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Thread: Does selecting Abort under the Transfer Tab delete the work unit? |
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Former Member
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Hi,
When I highlighted the top task under the Transfer Tab & clicked retry, the time till upload kept resetting. I highlighted all tasks & chose abort. I thought it would be quicker to go into the Tasks Tab & resend each completed work unit. I clicked the Tasks Tab & all the completed items were listed, but when I right right-clicked on any of the completed units there were not any Context Menu options. I looked for an option to re-send the tasks back into the Transfer Queue in the Menu Headings, but couldn't find it. While I was looking for an option to reinitiate uploading the competed work the entire column of finished work under the Tasks Tab vanished. Did I delete all the work that had been completed?  |
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Former Member
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"I thought" and sadly they are no more. 'Abort' is final. Don't know the history as to why the option even exists in the transfer window and not being exclusive to the task view and let the abort option there take care of a cleanup.
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Mike.Gibson
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My guess is it is there to abort downloads. We definitely don't want to waste crunching time by aborting completed work.
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deltavee
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I have aborted uploads when they have become stuck and I've gotten this message: "no work sent, too many uploads in progress". At this point the cache runs dry until I abort the transfering WUs (after exhausting all other remedies).
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Former Member
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I agree that the Transfers tab could do with some re-work. The Tasks tab allows Suspend as well as Abort, and something similar would be useful on the Transfers tab.
What I tend to do on the odd occasion is to go to Options -> Computing preferences... and on the Network tab set the 'Limit upload rate to' field to something very low. After a while the transfers seem to get tied up in knots and go into a pending state. You can then put the transfer rate back up to normal and hit Retry Now for any ones you want to push through. That's all very messy, and a user button to put seleccted transfers into that state (perhaps with a limited, several hour, delay rather than indefinite suspension?) would be a lot easier. |
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Former Member
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My thinking is that a file should only be 'upload aborted' in the transfer window if it got orphaned, no longer part of a result listed in the tasks window. Any file aborted, some results having 8 or more, and it renders the rest useless. Take your pick which is which in a pileup. Does it even ask 'Are you sure?'
A 'Restart' would be great, with a message runner to the server to tell to drop what it already had and start anew for those cases that seem to be stuck. |
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Former Member
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Learn and weep. When using the official BOINC Manager and having a file in the transfer window selected, putting the mouse over the 'Abort Transfer' button, no doubt at all is left, provided the reading takes place for a hover text appears
"Abort this file transfer. You won't get credit for the task". Think this QED's the OP. |
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Former Member
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Hi,
Please answer the question. Does the abort transfer essentially delete the completed work units in the transfer queue? Y N lavaflow: I'm sorry. I don't know what, "Abort Transfer' button, no doubt at all is left", means. lavaflow: There was nothing in the queue that indicated the files were orphaned. Is there something about the file appearance or naming in the queue that indicates an orphaned file? lavaflow: The impression I receive from your posts is the Abort button essentially deletes completed work units in the transfer queue. What I am not receiving is are the units deleted or is there a clear work around ? If I ask this question in BOINC community I might be referred back to WCG. Apis Tintinnambulator: My computer isn't powerful enough to create a queue length that would be affected by upload speed, usually. I was being impatient during a peak time. At most the largest number of completed work units in the transfer queue is approximately twenty-five |
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Former Member
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Does the abort transfer essentially delete the completed work units in the transfer queue? Y N Y [Edit 1 times, last edit by Doneske at Feb 19, 2020 6:51:54 PM] |
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Former Member
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Digi-U wrote 1
----------------------------------------When I highlighted the top task under the Transfer Tab & clicked retry, the time till upload kept resetting. I highlighted all tasks & chose abort. Digi-U wrote 2 Does the abort transfer essentially delete the completed work units in the transfer queue? Y N Digi-U wrote 3 I'm sorry. I don't know what, "Abort Transfer' button, no doubt at all is left", means. Something is getting very lost in translation I suppose. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Feb 19, 2020 10:26:34 PM] |
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