I don't understand what the connect period (0.1 days)
is. I want my client to connect to the network as soon as a work unit is finished and receive a new task. How often is 0.1 days? Is that the optimum connection rate?

Thanks,
riverrat373

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BOINC caches work on your computer to start as soon as your current work finishes. 0.1 days here means that it will attempt to keep 0.1 days worth of work on your computer. Since WUs come whole, and not in pieces, this setting will download one or two complete WUs, and then request more again when the work on hand dips below 0.05 days. (at least I think that this is the way it is currently working).

If you want to cache 2 days of work, you would set this to 2 days. If you really want to have no cache at all, set this to 0. I have my cache set to 0.1 days and have attached my computers to several projects, and none of them have run out of work (although it was very close this time).

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