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Message 14856 - Posted: 31 Jan 2010 | 9:44:44 UTC

...to send a second unit until the upload of the last unit is in progress or completed, this would enable my slowest machine to collect a bonus.
No settings in computing preferences will make this happen at the moment.
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Message 14859 - Posted: 31 Jan 2010 | 12:03:13 UTC - in response to Message 14856.

Setting your cache really low (maybe .01) should stop the BOINC client from asking for more work until you are almost done with the last WU.
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Message 14864 - Posted: 31 Jan 2010 | 18:27:45 UTC - in response to Message 14859.

It is set at 0 and still sends work.

Thanks for the reponse.

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Message 15520 - Posted: 1 Mar 2010 | 6:19:10 UTC - in response to Message 14856.
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...to send a second unit until the upload of the last unit is in progress or completed, this would enable my slowest machine to collect a bonus.
No settings in computing preferences will make this happen at the moment.


How would that allow ever completing workunits for which the first computer failed in a way that kept it from ever uploading the outputs? I suppose that the server could wait until this computer is no longer still eligible for a bonus, though, or keep the first computer eligible for a bonus for the normal length of time (not the same as the deadline time) even if some other machine returns outputs for that workunit first.

I found that for my fastest machine, I had to keep it running close to 24 hours a day AND set a low cache length to make it eligible for a bonus, rather than just a normal credit without a bonus.

Also, have you even tried getting the cache size really low but not quite zero?
I MIGHT have seen something saying that .01 is the lowest value that actually works; I don't remember clearly.

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