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Hello I was wondering if someone could shed some light on this.

9/2/2012 2:55:52 PM | LHC@home 1.0 | update requested by user
9/2/2012 2:55:54 PM | LHC@home 1.0 | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
9/2/2012 2:55:54 PM | LHC@home 1.0 | Not requesting tasks: don't need
9/2/2012 2:55:57 PM | LHC@home 1.0 | Scheduler request completed

I cant get any work units unless I remove the project and re add it.

Thanks

Hello I was wondering if someone could shed some light on this.

9/2/2012 2:55:52 PM | LHC@home 1.0 | update requested by user
9/2/2012 2:55:54 PM | LHC@home 1.0 | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
9/2/2012 2:55:54 PM | LHC@home 1.0 | Not requesting tasks: don't need
9/2/2012 2:55:57 PM | LHC@home 1.0 | Scheduler request completed

I cant get any work units unless I remove the project and re add it.

Thanks

You don't really need to remove/add the project. Although you don't say so, you must be running a very late version of BOINC v7.0.xx to get the message I've picked out - which gives the clue to the situation.

On your Computing preferences page - which is shared among all BOINC projects you are attached to - there are two settings under Network usage which control the amount of work you request:

Computer is connected to the Internet about every...
Maintain enough work for an additional...

The way these are interpreted by BOINC v7 is a little different from previous versions. BOINC will try to collect enough work from the projects you are attached to to keep you running for the total of those two values ('connected+additional'). Then, having got that much work, it won't pester the servers again, until the amount of work remaining drops below the first ('connected') value on its own.

If you have a large 'additional' work figure, there will be long gaps between work fetch requests, and if you try to force one with a user update, you'll get that don't need message.

You may have been used to working with a large figure in the second position, now labelled 'additional'. Now you're using BOINC v7, it might be better to transfer the large figure to the first ('connected') position, and make the second one zero: but don't make the 'connected' value as large as the deadline on this project (7 days), or anything close to it. One or two days is enough, unless you are genuinely unable to connect to the internet for longer periods than that.

That worked! Thanks