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Message 106309 - Posted: 5 Dec 2021, 0:06:10 UTC

I'm looking for the reason for two errored Universe tasks because of:

"Process still present 5 min after writing finish file; aborting"

https://universeathome.pl/universe/result.php?resultid=182944576
https://universeathome.pl/universe/result.php?resultid=182857644

And what might be the solution?

This is on a new Raspberry Pi 4 host. I'm only running on 3 of the 4 cores so as to leave one core free for system housekeeping. Haven't run into similar errors on the other projects running on the host.
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Message 106310 - Posted: 5 Dec 2021, 2:01:59 UTC - in response to Message 106309.  

Have any tasks finished OK?

The 2nd post in this thread is about the same message: Very short tasks

Perhaps try just one, and see if it works.
At least it will provide some data to think about.
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Message 106311 - Posted: 5 Dec 2021, 2:24:14 UTC - in response to Message 106310.  

Yes, I have finished many tasks already with no issues. The main difference between the failed ones and my successful one are the failed ones ran 1.5-2X slower than normal.
I don't have any concept of what a "short task" at LHC looks like. Never ran the project.
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Message 106312 - Posted: 5 Dec 2021, 2:48:26 UTC - in response to Message 106311.  

Sorry, it was just these 2 lines:
Process still present 5 min after writing finish file; aborting
This often indicates an overloaded system.

The other thing that I thought of, was that your 2 that failed may have been "bad" in some way when issued.
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Message 106333 - Posted: 6 Dec 2021, 23:23:19 UTC - in response to Message 106312.  
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I think it was an overloaded system. Even with only 3 cpu cores loaded by BOINC I had just started Universe up on the Pi 4 and it was running all 3 cores on Universe tasks to start the REC rebalancing against my other projects. Once the system dropped down to only 2 Universe tasks and another task from a different project the tasks all completed properly.

I have since put in a app_config restriction to two tasks so should not have the issue again going forward.

I'll call this solved.
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