Opened 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#1321 new Enhancement

Avoid concurrent startup of tasks when the client is started

Reported by: Kevin Reed Owned by: davea
Priority: Undetermined Milestone: Undetermined
Component: Client - Scheduler Policy Version: 7.0.64
Keywords: Cc:

Description

Some research projects use significant disk or other resources and concurrent start up of tasks can cause an impact on the system or possible result in heartbeat non-response. See http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,30688_offset,0#428458

It would be useful if the client would stagger the startup of tasks to avoid this issue or impact on the users machine.

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by Sekerob

Would propose for the <start_delay> tag to also work when coming out of hibernation. Staggered starts would be ideal as a second control. Certainly have found that if 8 CEP2 start at the same time, there's at least an hour passing of disk trashing before even 1 second of CPU time is logged, if system is left alone. From user perspective impossible.

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by davea

What does BOINC report as the working set size of those jobs? How much RAM does the system have?

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