Sometimes I would leave my PC on but offline, currently BOIC only fetches 4 GPU tasks, while CPU ones are over 10 which and it's slower, by the time I reconnect it, all the 4 GPU tasks are done but CPU task is only on it's 2nd. I find it funny because it should be the opposite as GPU is faster so by the time I reconnect it, more GPU tasks would have been complete, thus the faster the process of number crunching would be done..

I just disabled CPU tasks on the site preferences in hopes that would help with total tasks available, nope. Still 4 GPU pending tasks max. How do I increase this number?

Update: In BOINC clinet under options>computing prefferences>Store at least.. I changed to "6.0" days, with 0.0 additonal.

Based on this forum thread I found on google.. https://einsteinathome.org/content/download-specific-number-cpu-and-gpu-tasks
BOINC should adjust iteself overtime to fethc more work. As of now it's still 4 for GPU, I'll keep this thread updated. if anyone know a faster way to do it, let me know.

I've tried 3 different options in app_config for this project to no avail. I have not found a way.

Update almost 24 hours later, with CPU workloads turned off, BOIC still fetches 4 GPU workloads max. No change, so that advice on another forum was bogus, BOIC has no change on GPU workloads requested. I wonder where this limit is held, is it hard coded into boinc.exe? Can using dissembler to peek into the fetch work process discover where this value is held? 🤔

This is the server-side limitation. I put max 4 tasks per GPU in the config long time ago. There are different BOINC competitions that run on Amicable Numbers from time to time, and this is to prevent people from fetching a lot of tasks before the competition starts to submit them and get credits as soon as it starts.

Thanks for confirming Sergei.

Sergei, are there any competitions in place now? If not, why would you leave limit on when it's not? Can you describe what type of competition it is and how it works? How do I find more information about it? What or where is the schedule for competitions? Thanks