, 18:15:45 UTC I've updated to 5.8.2 and changed my "Connect to server" setting from the Device Manager in WCG but I'm still out of luck, :-). I'm only running one project in BOINC at present (that is, WCG). Anyway, I guess I have to suffer 10 units at a time, hehehe! ID: 7416 ·

MikeMarsUK Send message Joined: 16 Apr 06 Posts: 386	Message 7420 - Posted: 11 Jan 2007, 20:24:24 UTC Is there a project-limit on the number of work units which can be downloaded? Is it possible that you're hitting that limit? ID: 7420 ·

Cio Send message Joined: 5 Dec 06 Posts: 11	Message 7428 - Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 0:24:20 UTC Thanks for the info Sek and sorry for saying that nobody at WCG told me how to do this thing. I was wrong, I've posted this matter before at BOINC Forum and not at WCG. I'm really sorry. Thanks to everyone! ID: 7428 ·

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