Hi,

I just found my computer extremely sluggish...and found that primegrid_sr2sieve_wrapper_1.11_windows_x86_64.exe }dated was with AboveNormal priority. After manually chanign priority everything is fine again.
Anybody else having this issue?

It is not listed on app page; download of this app occured ~24 hours ago.
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Badge score: 1*1 + 5*1 + 7*1 + 8*8 + 9*7 + 11*1 + 12*3 = 187

I just found my computer extremely sluggish...and found that primegrid_sr2sieve_wrapper_1.11_windows_x86_64.exe }dated was with AboveNormal priority. After manually chanign priority everything is fine again.
Anybody else having this issue?

It is not listed on app page; download of this app occured ~24 hours ago.

Thanks for pointing out to correct thread.
I was wondering how it got downloaded app that has known issue (I got cache for 1 day so it wasn't sitting there from last month).
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My stats
Badge score: 1*1 + 5*1 + 7*1 + 8*8 + 9*7 + 11*1 + 12*3 = 187

Thanks for pointing out to correct thread.
I was wondering how it got downloaded app that has known issue (I got cache for 1 day so it wasn't sitting there from last month).

Thanks Rytis, John already informed me via PM.
I guess I was just "lucky" that one of my ~25 cores running 24/7 on PPS Sieve got this.
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My stats
Badge score: 1*1 + 5*1 + 7*1 + 8*8 + 9*7 + 11*1 + 12*3 = 187

Be aware that old WUs with AboveNormal priority may occur again.
I found 2 on one machine (out of 10 in queue) and 2 on another (out of 40); third one if fine so far (out of 40 WUs).

Will check other hosts later...
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My stats
Badge score: 1*1 + 5*1 + 7*1 + 8*8 + 9*7 + 11*1 + 12*3 = 187

Today, I found 12 of them.
I solve this issue by editing pps_sr2sieve_?????_cmd and changing wrong parameter (if not yet started) or simply by lowering priority in taskmanager (if started)...so no killing.
Brickhead - if you kill a result, wouldn't it be resent again (to me, lennart or whoever).

Anyway, it's time consuming to monitor and baby-sit all machines...
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My stats
Badge score: 1*1 + 5*1 + 7*1 + 8*8 + 9*7 + 11*1 + 12*3 = 187

There are currently 190 old WU's with the -Z switch. We'll post when they are all completed. Until then, please keep all critical systems off of the PPS sieve. The -Z switch will run at "above normal" priority and may make your systems sluggish.

As I type this, 4 have already been completed. Hopefully we'll see the end soon. Lennart has all of his cores on this and we are expecting that he'll absorb a majority of the old WU's.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.
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Well, I'm not running BOINC on domain controller - too risky. Not even on application server nor Oracle. Even I'm temped...perhaps sometimes in future, running only overnight...

Other machines in domain are fine to change priority in TaskManager, both are Windows 2008 under domain admin.
Rest are W2K3 under local admin (not in a domain).

John: Expect 12+ to finish in <24 hours.
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My stats
Badge score: 1*1 + 5*1 + 7*1 + 8*8 + 9*7 + 11*1 + 12*3 = 187

There are currently 190 old WU's with the -Z switch. We'll post when they are all completed. Until then, please keep all critical systems off of the PPS sieve. The -Z switch will run at "above normal" priority and may make your systems sluggish.


We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Thanks for the update, Lennart.

Now, something for your amusement - what a stupid thing I just did.
I thought that if I set larger cache, more WUs will download, I'll edit those above-normal priority, finish them first to get rid of them (and help others) and then no baby-sitting. Sounds good, heh?

Set cache to 5 days instead of 1, edited a single WU on first machine and told BOINC to suspend other tasks (using BOINCView, which is great for managing BOINC...unlike BOINC Manager).
As I suspended a task already running (that was a mistake), another one started, got suspended, another one started etc....the mess ended with 33 tasks started for a short period with each creating a slot taking 400MB resulting in 13GB BOINC folder. This was hard time even for my 64GB SSD with a machine that has 8GB of RAM.

I'm really not blaming anyone but myself that I did such a mistake even after many years of running BOINC.

Anyway, I got 1000+ PPS Sieve WUs, enough to make 6 quads busy for 5 days...and no above-normal WU.


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My stats
Badge score: 1*1 + 5*1 + 7*1 + 8*8 + 9*7 + 11*1 + 12*3 = 187

There are currently 190 old WU's with the -Z switch. We'll post when they are all completed. Until then, please keep all critical systems off of the PPS sieve. The -Z switch will run at "above normal" priority and may make your systems sluggish.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

There is 164 left today at 11:00 UTC

There are currently 190 old WU's with the -Z switch. We'll post when they are all completed. Until then, please keep all critical systems off of the PPS sieve. The -Z switch will run at "above normal" priority and may make your systems sluggish.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

There is 164 left today at 11:00 UTC

134 as of 16:30 UTC 18 Oct 2008

There are currently 190 old WU's with the -Z switch. We'll post when they are all completed. Until then, please keep all critical systems off of the PPS sieve. The -Z switch will run at "above normal" priority and may make your systems sluggish.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

There is 164 left today at 11:00 UTC

134 as of 16:30 UTC 18 Oct 2008

96 as of 01;15 UTC 20 Oct 2008