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bfmorse
Senior Cruncher US Joined: Jul 26, 2009 Post Count: 442 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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AgriFan,
Can you be a little more specific as to what you mean by: "Increase your cache setting so the client asks for work more frequently". Your 2-day cache setting is perfect. However, I see a lot of resends where some volunteer(s) are running 5- or 6-day cache setting (based on the WU's [Work Unit's] send time and reporting time) and I find it creates extra work for the system. And I would be afraid that your recommendation would be misinterpreted and a too large a cache setting would be created. That's why I suggested that you be more specific. Happy Crunching! |
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Bryn Mawr
Senior Cruncher Joined: Dec 26, 2018 Post Count: 384 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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AgriFan, Can you be a little more specific as to what you mean by: "Increase your cache setting so the client asks for work more frequently". Your 2-day cache setting is perfect. However, I see a lot of resends where some volunteer(s) are running 5- or 6-day cache setting (based on the WU's [Work Unit's] send time and reporting time) and I find it creates extra work for the system. And I would be afraid that your recommendation would be misinterpreted and a too large a cache setting would be created. That's why I suggested that you be more specific. Happy Crunching! Also, to increase the frequency of work requests you need to reduce the “additional “ cache - so, for example, keep at least 1 day and keep an additional 0.01 days will ask for work far more often than keep at least 0.5 days and keep a additional 0.51 days. |
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Link64
Senior Cruncher Joined: Feb 19, 2021 Post Count: 206 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Also, to increase the frequency of work requests you need to reduce the “additional “ cache - so, for example, keep at least 1 day and keep an additional 0.01 days And make sure, that not all tasks end at the same time. There should be at least 2-3 minutes between the tasks, best is even distribution. This resets BOINC's backoff interval. |
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AgrFan
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 17, 2008 Post Count: 396 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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AgriFan, Can you be a little more specific as to what you mean by: "Increase your cache setting so the client asks for work more frequently". Your 2-day cache setting is perfect. However, I see a lot of resends where some volunteer(s) are running 5- or 6-day cache setting (based on the WU's [Work Unit's] send time and reporting time) and I find it creates extra work for the system. And I would be afraid that your recommendation would be misinterpreted and a too large a cache setting would be created. That's why I suggested that you be more specific. Happy Crunching! All of my clients run 24/7 so a 2-day cache works for me. The highest I've ever gone is 3-4 days before a planned outage.
[Edit 6 times, last edit by AgrFan at Jun 4, 2025 2:32:08 PM] |
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liturgist
Cruncher Joined: May 9, 2020 Post Count: 28 Status: Offline |
Still not getting much work. 32 cores available. Only 1 running.
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liturgist
Cruncher Joined: May 9, 2020 Post Count: 28 Status: Offline |
Still. 32 cores available. Only 11 running.
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Unixchick
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 16, 2020 Post Count: 1293 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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liturgist - what projects are you choosing?
MCM usually sends out enough work. ARP is a large file and is on limited release at the moment. |
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liturgist
Cruncher Joined: May 9, 2020 Post Count: 28 Status: Offline |
Finally, 32 cores doing work. Nothing waiting to run.
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liturgist
Cruncher Joined: May 9, 2020 Post Count: 28 Status: Offline |
I chose OpenPandemics, but it has nor presented work for a long time.
Now, I get mostly Mapping Cancer Markers and occasionally Africa Rainfall Project. I also went elsewhere and added DENS@home, but have never seen any work from it. |
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AgrFan
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 17, 2008 Post Count: 396 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Please restart your client and post the startup lines of your Event Log which can be found under the Tools dropdown menu (or Ctrl+Shift+E).
----------------------------------------This would be helpful for us to troubleshoot why you're not getting enough work for your machine. OpenPandemics does not have any work at this time. MCM and ARP are the only active projects right now.
[Edit 7 times, last edit by AgrFan at Jun 11, 2025 9:01:34 PM] |
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