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Tasks 'committed to other platforms' for excessive time

I've been getting 'Tasks are committed to other platforms' consistently since 'Sun 27 Oct 2019 16:33:29 GMT' on Unix. Typical response:

Requesting new tasks for CPU
Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
No tasks sent
No tasks are available for Microbiome Immunity Project
No tasks are available for Smash Childhood Cancer
No tasks are available for the applications you have selected.
Tasks are committed to other platforms

Interesting it doesn't mention OpenZika, which I also have selected.

It's over an hour now, and that seems like a very long time. Is someone filling their boots to the detriment of the rest of us, or is there a system problem?

Updated to add:
Yes, MIP is working, so it's OpenZika that's committed elsewhere. Boot-filling before we run out, I guess.

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[Oct 27, 2019 5:36:35 PM]

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Re: Tasks 'committed to other platforms' for excessive time

Zika is running on fumes on all platforms. My MIP is at max of 12 so you get the NTAA, SCC is dry as we know, and HST no comment.

38325 World Community Grid 10/28/2019 12:52:59 AM No tasks sent
38326 World Community Grid 10/28/2019 12:52:59 AM No tasks are available for Microbiome Immunity Project
38327 World Community Grid 10/28/2019 12:52:59 AM No tasks are available for Smash Childhood Cancer
38328 World Community Grid 10/28/2019 12:52:59 AM No tasks are available for OpenZika
38329 World Community Grid 10/28/2019 12:52:59 AM No tasks are available for Help Stop TB
38330 World Community Grid 10/28/2019 12:52:59 AM No tasks are available for the applications you have selected.

[Oct 27, 2019 11:58:32 PM]

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Re: Tasks 'committed to other platforms' for excessive time

NTA I understand. It's the 'Tasks are committed to other platforms' I find odd. It implies that Windoze (or Android, etc) still have work, or, at least, tasks that need verifying/validating. Of course, I don't know enough detail of how the server decides to issue that message, but I'm afraid that it makes me think "Why are Unix users the poor cousins in this relationship?", even if that's not actually true [which I hope is the case].

Maybe just a thought for when someone looks at the server code again.

[Oct 28, 2019 12:12:32 AM]

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Re: Tasks 'committed to other platforms' for excessive time

I just fired up a new instance of a Linux a couple of hours ago and I did not have any trouble filling its queue. It was mostly MCM, but I allowed other projects to fill one slot apiece.
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[Oct 28, 2019 2:57:48 AM]

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Re: Tasks 'committed to other platforms' for excessive time

@Sgt.Joe

This was all down to the end of Zika. I understand that. It's just the wording of the message does not, in this case, seem to reflect what's actually happening.

I'm sorry if I'm not making myself clear.

[Oct 28, 2019 9:47:34 AM]

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Re: Tasks 'committed to other platforms' for excessive time

OK, I get it now.
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[Oct 28, 2019 12:49:49 PM]

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Re: Tasks 'committed to other platforms' for excessive time

Following on from what's just happened to ARP1, I now realise that the feeder logic is more complicated that just looking for the appropriate OS and/or machine architeccture, it's also having to check if a re-sent WU needs a reliable host. It looks like it's this point which gives rise to the message being issued so often, and it also looks like it can actually cause the feeder to clog up if there aren't enough reliable hosts (whatever that means).

Keith is clearly now thinking about this, and I wonder if his fix for ARP will trickle down to improve the situation which I was commenting on in this thread. I hope so.

[Nov 26, 2019 11:04:57 AM]

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