Hi,
So far I had few times situation when I wanted to crunch particular task. Usually it was when I knew that I will switch off my PC after few hours, and I wanted to finish crunching some task(s) now - otherwise I would miss the deadline. Unfortunately now there is no option to tell BOINC Manager to crunch particular task. This effect can be achieved by suspending other task, but this is not perfect - BM can still download new tasks and start them, so sometimes I had to suspend downloading new tasks too. Could you add new function to BOINC Manager to mark task as prefered? Such tasks should be crunched if there are no other high priority tasks.

Regards,
Daniel

How short is a short deadline? I mean the question as between receiving and being due.

For devices that are not always on, or irregularly on, it's not advised to maintain any significant amount of work buffer, in fact if you don't maintain any type of regular scheduled crunching, you best run with no buffer. This way any short deadline task gets a prompt start.

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Usually it is at least 2 weeks. Shorter periods (about week) may be for short tasks like Collatz Conjecture.

I add that my problem usually happens when I have to go somewhere for a few days and leave my PC off. When I can use it on normal basis, tasks have enough time to complete.

This feature was long ago requested as a "run until finish" feature.

This way, you could select a particular task, marked as "run until finish", and voila. You got what you want.

Of course, still waiting on that feature :(

If you do not look in recent documentation, the wait will be long! There's various exit on complete / minimal fetch commands/configs now, which is all I'm going to reveal now ;>)

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