I got MalariaControl's Resource share at normal (100), with switch between Project Clients set to 60 Minutes.

MalariaControl is running alongside 3 other Projects (CPDN, LHC [no work] and EAH), all of which are set at default Resource share (100) as well.

Since I got it running on all Systems, I've seen it progressively displace all other Projects on all machines.
Since attaching to MC, my entire Network has effectively ceased switching to other Project's Clients alltogether and is by now running MC at 100% capacity - which isn't so bad, but not desired in the long run *g* -

The way I understand BOINC (V5.2.13) switching mechanism, there shouldn't be any exception to Switching between Applications e.g. for new attached Projects (at least I never observed such a behaviour with any BOINC Version)

Note : all BOINC settings are default, except "Keep Applications in Memory" is enabled. I'm using mostly Linux and two Win32 machines.

Can anyone else confirm this ?
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Hi FalconFly,

I am having a similar problem.

I have malaria @ 30 share with 11 %.

On all three of my computers there has been no switching. I suspended all work (not projects, WU's individually) and then resumed one the suspended work units. After doing this, malaria began to switch projects.

On my primary machine i haven't done this, being as i have a ton of work to suspend and don't mind devoting all of my resources to malaria at the moment

I hope the operators and mods take a look at this and work the kinks out.

Happy crunching everyone!

Mike

Post Script: Maybe a reboot or restart of BOINC will fix this. I will give it a try and if switching starts after a reboot, i will update you.

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Post Script 2: Ok, i rebooted and it isn't switching at the moment, perhaps in an hour or so it will.

Could it possibly be that, while other projects have more %, MC has nearly 90% of the WU's on my work list? If 140 units need completion in a few days, could my scheduler just be allocating resources to where they are needed most; and not by resource %?
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Have you checked out the figures for Long Term and Short Term Debt....

You can use BOINC Debt Viewer to find out the figures.

From the Boinc Wiki

Short Term Debt

Short term debt drives which project gets the CPU next if the CPU is in Highest Debt First mode. All projects with no work on the computer have a short term debt of 0. Short term debt is shifted for all projects so that the average debt for all projects that have active work on the Host is 0.

Long Term Debt

Long term debt is part of the decision of which project to download from next. If the long term debt is less than negative Queue Size no work request will be made of that project unless a CPU is idle. Long term debt is shifted such that the mean is always 0 (the sum of all Long Term Debt values is 0).

Clark, Thanks a ton.

I should have searched the wiki.

I have huge negative debt on both short and long term for MC.

I read this on the wiki:

"In Earliest Deadline First mode, the Work Scheduler runs Results with the nearest deadline. This allows the BOINC Client Software to meet deadlines that would otherwise be missed. Earliest Deadline First mode is entered if either a Work Unit has a Deadline that is very near, the Result is due in less than twice the "connect to" time, or the Work Scheduler determines that one of the Results will nearly not be completed on time."

That must be what's going on.

Thanks yet again,
Mike

Post Script: as mentioned in a previous thread, about the amount of WU's sent out, i would think MC would adjust how many they send; 140 (in my case) seems to be quite a bit. (or maybe i should connect more than every 1.8 days)
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As I looked at it today, everything appears back to normal, so whatever the Problem was (new attached Projects shouldn't have a chance to have any debt right from the start IMHO)... It's gone for now :)
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I have another thread on the deadline. Because the wu's here came on mass and have a really short deadline, the machine goes into EDF, and crunches it's way out of it's perceived predicament.

As you have now seen, the LTD goes wildly negative, so they get their results quick, but then no more for ages.
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hmm. Good thing I did what I always do with new projects: Suspend all others for a period of time to get some initial work done for the newly added project ;)
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hmm. Good thing I did what I always do with new projects: Suspend all others for a period of time to get some initial work done for the newly added project ;)