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Strange Boinc Manager Task Switching Behavior
(Message 54627)
Posted 28 Jun 2014 by MossyRock Post: I'll take that back - I'm starting to worry. BM hasn't switched to POGS for three days. Eight POGS WUs (4 waiting to run, 4 ready to start) have a deadline of tomorrow, 6/29/2014 between 5:40am and 9:00am, and it still hasn't switched to them. It's now 6/28/2014 at 6:55am PST. WCG and GPUGRID are the only other two projects running. Climateprediction.net has no tasks available. It's still downloading new WCG and GPUGRID WUs and trying to get new climateprediction.net WUs. I'm going to let BM do its thing with no micro-managing from me to see what happens with the POGS WUs. BM is supposed to recognize this situation and finish WUs that are about to hit a deadline. |
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Strange Boinc Manager Task Switching Behavior
(Message 54616)
Posted 27 Jun 2014 by MossyRock Post: Gary, Thanks for your response. I suspect that climateprediction.net with its very long WUs is what tipped the cart. I'll go ahead and accept this as "normal" behavior and not worry about it. |
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Strange Boinc Manager Task Switching Behavior
(Message 54601)
Posted 26 Jun 2014 by MossyRock Post: Hello, I'm running BM ver. 7.2.42 (x64) on a Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, 8-core AMD FX-8350 machine with 8GB of memory. Everything was running smoothly when I was running just POGS and GPUGRID - there was no task switching occurring. I then added climateprediction.net and World Community Grid, so now there are four projects running. All show 25% resource share. What's happening now is POGS gets almost no compute time - the POGS tasks sit with "waiting to run" most of the time. Then, after several days, all the other projects start getting "no need" messages for new tasks, the queue dries up except for the waiting POGS tasks, and then POGS starts running. When they are done, or nearly so, the queue starts filling up again with the other projects and the cycle repeats. The switching interval is set at the default - every 60 minutes, and I have it set to use 100% of the processors, use 100% of CPU time. Computing and GPU use is allowed while computer is in use, and applications are left in memory while suspended. I've waited before writing this because I've read that BM eventually gets everything sorted and starts switching tasks normally again, but I'm not seeing this happening. This behavior has been going on for about a week. Any suggestions? |
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Collatz Conjecture Credit
(Message 51518)
Posted 24 Nov 2013 by MossyRock Post: Richard, Yes, that's me, MossyRock (the originator of this post). Thank you for the additional information. It's just hard to fathom that I can be awarded 40% of my entire usual daily RAC from a single WU that ran in just a few minutes elapsed-time (my normal daily RAC is around 20K, and this one Collatz WU gave me over 8K). No wonder people can easily rack up hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of credits a day with Collatz. |
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Collatz Conjecture Credit
(Message 51512)
Posted 24 Nov 2013 by MossyRock Post: I reviewed some the overall top BOINC performers in terms of credit and ran across a guy that has received an insane amount of credit for the number of computers running. I dug into how he achieved it and discovered that he was mainly running Collatz Conjecture. So, I attached to this project and began running WUs. I got an eye-popping 8,255 credits for one Collatz WU which required 163 CPU seconds. By comparison, I got 91 credits for one Seti@home WU which required 165 CPU seconds. Also, I got 177 credits for one POGS WU which required 7,064 CPU seconds. I'm not trying to blow a whistle here or be a party pooper, just trying to understand how or why there could be such credit award discrepancies, and why there isn't an enforced standard. My stats: Win 7 Pro 64-bit, AMD 8-core CPU, 8GB memory, BOINC Manager version 7.2.28 Thanks. |
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Controlling BOINC when running under unprivileged account
(Message 50927)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by MossyRock Post: Richard, Ok, I understand. To keep things simple, when these CPDN models finish, I will re-install BOINC so that it runs in user mode. Thanks. |
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Controlling BOINC when running under unprivileged account
(Message 50924)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by MossyRock Post: Claggy, Sorry - my bad. Windows 7 Pro 64-bit Boinc Version 7.0.64 (x64) mxWidgets Version 2.8.10 Installation: Protected application execution; all other options were left at default values. Currently running Climateprediction.net models Does this give enough information? Thanks. |
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Controlling BOINC when running under unprivileged account
(Message 50917)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by MossyRock Post: Ok, I didn't hear from anyone so I tried unticking the "Run Manager at Login" box and rebooted. After rebooting, the manager didn't start, but my BOINC tasks were started up again under the unprivileged account "boinc_project". Is there any way to prevent them from automatically starting when you are configured to run BOINC under an unprivileged account, and if so, a way to start them when you want them to run? |
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Controlling BOINC when running under unprivileged account
(Message 50903)
Posted 19 Oct 2013 by MossyRock Post: Hello, I have the current version of BOINC installed to run under an unpriviledged account. BOINC automatically starts running when I restart my machine. This is causing a problem because I frequently do O/S work/testing that requires frequent reboots. I would like BOINC to NOT start automatically and would like to be able to start it when I want it to run. Before I start experimenting with this and possibly screw something up, would I untick the "Run Manager at Login?" box in the BOINC manager options, just as I would do for a regular BOINC installation? And, when I want to start BOINC, do I just double-click the BOINC icon? Thank you. |
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