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Message 37424 - Posted: 24 Nov 2018, 8:20:18 UTC

It seems that 'Max # jobs No limit' in my project preferences is limited by the server to 20 tasks a host.
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Message 37427 - Posted: 24 Nov 2018, 9:57:12 UTC - in response to Message 37424.  

No limit uses the setting from computing, other.

Store at least n days of work & store upto an additional.


Boinc will take the run time of tasks and then try to buffer the amount of work that meet the ndays requirement. To give an example:


Tasks take 4hrs, you have store 1 days of work, with no additional buffer, it would have 4 WU's running if you had quad core, boinc would try to buffer 24WU's.
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Message 37429 - Posted: 24 Nov 2018, 10:40:17 UTC - in response to Message 37427.  
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On a 30 core machine with 10 idle cores I only got 20 tasks. On 2 other machines with lesser cores, I also got 20 tasks,
so that's why I concluded it seems 20 is the maximum to get.
It must be a coincidence and probably again the notorious scheduler issue.

Like VBox and GPU-tasks not exiting or not requested in the server reply.
LHC@home	24 Nov 11:36:38	update requested by user	
LHC@home	24 Nov 11:36:39	Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.	
LHC@home	24 Nov 11:36:39	Requesting new tasks for CPU	
LHC@home	24 Nov 11:36:41	Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks	
LHC@home	24 Nov 11:36:41	No tasks sent	
LHC@home	24 Nov 11:36:41	No tasks are available for SixTrack	
LHC@home	24 Nov 11:36:41	No tasks are available for sixtracktest	
LHC@home	24 Nov 11:36:41	Message from server: VirtualBox is not installed	
LHC@home	24 Nov 11:36:41	Tasks for AMD/ATI GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them

When the buffer would be filled (it isn't), I would not get 'Requesting new tasks for CPU', but don't need or project not the highest priority.
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Message 37431 - Posted: 24 Nov 2018, 11:58:27 UTC - in response to Message 37429.  
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Strange, here is my break down:

40thread = 18
44thread = 20
28thread = 20
32thread = 20
56thread = 40
24thread = 17
4thread = 16
4thread = 30
12thread = 46

On the 1st 4 machine, these are mixed with other tasks, so looks like unlimited with 1 CPU allows 20 WU max (1st & 6th would probally be 20 limit too), 5th machine I have set to 2 CPU then this doubles limit to 40. The last 3 machine are dedicated to SixTrack, here the limits seem to be BOINC defined based on setting. The configuration of this project is always a challenge with the settings not working consistently for each sub project, like on ATLAS #CPU actually is number of Jobs.
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Message 37432 - Posted: 24 Nov 2018, 13:40:35 UTC

Different subprojects have different behaviour from each other. My 16 core machine runs sixtrack and Atlas (4 core) currently. Atlas maximum task amount is same as core amount (=4, max # jobs = No limit) sixtrack uses Boinc cache settings (has now 80 tasks waiting).
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Message 37451 - Posted: 29 Nov 2018, 18:19:41 UTC
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Funny to see how quickly those unsent tasks are sucked out. Just before I went to sleep there was something like 200 000 task available, an hour ago maybe 20 000 and now only 6000+. There must be quite a traffic :)
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Message 40850 - Posted: 8 Dec 2019, 17:19:22 UTC

Project-Server with 32547 Tasks for sixtrack, but
Client say no tasks are available.
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Message 40853 - Posted: 8 Dec 2019, 18:21:57 UTC - in response to Message 40850.  

Project-Server with 32547 Tasks for sixtrack, but
Client say no tasks are available.
same problem here :-(
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Message 40855 - Posted: 8 Dec 2019, 20:49:54 UTC - in response to Message 40853.  

Yes, I had that too this morning. I have stopped trying.
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Message 40861 - Posted: 9 Dec 2019, 6:00:26 UTC

the server still shows 32547 unsent tasks, same figure as 12 hours ago.
So obviously, there is some disruption in the download process :-(
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Message 40862 - Posted: 9 Dec 2019, 6:42:52 UTC

Got one task at 6 UTC. Timelimit reached for an other Computer,
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Message 41078 - Posted: 26 Dec 2019, 10:43:01 UTC

https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/server_status.php

Looks like we are out of Sixtrack work right now.
I got lucky enough to have enough to run now (2:45am)
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Message 41178 - Posted: 6 Jan 2020, 9:03:35 UTC - in response to Message 41078.  

yes, we did not have enough in the buffer to cover the entire Christmas break.
one of our users resumed submission at the beginning of January - production of SixTrack results is back to full-steam, we are now filling our buffers.
Happy crunching!
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Message 41303 - Posted: 18 Jan 2020, 19:52:38 UTC - in response to Message 41178.  

I have seen again on 18/01/2020 in my event log:
No tasks are available for SixTrack

Same happened on 17/01/2020 09:45:58 but. later that day I got 2 SixTracks that ran perfectly

Is this still a problem or is it an issue on my PC because I have run for 11 years of LHC using this machine that always has Windows XP?

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Message 41304 - Posted: 19 Jan 2020, 14:40:26 UTC - in response to Message 41303.  

There are no new tasks queued at the moment. What little tasks are distributed are re-sent, because another volunteer didn't complete them in time. Therefore no specific indications of a problem on your side. Just a slow week for work unit creation.
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Message 41305 - Posted: 19 Jan 2020, 18:50:44 UTC

It seems that SixTrack is a placebo, to pour something from one empty vessel into another. Tasks are generated only for 'Leave me alone'.
Apathetic planet.
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Message 41307 - Posted: 20 Jan 2020, 7:53:22 UTC - in response to Message 41304.  

Hi Geoff Harmer,
what replied by AuxRx is correct - I will add that the presently active SixTrack users are analysing the results you have produced and deciding the next batch of submission. Thanks for your time and CPUs!
Happy crunching,
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Message 41446 - Posted: 3 Feb 2020, 5:56:28 UTC

any rough idea when Sixtrack tasks will be available again?
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Message 41449 - Posted: 3 Feb 2020, 8:46:14 UTC - in response to Message 41446.  

I've been getting work consistently (ymmv, there doesn't seem to be enough to build a buffer server side).
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Message 41451 - Posted: 3 Feb 2020, 9:51:05 UTC

Sixtrack come in waves. So we have to wait.
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