Bug#777005: R: Bug#777005: boinc-client: memory and priority idea
Gianfranco Costamagna
costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it
Wed Feb 4 06:09:37 UTC 2015
Hi Alessando, can you please forward this on boinc-dev mail list?
thanks
Gianfranco
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Il mer 4 feb 2015 00:44 CET, Alessandro Barbieri ha scritto:
>Package: boinc-client
>Version: 7.4.23+dfsg-1
>Severity: wishlist
>Tags: upstream
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>when a WU is waiting for memory can the manager run a lower priority WU (that uses less memory)
>instead of waiting and not using all cores?
>
>-- 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: 8.0
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (1, 'experimental')
>Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>Foreign Architectures: i386
>
>Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
>Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
>Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
>ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
>ii ca-certificates 20141019
>ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.55
>ii libboinc7 7.4.23+dfsg-1
>ii libc6 2.19-13
>ii libcurl3 7.38.0-4
>ii libgcc1 1:4.9.1-19
>ii libstdc++6 4.9.1-19
>ii python 2.7.8-2
>ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
>
>boinc-client recommends no packages.
>
>Versions of packages boinc-client suggests:
>pn boinc-amd-opencl <none>
>ii boinc-manager 7.4.23+dfsg-2exp1
>ii boinc-nvidia-cuda 7.4.23+dfsg-2exp1
>ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+3+b1
>
>-- Configuration Files:
>/etc/boinc-client/cc_config.xml changed:
><cc_config>
> <log_flags>
> <file_xfer>1</file_xfer>
> <sched_ops>1</sched_ops>
> <task>1</task>
> <android_debug>0</android_debug>
> <app_msg_receive>0</app_msg_receive>
> <app_msg_send>0</app_msg_send>
> <async_file_debug>0</async_file_debug>
> <benchmark_debug>0</benchmark_debug>
> <checkpoint_debug>0</checkpoint_debug>
> <coproc_debug>0</coproc_debug>
> <cpu_sched>0</cpu_sched>
> <cpu_sched_debug>0</cpu_sched_debug>
> <cpu_sched_status>0</cpu_sched_status>
> <dcf_debug>0</dcf_debug>
> <disk_usage_debug>0</disk_usage_debug>
> <file_xfer_debug>0</file_xfer_debug>
> <gui_rpc_debug>0</gui_rpc_debug>
> <heartbeat_debug>0</heartbeat_debug>
> <http_debug>0</http_debug>
> <http_xfer_debug>0</http_xfer_debug>
> <mem_usage_debug>0</mem_usage_debug>
> <network_status_debug>0</network_status_debug>
> <notice_debug>0</notice_debug>
> <poll_debug>0</poll_debug>
> <priority_debug>0</priority_debug>
> <proxy_debug>0</proxy_debug>
> <rr_simulation>0</rr_simulation>
> <rrsim_detail>0</rrsim_detail>
> <sched_op_debug>0</sched_op_debug>
> <scrsave_debug>0</scrsave_debug>
> <slot_debug>0</slot_debug>
> <state_debug>0</state_debug>
> <statefile_debug>0</statefile_debug>
> <suspend_debug>0</suspend_debug>
> <task_debug>0</task_debug>
> <time_debug>0</time_debug>
> <trickle_debug>0</trickle_debug>
> <unparsed_xml>0</unparsed_xml>
> <work_fetch_debug>0</work_fetch_debug>
> </log_flags>
> <options>
> <abort_jobs_on_exit>0</abort_jobs_on_exit>
> <allow_multiple_clients>0</allow_multiple_clients>
> <allow_remote_gui_rpc>0</allow_remote_gui_rpc>
> <client_version_check_url>http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php?xml=1</client_version_check_url>
> <client_new_version_text></client_new_version_text>
> <client_download_url>http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php</client_download_url>
> <disallow_attach>0</disallow_attach>
> <dont_check_file_sizes>0</dont_check_file_sizes>
> <dont_contact_ref_site>0</dont_contact_ref_site>
> <exclusive_app>iceweasel</exclusive_app>
> <exclusive_app>josm</exclusive_app>
> <exclusive_app>LolClient.exe</exclusive_app>
> <exclusive_app>mplayer2</exclusive_app>
> <exclusive_app>SC2.exe</exclusive_app>
> <exclusive_app>StarCraft II.exe</exclusive_app>
> <exclusive_app>virtualbox</exclusive_app>
> <exit_after_finish>0</exit_after_finish>
> <exit_before_start>0</exit_before_start>
> <exit_when_idle>0</exit_when_idle>
> <fetch_minimal_work>0</fetch_minimal_work>
> <fetch_on_update>0</fetch_on_update>
> <force_auth>default</force_auth>
> <http_1_0>0</http_1_0>
> <http_transfer_timeout>300</http_transfer_timeout>
> <http_transfer_timeout_bps>10</http_transfer_timeout_bps>
> <max_event_log_lines>2000</max_event_log_lines>
> <max_file_xfers>8</max_file_xfers>
> <max_file_xfers_per_project>2</max_file_xfers_per_project>
> <max_stderr_file_size>0</max_stderr_file_size>
> <max_stdout_file_size>0</max_stdout_file_size>
> <max_tasks_reported>0</max_tasks_reported>
> <ncpus>-1</ncpus>
> <network_test_url>http://www.google.com/</network_test_url>
> <no_alt_platform>0</no_alt_platform>
> <no_gpus>0</no_gpus>
> <no_info_fetch>0</no_info_fetch>
> <no_priority_change>0</no_priority_change>
> <os_random_only>0</os_random_only>
><proxy_info>
> <socks_server_name></socks_server_name>
> <socks_server_port>80</socks_server_port>
> <http_server_name></http_server_name>
> <http_server_port>80</http_server_port>
> <socks5_user_name></socks5_user_name>
> <socks5_user_passwd></socks5_user_passwd>
> <http_user_name></http_user_name>
> <http_user_passwd></http_user_passwd>
> <no_proxy></no_proxy>
></proxy_info>
> <rec_half_life_days>10.000000</rec_half_life_days>
> <report_results_immediately>0</report_results_immediately>
> <run_apps_manually>0</run_apps_manually>
> <save_stats_days>30</save_stats_days>
> <skip_cpu_benchmarks>0</skip_cpu_benchmarks>
> <simple_gui_only>0</simple_gui_only>
> <start_delay>0.000000</start_delay>
> <stderr_head>0</stderr_head>
> <suppress_net_info>0</suppress_net_info>
> <unsigned_apps_ok>0</unsigned_apps_ok>
> <use_all_gpus>0</use_all_gpus>
> <use_certs>0</use_certs>
> <use_certs_only>0</use_certs_only>
> <vbox_window>0</vbox_window>
> </options>
></cc_config>
>
>/etc/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml changed:
><global_preferences>
> <run_on_batteries>0</run_on_batteries>
> <run_if_user_active>1</run_if_user_active>
> <run_gpu_if_user_active>0</run_gpu_if_user_active>
> <idle_time_to_run>3.000000</idle_time_to_run>
> <suspend_cpu_usage>20.000000</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>0.010000</work_buf_min_days>
> <work_buf_additional_days>0.500000</work_buf_additional_days>
> <max_ncpus_pct>100.000000</max_ncpus_pct>
> <cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>120.000000</cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>
> <disk_interval>1.000000</disk_interval>
> <disk_max_used_gb>0.000000</disk_max_used_gb>
> <disk_max_used_pct>50.000000</disk_max_used_pct>
> <disk_min_free_gb>0.500000</disk_min_free_gb>
> <vm_max_used_pct>90.000000</vm_max_used_pct>
> <ram_max_used_busy_pct>50.000000</ram_max_used_busy_pct>
> <ram_max_used_idle_pct>75.000000</ram_max_used_idle_pct>
> <max_bytes_sec_up>10240.000000</max_bytes_sec_up>
> <max_bytes_sec_down>20480.000000</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] Permesso negato: u'/etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg'
>
>-- debconf information:
> boinc-client/remove_boinc_dir: true
>
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