Months later
Please ban this user/host. Set a counter on allowable tasks per day and reduce the number for failed tasks.
https://www.primegrid.com/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1057098

There actually is a limit, but it's set very high. We don't want to stop people with very fast computers running very short tasks from getting work.

Other than causing a delay in wingman tasks completing, and thus delaying credit, is this causing any problems for *you*? Obviously this person's computer has a problem, but is it causing problems for other people?

This host: https://www.primegrid.com/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1057098 is getting a lot of tasks without returning any...

They are still going !
PrimeGrid doesn't have the ability to stop giving tasks to a host that never returns any results ?

In egregious cases, the server will temporarily stop sending tasks. The threshold is very high, however. Affected tasks will automatically get resent, and it’s not really a big problem, except, perhaps, to the person running that computer.

If, on the other hand, the server’s limits were more restrictive, while potentially “solving” a non-problem, it would create loads of real problems for other people whose computers managed to trigger the protections because they were testing something, or were running a video game, or there was a power spike, etc. Do not underestimate the awesome ability of a modern computer to mangle an astronomical number of tasks in a very short period of time!

The system works well the way it is. We do not want to replace a small problem with a much larger problem.

I always run 2 BOINC clients on PCs that have a GPU. 1 client just runs CPU tasks, the other only GPU tasks. It allows for separate queues and better control. For projects that use the exact same app, like E@H, for CPU & GPU, the ETA ends up averaging and worthless. It makes bunkering and competitions easier to manage as well.

This is an interesting idea! I think I must look in to this.
I'll have to do some googling to find out how, though...

Does anyone have any advise on how to stop GFN-16 tasks from downloading whilst 1 task is crunching?
While 1 task was crunching, I actually had 2 tasks download and wait. This will hurt my 1st rate.

I have my resource share set to 0 which is the strange part.

TIA.

Edit - If I set Max # of simultaneous PrimeGrid tasks to 1... this stops others from downloading.
So with a 3950X, when i run PPSE, perhaps I just set that number to 17 (16 CPU tasks & 1 GPU task) That might fix it :)

IMPORTANT:

PrimeGrid will be switching to a preferences-based method for setting up multi-threading in the near future.
If you are using app_config.xml (probably to set up multi-threading) it's going to stop working when the multi-threading system goes live. If you want your app_config.xml to continue working, you should make modifications now that will allow it to work both before and after the change.

Only LLR projects are affected.

Every <app_version> block for an LLR project should be duplicated, with the duplicate having a <plan_class>mt<plan_class> line added to it. For example, this is the before and after for ESP, set up for 4 threads:

<app> <name>llrESP</name> <fraction_done_exact>1</fraction_done_exact> <report_results_immediately>1</report_results_immediately> </app> <app_version> <app_name>llrESP</app_name> <cmdline>-t 4</cmdline> <avg_ncpus>4</avg_ncpus> </app_version> <app_version> <app_name>llrESP</app_name>

<plan_class>mt</plan_class>

<cmdline>-t 4</cmdline> <avg_ncpus>4</avg_ncpus> </app_version>

You can do this today, and the original app_version block will continue to work. Once we install the new multi-tasking, that app_version block will be ignored and the second app_version block for the mt plan class will take over. At that point, most people can erase app_config.xml, or at least the parts for LLR projects, and start using the multi-threading controls on the website.

I don't have an exact time yet for this change, but it won't happen in August. I'm hoping for early September.

I just started one of these tasks on a GTX1060 3gb, and it seems to have instantly used up an entire CPU core... anyone else seeing this, or is there a known commandline necessary to minimize CPU? (this is based on what boinctasks reports, I saw near 100% CPU on an 8-core processor, and saw the CPU usage of the PPSE tasks that were also running start to decline)

...I do feel lucky still.