SETI@Home - Improving project Download performance

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Quote:

Originally Posted by EmSti

Creating a file called config.xml in the directory with the Bonic Tasks exe with the following content as helped my local machine get the data faster because it forces a refresh on the downloads and gets the retries to go sooner. BonicTasks must be restarted to take effect.

<config>
<refresh>

<auto> 600 </auto>
<refresh> 900 </refresh>
</refresh>
</config>

See this post for more: http://www.setiusa.us/showthread.php...ll=1#post56669

I haven't tried the downloads and uploads options.

Quote:

Originally Posted by EmSti

Adding lines like these to cc_config.cml helps also.

<max_file_xfers>30</max_file_xfers>
<max_file_xfers_per_project>20</max_file_xfers_per_project>

I added them as the last lines before the </options> tag

Quote:

Originally Posted by kmanley57

The network download fix that is on the Seti forum helped me ALOT on downloading the large files I get from the project. Wish I had read it sooner.

Had to run to Bank to wire money to Foreign Country. :p

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