Windows XP SP2 http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=8677
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:36 PM, McLeod, John <[email protected]> wrote: > I was figuring that they went up to a few thousand, not a few million before > there was trouble. > > I want to know what file system they were using that could cope with 12 > million directory fanout in one directory. I know that the MS directory > systems fall over around 5K... > > -----Original Message----- > From: boinc_dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > David Anderson > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 2:33 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] unbounded slot dirs > > Possibly, though in this case (12 million slot dirs) > that would imply that the client has 12 million tasks, > which is unlikely because then the client would completely bog down > because of the N^2 scheduling logic. > It's more likely due to a failure to clean out slot dirs, > and I suspect it's specific to Volpex. > > I'll make the ncpus*100 change. > > -- David > On 24-Oct-2013 11:26 AM, McLeod, John wrote: >> An unbounded number of slot dirs. Would be caused by High Priority picking >> up a task, running it for a few minutes, discovering that that particular >> task was no longer in high priority, and picking up one that was now in high >> priority. Repeat until all tasks have run for a couple of minutes in high >> priority. (This should have been fixed by the recent change to EDF for the >> project rather than selecting the tasks that were tagged as high priority). >> >> The other way would be to have slots that cannot be cleaned out (but I >> thought that bug was fixed a while ago). >> >> On a different note, could we change the calculated maximum number of slots >> to cope with machines with more than 1000 CPUs? I know that machines like >> that are rare now. How about n_cpus * 100 for the number of slot >> directories allowed? >> _______________________________________________ >> boinc_dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev >> To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and >> (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. -- -- Jord van der Elst. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
