[Bug 891096] Re: boinc does not use low-priority processes
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On 2011-05-17T17:38:32+00:00 Andris wrote:
Description of problem:
I noticed that on 2 different systems upgraded to Fedora 15pre x86_64 BOINC projects does not obey nice settings when system has another load. Both systems
have dual core CPUs.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
boinc-client-6.10.58-3.r22930.fc15.x86_64
kernel 2.6.38.5-24.fc15.x86_64
How reproducible:
Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start BOINC client and have some BOINC projects running
2. start some other process with the default priority (I used 2 copies
of simple C++ program that wastes CPU time like 'while(true){}'
Actual results:
top shows that boinc projects are getting about same amount of CPU time
as ather processes running with the default priority (see snapshot of top
output below)
Expected results:
BOINC projects are expected to get several % of CPU time when there are
processes with normal priority requiring enough CPU time.
Additional info:
1) snapshot for top on one of these Fedora 15 x86_64 systems:
top - 20:06:58 up 30 min, 7 users, load average: 3.84, 3.53, 2.69
Tasks: 179 total, 5 running, 174 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 51.7%us, 3.0%sy, 45.3%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 4024908k total, 2202032k used, 1822876k free, 42092k buffers
Swap: 4395004k total, 0k used, 4395004k free, 937132k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
6807 andris 20 0 11828 688 572 R 48.5 0.0 0:11.55 wastecpu
6806 andris 20 0 11828 688 572 R 46.5 0.0 0:12.88 wastecpu
2700 boinc 39 19 216m 211m 2660 R 44.6 5.4 19:32.91 einsteinbinary_
3213 boinc 39 19 267m 261m 1356 R 43.6 6.7 15:39.84 einstein_S5GC1H
1721 root 20 0 187m 30m 12m S 3.0 0.8 1:40.41 X
Tried to renice boinc project executable to 10. In this case it got about
70% of CPU time of 1 core.
nice seems to work OK between several my processes
So it seems that nice 19 for boinc processes acts as nice 0 of normal user
process.
This is clear regression in comparisson with Fedora 14 x86_64 (and earliers)
where I have necer observed similar behaviour.
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On 2011-05-20T03:42:50+00:00 Andris wrote:
The problem is how to configure BOINC to run as real background task
when systemd and cgroups are being used. boinc-client package should be
configured in that way, so after installation (or upgrade) it would run
really in background instead of getting the same cpu time share as all
some other normal user processes together.
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On 2011-05-30T09:53:11+00:00 Andris wrote:
Workarounded problem by
1) adding backgromg CGROUP
--- /etc/cgconfig.conf-20110526 2011-05-26 08:49:07.794303903 +0300
+++ /etc/cgconfig.conf 2011-05-26 08:49:49.666429924 +0300
@@ -24,3 +24,8 @@
net_cls = /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls;
}
+group background {
+ cpu {
+ cpu.shares = 1;
+ }
+}
2) telling boinc-client service to use cpu:/background group
--- /etc/sysconfig/boinc-client-20110526 2011-05-26 08:51:06.530832500 +0300
+++ /etc/sysconfig/boinc-client 2011-05-26 08:51:37.530188219 +0300
@@ -40,3 +40,5 @@
#BOINCOPTS="--check_all_logins"
# The default is no options.
#BOINCOPTS=
+
+CGROUP_DAEMON="cpu:/background"
After that BOINC client seems to work OK in background (tested on 2
systems: both Fedora 15 x86_64)
I guess it would be good idea if this would happen automatically without need
to additionally hack config files.
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On 2011-06-03T16:05:49+00:00 Andris wrote:
It seems that setup mentioned above is highly unreliable
- starting cgconfig.service often fails at boot time and as result
cpu:/background group is not created
- it is often impossible to start cgconfig.service also manually (it simply
fails, no matter what I tried:
- systemctl start cgconfig.service
- service cgconfig start
- /etc/init.d/cgconfig start
also with attempting to stop it at first
In these cases boinc-client service does not start (well I'm getting message
that it is started, but 'systemctl status boinc-client.service' says that it has
exited with return code 0)
So I reverted modifications to /etc/cgconfig.conf and put the following
into /etc/sysconfig/boinc-client:
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if ! [ -d /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/background ] ; then
mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/background
echo 1 >/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/background/cpu.shares
fi
CGROUP_DAEMON="cpu:/background"
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(the idea is taken from 'man cgconfig.conf')
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On 2011-08-20T10:40:30+00:00 Milos wrote:
Andris,
thank you very much for your detailed bugreport and sorry for the delay.
I'm about to release a boinc update that solves this issue (using more
or less your solution, except for some details -- minimum allowed
cpu.share is 2 and I use the cg* tools to manipulate cgroups +
configuration is in the init script so that it can be overridden by user
in sysconfig file).
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On 2011-08-20T18:10:33+00:00 Fedora wrote:
boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc16
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On 2011-08-20T18:13:56+00:00 Fedora wrote:
boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc15
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On 2011-08-22T18:34:55+00:00 Fedora wrote:
Package boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc16:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc16'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc16
then log in and leave karma (feedback).
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On 2011-12-12T22:04:20+00:00 Fedora wrote:
boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16
stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in
this bug report.
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On 2012-02-08T22:56:46+00:00 Fedora wrote:
boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15
stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in
this bug report.
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** Changed in: boinc (Fedora)
Status: Unknown => Fix Released
** Changed in: boinc (Fedora)
Importance: Unknown => Undecided
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