deadline time

[Skip Guenter]

Sandro,

In the past projects have sent out very short deadline WUs because of an
error.  In some cases they granted credit (I assume manually) for the
late WUs completed.  

I actually thought what it did (at least in the past) was to immediately
go into 'panic' / 'high priority' mode on these WUs to complete them as
soon as possible.

However a better behavior may very well be to NOT start the WUs and to
abort them.  However, due to the fact that the estimated time remaining
(ETC) is just that, an estimate, BOINC should probably not abort on
current time + ETC > deadline but certainly could on current time >=
deadline. Perhaps a fudge factor could be added such as: current time >=
(deadline - 60 minutes)

But... either way, shouldn't this be posted over on a thread over at
Berkeley as I don't think it has anything to do with the Deb
implementation of the BOINC client.

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 12:00 +0000, 
> 
> Today's Topics:

>    6. Bug#513884: boinc-manager: does not automatically abort WUs
>       over	deadline time (Sandro Tosi)
> 
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:51:28 +0100
> From: Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>
> Subject: Bug#513884: boinc-manager: does not automatically abort WUs
> 	over	deadline time
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> Message-ID: <20090202005128.3893.64083.reportbug at zion.matrix.int>
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> 
> Package: boinc-manager
> Version: 6.2.18-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> I got some WUs with deadline set to Jan 30 there were still in elaboration, but
> the project didn't grant no credit since overdued. So a lot of cpu time was
> wasted instead of producing results.
> 
> I think the expected behaviour is to abort a WU if the current time is > then
> deadline time. A more advanced policy is to abort a WU that has
> 
>     current_time + remaining_time > deadline_time
> 
> Thanks,
> Sandro
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 5.0
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages boinc-manager depends on:
> ii  libc6                        2.7-16      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libstdc++6                   4.3.3-3     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii  libwxbase2.8-0               2.8.7.1-1.1 wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI
> ii  libwxgtk2.8-0                2.8.7.1-1.1 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t
> 
> Versions of packages boinc-manager recommends:
> ii  boinc-client                  6.2.18-1   core client for the BOINC distribu
> 
> boinc-manager suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
> 
> 
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