Work suddenly slowed to a crawl.
6 Aug 2006 15:10:56 UTC
Topic 191659
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I've been running Einstein on a new machine for the past couple of days, and it's been turning work units around in 1 hour, 14 minutes, and 29 seconds (because it's doing nothing else).
Now, after reporting its last two work units, it's taken over 4 hours to complete just 36% of the current unit, and says it will take about 8 more to finish. Task Manager says the CPU is running at 100%, and nothing else is going on. What could cause this sudden lack of progress?
Work suddenly slowed to a crawl.
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There are "short" and "long" work units. The scheduler tries to assign short WUs to slow hosts and vice versa. If there is no short one left your slow host will get a long WU too.
Michael
Team Linux Users Everywhere
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There are two types of workunits: short and long. The short workunits have XXXX.X less than or equal to 0400.0.
There are also two types of data files: short and long. The short data files (l1_XXXX.X) are from the LIGO Livingston Observatory, and are about 4.5MB in size. The long data files (h1_XXXX.X) are from LIGO Hanford and are about 16MB in size. Note: once your computer downloads one of these data files, it should be able to do many workunits for that same file.
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Ahhhh. All my work units until now have been of the 1000. Thanks very much for the explanation!