LHC@home

I'm running seti enhanced, einstein and LHC on a few slow machines (2 linux, 1 XP), and I'm wondering whether anyone has any ideas how best to deal with LHC's spotty work availability. I want to do as much LHC as possible, and do the other projects the rest of the time, when LHC is unavailable.

With roughly equal resource shares, LHC's work often runs out before my slow machines have finished crunching the WUs it got at the beginning. I thought the debt accumulated to LHC during dry periods would have the effect of prioritizing it when work became available, but boinc kept crunching the other units in round-robin fashion, until they finished, so I didn't actually do much LHC before work ran out

I'm currently trying a massively larger resource share (1000) for LHC, and smaller ones for s@h and e@h (100 each), and that seems to be doing the business now, while there is work from LHC. It is prioritising as I expect.

But what about when LHC goes quiet again? If I don't change anything, I think I'll develop massive debts to LHC, which will interfere with the proper running of the other projects. FWIW I'm on a permanent connection, with a small cache size (0.04 days).

What should I do? I want a solution that doesn't involve me having to suspend or NNW projects. Or is intermittent work impossible to handle properly in boinc as it stands?

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