Question: Details on WU upload & clearing 'Ready to report'

Message boards : BOINC client : Question: Details on WU upload & clearing 'Ready to report'
Message board moderation

To post messages, you must log in.

AuthorMessage
Heflin

Send message
Joined: 26 Jun 07
Posts: 29
Message 12274 - Posted: 2 Sep 2007, 19:44:02 UTC

Generally speaking...

When a WU is completed on a client, in the TASKS tab it is listed under STATUS as "Ready to report".

The client contacts the project upload-server & starts to transfer the result file(s). This shows up under TRANSFER tab. As well as various actions on the MESSAGES tab (started upload, defering, etc)

When the transfer is completed, the line-item on the TRANSFER tab is cleared. And 'Finished upload of...' is written to MESSAGES tab.

***But on TASKS tab, the item is still be listed under status as "Ready to report" until (assumptions follow) client contacts scheduler?-server to report upload completed which shows on MESSAGES tab as "Reporting X tasks"; "Schedule RPC succeeded..."

**Question: Is this generally correct?

Every once in a while, I'll see a WU that has completed upload, but "Ready to report" on TASK tab, Status is NEVER cleared.

I'm not concerned that that line-item on TASKS tab may take a while to clear, but after many days I start to wonder.
**Question: Once WU results file is uploaded, but before item cleared on TASKS tab, if client is permanently killed (uninstalled, detached, even WU aborted) does that negatively impact the WU or tracking of WUs?

ID: 12274 · Report as offensive
Keck_Komputers
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 29 Aug 05
Posts: 304
United States
Message 12277 - Posted: 3 Sep 2007, 6:35:41 UTC

You are generally correct.

The data is uploaded to the server as a simple file, then later it is reported to the database that the file was uploaded and where it was stored. In most cases this separation makes the system more reliable since they can be retried independently. However in the case you mention where a client is permanently killed, the result can put into limbo. The data file is there but the server does not know about it.
BOINC WIKI

BOINCing since 2002/12/8
ID: 12277 · Report as offensive
Heflin

Send message
Joined: 26 Jun 07
Posts: 29
Message 12283 - Posted: 3 Sep 2007, 20:43:27 UTC - in response to Message 12277.  

However in the case you mention where a client is permanently killed, the result can put into limbo. The data file is there but the server does not know about it.


Thanks for comfirmation!

If the client NEVER reports to server that results file was successfully uploaded, can that be corrected/resolved on the server side?


I **LOVE** BOINC's fault tolerant design of "Set it, & forget it!"
I have 3 clients that I only access every 1 or 2 years, and they just keep plugging along!!


ID: 12283 · Report as offensive
Les Bayliss
Help desk expert

Send message
Joined: 25 Nov 05
Posts: 1654
Australia
Message 12284 - Posted: 3 Sep 2007, 20:58:44 UTC


Hi Heflin
I hope that you're not running cpdn on a computer that hasn't been looked at for a few years.

There are several people 'in this boat' who have BOINC version 4.19, and are just downloading models and not processing them.
This is because, for about a year and a half, the latest models need a BOINC version 5.* to work. There's a growing list of people being found with hundreds to thousands of models just sitting on their 'forget about it' computers.

ID: 12284 · Report as offensive
Heflin

Send message
Joined: 26 Jun 07
Posts: 29
Message 12340 - Posted: 6 Sep 2007, 17:46:07 UTC - in response to Message 12284.  

cpdn


IF cpdn is the 'BBC Climate Change Experiment', then those clients are not attached to that project. I'm surprised cpdn doesn't check the version before providing a WU.

I do monitor/check on the project's web site that these remote machines are being issued WUs and returning WUs that are accepted. So far, the only issue has been client machines being turned off for long periods of time which most projects & BOINC seem to handle very well.
ID: 12340 · Report as offensive
MikeMarsUK

Send message
Joined: 16 Apr 06
Posts: 386
United Kingdom
Message 12369 - Posted: 7 Sep 2007, 20:59:07 UTC


BBC is a separate project from CPDN (although it was run by the same people).

They've already tried the setting to restrict the Boinc manager version, but it doesn't seem to help.
ID: 12369 · Report as offensive

Message boards : BOINC client : Question: Details on WU upload & clearing 'Ready to report'

Copyright © 2024 University of California.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.