Work unit captured by black hole

Graham G3ZOD
Graham G3ZOD
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Topic 191604

What is the tidiest way to close things for a backup without losing any work - just exit BOINC?

I tried suspending the two projects I have running (BBC CCE and Einstein@Home), but suspending the BBC CCE resulted in an attempt to download a second Einstein@Home work unit, which then has got orphaned since I exited BOINC during the download - it seems the system thinks it was downloaded okay but it wasn't.

2006-07-22 03:31:33 [---] Rescheduling CPU: application exited
2006-07-22 03:31:33 [Einstein@Home] Computation for task h1_1490.5_S5R1__4427_S5R1a_1 finished
2006-07-22 03:31:33 [Einstein@Home] Starting task h1_1490.5_S5R1__4426_S5R1a_1 using einstein_S5R1 version 402
2006-07-22 03:31:35 [Einstein@Home] Started upload of file h1_1490.5_S5R1__4427_S5R1a_1_0
2006-07-22 03:31:42 [Einstein@Home] Finished upload of file h1_1490.5_S5R1__4427_S5R1a_1_0
2006-07-22 03:31:42 [Einstein@Home] Throughput 24192 bytes/sec
2006-07-22 05:55:45 [Einstein@Home] Sending scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
2006-07-22 05:55:45 [Einstein@Home] Reason: To report completed tasks
2006-07-22 05:55:45 [Einstein@Home] Reporting 1 tasks
2006-07-22 05:55:50 [Einstein@Home] Scheduler request succeeded
2006-07-22 12:19:04 [---] Rescheduling CPU: project suspended by user
2006-07-22 12:19:04 [BBC Climate Change Experiment] Pausing task hadcm3ln_7slv_00602841_1 (left in memory)
2006-07-22 12:19:06 [Einstein@Home] Sending scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
2006-07-22 12:19:06 [Einstein@Home] Reason: To fetch work
2006-07-22 12:19:06 [Einstein@Home] Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
2006-07-22 12:19:06 [---] Rescheduling CPU: project suspended by user
2006-07-22 12:19:07 [Einstein@Home] Pausing task h1_1490.5_S5R1__4426_S5R1a_1 (left in memory)
2006-07-22 12:19:11 [---] Exit requested by user
2006-07-22 12:19:12 [---] Rescheduling CPU: exit_tasks

Thanks,
Graham.

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Work unit captured by black hole

Suspend is not the same as No New Work. Suspend will stop processing, but will not stop the request of new work.

Graham G3ZOD
Graham G3ZOD
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RE: Suspend is not the same

Message 42709 in response to message 42708

Quote:
Suspend is not the same as No New Work. Suspend will stop processing, but will not stop the request of new work.


Ahhh ... I see, thanks.

Graham.

Graham G3ZOD
Graham G3ZOD
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RE: I tried suspending the

Quote:
I tried suspending the two projects I have running (BBC CCE and Einstein@Home), but suspending the BBC CCE resulted in an attempt to download a second Einstein@Home work unit, which then has got orphaned since I exited BOINC during the download - it seems the system thinks it was downloaded okay but it wasn't.


I just decided to try the project's "Update" button, and happily the server responded by resending the orphaned work unit to me :-)

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