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Up until 3 weeks ago or so I was crunching nothing but ATLAS.
Now I get messages saying No ATLAS, No Theory (I still get jobs for Theory) and No CMS.
I am also getting messages saying the project is requesting a delay of X seconds.

So why no ATLAS?
And what is the project delay thing?

Could try suspend other project to free up cputime on client or increase resource share.

It is part of how project configuration is set to scheduler and each project have different setting.

Scheduler
These options control how jobs are dispatched to clients. This is also affected by the parameters you pass to the feeder.
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectOptions

Scheduler
These options control how jobs are dispatched to clients. This is also affected by the parameters you pass to the feeder.

For LHC it would download finished task and it would get available cputime info from users boinc-client and send amount of task based on it. LHC also check if client have enough work to follow resource share and if client have any failed or suspended task. If no work is available and if no work is available in feeder it would hand out task for other application if user have checked.

If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications?

If server is busy or out of reach client would get message as deferred.

Could try suspend other project to free up cputime on client or increase resource share.

It is part of how project configuration is set to scheduler and each project have different setting.

Scheduler
These options control how jobs are dispatched to clients. This is also affected by the parameters you pass to the feeder.
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectOptions

Scheduler
These options control how jobs are dispatched to clients. This is also affected by the parameters you pass to the feeder.

For LHC it would download finished task and it would get available cputime info from users boinc-client and send amount of task based on it. LHC also check if client have enough work to follow resource share and if client have any failed or suspended task. If no work is available and if no work is available in feeder it would hand out task for other application if user have checked.

If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications?

If server is busy or out of reach client would get message as deferred.

Ok...well I will have to explore this later at the end of the week.
For now I unchecked theory and CMS. Will see if I can get ATLAS back.
I only opened them up because I was dead in the water with ATLAS for some reason, now to see if that is the case again.

Could try suspend other project to free up cputime on client or increase resource share.

It is part of how project configuration is set to scheduler and each project have different setting.

Scheduler
These options control how jobs are dispatched to clients. This is also affected by the parameters you pass to the feeder.
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectOptions

Scheduler
These options control how jobs are dispatched to clients. This is also affected by the parameters you pass to the feeder.

For LHC it would download finished task and it would get available cputime info from users boinc-client and send amount of task based on it. LHC also check if client have enough work to follow resource share and if client have any failed or suspended task. If no work is available and if no work is available in feeder it would hand out task for other application if user have checked.

If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications?

If server is busy or out of reach client would get message as deferred.

Ok...well I will have to explore this later at the end of the week.
For now I unchecked theory and CMS. Will see if I can get ATLAS back.
I only opened them up because I was dead in the water with ATLAS for some reason, now to see if that is the case again.

4/27/2020 9:48:26 PM | LHC@home | Found app_config.xml
4/27/2020 9:48:26 PM | LHC@home | Your app_config.xml file refers to an unknown application 'ATLAS'. Known applications: 'Theory'
4/27/2020 9:48:26 PM | LHC@home | Your app_config.xml file refers to an unknown application 'ATLAS'. Known applications: 'Theory'
4/27/2020 9:48:26 PM | LHC@home | Max 2 concurrent jobs


How can Atlas be unknown?
I have had this app_config for 6 months or more and never had problems until now.
Did something change in the name of ATLAS or whats going on?

Check your project preferences. That error message is showing you have Theory checked and Atlas unchecked. Something may have borked.

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Further replies should be posted here:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=5409