Preferences

You can specify preferences determining and limiting how BOINC uses your computers. Preferences are divided into three groups:

• Work preferences
  • Whether work (computation and network transfer) should be done while the host is being used (i.e. during keyboard and mouse input).
  • Whether work should be done while the computer is being powered by batteries (for laptop users).
  • Whether to wait for user confirmation before making network connections.
  • Min and max days of work to keep on disk. If the host is frequently disconnected from the Internet, the min should be at least as long as the typical period of disconnection. The larger the difference between min and max, the less often the BOINC client will connect to the Internet.
• Disk-space preferences
  • Maximum disk space used by BOINC.
  • Maximum percentage of free space used by BOINC.
  • Minimum disk space to keep free.
• Project preferences (one set for each project)
  • Master URL of project
  • Email address
  • Account ID
  • Resource share: if projects contend for resources, the amount allocated to a project is proportional to this number.
  • Whether to show email address on web site
  • Whether project should send emails to user
  • Project-specific preferences

You can view and edit your preferences through a web interface, at the site of any project in which you participate. Changes are automatically propagated to all your hosts; this is done the next time the host contacts the project's server, so there may be some delay.

Each account has a single set of preferences. If you want to have different preferences for different hosts, you must create separate accounts.