On my account preferences page at each project, I can set a resource share for that project. That is the only place I know of to set this parameter; it's not in any client.

So the question: does the Android Boinc client consider the resource share setting when it asks projects for work?

(Yes, I asked this at Seti, but I'm not sure my wording made my question clear to everybody. I got generic answers about the Android client not obeying any of the other web site prefs, and about clients always overriding web site prefs, but this is a setting that's not on the client.)

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(Yes, I asked this at Seti, but I'm not sure my wording made my question clear to everybody. I got generic answers about the Android client not obeying any of the other web site prefs, and about clients always overriding web site prefs, but this is a setting that's not on the client.)

The Android client uses the local computing preferences for how to compute anything, but uses the project preferences the moment it makes contact with that project. At first attach to project it will get the project preferences in for this device. So yes, it should consider the resource share among projects.

But with that in mind, is the RS zet to anything higher than zero?
For we might have stumbled upon a buglet where BOINC (big BOINC) refuses to ask work from a zero RS project when it has no applications downloaded for that project.

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(Yes, I asked this at Seti, but I'm not sure my wording made my question clear to everybody. I got generic answers about the Android client not obeying any of the other web site prefs, and about clients always overriding web site prefs, but this is a setting that's not on the client.)

The Android client uses the local computing preferences for how to compute anything, but uses the project preferences the moment it makes contact with that project. At first attach to project it will get the project preferences in for this device. So yes, it should consider the resource share among projects.

But with that in mind, is the RS zet to anything higher than zero?
For we might have stumbled upon a buglet where BOINC (big BOINC) refuses to ask work from a zero RS project when it has no applications downloaded for that project.

With the current outage of Seti Beta, I set its RS to 9999 and let my phone have new tasks at Seti Main, where the RS is much lower (110, I think). I'm just wondering if the 9999 will take hold and keep the phone on Beta if and when it's available and only fall back to Main when it's not.

I can't say anything about an RS of 0.

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I'm just wondering if the 9999 will take hold and keep the phone on Beta if and when it's available and only fall back to Main when it's not.

No, the 'only fall back' scenario is the one where you use the zero resource share for the backup project. Now you'll do lots of Beta and once every so many times do Seti Main even when Beta has work.

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I'm just wondering if the 9999 will take hold and keep the phone on Beta if and when it's available and only fall back to Main when it's not.

No, the 'only fall back' scenario is the one where you use the zero resource share for the backup project. Now you'll do lots of Beta and once every so many times do Seti Main even when Beta has work.

Okay, good enough. 9999 vs. 110 is a pretty big difference, so it won't happen very often.

I was just trying to verify that the Android client will actually obey those settings and not treat the projects as equal.

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I think the question has now been answered to my satisfaction.

When I learned late yesterday that Seti Beta was issuing work again, I had my phone contact the server. It instantly downloaded a pair of WUs and started working on them, leaving the two existing Seti Main WUs idle.

I do hope it will allow them to finish before they time out.

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