Fetch tasks with realistic deadline

[ishanmehta]

Describe the bug

I normally work on my personal computer at home for 1 or 2 hours in the morning, and while doing this, BOINC processes the project tasks.
As of now, I have selected Eienstein@Home.
When new tasks are fetched it fetches those that would take more than 24 hours (i.e. more than 12 to 24 days for me), but the deadline is just 4-5 days later.

You already have the completed tasks data, and also the average hours per day my computer processes the data - just consider last 15 days to get this average - and then only transfer tasks that are having deadline at least 1.5 times days away from today based on the normal processing hours per day.

E.g. if in last 15 days, my host has worked 1 hour per day on an average.
And if a task is expected to take 10 hours - then the deadline of that task has to be 15 days away from the download date.

This would result in a lot of efficiency improvement.

I have to keep on checking the list of tasks and abort a lot of tasks that are definitely not going to be completed before their deadline based on the number of hours required to process.

[AenBleidd]

Deadlines are set by the project. If your PC is allowed to run BOINC only within a very short period of time (and it takes more that 24 hours to run the Einstein@home tasks), I doubt you will find a lot of projects that have so short tasks.
Consider asking your question here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_index.php

[ishanmehta]

Thank you for the comment.
The tasks are available. It is not that all the tasks are such heavy.
Please check the image below. After aborting long running impossible tasks, it did download tasks that are possible. That means such tasks are there, but before downloading it does not check whether the task is realistic or not.

The only thing is - while downloading the tasks, if the deadline is known, based on the average runtime of per day, impossible to complete tasks should not be downloaded.

And I am also not saying that the tasks that take 24 hours or I have seen some taking more than 48 hours - those should not be downloaded. I am just saying that in such cases, check the deadline date (set by the project, but probably available to downloader too). Tasks taking 24 hours should have deadline that is 36 days away. I am sure the DB would be full with thousands or hundreds of thousands of tasks. Not all would have the deadline of this week itself. There would be tasks having deadline more than a month away - that task can be downloaded even if it takes 24 hours.
If a task is just going to take 2 hours to complete, day after tomorrow's deadline is also fine.

I am merely stating that the tasks should be downloaded considering the known variables like expected processing time, deadline, and last 15 days' average daily runtime.

Thanks.

And I will also check on the forum link. Thanks.