Running BOINC 7.20.2

Windows 11 Home

Running 9 projects

Moo Wrapper
NFS@Home
NumberFields@Home
odlk
PrimeGrid
SRBase
Tn-Grid Platform
World Community Grid
yoyo@home

PrimeGrid is set to 500 (Resource Share) and all others between 100 and 200. This was an attempt to have PrimeGrid tasks at a higher priority for WUs. Most of the other projects have tasks that only take a few hours and they continue to fill up my queue. Some of the PrimeGrid tasks take over a week to complete.

For the past week PrimeGrid has been reporting "Requesting new tasks for Intel GPU" and I have not received any new tasks. I do not understand this message because my PrimeGrid GPU preferences are all unchecked and there are no GPU subprojects selected.

I put app_config.xml files in a number of the other project's folders with MaxProcessorCount=2 trying to limit the work that the other projects would receive, but still no PrimeGrid tasks. I have checked the server status at the PrimeGrid project website and it seems stabile and sending new tasks out.

How can I even the load for non-PrimeGrid WUs and have PrimeGrid WUs always running? I thought that was the purpose for the Resource Share parameter.

Any help would be appreciated.

There is no MaxProcessorCount xml tag in the app_config or client_config library. That tag will be ignored and generate an error message.

You need to use max_concurrent or project_max_concurrent xml tags for task limitation.

To limit cpus use the project preferences, local preferences or ncpus xml tag.

I misspoke - I am using the project_max_concurrent xml tag,

One xml tag in the client_state.xml file that would help with resource shares is the <rec_half_life_days>10.000000</rec_half_life_days> default tag that tells the client how long to take to balance the credit debt among projects.

It is much too long for today's workloads with multi-core cpus and gpu tasks. I recommend changing to <rec_half_life_days>1.000000</rec_half_life_days> which allows the client to balance credit debt much much faster. This helps the client stick the resource share allotment much better.