"Error" message "Got request to delete file: H1_xxxx.x"
Anonymous
6 Feb 2005 16:10:58 UTC
Topic 12457
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> ANyone know what happens when you receive this message?
>
> I seem to have 5 Einstein WU's in the queue but BOINC doesn't seem to want to
> crunch these and instead I seem to be crunching for one other project (CPDN)
> 100% (even though the prefs for the 2 projects are set at 50/50.)
>
> Weird..!!
There are two possibilities:
(1) There is no work left for this data file that can be done on the computer. So the file is deleted.
(2) There is no disk space left for Einstein@Home to use on your machine. So Einstein@Home is trying to make space by deleting data files. If this is the case either make some more disk space on your machine, or alternatively modify the 'preferences' under 'Your Account' so that BOINC can use more disk space.
Bruce
"Error" message "Got request to delete file: H1_x
)
> > There are two possibilities:
> >
> > (1) There is no work left for this data file that can be done on the
> computer.
> > So the file is deleted.
> >
> > (2) There is no disk space left for Einstein@Home to use on your machine.
> So
> > Einstein@Home is trying to make space by deleting data files. If this is
> the
> > case either make some more disk space on your machine, or alternatively
> modify
> > the 'preferences' under 'Your Account' so that BOINC can use more disk
> space.
> >
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
>
> Well I think there's a third scenario because:
>
> 1) The 5 WU's are now being crunched - so there was work to be done - 2 have
> now been returned, but they were crunched AFTER the deadline passed and AFTER
> other WU's were downloaded from other projects (I'd kept BOINC disabled from
> accessing the network, hoping to force BOINC to crunch these 5 WU's before the
> deadline, but it didn't work and the Einstein WU's just sat there with no
> resource share given to them - all the resource went to CPDN (which was the
> only other project running, as could be seen by the zero CPU time given to
> Einstein WU's).
>
> Only once BOINC received other WU's (from SETI and Predictor projects) did
> BOINC start crunching the Einstein WU's).
>
> 2) There's bags of disk space - around 2 Gb free for BOINC.
>
>
> What can be happening and why doesnt BOINC crunch data with earlier Report
> Deadlines" before other WU's with much later deadlines. After all, BOINC
> should "know" how long it takes to crunch respective projects WU's on each
> host, so it should be able to ensure that WU's with a deadline coming soon,
> should receive priority.
>
> (Of course, I recognise that some projects could set very short deadlines and
> hence they would then essentially take over the host, because these WU's would
> always get priority - but surely that's down to whoever "designed" BOINC to
> ensure a level playing field).
I'm replying to the original subject of this thread: "Error" message "Got request to delete file: H1_xxxx.x", not to the subsequent thread about resource share.
Bruce