Opened 15 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
#932 closed Defect (fixed)
Change result upload retry policy from per task to per project
Reported by: | Raistmer | Owned by: | davea |
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Priority: | Major | Milestone: | Undetermined |
Component: | Client - Work Fetch Policy | Version: | 6.6.31 |
Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
Per task upload retry policy leads to kind of DoS attack from fast hosts in periods when project's server can't handle all incoming connections. When many results trying to resend themselves on it' own time schedule host _continually_ tries to connect to server, w/o any delays. With mny hundreds (and this number easely achievable now fro CUDA enabled hosts) of results in transfer queue there are always some that try to reach server at any given moment.
All that need to be done is to change retry policy from per task to per project basis (as it is for result reporting already). This inefficiency in BOINC leads to increase conncetion problems with overloaded project servers.
(I setted component as Work fetch policy as closest to this component. Actually it's work upload, not fetch, policy)
For more descriptions of this issue look this thread and links in it: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=4080
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by
comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by
Resolution: | → fixed |
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Status: | new → closed |
(In [18593]) - client: restored code for project-wide backoff on file
uploads and downloads. I originally added this on 30 Sept 2005 and disabled it 2 weeks later because there were reports of problems. However, we need this functionality (e.g. on GPU hosts with hundreds of files to upload, we need to back off after a few failures, not try all of them). I added messages (<file_xfer_debug>) so you can see what's going on. Fixes #932.
More clear description of proposed change in retry logic:
if last result sending for particular project was OK - do next result upload just when it will be available. else delay _ALL_ result uploads for this particular project for some time. repeat cycle.