Posts by Werinbert

21) Message boards : BOINC client : My Wish List (Message 49600)
Posted 13 Jun 2013 by Werinbert
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Ageless, thanks for the quick feedback.
1. when you've upgraded or downgraded the client.
2. when you've exited & restarted the client, after it has run for 5 days or more.

Since BOINC 7.0, BOINC leaves GPU tasks in memory when doing benchmarks.


So I understand correctly...
Running it after client changes makes sense, no wories there.
But #2...
Is it
a) running the benchmarks every 5 days regardless of start/restart of client?
b) running the benchmark after a restart of the client (i) immediatley, (ii) after 5 days after the restart, or (iii) only after restart if 5 days of continuious running pass prior to the restart?

I ask because I had two different computers run benchmarks today. One I restarted in the morning, auto benchmarking about 5-1/2 hour later. The other has been running for days non-stop.

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BOINC might leave the GPU tasks in memory, but it still somehow messed up the GPU runs, returning errors. It may be app dependent as a number of GPU apps are also using the CPU concurrently. Possibly an error is generated if a GPU looks for the CPU, but the CPU is offline due to benchmarking.

22) Message boards : BOINC client : My Wish List (Message 49595)
Posted 13 Jun 2013 by Werinbert
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Get rid of the automatic benchmarking, it only causes problems...it runs while I am actively doing other activities with my computer generating erroneous benchmarks...it clears the GPU wu in the middle of a long run thus restarting the wu from scatch...

Actually that brings up another wish...separate CPUs from GPUs in terms of scheduling and such. Square peg in round hole.
23) Message boards : Web interfaces : [wish] auto subscribe threads with posts (Message 49209)
Posted 19 May 2013 by Werinbert
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I would like to be able to auto subscribe threads that I have started or posted to. This should have a toggle in the user preference interface so people may choose to use this feature or not.
24) Message boards : Questions and problems : Credit: openning a can of worms... (Message 49100)
Posted 13 May 2013 by Werinbert
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I have recently upgraded BOINC. After seeing the major differences between requested credit and final credit I am left wondering something...

Between the various versions of BOINC there are various forms of computing credit. What is the significance of someone running a task and requesting credit based on "newCredit" vs. someone running a task and requesting credit based on one of the "oldCredits"?

I know many projects have gotten away from the default BOINC credit altogether. Many of the smaller projects, however, still use the "smallest of multiple runs" method to compute final credit.
25) Message boards : Questions and problems : Semi-exclusive apps (Message 49004)
Posted 6 May 2013 by Werinbert
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With normal everyday computer usage, BONIC runs just fine at 100%. However throughout the day I am often using apps that don't play nice with BOINC at 100%. When I use the Exclusive Applications tab in the preferences, starting those apps completely stop BOINC. And when I am idleing in the app, BOINC is not working, CPU and GPU.

After some tests I realize that I can set CPU to something like 60% cpus, 100% time and run my apps just fine. And the GPU contuinues to function at full speed. Unfortunately, it is becoming tedious to always go to BOINC Manager to switch the processor %.

Is there a way to set in the preferences (BOINC manager, or internal xml files) a semi-exclusive app, that will change the %CPU and %time, but not stop BOINC entirely, and that BOINC goes back to the defaults when the app is no longer running (like exclusive apps)?

Is it reasonable to ask that this be added as a feature in future updates to BOINC?
26) Message boards : BOINC client : Scheduling priority (question and wish list) (Message 47163)
Posted 10 Jan 2013 by Werinbert
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The inter project debt-system is now credit/points based and prioritized to do a single project bulk download **, process the work and move on to the next project...


Sort explains the current semi-fiasco on my secondary computer. I was running two projects at 300 and 50 weighting respectively, and added a third at 100. This third project downloaded a single task and processed it then the manager proceeded to download 20 more tasks; a whopping 10 days of work when I only had my cache/buffers set for 2 days min and 0.1 days extra. This is on top of all the work that I still had accrued for my other two projects. (This computer is also the one that is not running 24/7 so we'll see if I can get the results out in a timely manner without aborting/over-running the deadline.)
27) Message boards : BOINC client : Scheduling priority (question and wish list) (Message 47157)
Posted 10 Jan 2013 by Werinbert
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Thanks, unfortunately that is not what I am looking for. I am hoping to get a better grasp on how BOINC comes up with its scheduling. Which is forward looking rather than backward looking as your script would do. I am also hoping that there would be some quick and easy metric shown in the Manager that would give me a rough idea what the next task or next couple of tasks that would be run.

Most of the FAQ, info pages, and threads are about the older version of BOINC (6) and not about the curent one (7). This is probably why I thought that there might still be the short/long-term debts. Again does anyone know what the value of the sheduling priority represents?

And thanks for the insight to the job_log files.
28) Message boards : BOINC client : Scheduling priority (question and wish list) (Message 47152)
Posted 9 Jan 2013 by Werinbert
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I am running BOINC 7.0.28

Clicking to BOINC manager > Project tab > Properties command

Question:
First line under Scheduling it says "scheduling priority" what does this value actually represent. It always seems negative (except when a project has no work and is suspended, in which case it is 0). Assuming that this is the priority in identifying which projects get run, the values do not seem to correlate to the projects being proccessed (i.e. sometimes the project is a greater negative, sometimes not). I compared GPU vs GPU and CPU vs CPU projects (I am not running any individual project on both CPU and GPU on the same computer).

Wish list:
Is it possible to add the long-term and short-term debts to this command screen to:
1) make it easier to tweek my machines to better match my desired overall project balancing (especially over multiple machines), and
2) present an easier to read metric that new users can look up and see that the computer is in fact trying to balance the projects. For now new users have to take our word for it that the computer is in fact balancing and will be balanced in the long run.


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