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Neal Burns
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24 Apr 2022 15:37:37 UTC
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    Hi,

    Boinc keeps downloading E@H tasks until it has almost 1000. I only want a few hours' worth at most. When I delete them, they just come back.

    Thanks in advance for your help,

    Neal

     

    Ian&Steve C.
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    are you using a

    24 Apr 2022 16:44:19 UTC
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      are you using a <project_max_concurrent> line in your app_config file?

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      Neal Burns
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      This is what's in my

      24 Apr 2022 17:02:22 UTC
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        This is what's in my app_config:

         

        <app_config>
           <app>
              <name>hsgamma_FGRPB1G</name>
              <max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
              <gpu_versions>
                  <gpu_usage>.75</gpu_usage>
                  <cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
              </gpu_versions>
            </app>

        </app_config>

         

         

        Keith Myers
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        Neal Burns wrote:This is

        24 Apr 2022 17:45:27 UTC
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          Neal Burns wrote:

          This is what's in my app_config:

           

          <app_config>
             <app>
                <name>hsgamma_FGRPB1G</name>
                <max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
                <gpu_versions>
                    <gpu_usage>.75</gpu_usage>
                    <cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
                </gpu_versions>
              </app>

          here

          </app_config>

          <project_max_concurrent>2</project_max_concurrent> add this

           

          Neal Burns
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          I think that solved it.

          24 Apr 2022 18:05:03 UTC
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            I think that solved it. Thanks

             

            Neal Burns
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            That actually didn't solve

            26 Apr 2022 18:41:00 UTC
            Message 195446
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              That actually didn't solve it. It's back up to 1002 tasks.

              Ian&Steve C.
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              i asked about project max

              26 Apr 2022 18:59:27 UTC
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                i asked about project max concurrent because I was going to tell you to not use that lol. not that you should be using it. many people in the past have had an issue with this parameter due to a bug in how BOINC is/was handling that parameter. so i was only curious if that might have had been a contributing factor.

                I'm not sure if there's a way to get a good middle ground of a few hours of work without a custom BOINC client. but if you are not running other GPU projects at the same time, you can try setting Einstein to a '0' resource share. this will limit you to 1 task per GPU at any given time. basically keeping no cache at all. I'm not sure if too few tasks will be more preferable for you that too many tasks

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                Keith Myers
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                I was just going to comment

                26 Apr 2022 19:52:16 UTC
                Message 195450 in response to message 195447
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                  I was just going to comment that it works sometimes on some systems and it doesn't work sometimes on some systems owing to the bug in BOINC code that has tried to fix the issue and just made it more flaky than it was before the fix.

                  All you can do is try it and see if it works.  Or remove it and try other solutions.

                   

                   

                  Neal Burns
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                  Keith Myers wrote: I was

                  26 Apr 2022 21:47:14 UTC
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                    Keith Myers wrote:

                    I was just going to comment that it works sometimes on some systems and it doesn't work sometimes on some systems owing to the bug in BOINC code that has tried to fix the issue and just made it more flaky than it was before the fix.

                    All you can do is try it and see if it works.  Or remove it and try other solutions.

                     

                    Are you referring to making the resource share zero?

                     

                    Keith Myers
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                    Neal Burns wrote: Keith

                    27 Apr 2022 3:01:02 UTC
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                      Neal Burns wrote:

                      Keith Myers wrote:

                      I was just going to comment that it works sometimes on some systems and it doesn't work sometimes on some systems owing to the bug in BOINC code that has tried to fix the issue and just made it more flaky than it was before the fix.

                      All you can do is try it and see if it works.  Or remove it and try other solutions.

                       

                      Are you referring to making the resource share zero?

                       

                      No.  Using a <project_max_concurrent< statement was what I was referring.

                       

                      Harri Liljeroos
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                      I was under impression that

                      27 Apr 2022 13:15:12 UTC
                      Message 195474
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                        I was under impression that the latest version 7.16.20 was supposed to have the fix for this but I have not tested that version myself. (Wrong version shown on Release notes page in boinc.berkeley.edu)

                        Changes in 7.20.0

                        • Manager: show appropriate Welcome Page on first run.
                        • Client: pass process priority to wrapper
                        • Client: disable GET feature of GUI RPC
                        • Manager: add ctrl-A shortcut to go to advanced view
                        • Client: allow empty GUI RPC password but show warning
                        • Client (linux): Ignore tty(S|ACM) devices in TTY idle time calculation
                        • Client: display IPV6 addresses correctly
                        • Client: don't tell Manager that graphics app exists if it's still downloading
                        • Manager: fix alt-space crash
                        • Manager: fix RTL languages in disk view
                        • Client: add reset_host_info() GUI RPC
                        • Client: put CDATA around link field of notices
                        • Client: fix problems with set_app_config() RPC
                        • Client: fix overly aggressive project-wide file transfer backoff policy
                        • Client: fix work-fetch logic when max concurrent limits are used
                        • Manager: add "Suspend when no mouse/keyboard input in last XX minutes" to prefs dialog
                        • Manager: correctly handle large numbers in prefs
                        • Manager (Win): Make Manager DPI unaware to let wxWidgets and Windows scale GUI elements properly
                        • Manager: fix failure to connect to client with non-English language
                        • Client (Win): fix detection of Windows product
                        • Client: Fix bug in new version check
                        • Mac: fix screensaver preferences dialog under MacOS 12 Monterey
                        • Mac: ensure curl does not depend on unavailable libraries
                        • Mac: use newer libraries: c-ares-1.17.2, curl-7.79.1, freetype-2.11.0, openssl-3.0.0, wxWidgets-3.1.5

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