Application setting 'S6 Bucket = no' not honored

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Christoph
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24 May 2011 17:43:55 UTC
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    Hello,

    I want to let you know that my settings S6 = no are not working. During my last work fetch I got S6 work.

    Since I want to help with the S5 clean up BRP and S6 are set to 'No'.

    Boinc 6.12.26 x64 for Windows

    If I remember correctly, this version does honor this setting. Or was that the scheduler code?

    Greetings, Christoph

    tolafoph
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    Application setting 'S6 Bucket = no' not honored

    24 May 2011 18:09:54 UTC
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      The easiest way to get only S5 work is an app.info file with only the S5 application in it.

      Bernd wrote in the S5 clean-up thread:

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      I'd expect the S6 checkbox being checked (S6 processing enabled) and changing of it being disabled (greyed out). Everything else would be a surprise to me.

      In any case the current "locality" scheduler that is used for GW Applications such as S5GC1HF and S6Bucket has a bug that leads to this setting being ignored anyway for these applications.

      S5GC1HF was the first GW run where we enabled the opt-out because of the data volume (download, disk space, RAM usage) involved. We didn't notice that this didn't work at all until we revisited the scheduler code a couple of days ago.

      We are re-designing and (partly) re-writing the locality scheduler code anyway, but this will take some time. For the time being, opting out of S6Bucket is only possible by using anonymous platform (app_info.xml).

      S6Bucket should have way lower requirements than S5GC1HF had, so I hope this is not too much of a problem.

      BM

      Edit: Just yesterday I set up a new host with i7-2600 CPU and an app.info file. It works fine, but the traffic is high because you get only a few tasks per frequency but the host has to download a lot for that.

      edit 2: But before usind that app.info you should finish/aboard all tasks!!! I forgot about that and now the S6 tasks I got on the new host have to time out.

      Christoph
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      Thaks for the reply. I did

      24 May 2011 18:38:46 UTC
      Message 105481 in response to message 105480
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        Thaks for the reply. I did remember reading something about it, but not where.
        I will run down my current tasks and then write up an app_info. Should have enough examples, running opti app over at seti when running it.

        Greetings, Christoph

        tolafoph
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        You should also delete any S6

        25 May 2011 12:12:43 UTC
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          You should also delete any S6 files from your Einstein@home folder and the blocks for those files from the client_state.xml

          Before I did that I got error messages about not having the S6Bucket app in my app.info file. And didn´t get any S5 work.

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