Ticket #148 (reopened Defect)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 3 months ago

BOINC asks for work, then more work, then more work

Reported by: Ageless Assigned to: davea
Priority: Major Milestone: Undetermined
Component: Client - Work Fetch Policy Version:
Keywords: Cc:

Description (Last modified by Nicolas)

To top off the queue of work, BOINC asks for work, then more work, then more work. Why doesn't it ask for the initial amount of work and get it? 

01/05/2007 23:02:26|PrimeGrid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work
01/05/2007 23:02:26|PrimeGrid|Requesting 307 seconds of new work
01/05/2007 23:02:31|PrimeGrid|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 508]
01/05/2007 23:02:33|PrimeGrid|File primegrid_llr_wrapper_5.06_windows_intelx86.exe exists already, skipping download
01/05/2007 23:02:33|PrimeGrid|File primegrid_llr_5.06_windows_intelx86.exe.orig exists already, skipping download
01/05/2007 23:02:33|PrimeGrid|[file_xfer] Started download of file llrTPS_2609704
01/05/2007 23:02:33|PrimeGrid|[file_xfer] Started download of file llr.ini.orig
01/05/2007 23:02:34|PrimeGrid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file llrTPS_2609704
01/05/2007 23:02:34|PrimeGrid|[file_xfer] Throughput 975 bytes/sec
01/05/2007 23:02:34|PrimeGrid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file llr.ini.orig
01/05/2007 23:02:34|PrimeGrid|[file_xfer] Throughput 10900 bytes/sec
01/05/2007 23:02:36|PrimeGrid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work
01/05/2007 23:02:36|PrimeGrid|Requesting 246 seconds of new work
01/05/2007 23:02:41|PrimeGrid|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 508]
01/05/2007 23:02:43|PrimeGrid|[file_xfer] Started download of file llrTPS_2609710
01/05/2007 23:02:44|PrimeGrid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file llrTPS_2609710
01/05/2007 23:02:44|PrimeGrid|[file_xfer] Throughput 928 bytes/sec
01/05/2007 23:02:47|PrimeGrid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work
01/05/2007 23:02:47|PrimeGrid|Requesting 36 seconds of new work
01/05/2007 23:02:52|PrimeGrid|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 508]
01/05/2007 23:02:54|PrimeGrid|[file_xfer] Started download of file llrTPS_2609716
01/05/2007 23:02:55|PrimeGrid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file llrTPS_2609716
01/05/2007 23:02:55|PrimeGrid|[file_xfer] Throughput 590 bytes/sec

Attachments

simap (52.8 kB) - added by mikus on 07/31/07 20:07:25.
message log (edited) with <work_fetch_debug>

Change History

05/24/07 08:12:01 changed by davea

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to invalid.

Please set <work_fetch_debug> and send message log.

07/31/07 20:05:03 changed by mikus

  • status changed from closed to reopened.
  • resolution deleted.

I reported ticket #151, which was closed as a duplicate of #148.

I have now obtained a message log (edited to remove lines about "skipped", etc.) for a repeat of the situation I posted about, and am re-opening this.

My situation: SIMAP was marked "suspended". I unmarked it and connected. The local client (I'm running a 64-bit Linux version compiled by myself from SVN trunk on JUL 11 2007) issued multiple successively smaller work requests against SIMAP: requesting 57121 seconds, then 23618 seconds, then 11411 seconds, then 3699 seconds, then 1999 seconds (each appeared to result in the scheduling of downloads).

My question is - why not ask for a greater amount of work initially, so as to have fewer follow-on requests ?

07/31/07 20:07:25 changed by mikus

  • attachment simap added.

message log (edited) with <work_fetch_debug>

07/31/07 20:09:17 changed by Nicolas

  • component changed from Client - Daemon to Client - Work Fetch Policy.
  • description changed.

02/10/08 10:25:23 changed by Nicolas 

10/02/2008 16:19:48|PrimeGrid|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.  Requesting 8844 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
10/02/2008 16:19:53|PrimeGrid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 13 new tasks
10/02/2008 16:20:08|PrimeGrid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.  Requesting 11701 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
10/02/2008 16:20:13|PrimeGrid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 12 new tasks
10/02/2008 16:20:24|PrimeGrid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.  Requesting 6217 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
10/02/2008 16:20:29|PrimeGrid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 11 new tasks
10/02/2008 16:20:39|PrimeGrid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.  Requesting 1113 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
10/02/2008 16:20:44|PrimeGrid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 3 new tasks
10/02/2008 16:20:55|PrimeGrid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.  Requesting 120 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
10/02/2008 16:21:05|PrimeGrid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks

I'll enable work_fetch_debug and see if I can get this to happen again.

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