It's too early to tell, but Paul indeed may have won the prize: a guided tour of the UCB Space Sciences Laboratory, lunch (but not airfare) included.
-- David Richard Haselgrove wrote: > Well done Paul, I think you claim the prize: > > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/changeset/17860 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul D. Buck" <[email protected]> > To: "David Anderson" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]>; "BOINC Developers Mailing List" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:50 AM > Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] 6.6.20 and work scheduling] > > >> On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:17 PM, David Anderson wrote: >> >>> "now" is a member of CLIENT_STATE. >>> In member functions of CLIENT_STATE it's referred to as "now"; >>> elsewhere it's referred to as "gstate.now". >>> There is no function now(). >>> >>> Now that that's straightened out, maybe we can return to the issue >>> of why preemptions happen too soon. >> Sorry about this, can't stop thinking about it. >> >> I think we actually have two issues colliding that creates the one >> symptom. >> >> The first is that all tasks are always considered preemptable and are >> tagged as such on each cycle. >> >> The second is that the client assumes / calculates deadline problems >> incorrectly and, in essence, panics about tasks missing deadlines and >> schedules them to run when, in fact, they only need to be run on the >> next available resource. >> _______________________________________________ >> boinc_dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev >> To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and >> (near bottom of page) enter your email address. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
