Unusually short crunch time

Donald A. Tevault
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RE: RE: RE: If

Message 80834 in response to message 80832

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If possible, dig through the client logs and see when this task was started and finished ("wall clock time"). Correctly counting the CPU time isn't that trivial on Linux, and problems on that are common.

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Okay, I can try that. In the meantime, here's another one that looks abnormal. This time, my wingman finished first, and has an unusually short runtime for his 3500+ machine. (Mine in this case is the Xeon, which hasn't started crunching that one yet.)

A second strange one.

I think this "second strange one" can be neglected, look at the other results from that host: most claim 0 seconds crunch time, and it's also using a very old BOINC client.

But that first result looks strange indeed.

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Bikeman

Yeah, I see that now. I hadn't bothered to look before.

Gary Roberts
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RE: I found some '1155.00

Message 80835 in response to message 80831

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I found some '1155.00 sec' time in the results of my Kentsfield.
But the BOINC Manager showed about 2,5-3 hours for them.
I didn't find the reason of this behaviour yet.

If you look at the stderr.out for all the 1155.00 sec results, you will see that each one was restarted at least once (and some several times) during the execution. The ones that are being reported at around 11K secs were not stopped and restarted at any stage (or so it seems from a pretty hasty examination).

At first I saw the very large number of skypoints that were being "redone" when the task resumed from a checkpoint and thought that was an error until I realised that your app on steroids is doing an unbelievably large number of skypoints per checkpoint and so will have to repeat an awful lot if you previously stopped it just 30 secs after a checkpoint :).

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Gary.

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RE: If you look at the

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If you look at the stderr.out for all the 1155.00 sec results, you will see that each one was restarted at least once (and some several times) during the execution. The ones that are being reported at around 11K secs were not stopped and restarted at any stage (or so it seems from a pretty hasty examination).

At first I saw the very large number of skypoints that were being "redone" when the task resumed from a checkpoint and thought that was an error until I realised that your app on steroids is doing an unbelievably large number of skypoints per checkpoint and so will have to repeat an awful lot if you previously stopped it just 30 secs after a checkpoint :).

Oh. You are right! Thanks.

Donald A. Tevault
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Here's another

Here's another strange-looking result, from the same P-III 667 as before.

Second strange result

I checked the log, and it shows that this workunit started processing at 07:18, and finished at 08:21 the same morning.

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Keep a safe distance from

Keep a safe distance from that black hole to avoid spacetime disturbances :-)

Seriously , thanks for the report!

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Donald A. Tevault
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RE: Keep a safe distance

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Keep a safe distance from that black hole to avoid spacetime disturbances :-)

Seriously , thanks for the report!

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Hmmmm. . .

Are you saying that I could be entering "The Twilight Zone"? Or, maybe the LHC has fired up without anyone being informed.

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RE: Here's another

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Here's another strange-looking result, from the same P-III 667 as before.

Second strange result

I checked the log, and it shows that this workunit started processing at 07:18, and finished at 08:21 the same morning.

Just out of curiosity, did you happen to note what the first strange was granted finally? I missed catching it when it cleared, and the second one probably won't be turned in by the wingman for a week to ten days or so.

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Donald A. Tevault
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RE: RE: Here's another

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Here's another strange-looking result, from the same P-III 667 as before.

Second strange result

I checked the log, and it shows that this workunit started processing at 07:18, and finished at 08:21 the same morning.

Just out of curiosity, did you happen to note what the first strange was granted finally? I missed catching it when it cleared, and the second one probably won't be turned in by the wingman for a week to ten days or so.

Alinator

The first strange one was granted full credit, and validated fine for both my wingman and me.

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Here's another strange-looking result, from the same P-III 667 as before.

Second strange result

I checked the log, and it shows that this workunit started processing at 07:18, and finished at 08:21 the same morning.

Just out of curiosity, did you happen to note what the first strange was granted finally? I missed catching it when it cleared, and the second one probably won't be turned in by the wingman for a week to ten days or so.

Alinator

The first strange one was granted full credit, and validated fine for both my wingman and me.

OK, although it's still a mystery why the app all of sudden stopped checkpointing and logging run time.

This definitely serves to show that quasi-fixed, server side scoring has its advantages if the project work lends itself to being able to use it. ;-)

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Donald A. Tevault
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Well folks, I've solved the

Well folks, I've solved the mystery. It turns out that I neglected to install NTP on this machine, and the system clock was losing time like crazy. I didn't notice until I untarred the new beta app, and received a bunch of error messages about how the files had time-stamps from far into the future.

Why Ubuntu doesn't have NTP installed by default, I'll never understand.

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