Patricio:
I verified this bug, and checked in a fix for it.
This will appear in the next client release.
-- David

On 09-Aug-2012 8:00 AM, Patricio Vidal wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I noticed a change in the client scheduler when moving from 6.12.33 to 
> 7.0.25: I
> have the <next_rpc_delay> set 180 in the config.xml.
>
> For 6.12.33 the clients contact the server even if there is no work, which is
> our desired behavior:
>
> 8/8/2012 11:39:09 PM | AlgoGrid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
> 8/8/2012 11:42:12 PM | AlgoGrid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
> 8/8/2012 11:45:15 PM | AlgoGrid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
> 8/8/2012 11:48:18 PM | AlgoGrid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
>
>
> For 7.0.25, when there are available task the scheduler contacts the server as
> expected:
>
> 8/8/2012 9:26:33 PM | AlgoGrid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
> 8/8/2012 9:27:10 PM | AlgoGrid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
>
> ... but when there is no tasks it starts delaying the request exponentially:
>
> 8/8/2012 9:49:45 PM | AlgoGrid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
> 8/8/2012 10:08:23 PM | AlgoGrid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
> 8/8/2012 10:32:36 PM | AlgoGrid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
> 8/8/2012 11:37:35 PM | AlgoGrid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
> 8/9/2012 2:59:13 AM | AlgoGrid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
> 8/9/2012 10:41:06 AM | AlgoGrid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
>
>
> Is there a new option to force the rpc call even if there is no tasks 
> available?
> We need this behavior because our boinc project needs a quick response from 
> the
> clients when we schedule a job (we have workunits of about 1 min processing 
> time
> and we schedule thousands at a time).
>
> Thank you,
> Patricio.
>
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