3)
Yes, it happens with BOINC 7.0.42 too.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Anderson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Unrecoverable 197 (0xc5) EXIT_TIME_LIMIT_EXCEEDED 
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> What is the app_info.xml entry?
> What are the estimated CPU and GPU speeds?
> Does this happen also with 7.0.42?
> -- David
>
> On 20-Dec-2012 11:08 AM, Raistmer wrote:
>> Please, look at this host:
>> http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/results.php?hostid=39394&offset=0&show_names=0&state=6&appid=
>>
>> For some reason (maybe recent driver change, maybe some project-side 
>> change)
>> server decided that 4k seconds is max time app can spend for task.
>> No matter what reason was (for now), it happened.
>> And BOINC client started to kill one task after another. 4k spent - kill 
>> and
>> so on. App making progress in those 4k seconds so such kill is pure waste 
>> of
>> host resourses.
>> But even that would be ok, if BOINC could accomodate somehow to new
>> crunching times... but seems it can't!
>> Task aborted with computation error hence its elapsed time doesn't mean
>> anything for BOINC, it just discards it.
>> That is, BOINC will kill tasks on host until all of them will be killed 
>> w/o
>> any chance to recover from this situation.
>>
>> I consider this behavior as pure design flaw, some way should be provided
>> for BOINC to accomodate to new crunching times. And even better if whole
>> EXIT_TIME_LIMIT_EXCEEDED behavior will be re-designed. Its primary aim 
>> was
>> to prevent endless loops and now it just kills host performance and lead 
>> to
>> resourse waste, not save.
>>
>> Any wrong time estimate, especially at new app release and we see lots of
>> such EXIT_TIME_LIMIT_EXCEEDED results killed for nothing.
>>
>>
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