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kwolff88
Cruncher Joined: Dec 31, 2004 Post Count: 19 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The BOINC client automatically increases the time between polls when it's not getting work. The only way to get around that is to have a script running in the background which runs the "update" command on a timer. WCG requests 121 seconds, so you'd set it to something like 122 seconds and have it loop in the background.
----------------------------------------Or, you could wait for them to start issuing more WUs. Of course, none of us want to wait  [Edit 1 times, last edit by kwolff88 at Apr 11, 2021 5:50:17 PM] |
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p51d
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Well, between such little production and the script suckers at work, the kitties' GPU is still running cold. The kitties are not greedy, they would just like a little bit here and there. Maybe the project should limit GPU tasks sent per work request to 5 or so, to keep the script suckers at bay and give others more of a chance to get a little bit too. Meowsigh. This is hardly the only project where this issue exists, or has existed. The badge system encourages this. |
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widdershins
Veteran Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 30, 2007 Post Count: 674 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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A better solution would be to change the rest of the CPU tasks over to GPU ones. The same number would be sent from the researchers to be processed per day, but they'd be done faster, and the freed up CPU cycles could then be used to crunch WU's to further the other worthwhile projects here.
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Andrew80431
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I'd need help for getting some GPU tasks. For past five days, I've got only four tasks. It seems that my client wont poll for new tasks too often... it's already on hour from last poll. Is there a way to make client connect more often? You could try this on the command line. Simply go to /var/lib/boinc and run: while (true); do sudo -u boinc boinccmd --project "http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/" update; echo "Update triggered $(date)"; sleep 300; done That should do the trick...  |
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Andyman
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I'd need help for getting some GPU tasks. For past five days, I've got only four tasks. It seems that my client wont poll for new tasks too often... it's already on hour from last poll. Is there a way to make client connect more often? You could try this on the command line. Simply go to /var/lib/boinc and run: while (true); do sudo -u boinc boinccmd --project "http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/" update; echo "Update triggered $(date)"; sleep 300; done That should do the trick... Is there a Windows version of that trick? |
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Andrew80431
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I'd need help for getting some GPU tasks. For past five days, I've got only four tasks. It seems that my client wont poll for new tasks too often... it's already on hour from last poll. Is there a way to make client connect more often? You could try this on the command line. Simply go to /var/lib/boinc and run: while (true); do sudo -u boinc boinccmd --project "http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/" update; echo "Update triggered $(date)"; sleep 300; done That should do the trick... Is there a Windows version of that trick? Actually it is not a trick. Try this: Open "cmd" and cd to "c:\Program Files (x86)\BOINC\" then run: FOR /L %N IN () DO @date /t & time /t & boinccmd --project "http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/" update & timeout 300 > NULGood luck. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Andrew80431 at Apr 12, 2021 7:40:42 AM] |
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biini
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Jan 25, 2007 Post Count: 334 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thanks Andrew and kwolff! Made a simple windows scripts and scheduled it to run every 5mins. Now I got a batch of 15 gpu WUs , and my gpu is happy for the next 30mins :-)
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Dayle Diamond
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I agree with Kittyman.
Unless we've got explicit approval from the WCG staff to request GPU work every two minutes, indefinitely, I'm not going participate in anything remotely similar to a DDOS attack. Ever since Beta work units were available, I started getting "Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down." I don't know what's going on server side, but it seems to coincide with whenever a batch of GPU work was released. So I'm not sure if the World Community Grid servers are ready for the most active users to start contacting them an additional thirty times an hour, per host (720/day). Especially if that activity doesn't' result in a single extra work unit being done that wouldn't otherwise be assigned and completed by a different donor. |
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Crystal Pellet
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Unless we've got explicit approval from the WCG staff to request GPU work every two minutes, indefinitely, I'm not going participate in anything remotely similar to a DDOS attack. All these comparisons to DDOS-attack are ridiculous when users are requesting work. The bandwidth / linespeed is more relevant, so all users visiting the WCG-webpages is probably more demanding than workrequests. The server(s) should easily survive requests up to 100.000 / second. |
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Richard Haselgrove
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