Just wondering why, when I download a number of work units with Boinc for Seti, after completion of a unit, that unit is not immediately returned and another picked up to replace it. Anyone know the answer to this, please?

I can MANUALLY make it connect and send completed stuff back and pick up new ones but it never happens auto while I am connected to the net. Thanks for any help.

The reason is because your low-water-mark has not been hit. When setting up your cache, you set a minimum and maximum amount of work to have on the system. When BOINC senses that you no longer have enough work to meet the minimum, it uploads what it has and then downloads enough new work to meet (or possibly slighly exceed ) your maximum.

If you want BOINC to return results immediatly, regardless of what your cache settings are, add "-return_results_immediately" (without the quotes) to your BOINC shortcut. The next time you start BOINC, it will immediatly send back WUs upon completion.

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I find this is a rel big problem?!


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> The reason is because your low-water-mark has not been hit. When setting up
> your cache, you set a minimum and maximum amount of work to have on the
> system. When BOINC senses that you no longer have enough work to meet the
> minimum, it uploads what it has and then downloads enough new work to meet (or
> possibly slighly exceed ) your maximum.
>
> If you want BOINC to return results immediatly, regardless of what your cache
> settings are, add "-return_results_immediately" (without the quotes) to your
> BOINC shortcut. The next time you start BOINC, it will immediatly send back
> WUs upon completion.
>
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>
>

Thanks for that reply. I have added that to the startup and restarted Boinc. Of note, you can also add -min after what you said without it stuffing up so that is good.

Again, thanks for the info! No help file with Boinc on my computer that I can find, darn it.

I've put this help file business as top of my BOINC wish-list too.

> > The reason is because your low-water-mark has not been hit. When setting
> up
> > your cache, you set a minimum and maximum amount of work to have on the
> > system. When BOINC senses that you no longer have enough work to meet
> the
> > minimum, it uploads what it has and then downloads enough new work to
> meet (or
> > possibly slighly exceed ) your maximum.
> >
> > If you want BOINC to return results immediatly, regardless of what your
> cache
> > settings are, add "-return_results_immediately" (without the quotes) to
> your
> > BOINC shortcut. The next time you start BOINC, it will immediatly send
> back
> > WUs upon completion.
> >
> > _______________________________

> >
> >
>
> Thanks for that reply. I have added that to the startup and restarted Boinc.
> Of note, you can also add -min after what you said without it stuffing up so
> that is good.
>
> Again, thanks for the info! No help file with Boinc on my computer that I can
> find, darn it.
>
>

I cany get any work at all it say
SETI@home - 2004-08-05 09:02:10 - Message from server: No work available
SETI@home - 2004-08-05 09:02:10 - No work from project
SETI@home - 2004-08-05 09:02:10 - Deferring communication with project for 1 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds


i have don this for over a week now i am relly getting af littel mad now :(