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 ...
> 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. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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.
