What fredski said, processing is in FIFO order First In First Out unless deadline panic breaks out.

For those on a high cache of > 6 days the HCC tasks will get their prioritisation, the client switching at times to EDF, Earliest Deadline First. Those running only HCC with a cache > 6 days could be seeing their client in permanent panic state, high priority processing, and if over 7 days is being cached, overdue work eventually being auto-cancelled.

The techs wrote in that they were on storage cram. 3 Days production less of tasks listed on the Result Status page means about 600,000 less tasks on the live system. Maybe (shear speculation), after all the upgrade/conversion work is complete they'll extend the deadline again, but think not. The grid is growing rapidly heading for 1 million tasks completed per day or 11.57 per second.

Bearcat,

Presume you understood the replies so far of FIFO operation?

On your question:
Careful what you wish for, yes it can be done, but it comes at a prize!!!! The trick is to set the Switch Between Application Every xxx Minutes to for instance 6000 minutes... higher than the deadline. All these jobs will jump the queue. The prize is that the jobs with normal WCG deadline will be suspended. If LAIM is on they will sit in memory. If LAIM is off the suspended tasks unload and resume on first opportunity from last checkpoint. Works for regular repair jobs and short deadline Beta tasks, so much so that WCG will see the device as a high speed returner and send even more to the point that you can have an octo with 8 jobs processing in high priority whilst 8 others are sitting waiting. Done it on my quad and got frustrated, so set it back to only do this when there's Beta and DDDT2 Type A in the air... both might be soon.

Your choice.








Yes I know, it's "price" ;>)

"I have a similar problem and find the updates here too cryptic."

Agree your line is cryptic and absent detail information a big guess to serve you with tailored advise. Reduce your cache to below the shortest deadline of any project your participate in and even if you don't want to do that, it's best to let BOINC manage the processing sequence and you stop knobbing the order. Takes several weeks before the client has it figured out, particularly if you also crunch outside of WCG.

How solid is 6.10.58? Hate to fix something that's not broken. For now, I will reduce my cache until it's caught up.