Does CPDN watch the \"competition\"?

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Thund3rb1rd Send message Joined: 18 Jun 05 Posts: 24 Credit: 2,500,676 RAC: 0	Message 33811 - Posted: 16 May 2008, 16:04:46 UTC Cheers, all! Since attaching to CPDN a couple of years ago, I\'ve added a couple more projects, for a current total of 7. I notice that now CPDN rarely even asks for another project. I have my environment set so that each project gets the same amount of my computer\'s resources (currently 14.29% per project). Is CPDN in some sort of snit? Is it looking for a greater share of resources before it will ask for another model? Bob in Boise ID: 33811 · Reply Quote

old_user170894 Send message Joined: 3 Mar 06 Posts: 96 Credit: 353,185 RAC: 0	Message 33812 - Posted: 16 May 2008, 16:53:23 UTC - in response to Message 33811. Cheers, all! Since attaching to CPDN a couple of years ago, I\'ve added a couple more projects, for a current total of 7. I notice that now CPDN rarely even asks for another project. I have my environment set so that each project gets the same amount of my computer\'s resources (currently 14.29% per project). Is CPDN in some sort of snit? Is it looking for a greater share of resources before it will ask for another model? Bob in Boise No, it\'s not in a snit. It\'s just the way the BOINC scheduler works. BOINC will run CPDN more than it should which results in CPDN receiving more than it\'s designated share of resources. Eventually the scheduler will correct that imbalance by giving your other projects more than they should get for a while. During that correction phase you might not get another CPDN task even if you don\'t have one. Eventually, when the debt CPDN owes to the other projects is paid off, BOINC will request and receive more work. ID: 33812 · Reply Quote

astroWX Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 1496 Credit: 95,522,203 RAC: 0	Message 33821 - Posted: 17 May 2008, 0:38:39 UTC Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1300MHz Memory 509.98 MB Seven Projects on that machine and you wonder? Slow CPU, low memory. It\'s had five CPDN Models; two short ones finished. (Congratulations for that!) The others, no. I suspect that, given the slow machine, boinc gave CPDN a large share of the resource trying to get a Model finished \"on time\". If so, boinc now tries to balance the scorecard -- and CPDN gets nothing in the interim. Do your Prefs say to leave suspended Models in Memory when suspended? To run when other programs are active? They\'re recommended settings. Does your machine run all day, every day? If not . . . What do you have selected, in Prefs, for which CPDN Models to run? CPDN\'s Models are high-resource enterprises compared to other boinc Projects. "We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo Greetings from coastal Washington state, the scenic US Pacific Northwest. ID: 33821 · Reply Quote