I'm asking if it's possible to receive only one WU at a time. Now I reduced, in many steps to 0.3 days, the "Maintain enough work for an additional" parameter.
But the result was quite the same: 2 WU each time on a GTX 260.
Is there another way to obtain this goal ??

Try to set "Network activity always available" in BOINC Manager.

(Open BOINC Manager window - advanced view, open the menu "Activity")

Niklas wrote:

Try to set "Network activity always available" in BOINC Manager.

(Open BOINC Manager window - advanced view, open the menu "Activity")

????????

First of all my BM is always in "Network activity always available" state

Second I don't know why the network activity can manage a situation where in my computer there is also 1 WU and only after this WU terminates, the GPUGrid server can send me only another 1 WU (and not 2 WU at the same time)
The only way I know to reach this goal, now is :
set in NoMore WU state -> terminate all the pending WUs -> Allow More work -> Updte the project -> as soon as a new WU arrives, with a lightning speed, set the project in NoMore WU state. (but not obviously is always working correctly)

in the meantime I'll reduce agan the "Maintain enough work for an additional" parameter

@Markj
So you are telling me that we cannot modify this daily quota; in other words this is managed only at the project manager level.
I think that there should be the possibility to choose how many WU people wants to crunch, may be picking a value between limits

The quota is 2 wu per gpu. The idea is you have one ready to start as soon as you finish the current one. It doesn't take into account your cache settings as far as I know.

...It doesn't take into account your cache settings as far as I know.

@Richard

My 9800GT cards only get one at a time, so maybe the answer is to get a slower card..... <grin>. Or did you install a 295 by mistake, thinking it was a 260?

On the other computer where I have an 9800 GT in effect I receive only one WU at a time.
About the GTX295 by mistake, ha ha ha ha, amusing !! But I should have paid it .... much more !!!

By the way now I'll try the Niklas suggestions (0 -> "Maintain enough work for an additional" parameter)

Greetings from another BOINC alpha tester (you can see me as carlo.rigamonti@....)

this is the result of the Niklas suggestions:

KO !!!
I received again 2 WU

So, may be Markj is wright !!!

people cannot manage the quota

SKGiven wrote

I see you are using a Beta driver.
What version of Boinc are you using with it?

I normally keep my cache to 0.2 days.
My quad core system has a GTX260:
Running Boinc 6.10.18, 19038 driver and thats Cuda 2030 (2.3).

I normally get 1 work unit at a time. sometimes I have one waiting and sometimes not - depending on how far into the task I am. If Boinc thinks I am going to finish the task within 0.2days then it will download another task the next time it connects.

At the minute I only have one task running and none waiting. This is because it thinks it will take 17hours to complete! Its 11% in and has not run for an hour yet, so its not the best at calculating the time remaining early on. By the end it is usually fairly accurate. Somebody else would call this a Time Feature.


I use BM 6.10.19 with 195.62

SKGiven wrote

Is your network usage set to, Connect about every 0.00 days?

Yes it is.


And your Additional work buffer set to 0.2 days (or less)?

I setted to 0.0 days and quite few hous ago I received only one WU.
At Last !!!!!