Downloading finished tasks
12 Dec 2012 5:38:11 UTC
Topic 196681
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How do I send finished tasks , without accepting new tasks. I'll suspende new tasks , the work is complete, then sits for weeks. The only way to send the work is to accept new tasks , which transfere the work, but imeadiately loads new tasks which I do not want at that time because I'm away for weeks at at time.
Downloading finished tasks
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Open BOINC Manager and make sure you are in the advanced view. Select the 'Projects' tab and click on the E@H project. To the left you will see a 'No New Tasks' (NNT) button. Click it. It will change to 'Allow New Tasks' and that tells you that NNT has been set. From that point on you will NEVER get new E@H tasks until you decide to 'allow' them again by clicking the 'Allow New Tasks' button.
If you have tasks (on the Tasks Tab) showing as 'suspended', BOINC will refuse to get tasks while this condition persists. Unless there is a special reason to have tasks suspended, it is best to avoid this condition as BOINC is perfectly capable of handling your needs without using it. For example, if you wanted to upload finished work without getting new work, just go to the 'Projects' tab, click NNT and click the 'Update' button. BOINC will report any finished work and will not ask for new work.
At a time when you are about to go away, you should not leave unfinished work on your machine as it is likely to have expired (and be wasted) by the time you return. You could set NNT at some point before you depart so that any tasks in your cache could have a chance to be completed. Just before you depart, you could 'abort' any remaining unfinished tasks and then click 'update' to report both the finished and aborted tasks, thereby completely clearing all work from your computer. If your 'away' time was to be relatively short, you needn't abort tasks if there would be enough time to finish them when you returned. On your return, you could start BOINC and click 'Allow New Tasks'. BOINC would start work on any tasks left on your machine and would then get new tasks as needed.
Cheers,
Gary.
RE: RE: How do I send
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Hi Gary/Bill ..... Gary, there's a possibility that Bill could be Misunderstanding the Settings for 'Accept New Tasks' and 'No New Tasks'.
Bill, am I correct in assuming that when you say that it is set to Not Accept New Tasks, that The Button actually Reads 'No New Tasks' ? ... If so, it is actually Set To ALLOW New Tasks. As Gary has described above, when you Click 'No New Tasks','and it changes to 'Allow New Tasks', you are Requesting NO NEW TASKS to be Downloaded to your Computer. And when it Reads 'Allow New Tasks', it is actually Set to NOT ALLOW New Tasks, so when you Click That, you are then Setting it to 'Allow New Tasks'.
In other words, It Should Read The Opposite of what you want it Set To.
Cheers :-)
RE: Gary, there's a
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Sure, but from what he describes ("I'll suspende new tasks , the work is complete, then sits for weeks."), it sounds more like he is actually suspending the project rather then setting NNT. With recent BOINCs like he is using, if you set NNT, finished jobs are reported immediately and do not "sit for weeks".
Rather than telling people to think 'opposite', I reckon the best thing to understand is that the button simply shows what it will do if you click it. After you click it, it will then show what will happen next if you click it again.
Cheers,
Gary.