Inaccurate Requests for Work
Anonymous
23 Feb 2005 7:06:51 UTC
Topic 12652
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> On my account, work is being requested more often than is required. I now have
> three WU in the queue. It is taking me about 16 hours to complete one unit. In
> one case, two WU were requested and received withing one minute of each other.
> When units are completed, a message is sent stating that I have less than 0.1
> days (2.4 hours) of work left. This is obviously inaccurate as I had at least
> 32 hours of work left.
>
> Initially, I had one WU, then two, and now three. Is there logic in this
> growth? Is this planned behavior or an anomaly that needs fixing? The 0.1 day
> request indicates that about 2.4 hours before my 16 hour completion time is
> reached, a second WU would be requested. I would then have two WU for the 2.4
> overlap time. When the first WU was completed, another would not be requested,
> because I had one waiting. Work on the second would begin and progress for
> 13.6 hours and the cycle repeated. But, this is not what is happening.
>
> The following is a copy of the terminal log.
>
> 2005-02-21 11:15:49 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.19 for
> powerpc-apple-darwin
> 2005-02-21 11:15:49 [Einstein@Home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home;
> using your defaults
> 2005-02-21 11:15:49 [Einstein@Home] Host ID is 23698
> 2005-02-21 11:15:49 [---] General prefs: from Einstein@Home (last modified
> 2005-02-19 21:59:28)
> 2005-02-21 11:15:49 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using
> your defaults
> 2005-02-21 11:15:49 [Einstein@Home] Resuming computation for result
> H1_0811.9__0812.3_0.1_T00_Test02_2 using einstein version 4.78
> 2005-02-21 12:03:39 [---] May run out of work in 0.10 days; requesting more
> 2005-02-21 12:03:39 [Einstein@Home] Requesting 8372 seconds of work
> 2005-02-21 12:03:39 [Einstein@Home] Sending request to scheduler:
> http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
> 2005-02-21 12:03:41 [Einstein@Home] Scheduler RPC to
> http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi failed
> 2005-02-21 12:03:41 [Einstein@Home] Scheduler RPC to
> http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi failed
> 2005-02-21 12:03:41 [Einstein@Home] No schedulers responded
> 2005-02-21 12:03:41 [Einstein@Home] No schedulers responded
> 2005-02-21 12:03:41 [Einstein@Home] Deferring communication with project for 1
> minutes and 0 seconds
> 2005-02-21 12:03:41 [Einstein@Home] Deferring communication with project for 1
> minutes and 0 seconds
> 2005-02-21 12:04:42 [---] May run out of work in 0.10 days; requesting more
> 2005-02-21 12:04:42 [Einstein@Home] Requesting 8449 seconds of work
> 2005-02-21 12:04:42 [Einstein@Home] Sending request to scheduler:
> http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
> 2005-02-21 12:04:49 [Einstein@Home] Scheduler RPC to
> http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi succeeded
> 2005-02-21 12:04:49 [Einstein@Home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home;
> using your defaults
> adding: H1_0811.9__0812.3_0.1_T00_Test02_2_0 (deflated 62%)
> 2005-02-21 13:47:45 [Einstein@Home] Computation for result
> H1_0811.9__0812.3_0.1_T00_Test02 finished
> 2005-02-21 13:47:45 [Einstein@Home] Starting result
> H1_0811.9__0812.3_0.1_T01_Test02_0 using einstein version 4.78
> 2005-02-21 13:47:45 [Einstein@Home] Started upload of
> H1_0811.9__0812.3_0.1_T00_Test02_2_0
> 2005-02-21 13:47:49 [Einstein@Home] Finished upload of
> H1_0811.9__0812.3_0.1_T00_Test02_2_0
> 2005-02-21 13:47:49 [Einstein@Home] Throughput 265088 bytes/sec
> 2005-02-22 04:02:01 [---] May run out of work in 0.10 days; requesting more
> 2005-02-22 04:02:01 [Einstein@Home] Requesting 8378 seconds of work
> 2005-02-22 04:02:01 [Einstein@Home] Sending request to scheduler:
> http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
> 2005-02-22 04:02:04 [Einstein@Home] Scheduler RPC to
> http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi succeeded
> adding: H1_0811.9__0812.3_0.1_T01_Test02_0_0 (deflated 62%)
> 2005-02-22 05:51:37 [Einstein@Home] Computation for result
> H1_0811.9__0812.3_0.1_T01_Test02 finished
> 2005-02-22 05:51:37 [Einstein@Home] Starting result
> H1_0811.9__0812.4_0.1_T01_Test02_3 using einstein version 4.78
> 2005-02-22 05:51:37 [Einstein@Home] Started upload of
> H1_0811.9__0812.3_0.1_T01_Test02_0_0
> 2005-02-22 05:51:41 [Einstein@Home] Finished upload of
> H1_0811.9__0812.3_0.1_T01_Test02_0_0
> 2005-02-22 05:51:41 [Einstein@Home] Throughput 336847 bytes/sec
> 2005-02-22 20:59:17 [---] May run out of work in 0.10 days; requesting more
> 2005-02-22 20:59:17 [Einstein@Home] Requesting 8383 seconds of work
> 2005-02-22 20:59:18 [Einstein@Home] Sending request to scheduler:
> http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
> 2005-02-22 20:59:19 [Einstein@Home] Scheduler RPC to
> http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi succeeded
I'll look into this. I agree that you shouldn't be getting issued more WU in this case.
Bruce