Ray422
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| Beware of high priority boinc units
I was making some BIOS changes today. While reviewing the boinc screen I noticed that one of my cores (now 2 cores) wasn't running, or so I thought. One unit (not shown now) was reading "WAITING TO RUN" but would not run.
First, I thought it was the program. I restarted, changed settings, aborted a unit,restarted, etc,etc. Then I figured it was the horror of a CORE FAILURE. This is an undue annoyance costing both my time and valuable crunch time.
For those who have recently increased their cache due to the recent boinc outage....You may suddenly think one or more cores have failed. Be advised that your cores will suddenly skip below your visable screen area and start a "high priority unit".
I have not tried to check and have no idea what this is all about?
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lilhurricane
Crunchin' For Cures
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join:2003-01-11
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clubs: | Goes by expiration date *I believe..
..exactly because of what you said (increasing cache)
If you click on the Progress bar in the top tab..it will organize it all for you |
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Ray422
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edit:
May 16th, @08:52PM
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Never had a "high priority" before. I suppose because I've never had the cache over one day before. Sure was a costly lesson.
Thanks lil for the explanation 
EDIT: and I can guarantee that these strange things will always happen at the precise time when I am making computer changes.
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La Luna
Surviving Ashraful
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How do you get so many tasks "ready to start" like that? I only ever have two, one running, one waiting! |
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lilhurricane
Crunchin' For Cures
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»Team Discovery WCG BOINC FAQ »How Do I Increase My Cache? |
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La Luna
Surviving Ashraful
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| Thanks! I set it for 2 days, now I have four more tasks ready to start! |
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bbrcat
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I set all mine to 3...see how that works out.Thanks Lisa
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grobinette
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| reply to Ray422
Hmm, seeing this made me look at mine and I noticed a bunch of nutritious rice for the world WU's stuck in there.
They must have added a new program and thrown them in to the que because I didn't set my profile to download them.
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penguins4evr
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| said by grobinette  :Hmm, seeing this made me look at mine and I noticed a bunch of nutritious rice for the world WU's stuck in there. They must have added a new program and thrown them in to the que because I didn't set my profile to download them. Happened to me too. I had to go to my WCG profile and uncheck the rice project. It got added by default.
More here: »New Task (Rice)
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grobinette
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clubs: | Thanks, obviously I wasn't paying attention to that thread.
I don't like them automatically adding a project to my profile at all.
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Ray422
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Adger, AL
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| reply to Ray422
More explanation...
A quoted portion from this link-
»www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forum···ad=20203
...of what was said by---Sekerob Community Advisor on 5/9/08.
"Generally BOINC tries to complete work 24 hours before due date, so I presume this was rush/repair work that with a short deadline."
I only keep my cache set at 1.5 days, so....
--Those 2 units must have been "rush/repair" since the due date was 7-8 days earlier than the others.
--Since this happened on the 16th, I suppose the 24 hour earlier completion date caused a two-day early high-priority trigger.
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Ascent
We didn't start the fire
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I am not sure it will help, My settings were to allow work from other projects if Help conquer cancer was out of work. I changed that to a NO! Hopefully that will stop this from happening in the future. |
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Owlbet
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| reply to Ray422
Dang, we must all think alike and all at the same time. I hadn't seen this thread and I don't check BOINC all that much because, quite frankly, it just works.
Bored, I wanted to look at what BOINC was doing and lo and behold, I have the rice work units happily crunching away.
I unknowingly crunched Dengue work units until I discovered them in my cache some time ago.
I've once again changed my default profile to remove the Rice preferences.
I'm all for nutritious rice, I just do it differently.
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