Yes, indeed. But we should do both.
Protect users from interference with their daily work by finding and
eliminating disruptive bugs.
But also allowing knowledgeable users to select settings, both when 'in use'
and also when 'idle', which allow maximum scientific output compatible with
their known and understood work patterns.
On Thursday, 17 August 2017, 23:00, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu>
wrote:
There have been many cases where the BOINC client caused a problem,
such as running too many VMs and bogging down the system.
Volunteers then ask for a preference that lets them manually fix the problem.
In such cases it's better to figure out the root cause of the original problem
(e.g. that VM memory usage isn't being accounted correctly)
and change BOINC so it doesn't happen.
BOINC should compute invisibly without fiddling with preferences.
Also, job scheduling and work fetch are intertwined.
The work fetch algorithm does a simulation of job scheduling
in deciding how much work to request for the various resources (CPU, GPU).
Changes to the job scheduling policy (e.g. by new prefs)
typically lead to problems with work fetch (e.g. starved resources).
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