Einstein 4.72 not despatching properly?
7 Feb 2005 21:32:43 UTC
Topic 187467
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I have BOINC 4.19 installed as a service running einstein 4.72. I don't have this machine attached to other projects. I notice that from time to tim the machine 'pauses' its foreground app for anything up to fifteen seconds. Nothing happens, then suddenly everything returns to normal.
Since I don't experience this behaviour on any other BOINC machine - and none are running einstein - it looks like some part of the processor-bound einstein code isn't releasing the processor at polite intervals.
Any comments?
Einstein 4.72 not despatching properly?
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Mike, I'm not sure what's wrong. This might be related to the fact that E@h reads/writes some 10 or 20 MB sized files. This might take a few seconds. Or is perhaps related to the bug in the 4.72 app which we have fixed (now testing a new app). This bug would sometimes cause the memory use and disk footprint to grow much more than they should.
Bruce
Director, Einstein@Home
I'll keep tabs and see if I
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I'll keep tabs and see if I can provide anything more concrete. it's a bit tricky, since during the 'pause' the machine is totally unresponsive and once the 'pause' is over there's nothing wrong.
Watch this space!