SetiQ Help

[bighurtx82]

Alright I'm going on vacation for a week and do not have an always on internet connection. Where in the Qseti file do I set it so that SetiQ will queue up 40 work units?

 

[Fardringle]

This is the section that determines the number of WU's SetiQ will cache:


# min_limit limits the minimum queue threshold.
# max_limit limits the maxumum queue threshold. These are used if
# for some reason the queuing app is downloading too many work units.
# This allows an override to reduce the numbers.
min_limit=3
#max_limit=20

# This setting will increase the upper limit of the queue size
# to be at least 'max'. The maximum value for this setting is 200.
max=10


Set min_limit to the absolute minimum you want SetiQ to allow before it will connect and max_limit to the absolute maximum SetiQ will EVER cache.

Then, set the max= to 40, and SetiQ will set the 'Maximum Queue' to be at least 40. (If your daily average would cause you to need 50, then the max will be raised to 50, but it will always be at least 40, no matter how low your average is.) The example I quoted here is for a 'loner' machine that averages about 3 WU's a day, so setting the max=10 line makes sure I always have at least 3 days worth stored, even if I get several long WU's that lower my average WU time, and would then normally lower the # of units in the cache.

That's probably more than you wanted, but I thought I'd try and be thorough, just in case you had any other questions.. 😉

 

[ColinP]

I'm not 100% but I don't think setting max=40 will work....

Instead, set queue_depth=5

This will get 5 days worth of WUs..

When these are downloaded, move them away to a temporary area and restart SETIQ.
It will then download 5 more days worth, you can then either repeat the above or just move the original WUs back into the SETIQ directory and restart the client again...


cheers,

Col

 

[blade47]

Hey ColinP it does work. At least for me it does.🙂

Of the settings FD listed all I've bothered to set in my setiQ is the following:

# This setting will increase the upper limit of the queue size
# to be at least 'max'. The maximum value for this setting is 200.
max=35

My setting of max=35 makes sure setiQ caches at least 35wu's everytime it connects. Notice the maximum you can set it to is 200wu's.🙂

BTW it currently has 57wu's cached and I run SetiDriver on all my machines just in case my setiQ server crashes. I keep at least a days worth of wu's on each of them.😀

 

[ColinP]

My apologies guys, I just thought I remembered the max setting being limited to 20...
Maybe it was 200 .. Doh !!!!!!!!!!


🙂

Col

 

[Robor]

ColinP: I don't know why but this is what mine reads:

# This setting will increase the upper limit of the queue size
# to be at least 'max'. The maximum value for this setting is 20.
max=20

Like ColinP said, the Queue Depth is also important. Set it to 5 days so you're still covered in the event of an extended outage. BTW, I haven't adjusted my settings since increasing my output but SetiQ usually runs with 450+ WU's cached.

Rob

 

[blade47]

Robor & ColinP what version of SetiQ are you guys running? The newest is v.78b I believe. Anyway that's the version I'm running and it says 200 max for that particular setting.

BTW dbighurtx82 as the others said definetly set it for 5 days. That's what I'm running mine one as well.🙂

 

[ColinP]

Ahhhh...

I think I'm running 0.78a

I'll check,

cheers,

Col

Update...

I am running 0.78b, what I think may have happened is that when I upgraded to 0.78b from 0.77 I would have just copied the setiq.exe in and not overwritten the qseti.txt file.. So it would still say 20...

🙂

Col

 

[blade47]

Makes sense to me ColinP.🙂