deadlines are too short
20 Aug 2012 8:30:59 UTC
Topic 196488
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Hi,
My computer runs both Seti and Einstein. Sometime the job piece from Einstein requires 60+ hours to calculate, but deadline is only two weeks, so jobs from Einstein are frequently run in "high priority" which displaces other job pieces in the Boinc. Can you make the job pieces smaller or extend their deadlines? so, every job has a chance to be done regularly?
deadlines are too short
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One possible solution is to decrease your workbuffer size in the settings (usage of network)
Just don't run BRP4s on your
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Just don't run BRP4s on your i3, you can select which work you want to run in the project preferences.
Check only the Gravitational Wave S6 LineVeto search, these are the shortest.
Mind, the 60+ hours that it shows is an estimate. As you've seen from the one you ran, it runs for about 127,320 seconds or ~35 hours. BOINC will need to run a couple of these before it learns how long these tasks are and then it will stop running them in panic mode. You just have to have patience about that. Or not run these tasks, if you can't have the patience.
I have run Einstein on a i3-530, all available work, for about a year. My BOINC was set to only do calculations between 9pm and 7am, to save electricity. It never missed a deadline on any of the projects that I ran.
RE: Hi, Can you make the
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We cannot make BRP4 jobs arbitarily short, for the following reason: BRP tasks may be scheduled to ither CPUs or GPUs, he workunits and results are the same). While one of those can take 30+ hours on your CPU, they run only about 900 seconds or less (15 minutes) on a very fast GPU. if we made the tasks even smaller, our project server would be overwhelmed with scheduler requests to submit finished work and request new work by those fast GPU hosts.
So unfortunately we cannot help from this end, and I suggest to follow Jord's advise.
Cheers
HB