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Jon C Melusky
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30 Jan 2007 19:05:07 UTC
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    If I have 10 projects running and one does not have work, does that adversly affect the other 9 in any way ?

    How many weeks of no work before you shut down a project on your list ?

    curious,

    geothermal

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    30 Jan 2007 19:10:03 UTC
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      BOINC should be able to ignore the project without work until some is available then it will give that project more crunching time to even out the resource shares.

      Jon C Melusky
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      RE: BOINC should be able to

      31 Jan 2007 7:50:06 UTC
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        BOINC should be able to ignore the project without work until some is available then it will give that project more crunching time to even out the resource shares.

        Ok, maybe my questions are too vague. Here is an excerpt from my BOINC manager messages tab. My question is: Is RALPH@home letting other projects crunch while it is waiting for new work to show up ?

        1/30/2007 6:50:57 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded
        1/30/2007 7:29:07 PM||Rescheduling CPU: application exited
        1/30/2007 7:29:07 PM|malariacontrol.net beta|Computation for task wu_13_104_24576_0_910924703_2 finished
        1/30/2007 7:29:07 PM|Leiden Classical|Starting task wu_78596477_1170013528_733_2 using classical version 537
        1/30/2007 7:29:10 PM|malariacontrol.net beta|Started upload of file wu_13_104_24576_0_910924703_2_0
        1/30/2007 7:29:14 PM|malariacontrol.net beta|Finished upload of file wu_13_104_24576_0_910924703_2_0
        1/30/2007 7:29:14 PM|malariacontrol.net beta|Throughput 1626 bytes/sec
        1/30/2007 9:03:14 PM|ralph@home|Sending scheduler request to http://ralph.bakerlab.org/ralph_cgi/cgi
        1/30/2007 9:03:14 PM|ralph@home|Reason: To fetch work
        1/30/2007 9:03:14 PM|ralph@home|Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
        1/30/2007 9:03:19 PM|ralph@home|Scheduler request succeeded
        1/30/2007 9:03:19 PM|ralph@home|No work from project
        1/30/2007 9:03:19 PM|ralph@home|Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
        1/30/2007 9:04:20 PM|ralph@home|Fetching scheduler list
        1/30/2007 9:04:25 PM|ralph@home|Scheduler list download succeeded
        1/30/2007 9:04:30 PM|ralph@home|Sending scheduler request to http://ralph.bakerlab.org/ralph_cgi/cgi
        1/30/2007 9:04:30 PM|ralph@home|Reason: To fetch work
        1/30/2007 9:04:30 PM|ralph@home|Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
        1/30/2007 9:04:35 PM|ralph@home|Scheduler request succeeded
        1/30/2007 9:04:35 PM|ralph@home|No work from project
        1/30/2007 9:08:41 PM|ralph@home|Sending scheduler request to http://ralph.bakerlab.org/ralph_cgi/cgi
        1/30/2007 9:08:41 PM|ralph@home|Reason: To fetch work
        1/30/2007 9:08:41 PM|ralph@home|Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
        1/30/2007 9:08:46 PM|ralph@home|Scheduler request succeeded
        1/30/2007 9:08:46 PM|ralph@home|No work from project
        1/30/2007 9:12:51 PM|ralph@home|Sending scheduler request to http://ralph.bakerlab.org/ralph_cgi/cgi
        1/30/2007 9:12:51 PM|ralph@home|Reason: To fetch work
        1/30/2007 9:12:51 PM|ralph@home|Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
        1/30/2007 9:12:56 PM|ralph@home|Scheduler request succeeded
        1/30/2007 9:12:56 PM|ralph@home|No work from project
        1/30/2007 9:17:02 PM|ralph@home|Sending scheduler request to http://ralph.bakerlab.org/ralph_cgi/cgi
        1/30/2007 9:17:02 PM|ralph@home|Reason: To fetch work
        1/30/2007 9:17:02 PM|ralph@home|Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
        1/30/2007 9:17:07 PM|ralph@home|Scheduler request succeeded
        1/30/2007 9:17:07 PM|ralph@home|No work from project
        1/30/2007 9:21:13 PM|ralph@home|Sending scheduler request to http://ralph.bakerlab.org/ralph_cgi/cgi
        1/30/2007 9:21:13 PM|ralph@home|Reason: To fetch work
        1/30/2007 9:21:13 PM|ralph@home|Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
        1/30/2007 9:21:18 PM|ralph@home|Scheduler request succeeded
        1/30/2007 9:21:18 PM|ralph@home|No work from project
        1/30/2007 9:25:24 PM|ralph@home|Sending scheduler request to http://ralph.bakerlab.org/ralph_cgi/cgi
        1/30/2007 9:25:24 PM|ralph@home|Reason: To fetch work
        1/30/2007 9:25:24 PM|ralph@home|Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
        1/30/2007 9:25:29 PM|ralph@home|Scheduler request succeeded
        1/30/2007 9:25:29 PM|ralph@home|No work from project
        1/30/2007 9:25:29 PM|ralph@home|Deferring scheduler requests for 5 minutes and 43 seconds
        1/30/2007 9:31:15 PM|ralph@home|Sending scheduler request to http://ralph.bakerlab.org/ralph_cgi/cgi
        1/30/2007 9:31:15 PM|ralph@home|Reason: To fetch work
        1/30/2007 9:31:15 PM|ralph@home|Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
        1/30/2007 9:31:20 PM|ralph@home|Scheduler request succeeded
        1/30/2007 9:31:20 PM|ralph@home|No work from project
        1/30/2007 9:31:20 PM|ralph@home|Deferring scheduler requests for 18 minutes and 8 seconds
        1/30/2007 9:49:32 PM|ralph@home|Sending scheduler request to http://ralph.bakerlab.org/ralph_cgi/cgi
        1/30/2007 9:49:32 PM|ralph@home|Reason: To fetch work
        1/30/2007 9:49:32 PM|ralph@home|Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
        1/30/2007 9:49:37 PM|ralph@home|Scheduler request succeeded
        1/30/2007 9:49:37 PM|ralph@home|No work from project
        1/30/2007 9:53:43 PM|ralph@home|Sending scheduler request to http://ralph.bakerlab.org/ralph_cgi/cgi
        1/30/2007 9:53:43 PM|ralph@home|Reason: To fetch work
        1/30/2007 9:53:43 PM|ralph@home|Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
        1/30/2007 9:53:48 PM|ralph@home|Scheduler request succeeded
        1/30/2007 9:53:48 PM|ralph@home|No work from project
        1/30/2007 9:53:48 PM|ralph@home|Deferring scheduler requests for 36 minutes and 19 seconds
        1/30/2007 9:59:07 PM|Spinhenge@home|Resuming task 4_Fe30_map_24_444_0 using metropolis version 242

        Jonathan

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        31 Jan 2007 7:51:03 UTC
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          RE: RE: BOINC should be

          31 Jan 2007 8:37:10 UTC
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            Quote:
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            BOINC should be able to ignore the project without work until some is available then it will give that project more crunching time to even out the resource shares.

            Ok, maybe my questions are too vague. Here is an excerpt from my BOINC manager messages tab. My question is: Is RALPH@home letting other projects crunch while it is waiting for new work to show up ?

            Jonathan

            Yes it is.

            Anders n

            Jon C Melusky
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            Thank you Anders n.

            31 Jan 2007 18:20:51 UTC
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              Thank you Anders n. (^:

              Now is there any way of knowing which project BOINC is working on between the hours of 9:49:37 PM and 9:53:43 PM ? It doesn't say in the messages tab.

              Jonathan

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              RE: Now is there any way of

              31 Jan 2007 19:14:48 UTC
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                Quote:
                Now is there any way of knowing which project BOINC is working on between the hours of 9:49:37 PM and 9:53:43 PM ? It doesn't say in the messages tab.

                Basically, BOINC client has two jobs to do:

                • * to keep processor(s) busy all the time
                  * to connect project server(s) to fetch work and return results

                These two tasks are almost independant of each other. Well, obviously CPU can't be kept busy if none of projects can deliver any work.

                In your particular case, task from Leiden Classical was started at 7:29:07 PM and has been running at least until 9:59:07 PM when a task from Spinhenge@home was resumed (as in: had been worked on before, but didn't finish in its time, so had to be resumed). It's not clear from the log excerpt you posted wether the Leiden Classical task was suspended at that moment or not ...
                Meanwhile, BOINC was trying to get more work from ralph@home. Most probably there was no work available for any of participants of this project. This, however, does not mean that your CPU was idle.

                Metod ...

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                RE: In your particular

                3 Feb 2007 10:50:12 UTC
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                  Quote:

                  In your particular case, task from Leiden Classical was started at 7:29:07 PM and has been running at least until 9:59:07 PM when a task from Spinhenge@home was resumed (as in: had been worked on before, but didn't finish in its time, so had to be resumed). It's not clear from the log excerpt you posted wether the Leiden Classical task was suspended at that moment or not ...
                  Meanwhile, BOINC was trying to get more work from ralph@home. Most probably there was no work available for any of participants of this project. This, however, does not mean that your CPU was idle.

                  Thank you Metod for the input ! Greatly appreciated.

                  cheers,

                  Jonathan

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