Today when I got some Sophie German LLR Tasks, I got over 1280 tasks... I mean sure, they complete in ~12 minutes (Max 14 minutes) each running 4 at a time, but almost 1300 tasks is way too many. I have my preferences set to always connected to internet, and maintain work for an additional 0 days. Why am I getting so many darn tasks?
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Today when I got some Sophie German LLR Tasks, I got over 1280 tasks... I mean sure, they complete in ~12 minutes (Max 14 minutes) each running 4 at a time, but almost 1300 tasks is way too many. I have my preferences set to always connected to internet, and maintain work for an additional 0 days. Why am I getting so many darn tasks?

Thanks for the info. My Task duration correction factor is 0.548348

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Now my Task duration correction factor is 0.656023... What does this mean?
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I'm still getting new tasks when I upload new ones... Always brings my task count up to 1280.
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I'm still getting new tasks when I upload new ones... Always brings my task count up to 1280.

:/ And what does the Task Duration Correction Factor thing mean? It's like at .5
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:/ And what does the Task Duration Correction Factor thing mean? It's like at .5

It's really hard to say, but I can guess it might have something to do with us trying to get more accurate time estimates out of boinc. We've adjusted some values to make them more realistic, but your computer may have previously adjusted its timing estimates based on the previous setting. Therefore, it may think these tasks are a lot smaller than the previous ones.

Which BOINC clients do you use?

Which BOINC clients do you use?

I started to do PPS (LLR) Instead of SGS (LLR) And I'm still getting an extraordinary amount of tasks... Please help!
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I have 2 i7's running Linux each of which can complete Woodall's in 28-30 hours. Both are running BOINC 6.10.58. Both are set to "additional work buffer" of 0.01 days (about 15 minutes) and to connect every 0 days (always connected). One is running 3 tasks with ~6 hours to go, but has downloaded two more as-yet-unstarted tasks and assigned them an expected runtime of 2 hours 30 minutes (!) each. That's something new to me; usually the estimates are way too high (not that I pay any attention to them, but this thread made me look). The other is running 4 tasks, each 75% complete, mostly reasonable estimates to complete, and nothing queued yet.

I'm not sure if this is another symptom of the misbehavior described by the OP, but I thought I'd mention it.

--Gary
p.s. Yes, running clean-up.

I have 2 i7's running Linux each of which can complete Woodall's in 28-30 hours. Both are running BOINC 6.10.58. Both are set to "additional work buffer" of 0.01 days (about 15 minutes) and to connect every 0 days (always connected). One is running 3 tasks with ~6 hours to go, but has downloaded two more as-yet-unstarted tasks and assigned them an expected runtime of 2 hours 30 minutes (!) each. That's something new to me; usually the estimates are way too high (not that I pay any attention to them, but this thread made me look). The other is running 4 tasks, each 75% complete, mostly reasonable estimates to complete, and nothing queued yet.

I'm not sure if this is another symptom of the misbehavior described by the OP, but I thought I'd mention it.

--Gary
p.s. Yes, running clean-up.

I have 2 i7's running Linux each of which can complete Woodall's in 28-30 hours. Both are running BOINC 6.10.58. Both are set to "additional work buffer" of 0.01 days (about 15 minutes) and to connect every 0 days (always connected). One is running 3 tasks with ~6 hours to go, but has downloaded two more as-yet-unstarted tasks and assigned them an expected runtime of 2 hours 30 minutes (!) each. That's something new to me; usually the estimates are way too high (not that I pay any attention to them, but this thread made me look). The other is running 4 tasks, each 75% complete, mostly reasonable estimates to complete, and nothing queued yet.

I'm not sure if this is another symptom of the misbehavior described by the OP, but I thought I'd mention it.

--Gary
p.s. Yes, running clean-up.

Probably unrelated to the OP's problem. We've adjusted (i.e., fixed) the size settings on most tasks. That will account for newer tasks having different estimates than older tasks, until the boinc client adjusts the DCF. The goal is to be more consistent between sub-projects, so (in theory) you can run lots of different tasks without messing up the estimates.

Sill downloading by the dozen :/
EDIT: Clicked no new work while it was downloading new tasks... Now I have 160.
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A couple more questions:

In BOINC Manager, please go into activity and are they all set to Run Based on Preferences? If not, then it's using local preferences. Then you need to check how you have your local preferences set.

Are you using a BOINC Manager (like BAM)? If so, you need to set your preferences through that, not on PG itself.

I set it to run based on preferences - aborted all current WUs, then started downloading tons and tons more :/
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Tried to reset project, now I'm not getting any tasks at all.
EDIT: rebooted PC, got tasks - tons and tons again.

PLEASE HELP ASAP!
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Reading the HELP page:
Run always: Do work, regardless of preferences.
Run based on preferences: Do work when your preferences allow it.

There are two different ways to set and change your general preferences. Here's how they work; you can decide which is best for you.
On the web: You can edit preferences on the web site of any project in which you participate.
In the BOINC Manager: You can edit general preferences using a dialog in the BOINC manager

BOINC Preferences

Aborted all PPS_LLR WUs and got some Sophie Germans.. Same issue. (not the 3 second errors, but the sheer amount of tasks).
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Under BOINC manager Computing Prefs > Network usage > min + max work buffer, how many days is it set to? Try just setting each to 0.1 then setting to No New Tasks under Projects tab.

No problem :). Always best to keep a small cache so u don't hog work for others and are pretty quick submitting units. Also if u have a HDD crash or other problem we would have to wait until the cache times out. And something else but I've forgotten now :|

Oh yes that's it: don't abort units which have already started - you can however abort units which have not.

The BIG reason not to download a lot of tasks is it makes it less likely that you will be the first to report any prime that you find. If it's sitting on your computer for a week before it gets processed, that gives the other guy a week's head start.