Neither preference nor precedence has the quite right meaning in English though.
-----Original Message----- From: boinc_dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jord van der Elst Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 11:53 AM To: David Anderson Cc: BOINC Dev Mailing List Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] High priority status message removed. Task xx_yy_zz running as preference, trying to meet the deadline. Task xx_yy_zz running in precedence, trying to meet the deadline. Seeing how we do want to tell that it's a status in order of importance or urgency, we may want to go for the second one. -- Jord van der Elst. On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 4:44 PM, David Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > I think anything containing "priority" will create confusion > with OS priority. > > The other problem with showing this info is that it creates the > erroneous impression that the job's project will get more than > its fair share of computing. > Several projects report that when they use short job deadlines > (which create "high priority" jobs) they get lots of user complaints. > > So I'm in favor of not showing this in the GUI; > maybe we can show it in the event log in some better way. > > -- D > > On 03-Oct-2014 3:24 PM, Jacob Klein wrote: >> >> I'd like to see "Prioritized to meet deadline" in the UI, next to >> "Running". >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Richard Haselgrove<mailto:[email protected]> >> Sent: 10/3/2014 9:19 AM >> To: McLeod, John<mailto:[email protected]>; >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] High priority status message removed. >> >> The removal followed a question and answer session at the BOINC workshop >> in Budapest earlier this week. The OS scheduler mis-interpretation was one >> that I highlighted, but there was also a problem with users thinking that >> High Priority was a project-chosen queue-jumping facility. I think we're >> much better off without those confusions over terminology, but I agree with >> John that it would be good if the reason for non-FIFO running could be >> marked in some way - if we can find a less-frightening word. >> >> >> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: "McLeod, John" <[email protected]> >>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Friday, October 3, 2014 2:01 PM >>> Subject: [boinc_dev] High priority status message removed. >>> >>> >>> OK, High Priority made it sound like it was running at High OS Scheduler >>> Priority, but some tag that it is not in the normal RR schedule might be >>> good for helping diagnose problems. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> > _______________________________________________ > 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.
