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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello!
I have subscribed 2 projects, WCG and POEM@HOME, and it seems that the CPU only works on WCG. I have a task of POEM on CPU and it's waiting. How can I change the priority in order to have 50/50 WCG and POEM? Thank you :) |
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Former Member
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Hello LouisH,
I don't know. Lets start with some more info. How long does your profile crunch WCG and how long POEM? What priority have you assigned each project? Have you ever crunched POEM successfully? What happens when you SUSPEND WCG? What version of BOINC? What sort of system / OS? Lawrence |
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CandymanWCG
Senior Cruncher Romania Joined: Dec 20, 2010 Post Count: 421 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi LouisH,
----------------------------------------By default, every project has a weight (you can find that for WCG on your device profile page, at the bottom) of 100, which means that if you are only involved in 2 projects and both have 100 as weight, that will result in a 50/50 priority, so you're already there! Also, at the bottom of the page of your device profile, you will find a setting called "Switch between applications every..." and that is where you can set how often do you want Boinc to pause a project and switch to the other. Hope this helps. Cheers! Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world! - Albert Einstein   [Edit 1 times, last edit by CandymanWCG at Oct 10, 2012 5:13:24 AM] |
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mikey
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Hello! I have subscribed 2 projects, WCG and POEM@HOME, and it seems that the CPU only works on WCG. I have a task of POEM on CPU and it's waiting. How can I change the priority in order to have 50/50 WCG and POEM? Thank you :) I wrote "Not requesting tasks: project is not highest priority" about the problem on another project and the Project Admin wrote me this: "Hello, Maybe this post helps explaining the new scheduling feature of BOINC Client v7: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=7467. There's also some links that are worth following for more information about new work fetch settings. So it seems to be a normal "error" to get in v7 when BOINC Client doesn't want to fetch work for that project because some other project deserves crunching time at the moment. Recommendations for a remedy range from waiting few weeks to see how things balance out to fiddling with work fetch preferences in the client. In any case they recommend to stop micromanaging the client work buffers and just let BOINC Client do it's thing. You could also enable work_fetch_debug debug flag to hopefully see why BOINC Client makes the decisions that it makes. For more information, please read http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration#Logging_flags. So to summarize, this is not something a project can control from server side or even in application code, AFAIK. It's all handled internally in the BOINC Client." In short this is a Boinc thing and I seem to remember seeing something about Boinc using total credits for the work fetch priority. I am not so sure this is true though unless they are NOT separating the cpu and cpu work fetch rules as I ONLY crunch for one gpu project, UNLESS they are counting WCG and its Beta in that.   |
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Former Member
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In one way, using credit as the basis for computing resources share is, that if 1 project inflates credit, it will work for it to get less time... LoL. Here come the micromanagers, as of course, that [relatively more time on the lower *paying* projects] will go against the credit hunting grain. They'll continue their project/task suspend strategies, because crunching is not about set and forget and let BOINC manage, but looking great-er [for some ;>].
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mikey
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In one way, using credit as the basis for computing resources share is, that if 1 project inflates credit, it will work for it to get less time... LoL. Here come the micromanagers, as of course, that [relatively more time on the lower *paying* projects] will go against the credit hunting grain. They'll continue their project/task suspend strategies, because crunching is not about set and forget and let BOINC manage, but looking great-er [for some ;>]. You ARE correct! Boinc is DESIGNED to be a set and forget type program and for most people that works best by far! For a few people though, it could just be their personality getting in the way too, it just doesn't do it the 'right way'. This is common with EVERY program that someone else writes without us being the person telling them how to do it! Why does it do it THAT way? I wouldn't have done THAT! WHY is that there and not over there? Etc, etc, etc is the mantra of the micro-manager I am afraid. Some people will just never be satisfied with someone elses program. As you said Boinc works BEST if left alone to do its own thing! |
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