Bug#721298: boinc-client: Idle Detection Not Working Computer Always In Use
Gianfranco Costamagna
costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it
Fri Aug 30 10:59:39 UTC 2013
Hi Preston,
could you please try this global_prefs_override.xml file?
<global_preferences>
<run_on_batteries>0</run_on_batteries>
<run_if_user_active>1</run_if_user_active>
<run_gpu_if_user_active>1</run_gpu_if_user_active>
<suspend_cpu_usage>0.000000</suspend_cpu_usage>
<start_hour>0.000000</start_hour>
<end_hour>0.000000</end_hour>
<net_start_hour>0.000000</net_start_hour>
<net_end_hour>0.000000</net_end_hour>
<leave_apps_in_memory>1</leave_apps_in_memory>
<confirm_before_connecting>0</confirm_before_connecting>
<hangup_if_dialed>0</hangup_if_dialed>
<dont_verify_images>0</dont_verify_images>
<work_buf_min_days>1.000000</work_buf_min_days>
<work_buf_additional_days>10.000000</work_buf_additional_days>
<max_ncpus_pct>100.000000</max_ncpus_pct>
<cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>60.000000</cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>
<disk_interval>60.000000</disk_interval>
<disk_max_used_gb>100.000000</disk_max_used_gb>
<disk_max_used_pct>95.000000</disk_max_used_pct>
<disk_min_free_gb>0.000000</disk_min_free_gb>
<vm_max_used_pct>75.000000</vm_max_used_pct>
<ram_max_used_busy_pct>50.000000</ram_max_used_busy_pct>
<ram_max_used_idle_pct>90.000000</ram_max_used_idle_pct>
<max_bytes_sec_up>0.000000</max_bytes_sec_up>
<max_bytes_sec_down>0.000000</max_bytes_sec_down>
<cpu_usage_limit>100.000000</cpu_usage_limit>
<daily_xfer_limit_mb>0.000000</daily_xfer_limit_mb>
<daily_xfer_period_days>0</daily_xfer_period_days>
</global_preferences>
I see a couple of difference that may cause this issue, if it isn't a code problem.
thanks
Gianfranco
----- Messaggio originale -----
> Da: Preston Maness <aggroskater at gmail.com>
> A: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> Cc:
> Inviato: Venerdì 30 Agosto 2013 5:32
> Oggetto: Bug#721298: boinc-client: Idle Detection Not Working Computer Always In Use
>
> Package: boinc-client
> Version: 7.2.7+dfsg-1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I am unable to get BOINC to activate when computer is not in use. I
> don't know how else to troubleshoot the idle detection features of
> boinc. The log file at /var/lib/boinc-client/stdoutdae.txt simply shows
> a line that says "Suspending Computation - computer is in use" even
> after the idle time has been reached. The XML with the global
> configuration parameters is below.
>
> Telling boinc to "run always" seems to work as expected. The CPU and
> GPU
> both get jobs at that point and start crunching away. Please advise me
> as to how I may help in further troubleshooting this issue.
>
> Cheers,
> Preston Maness
>
> -- Package-specific info:
> -- Contents of /etc/default/boinc-client:
> # This file is /etc/default/boinc-client, it is a configuration file for the
> # /etc/init.d/boinc-client init script.
>
> # Set this to 1 to enable and to 0 to disable the init script.
> ENABLED="1"
>
> # Set this to 1 to enable advanced scheduling of the BOINC core client and
> # all its sub-processes (reduces the impact of BOINC on the system's
> # performance).
> SCHEDULE="1"
>
> # The BOINC core client will be started with the permissions of this user.
> BOINC_USER="boinc"
>
> # This is the data directory of the BOINC core client.
> BOINC_DIR="/var/lib/boinc-client"
>
> # This is the location of the BOINC core client, that the init script uses.
> # If you do not want to use the client program provided by the boinc-client
> # package, you can specify here an alternative client program.
> #BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/local/bin/boinc"
> BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/bin/boinc"
>
> # Here you can specify additional options to pass to the BOINC core client.
> # Type 'boinc --help' or 'man boinc' for a full summary of
> allowed options.
> #BOINC_OPTS="--allow_remote_gui_rpc"
> BOINC_OPTS=""
>
> # Scheduling options
>
> # Set SCHEDULE="0" if prefering to run with upstream default priority
> # settings.
>
> # Nice levels. When systems are truly busy, e.g. because of too many active
> # scientific applications started by the boinc client, there is a chance for
> # the boinc client not to be granted sufficient opportunity to check for
> # scientific applications to be alive and make the (wrong) decision to
> # terminate the scientific app. This is particularly an issue with many
> # apps started in parallel on modern multi-core systems and extra overheads
> # for the download and uploads of files with the project servers. Another
> # concern is the latency for scientific applications to communicate with the
> # graphics card, which should be low. All such values should be set and
> # controled from within the BOINC client. The Debian init script also sets
> # extra constrains via chrt on real time performance and via ionice on
> # I/O performance, which is beyond the regular BOINC client. It then was
> # too easy to use that code to also constrain minimal nice levels. We still
> # think about how to best distinguish GPU applications from regular apps.
> BOINC_NICE_CLIENT=10
> BOINC_NICE_APP_DEFAULT=19
> #BOINC_NICE_APP_GPU=5 # not yet used
>
> # ionice classes. See manpage of ionice (1) in the util-linux package.
> BOINC_IONICE_CLIENT=3 # idle
> #BOINC_IONICE_APP_DEFAULT=3 # idle, not yet used
> #BOINC_IONICE_APP_GPU=2 # best effort, not yet used
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-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/dash
>
> Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
> ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
> ii ca-certificates 20130610
> ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.50
> ii libboinc7 7.2.7+dfsg-1
> ii libc6 2.17-92
> ii libcurl3 7.32.0-1
> ii libgcc1 1:4.8.1-2
> ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1e-3
> ii libstdc++6 4.8.1-2
> ii libx11-6 2:1.6.1-1
> ii libxext6 2:1.3.2-1
> ii libxss1 1:1.2.2-1
> ii python 2.7.5-4
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1
>
> Versions of packages boinc-client recommends:
> pn ia32-libs <none>
>
> Versions of packages boinc-client suggests:
> ii boinc-manager 7.2.7+dfsg-1
> pn libcuda1 <none>
> pn libcuda1-ia32 <none>
> ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7~3
>
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml changed:
> <global_preferences>
> <run_on_batteries>1</run_on_batteries>
> <run_if_user_active>0</run_if_user_active>
> <run_gpu_if_user_active>0</run_gpu_if_user_active>
> <idle_time_to_run>2.000000</idle_time_to_run>
> <suspend_cpu_usage>25.000000</suspend_cpu_usage>
> <start_hour>0.000000</start_hour>
> <end_hour>0.000000</end_hour>
> <net_start_hour>0.000000</net_start_hour>
> <net_end_hour>0.000000</net_end_hour>
> <leave_apps_in_memory>0</leave_apps_in_memory>
> <confirm_before_connecting>0</confirm_before_connecting>
> <hangup_if_dialed>0</hangup_if_dialed>
> <dont_verify_images>0</dont_verify_images>
> <work_buf_min_days>0.100000</work_buf_min_days>
> <work_buf_additional_days>0.500000</work_buf_additional_days>
> <max_ncpus_pct>0.000000</max_ncpus_pct>
>
> <cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>60.000000</cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>
> <disk_interval>60.000000</disk_interval>
> <disk_max_used_gb>1000.000000</disk_max_used_gb>
> <disk_max_used_pct>90.000000</disk_max_used_pct>
> <disk_min_free_gb>0.100000</disk_min_free_gb>
> <vm_max_used_pct>75.000000</vm_max_used_pct>
> <ram_max_used_busy_pct>50.000000</ram_max_used_busy_pct>
> <ram_max_used_idle_pct>90.000000</ram_max_used_idle_pct>
> <max_bytes_sec_up>0.000000</max_bytes_sec_up>
> <max_bytes_sec_down>0.000000</max_bytes_sec_down>
> <cpu_usage_limit>100.000000</cpu_usage_limit>
> <daily_xfer_limit_mb>0.000000</daily_xfer_limit_mb>
> <daily_xfer_period_days>0</daily_xfer_period_days>
> </global_preferences>
>
> /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> u'/etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg'
>
> -- debconf information:
> boinc-client/remove_boinc_dir: true
>
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