Hi guys,

A question for the crunching experts:

I need to configure a BOINC client to crunch on 3 projects, A, B and C, giving strict priority to them, such that WUs from A pre-empt those from B and B's pre-empt C's.

I also need to configure this non-interactively / statically with config file.

If anyone can tell me the magic I need to accomplish this, I'd be most grateful.

Ta,

Matt

You can come very close to your desired configuration simply by setting the resource share, in project preferences,

A - Resource share 10000
B - Resource share 1
C - Resource share 0

In theory you would get 1 WU for B for every 10000 WU's from A (presuming equal run time), and only get C WU's if both A and B have no work.

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Furthermore, if you need to set this "non interactively", you can have the client be attached to an Account Manager (such as BOINCstats BAM!), and then you can go to the Account Manager's website to set host-specific resource shares (so the values only affect a certain host, and not all your hosts, and not even all hosts for a given venue)

I hate the concept of venues, and do not use them. But using host-specific resource shares via an account manager -- now that's an effective way of remotely managing the situation. But if you happen to have a fleet of devices that need to use this same sort of "config", then maybe having them use the same customized venue might be a better option for you.

PS: The suggestion of resources shares "10000, 1, 0", is the best idea I could come up with as well.