Einstein Task running in "high priority" mode
24 Nov 2010 17:29:20 UTC
Topic 195469
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Why do my BOINC Einstein tasks run in "high priority" mode? I have tasks running on other BOINC projects which are due 11/25 and 11/26 which are "waiting to run" while Einstein tasks due 12/8 are running in "high priority" mode. I should also add that I have set the Resource Share for Einstein to 1 (0.33%) while my other projects are set to 100 (33.22%).
Einstein Task running in "high priority" mode
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And exactly that is the reason why your Einstein tasks are running high priority. By that setting, you expand the usual five-hour runtime to 62 days, which is far beyond 12/8.
Gruß,
Gundolf
Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)
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You've answered your own question.
Your Einstein tasks take between 5 and 7 hours. If you ask them to run for 1/100th of the available time, and if they ran in "normal priority" mode, they would take between 500 and 700 hours to complete - three or four weeks.
The deadlines Einstein have set for their tasks are two weeks from the time of issue. "Normal mode" won't make it in time. "High priority" mode merely tells you that BOINC has temporarily broken the impossible rules you have set for its operation. Either relax the rules a bit (balance the resource share a bit more evenly), or stop worrying - BOINC is just doing its best to comply, exactly as intended. Your resource share for Einstein will be temporarily a bit more than you expect, and to make up for it, BOINC won't do any work at all for Einstein for a while. It all sorts itself out in the end.
[OK Gundolf, you win this time ;-)]