project switching

[Philippart]

How can I set Boinc to crunch 6 hours project 1 and then 6 hours project 2?

I set: "switch between applications every 360 minutes", however everytime a project downloads new work Boinc preempts the current running project and runs the other one.
Boinc doesn't respect the setting

Does somebody know how to fix it?

Thanks

 

[BlackMountainCow]

BOINC actually does respect the setting, but only if both projects have the same share. If both projects are set to 50/50, then BOINC should switch "about" every six hours, if there is no long term debt for one of the two projects.

 

[Philippart]

i set both to 100 because I suspected it would be due to the share, it didn't help.

edit: or has boinc troubles with managing 2 cores?

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Not really, just with sticking to its own settings.

 

[uallas5]

If it's switching projects when new work is downloaded, check the deadline on the new work. It could be pre-empting for work with earlier deadlines. If you see anything in your message log for anything like, "computer overcommitted, using earliest deadline first", then that's definitely it.

 

[RobertE]

Also note that in the short term after you made the adjustments to resource share and switch times, things will be out of whack until it stablizes. Give it a day or two at 50/50 (acutally any equal resource share) and your 360 switch times. Should be good to go.

Also what uallas5 says is true, if a project has short deadlines, it will go in panic mode to finish the work.

It will (or at least should) sort itself out over time.