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Thanks for the information. I couldn't agree with you more Tim about helping their project out in the short term. In saying this I am currently not running any tasks | |
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Isn't it good if the project runs at maximum speed to get the results as fast as possible? So why do you complain? | |
ID: 2848 · Reply Quote | |
Why would anyone set up a challenge involving a project that is known to be borderline supplying WUs on a day to day basis? Where a project has a fixed limit of 600 tasks every 14 minutes and the existing volunteers process 600 tasks every 14 minutes how are you providing short term help? This is my confusion. If a project is in a position to provide a surge of tasks to coincide with the challenge then wonderful, work gets done faster, results get back to the researchers sooner, the challenge members have fun with a ready supply of tasks and everything is hunky dory but I cannot see the benefit of this to either party. | |
ID: 2850 · Reply Quote | |
Where a project has a fixed limit of 600 tasks every 14 minutes and the existing volunteers process 600 tasks every 14 minutes how are you providing short term help? This is my confusion. Because the existing volunteer pool isn't consuming the full 600 in 14 minutes is my guess as there's usually no shortage. This 'excess' is quickly eaten up with a challenge as we've seen. If the number of volunteers grow, unless the project distributes more work, clearly there's a diminishing benefit to allowing challenges. | |
ID: 2851 · Reply Quote | |
Same issue as seen in the last formula boinc sprint in 2021 http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/forum_thread.php?id=317#2363 | |
ID: 2853 · Reply Quote | |
Where a project has a fixed limit of 600 tasks every 14 minutes and the existing volunteers process 600 tasks every 14 minutes how are you providing short term help? This is my confusion. I note your comment BUT as of now (and as the Challenge comes to an end at 9pm UTC tonight) the project has Tasks ready to send 933 so, there seems to be a significant number of available tasks now and generally speaking also most days as well - and I guess that the regular volunteers have only been inconvenienced for maybe 2 or 3 days. And in the meantime, if every days full quota of available tasks have all been crunched then the project gains from this, surely? regards Tim | |
ID: 2854 · Reply Quote | |
Where a project has a fixed limit of 600 tasks every 14 minutes and the existing volunteers process 600 tasks every 14 minutes how are you providing short term help? This is my confusion. If you guess was correct then the number of available work units would grow over time but it remains fairly stable in normal circumstances so I guess your guess is incorrect :-) | |
ID: 2855 · Reply Quote | |
Where a project has a fixed limit of 600 tasks every 14 minutes and the existing volunteers process 600 tasks every 14 minutes how are you providing short term help? This is my confusion. Ignore my grumbling, I’m just a grumpy old git not getting my usual daily fix and missing it. | |
ID: 2856 · Reply Quote | |
If you guess was correct then the number of available work units would grow over time but it remains fairly stable in normal circumstances so I guess your guess is incorrect :-) No I was correct. The demand imposed by added participants exceeded the project's production, plain and simple. With the contest over the demand has once again fallen below the work units produced. This bounce back in available work units is now stabilizing. | |
ID: 2857 · Reply Quote | |
Are we running out of tasks? Only 750 tasks left | |
ID: 2948 · Reply Quote | |
New tasks are still been generated but in smaller quantity than before. Total task in progress for the past 6 hours or so has been pretty constant at around 50K mark. Watch that number and see if it goes down/up over time to determine whether the volunteers are crunching much faster than the rate of new task been created and vice versa. | |
ID: 2949 · Reply Quote | |
It shows 0 now, though maybe a few are still being generated. And Rosetta is out too. It is time for me to convert another machine to Folding. | |
ID: 2950 · Reply Quote | |
As you can see on the left side of the server status page, the gene_work_generator is not running, hence no new work is generated. | |
ID: 2951 · Reply Quote | |
Got a 'MySQL server has gone away' error, obviously unexpected. The work generator, in such cases, needs a manual kick-off... I did this as soon as I noticed it. | |
ID: 2952 · Reply Quote | |
Well the V-shaped recovery is underway | |
ID: 2953 · Reply Quote | |
Thank you. | |
ID: 2954 · Reply Quote | |
The work generator is not working. | |
ID: 2991 · Reply Quote | |
Usual problem with the external file system becoming painfully slow. I stop the work generator and the uploading, from time to time, to mitigate the problem. | |
ID: 2992 · Reply Quote | |
I have the problem since some few days, that I only get some sporadic work. Since one day my system is fetching work, but does not get any tasks. | |
ID: 3067 · Reply Quote | |
After moving to the new storage system, is the work generator still limited by the 600 WUs per 14 minutes? | |
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