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Re: Suspending tasks and starting new ones

I suppose what I would love to see is the BOINC manager seeing an unstarted task as a lower priority than an already started task and aborting unstarted tasks rather than pausing currently running ones.
Maybe it does always (well 99% of the time) work out in the end but there is nothing more infuriating than seeing 8 new tasks paused when some of them have less than 15mins to run!
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Re: Suspending tasks and starting new ones

Yea, I can understand the frustration but maybe BOINC made a bit of a compromise. Just had another OET resend come in. Had an active task almost done so just sat there and wateched. When the active task finished, BOINC started an OET due on the 21st instead of the resend due on the 16th. BOINC's always been pretty good at fitting everything in but maybe instead of looking at just the deadline and going high priority on a new but earlier deadline task, it now considers the time/date received and would eventually start the resend once it was closing in on the deadline. Guess I'll have to leave BOINC alone for longer and see what happens. wink
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Re: Suspending tasks and starting new ones

That's what I assume it does.

If you get a resend with an earlier deadline than one that you have already got, it won't go into EDF mode unless if it calculates that it can do the current running task AND meet the deadline of the resend.

BOINC doesn't distinguish between first time sent WUs and resends, a WU is a WU regardless of the number at the end.

The number at the end is only useful to the project's server.
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Re: Suspending tasks and starting new ones

It is called FIFO. Just picture Project A, WCG gives 10 days deadline, and project B, Aliennation, gives 2 days. Would it be agreeable B goes first, keeps sending work and still goes first? Think it through why it is FIFO as standard and EDF is only by exception.
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