This project pairing issue will appear on demand list over and over, long standing issue. It was highlightened more than year (maybe few years already) ago... Hopefully at some point it will be really required to deal with project pairing at last.
>Also would like to ask for a setting to allow limiting the number of >"project WUs" that are allowed to run concurrently. This is getting to be >more and more of an issue as the number of processor cores increase. The >longer NFS, Lattice and Yoyo (to name a few) can bring a multi core machine >to it's knees and there seems to be no good way in BOINC to regulate the >number of these WUs that are run concurrently. Setting a memory limit >results in a long line of suspended, partially run WUs as BOINC keeps trying >to start new instances and then swapping them out. Setting a low project >priority on a quad for instance (20%) often results in the project not >running for a given period then trying to equalize by running 3 or 4 >instances at once, making the machine unusable. The situation has been a >problem for quite a while and is getting worse as the number of 6 core (and >virtual 8 core) machines increase. With true 8 core machines due any time >now this should be addressed. _______________________________________________ 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.
