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Message 1314 - Posted: 2 Dec 2018, 13:39:01 UTC

Hi!

Since about a week one of my computers has worked on one and the same task, and it is still running...!
The task is already marked as "Timed out - no response", as it's final deadline was set at 2 Dec 2018, 0:04:47 UTC.
This is a bit surprising, as the task was from the "YAFU for small composites" bin, and I thought it would complete in hours rather than in days.

Facts:
task: yafu_ali_1294872_L86_C68_1543104023_10_0
sent: 25 Nov 2018, 0:04:47 UTC
computer CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 10]
computer nr: 38654

When should I give up and abort such tasks??

//Gunnar
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Message 1315 - Posted: 2 Dec 2018, 14:59:30 UTC - in response to Message 1314.  

I would say a "small" should not run longer than 24 hours.
In general in the slot directory of a workunit the files are changing. If the last change of a file is more than 5 hours back the workunit is probably dead.
You can also check if the workunit still consumes CPU.

Do you use CPU throtleing in BOINC?
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Message 1316 - Posted: 2 Dec 2018, 15:39:08 UTC - in response to Message 1315.  

Hi!

Thanx for fast reply!! :-)

Yes, both the CPU cores are still working 100%.

No, I don't throttle: Boinc gets 100% CPU.

I've found a directory:
/var/lib/boinc-client/slots/2/
but most of the files in there seems to be from the start date of the task:
There are ONE file: "boinc_mmap_file" that seems to change every minute or so, but the rest are 5 or 7 days old.
The next newest file is "init_data.xml" and that one stems from nov 27, but all the other files are all from nov 25.

//Gunnar
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Message 1317 - Posted: 2 Dec 2018, 15:57:41 UTC - in response to Message 1316.  

The workunit seems to be dead.
Which process is using CPU?
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Message 1318 - Posted: 2 Dec 2018, 17:16:33 UTC - in response to Message 1317.  

Hi!

Top said the process is named "yafu" and running two threads.
By giving $ ps -aux command I got the following information:
"boinc 19047 197 0.7 112968 14328 ? SNl nov25 21898:42 yafu -threads 2 -batchfile in"

Should I abort the WU now?

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Message 1319 - Posted: 2 Dec 2018, 18:32:33 UTC - in response to Message 1318.  

I would say abort it.
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Message 1320 - Posted: 2 Dec 2018, 23:36:35 UTC - in response to Message 1319.  

Hi!

Yes, I've done so now, and even flushed another task that had run for nearly three days and showed the same signs:
I.e., when looking on the processes (w. 'top' on Linux) not finding the usual "gnfs-lasieve4I1", but only a single "yafu",
that seems to occupy 195% or 390% CPU (dep. on the number of cores).
That task was: yafu_ali_1468926_L85_C71_1543572912_18_0.

Have a nice new week!

//Gunnar
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Message 1321 - Posted: 3 Dec 2018, 6:55:44 UTC - in response to Message 1320.  

After gnfs it is normal that only yafu is running to combine the results. But this should not take days, even not hours for yafu small.
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Message 1457 - Posted: 25 Nov 2019, 17:55:32 UTC

Hello,
I too have a result that looks like running forever
yafu_ali_2145600_L131_C124_1571470508_8_5
https://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu/result.php?resultid=5325104

the result is running with one gnfs-lasieve4I13e.exe (one CPU) now at 114 hours

The first result was started at 19.10.2019, an no result finished so far.
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Message 1548 - Posted: 30 Dec 2020, 15:30:15 UTC

I'm going to ask the same question sorry...... How long do I wait till I abort a task??
I have a couple of 4t tasks on different pc's that have been crunching for 2 days sitting at 100%. How much longer do I wait?
Its the one issue with this project that annoys me. This isn't the first time this has happened.

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Message 1550 - Posted: 31 Dec 2020, 21:57:04 UTC - in response to Message 1548.  

Do they still consume CPU? In this case let them run.
Which process consumes the CPU?
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Message 1589 - Posted: 12 Dec 2021, 1:45:27 UTC

Why are there so many Yafu tasks that get to 100% but never finish?
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Message 1590 - Posted: 14 Dec 2021, 22:39:09 UTC - in response to Message 1589.  

It seems that nobody is reading this thread as no reply from Admin in 2 days. Time to move to another project then.
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Message 1591 - Posted: 4 Jan 2022, 16:50:41 UTC - in response to Message 1590.  

It seems that nobody is reading this thread as no reply from Admin in 2 days. Time to move to another project then.



Yes, I am sure there are people who read.
But not answer.
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Message 1596 - Posted: 30 Jan 2022, 0:41:35 UTC - in response to Message 1589.  

Why are there so many Yafu tasks that get to 100% but never finish?

I haven't had what you describe happened to me. To fix this I would recommend exiting boinc for 30 seconds or so and then restarting boinc. Task will start again from the most recent checkpoint, If the percentage drops from 100 when task restarts let it run & hopefully it will complete and upload
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Message 1603 - Posted: 20 Apr 2022, 22:46:10 UTC - in response to Message 1596.  

I aborted a ali task that had run hogging all CPU threads for 3 days 5 hours. Stuck on 100 percent for days. Useless application.
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Message 1604 - Posted: 20 Apr 2022, 23:09:14 UTC
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I aborted 7905872 on 27 Mar 2022, 17:35:52 UTC because it had progressed as far as it could in the time that my computer is on before needing to be turned off. Each time it started from from a checkpoint in the.DAT file however it would not move to the next phase/checkpoint before needing to be turned off again. I hope the person that had currently has this task is able to complete it
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