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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
...high priority ?
To day they have this behaviour..! |
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Steve WCG
Senior Cruncher Joined: May 4, 2009 Post Count: 216 Status: Offline |
High Priority indicates that Boinc manager does not think it can finish all the WUs by their deadlines. Perhaps you have your cache set too high?
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Former Member
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High Priority indicates that Boinc manager does not think it can finish all the WUs by their deadlines. Perhaps you have your cache set too high? Is this below ? I 've never set it....What is the best setting ?  |
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Sekerob
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Ah landolini,
----------------------------------------I'm think to remember something about Linux and a display not showing the processor percentage due low resolution? Anyway: 1. what client version? 2. client been running all the time or with periods of interruption / part time? 3. is system date set correct? 4. does your BOINC message log show a line which says that there are Override prefs in effect?
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Former Member
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Ah landolini, I'm think to remember something about Linux and a display not showing the processor percentage due low resolution? Anyway: 1. what client version? 2. client been running all the time or with periods of interruption / part time? 3. is system date set correct? 4. does your BOINC message log show a line which says that there are Override prefs in effect? 1. v 5.10.45 2. about 3 h / a day 3. I don't know.... 4. mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:32 CEST||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.45 for i686-pc-linux-gnu mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:32 CEST||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:32 CEST||Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.1 mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:32 CEST||Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:34 CEST||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11] mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:34 CEST||Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:34 CEST||OS: Linux: 2.6.24-22-generic mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:34 CEST||Memory: 1.98 GB physical, 1.22 GB virtual mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:34 CEST||Disk: 39.25 GB total, 17.25 GB free mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:34 CEST||Local time is UTC +2 hours mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:38 CEST|World Community Grid|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 799276; location: (none); project prefs: default mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:38 CEST||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 03-Jul-2009 08:07:14) mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:38 CEST||Host location: none mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:38 CEST||General prefs: using your defaults mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:38 CEST||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 709.37MB mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:38 CEST||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1114.73MB mar 11 ago 2009 17:17:38 CEST||Preferences limit disk usage to 3.73GB mar 11 ago 2009 17:18:17 CEST|World Community Grid|Restarting task E000931_965C_009w0850g_0 using cep1 version 632 mar 11 ago 2009 17:18:18 CEST|World Community Grid|Restarting task E000936_116C_00a107610_1 using cep1 version 632 [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 11, 2009 4:15:35 PM] |
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Sekerob
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At 3 hours a day, it's well possible that the client concluded the job would not finish in time, so it was marked HP, which suspends work fetch until the condition is cleared. Just let it run till the end without interruption if you can.
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Steve WCG
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it looks like you have recently changed your preferences on the website ...
----------------------------------------General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 03-Jul-2009 08:07:14) please go your "My Grid" page, "Device Profiles", "Default" and let us know what you have set your Workunit Cache settings to ... 2-3 days extra work is good. If you set it for a large number, bigger than about 7 (max is 10) you may find that it pulls more work than you can finish in time which is where it looks like you are now. After you turn your cache settings down, let you PC run for an extra couple hour to clear the "High Priority" situation, or better yet leave it running 24/7  Steve {edit} I type too slow  {/edit}[Edit 2 times, last edit by Steve WCG at Aug 11, 2009 4:28:00 PM] |
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Sekerob
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The story was probably that landolini saved his profile again in despair to get the 100% Processor use going, the option he could not see on his display. 0.3 and 0.0 are the old defaults for caching AFAICR.
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At 3 hours a day, it's well possible that the client concluded the job would not finish in time, so it was marked HP, which suspends work fetch until the condition is cleared. Just let it run till the end without interruption if you can. Now that my computer is working for more than 4 hours ... the process began to work as usual ... OK, thanks. |
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The following info is not specifically for landolini since s/he said the problem is fixed, but it can interest anybody wondering why their client is switching to high priority mode much earlier than needed, particularly with rush jobs or after a longer WU has considerably increased the estimated durations of all queuing WUs.
----------------------------------------I have discovered recently after a long discussion with Ingleside that the scheduler takes care of the "Switch between applications every xx minutes" parameter to estimate if it can complete a task in time, even if it is attached only to WCG, although that does not seem very logical in this case. For whatever reason I had put a very high value in this field (equivalent to 5 days) and every rush job was immediately started in high priority mode after downloading. After reducing this value to 3600 (2.5 days) rush jobs are waiting normally in my client (which returns all jobs in less than one day anyway). For what it's worth... Jean. |
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