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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1684 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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After 11.65 hours, one of my hosts experienced again a segmentation violation - HST1_ 002152_ 000071_ MC0003_ T325_ F00095_ S00003_ 0-- - without any RAM problem (available 16 GB, used < 1.5 GB ; Ubuntu 14.04 x64).
----------------------------------------SIGSEGV: segmentation violation Regardless of the low credits, wasting 12 hours is useless and frustrating. By the way, I would really appreciate that the WU computation forecast could become more accurate (announced 7.5 hours, real 17 hours on a good CPU with >99% efficiency). Many people complain since the project start and nothing happens. Cheers, Yves |
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
On the forecast time aka TTC, it's an inherent issue as there are different lengths of tasks circulated. I doubt that WCG, although there's a reasonable predictability that T000/T001 are the shorts and T300+ are long, splits the fpops header filling and goes with the total app stream average feedback loop. Since there was a pile-up of T000/T001 in the validator, which got force revalidated, that fpops value will have been pushed down too much.
Who the many complainers are I don't know, but I'm not one of them, since the BOINC mechanism is simply not fit for dealing with substantial duration mixing within a single science [with the well known credit #$%@& side-effect to go with it, thusly accept what it is [with a small population at that]. |
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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1684 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi SekeRob,
----------------------------------------I agree with you regarding the initial cause of the incorrect duration forecast. However, my feeling is that it should be possible to improve the situation for this specific project. As far as possible I try not to have to interrupt long works for maintenance purpose. Since I am currently away a large part of the time, not being able to identify possible time slots for maintenance is disturbing. Cheers, Yves |
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