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[Malaria Control] Deadline Problem

Yes. The tasks are crunched FIFO until BOINC detects a deadline problem then it goes into EDF mode.

The next version will work a little better instead of going into true EDF mode tasks with deadline problems will get more CPU time. I don't think we managed to convince JM7 that EDF is better than FIFO before deadline problems start though.

Note: This applies to a single project situation.

reply to m00kie
Certainly hope this gets straightened out. I had malaria on a very fast machine, decided to move it over to another project, then load Malaria on another rig. I had set it to no new work last Thursday, Saturday I saw it still had 50 wu's lwft, all with deadlines within the next hour. I just detached from Malaria and switched the box over to another project.

Pretty dissapointing, to say the least....
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reply to m00kie
At the moment, crunching four applications. Seti, Einstein, Rosetta and Malaria. So far, I've not experienced any past due deadline work units.

But...

I keep a pretty close eye on my little fleet, watching for the occasional "stuck" work unit. If a restart of boinc doesn't clear the problem, I abort the work unit.

Thank goodness for BoincView.
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reply to m00kie
Aye. Very short deadlines on Malaria, like 2 days. This is one of those projects you either have to watch or reduce caches significantly.

My preferences are set to connect every 3 days which can make Malaria kind of tricky
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Well, it is beta after all. I may run it once it comes out of beta.