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Message 32554 - Posted: 28 Sep 2017, 19:46:10 UTC

since this morning, I've observed that all 2-core ATLAS tasks are running with one CPU-core only.

This becomes evident when looking at the Windows Task Manager as well as at the console where only 1 athena.py is shown.
Also, the credit points for these tasks are about half compared to what they would normally be.

Any idea what the problem is and how it can be solved?
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Message 32555 - Posted: 28 Sep 2017, 20:21:14 UTC - in response to Message 32554.  

Indeed I also have some 2-core tasks with 1 CPU core running, but only some of the tasks, not all.
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Message 32556 - Posted: 28 Sep 2017, 21:17:23 UTC - in response to Message 32554.  
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all your ATLAS tasks today seem to have almost twice the CPU time versus runtime
That would be normal for two cpu's running on short jobs its not quite 2x
I think the startup times which can run to 10 minutes is only done with one CPU
and with that a significant part of these short tasks might make it look like its only using one cpu

since all the tasks are short except for a few the credits will be smaller than normal. after running a lot of long jobs and having credits normalized downward short jobs get shorted on credits.

Its called creditscrew over at SETI
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Message 32558 - Posted: 29 Sep 2017, 5:46:36 UTC

On the Windows 10 PC I had a task running on one core which gave me 3200 credits.
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Message 32559 - Posted: 29 Sep 2017, 7:15:50 UTC - in response to Message 32558.  

On the Windows 10 PC I had a task running on one core which gave me 3200 credits.
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this somehow confirms that as far as credits are concerned, it's like playing lottery :-)
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Message 32562 - Posted: 29 Sep 2017, 11:29:12 UTC

Can those of you experiencing the problem give links to example results? I don't see the problem myself but I'm running only native tasks at the moment.
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Message 32571 - Posted: 30 Sep 2017, 16:08:30 UTC - in response to Message 32562.  

Hi David,
The issue mentioned by Erich, and that I experienced myself as well, was apparently related to a batch of short tasks. This batch is over now I think.
I suggest to create a discussion thread dedicated to issues related to the number of athena.py processes within a task.
In this thread could be addressed both cases like this one reported by Erich, and the case I reported of duplicated and triplicated processes.
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Message 32572 - Posted: 30 Sep 2017, 16:26:11 UTC - in response to Message 32562.  

David wrote:
Can those of you experiencing the problem give links to example results? I don't see the problem myself but I'm running only native tasks at the moment.

David, sorry for the late reply; this was one of them:

https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=158264982
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