I run BOINC on a number of computers in my lab, all set to use 80% of CPU at all times.

On Fedora it always runs well, fetches plenty of work, churns through lots of work.

On Windows - not so good.

I often wake up one of my Windows boxes to find BOINC showing a screenful of 'Ready to Report' jobs, but no work going on.

How do I force BOINC to always go get work units so it is always doing something useful???


Ross Coster
Software Engineer
Sefus Software

On your Windows box, assuming that you have projects available do you see "suspended" as the status (in the "tasks" window)?

Assuming that there is work ready, under preferences/processor use do you have the box next to "While computer in use" checked? (Not the one about GPU, the one above it.)

It's possible that depending on your settings, every time you "look" at your Windows system it suspends work until you "go away." ;)

The layouts for the Windows and Linux screens are a little different, so take a closer look and make sure you have your preferences set properly.

And, as Dagorath said... some projects may not have work so join a few that way you are always crunching something. And, certain projects have different types of work available... Like World Community Grid or CPDN which might not run on a specific type of system. You can customize those projects to give you work that's suited to your particular system.

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