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deltavee
Ace Cruncher Texas Hill Country Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 4894 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If you run BOINCTasks [special multi-client BOINC Manager], you can easily see how much total computing time work is presently in your client buffer [project tab]. I finally bit the bullet and installed BOINCTasks as many have suggested. This is going to make managing my crunchers much easier. Highly recommended for anyone with multiple crunchers. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello Gandalf_PCHF
OK Rob, I just aborted all the tasks that were deadlined for 11/30/2012 and marked ready to run. There were over 100 tasks so marked. Now the 11/30 tasks are either running now or marked waiting. Knock on wood that will elevate the issue. Might have you meant something like 'ease' rather than 'elevate' (the issue)?P.S. - Thanks for sticking with me. But, perhaps 'elevate' is the right word: The aborted tasks will feed back to the system and unless the WU-deadlines are adjusted to account for the handling-delays, we are facing a potential run-away process that will propagate throughout the grid. Much like a CB (circuit-breaker) trip passing the load to another node whose CB can't handle the passed-load and thereby trips only to pass the load to yet another node that is sure to have its CB trip and so on. No wonder I, lately, have been seeing a rush of those earlier-deadlined-WUs in my machines. But, I have my manual method to help ease matters.  ; |
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Gandalf_PCHF
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Dec 21, 2008 Post Count: 81 Status: Offline |
andzquid - I don't know what caused this situation to develope, but I found my computer to suddenly become the home of over 100 tasks all with the deadline of 11/30/2012. These were not simple 10 minute jobs but tasks with around 8 hour durations. I know that my computer can work 8 tasks at one time, but this was a workload for a mainframe.
----------------------------------------I used to get maybe 10 tasks downloaded at a time. This is a wordload my computer can handle. I've been working WCG tasks for about 3 years, so I knew that this sudden influx of tasks was not a common event at least not for my computer. When I queried my teams expert, he suggested I question this forum. You have individuals with much more knowledge and experience with these things than I do. As it has turned out, the advice I have been given has had the desired effect. Yesterday I had the backload of tasks down to 182. This morning it is down to 126. So obviously the instructions I have implemented has been benificial to my crunching efforts. I can't speak to the effect of aborting all those ready to run tasks other than knowing that there was no way my computer was going to be able to complete them on time. If the WCG software is logally capable of sending a personal computer hundreds of tasks at the same time all with the same deadline and all with around 8 hour running time, the there is a problem with the logic. I would not have aborted them without the advice of crunchers with far more experience than I. I hope this answers your posting.   O/S -LinuxMint 64-bit, Release 13 (maya). DE: Cinnamon |
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Gandalf_PCHF
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Dec 21, 2008 Post Count: 81 Status: Offline |
I've now got only 8 Waiting to run tasks. All dated 11/30/2012 and all the processors are happly crunching away. All these tasks should be completed today.
----------------------------------------How do I set the Preferences so that I only get one download for each completed/reported task? Again, thanks for the support. Side note: I've installed the BoincTasks. It looks interesting. O/S -LinuxMint 64-bit, Release 13 (maya). DE: Cinnamon |
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Former Member
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Leave the additional buffer to 0.0 too and the connect to the smallest value 0.01, so it will fetch a new task, just before finishing the previous. With client 7 even if the connect every / minimum buffer is set to 0.0 the client will prefetch a task a few minutes before the previous finishes. The risk with that setup is a scenario where's a connect interruption or a work supply failure occurs... the device could whole or part go idle. Setting the buffer to for instance 0.1 (2.4 hours), would prevent the madness of getting hundreds of CPU tasks that are needing 8 hours each.
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Former Member
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So obviously the instructions I have implemented has been benificial to my crunching efforts. That's good to know.  ; ; andzgridPost#712 ; [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 2, 2012 12:22:16 AM] |
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Gandalf_PCHF
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Dec 21, 2008 Post Count: 81 Status: Offline |
I am now running the BoincTasks and I found it can monitor both of my computers. However, it is saying that my second computer is not connected.
----------------------------------------http://i702.photobucket.com/albums/ww27/Gandalf_PCHF/BoincTasks.jpg Both of my computers are connected to the internet via a router. How do I tell the BoincTasks to look through the router? Thanks for the assist. O/S -LinuxMint 64-bit, Release 13 (maya). DE: Cinnamon |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Not seeing the IP address or the network host name of the device, and for sure the password is different on the remote device (in GUI_RPC_AUTH.CFG file).
----------------------------------------You don't say how you added the second device, but BT has a network search/add computer option, to get most information automatically. The easy password remember method is to make the gui_rpc_auth.xml equal for all devices on a LAN... one you can remember ;) P.S. BT has Help > Manual to explain this :O edit: http://www.efmer.eu/boinc/boinc_tasks/manual.html [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 3, 2012 9:51:54 AM] |
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Gandalf_PCHF
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Dec 21, 2008 Post Count: 81 Status: Offline |
Please consider this issue resolved.
----------------------------------------How do you set a thread as Solver? O/S -LinuxMint 64-bit, Release 13 (maya). DE: Cinnamon [Edit 1 times, last edit by Gandalf_PCHF at Jan 16, 2013 6:44:29 AM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
...edit the title of the first post and put [RESOLVED] at the end
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