making the deadline...
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 Om Send message Joined: 18 Feb 20 Posts: 16 Credit: 777,076 RAC: 0 |
The way it looks, I'm going to have a bunch of WU's that won't make the deadline. I originally set it up for 3 days of work, which has since been changed to 1 day of work. Will BOINC be able to sort this out, or will I have to abort the WU's that won't make the deadline? Any insight would be appreciated! |
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Mod.Sense Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 22 Aug 06 Posts: 4018 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
The BOINC Manager will sort it out, but you may prefer to do it yourself. I would first mark R@h for no new work, then go ahead and "abort" any WUs that have not yet begun processing. Then perhaps adjust the preference for how many days of work you want to download. Then allow new work for the project again. The BOINC Manager will get a better understanding of the processing time as it completes the first few, and should be more accurate in the future on matching the work requests to the request size of your cache of work. Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense |
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D J Blumer Send message Joined: 6 Nov 05 Posts: 3 Credit: 48,688,496 RAC: 37,377 
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Has the deadline for workunits been decreased lately? I now am getting ones with deadlines within 1- 2 days of when I receive them. I noticed that some are not completing in time anymore, which seldom, if ever, happened in all the many years I've run R@h. I have shortened the downloaded days of work to 1 day from the 2 days I had until now. I hope that solves the problem. I wasted quite a bit of computer time on results that were declared invalid due to missing the deadline. |
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Mod.Sense Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 22 Aug 06 Posts: 4018 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
The project has always had a mix of 7+ day deadlines and 3 day deadlines. There have been some batches of WUs failing very quickly. This caused some folks' BOINC Manager to request too many WUs. By that, I mean that if they had a WU cache of 2 days, like you, they might actually get 5 or 7 days worth of work (which then had 3 day deadlines). Reducing your cache size as you described is ideal. The BOINC Manager will realign itself as it sees successful completed WUs. Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense |
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 28 Mar 20 Posts: 1481 Credit: 14,594,347 RAC: 15,036 
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I have shortened the downloaded days of work to 1 day from the 2 days I had until now. I hope that solves the problem. I wasted quite a bit of computer time on results that were declared invalid due to missing the deadline.If you only run Rosetta, then Store at least 1 days of work
Store up to an additional 0.02 days of workworks well. More than one project, then "Store at least 0.5 days of work" (or less) would be better.Grant Darwin NT |
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Nicholas Hathaway Send message Joined: 20 Nov 14 Posts: 6 Credit: 791,395 RAC: 0 |
The way it looks, I'm going to have a bunch of WU's that won't make the deadline. I originally set it up for 3 days of work, which has since been changed to 1 day of work. Will BOINC be able to sort this out, or will I have to abort the WU's that won't make the deadline? I have the same problem. I have Was that say they will take 5 hours or so to run, but they are still running after 17 hours, and some now display that will take another day and a half. Indeed, they seem to increase their estimated run time! Do I have a problem or is this normal? |
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Nicholas Hathaway Send message Joined: 20 Nov 14 Posts: 6 Credit: 791,395 RAC: 0 |
My work units arrive and they say that they will take 5 hours or so to complete, however, not only are they still running some 17 hours later but they all seem to increase the estimated computing time, I have some showing 1 day and 15 hours left! None of them are going to make the deadline of today. Is there an error somewhere, is it me, is this normal? |
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 28 Mar 20 Posts: 1481 Credit: 14,594,347 RAC: 15,036
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My work units arrive and they say that they will take 5 hours or so to complete, however, not only are they still running some 17 hours later but they all seem to increase the estimated computing time, I have some showing 1 day and 15 hours left! None of them are going to make the deadline of today. Is there an error somewhere, is it me, is this normal?The default Runtime is 8 hours. Have you changed this setting in the Roesetta account, Rosetta@ home preferences? It should be, Target CPU run time not selectedto use the default of 8 hours. What are your settings under Computing preferences? How do they differ from these settings? Computing
Usage limits
Use at most 100% of the CPUs
Use at most 100% of CPU time
When to suspend
Suspend when computer is on battery (not selected)
Suspend when computer is in use (not selected)
Suspend GPU computing when computer is in use (not selected)
'In use' means mouse/keyboard input in last 3 minutes
Suspend when no mouse/keyboard input in last --- minutes
Suspend when non-BOINC CPU usage is above --- %
Compute only between ---
Other
Store at least 1 days of work
Store up to an additional 0.02 days of work
Switch between tasks every 60 minutes
Request tasks to checkpoint at most every 60 seconds
Disk
Use no more than 20 GB
Leave at least 2 GB free
Use no more than 60 % of total
Memory
When computer is in use, use at most 95 %
When computer is not in use, use at most 95 %
Leave non-GPU tasks in memory while suspended (not selected)
Page/swap file: use at most 75 %Anything that suspends work will result in things taking much longer to finish (though the CPU time & Runtime will still be whatever you have selected, but there is a 3 day deadline so a Task needs to finish before then.And on one of your Tasks it shows the CPU is doing things other than processing BOINC work, as well & stopping & starting work several times. Run time 17 hours 5 min 4 sec CPU time 15 hours 28 min 36 secOver 16 hours, the difference between CPU time & Runtime shouldn't be much more than 5min or so unless the system is doing a lot of other things, or you have "Use at most 100% of CPU time" set to less than 100%. Grant Darwin NT |
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Tom Coradeschi Send message Joined: 11 Mar 20 Posts: 16 Credit: 123,703 RAC: 0 |
My work units arrive and they say that they will take 5 hours or so to complete, however, not only are they still running some 17 hours later but they all seem to increase the estimated computing time, I have some showing 1 day and 15 hours left! None of them are going to make the deadline of today. Is there an error somewhere, is it me, is this normal?The default Runtime is 8 hours. Have you changed this setting in the Roesetta account, Rosetta@ home preferences? It should be,Target CPU run time not selectedto use the default of 8 hours. Umm, I'm totally missing where you find this setting. Can you help me figure it out? |
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Tom Coradeschi Send message Joined: 11 Mar 20 Posts: 16 Credit: 123,703 RAC: 0 |
My work units arrive and they say that they will take 5 hours or so to complete, however, not only are they still running some 17 hours later but they all seem to increase the estimated computing time, I have some showing 1 day and 15 hours left! None of them are going to make the deadline of today. Is there an error somewhere, is it me, is this normal?The default Runtime is 8 hours. Have you changed this setting in the Roesetta account, Rosetta@ home preferences? It should be,Target CPU run time not selectedto use the default of 8 hours. Ah. It's a server side setting? |
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 28 Mar 20 Posts: 1481 Credit: 14,594,347 RAC: 15,036
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On the top of this page, click on your name, that will take you to your account, then under Preferences, Preferences for this project- Rosetta@home preferences. Click on that, then the Edit preferences near the bottom & you can select the Target CPU Runtime, or select "Not selected" to use the project default. Then click on Update preferences to save the changes.Umm, I'm totally missing where you find this setting. Can you help me figure it out?Ah. It's a server side setting? The next time the Manager contacts Rosetta it will get the new settings, or if you have Rosetta selected and manually select Update it will get them then. I have had 2 Tasks run longer than the Target CPU time so far today, but they've been the only ones i've come across in the last few weeks. NB- any locally set preferences will override any web based preferences. Grant Darwin NT |
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Nicholas Hathaway Send message Joined: 20 Nov 14 Posts: 6 Credit: 791,395 RAC: 0 |
My work units arrive and they say that they will take 5 hours or so to complete, however, not only are they still running some 17 hours later but they all seem to increase the estimated computing time, I have some showing 1 day and 15 hours left! None of them are going to make the deadline of today. Is there an error somewhere, is it me, is this normal?The default Runtime is 8 hours. Have you changed this setting in the Roesetta account, Rosetta@ home preferences? It should be,Target CPU run time not selectedto use the default of 8 hours. |
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Nicholas Hathaway Send message Joined: 20 Nov 14 Posts: 6 Credit: 791,395 RAC: 0 |
In the end I 'reset' the project by means of the 'Reset' button, and it is working normally now. Thank you. |
sangham Send message Joined: 19 Mar 20 Posts: 4 Credit: 26,251 RAC: 0 |
Hello, I ran exactly into the same problem as DJ Blume. How can I adjust the settings to 1 Day workload? Unfortunately I cannot afford wasting that much computation time. Thank you. |
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sangham Send message Joined: 19 Mar 20 Posts: 4 Credit: 26,251 RAC: 0 |
ok, if it's this here, I found it: Store at least 1 days of work (that was 0,1 days of work and 0,5 in addition before). I changed to settings quoted above - is that what you meant by ideal solution? |
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 28 Mar 20 Posts: 1481 Credit: 14,594,347 RAC: 15,036
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0,4 days of work and 0,02 additional days would be better choices if you want to carry around half a days days worth of work.Store at least 1 days of work(that was 0,1 days of work and 0,5 in addition before). One of the issues is that the Estimated completion times tend to be a fair bit less than reality, so people und up with more work than they want (and often more work than they can possibly do). And if your system spends a lot of time doing things other than just Rosetta, then the time it takes to actually do a Task is longer than the Target Time. So a very small cache (0.5 days, or even next to no cache; eg 0.2) is best. Give it a week or so to see how things are going & then adjust things further if necessary. Grant Darwin NT |
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sangham Send message Joined: 19 Mar 20 Posts: 4 Credit: 26,251 RAC: 0 |
ok, thank you Grant |
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