Good morning,
Is there an option to restrict the size / duration of tasks which are assigned to a CPU or GPU?
The reason for asking this is, that my notebook in the last two weeks always gets jobs to do which are beyound its capabilities. If the estimated net time is in the range of 2 days, the tasks will never be completed because is cannot be completed within the time limit. (Especially since the computer cannot run 24/7 either). So all the energy consumption, noise, computing capabilities are wasted. It is very disappointing to see the progress reaching e.g. 70% and then the job is cancelled and the next too big WU is started with 0,0%. Letting the notebook work on smallers task would be much more efficient.
Best regards and stay healthy
Martin
How can the size of assigned tasks can be restricted.
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Re: How can the size of assigned tasks can be restricted.
Unfortunately, there is no direct way to set the max processing time of the work unit. There is an option for preferring small size of downloaded work, so you might try that and see if it correlates. Under Expert options tab, in the Extra client options add : "max-packet-size" and set its value to "small". This was made to accomodate dial-up users, so it's doubtful that it will help you complete work on time.
Can you post the first 200 or so lines of your log so we can see what hardware and OS you're running?
e: How to post your log: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=26036
Perhaps there are ways to tune your processing, e.g. by processing on GPU only, which is usually better for thermally limited notebooks with discrete graphics. Especially for CPUs without AVX, you might be better off not folding on the CPU of a notebook. If that doesn't help either, perhaps doing a BOINC project might be better, since BOINC projects are less time sensitive than Folding@Home.
Can you post the first 200 or so lines of your log so we can see what hardware and OS you're running?
e: How to post your log: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=26036
Perhaps there are ways to tune your processing, e.g. by processing on GPU only, which is usually better for thermally limited notebooks with discrete graphics. Especially for CPUs without AVX, you might be better off not folding on the CPU of a notebook. If that doesn't help either, perhaps doing a BOINC project might be better, since BOINC projects are less time sensitive than Folding@Home.
Online: GTX 1660 Super + occasional CPU folding in the cold.
Offline: Radeon HD 7770, GTX 1050 Ti 4G OC, RX580
Re: How can the size of assigned tasks can be restricted.
This gets advised a lot lately. Can anyone from the FAH team officially say if this setting is still used by the researchers making the projects? This was created for folders with dial-up modems way back.gunnarre wrote:Unfortunately, there is no direct way to set the max processing time of the work unit. There is an option for preferring small size of downloaded work, so you might try that and see if it correlates. Under Expert options tab, in the Extra client options add : "max-packet-size" and set its value to "small". This was made to accomodate dial-up users, so it's doubtful that it will help you complete work on time.
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Re: How can the size of assigned tasks can be restricted.
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Re: How can the size of assigned tasks can be restricted.
According to the statistics on lar.folding.systems, it looks like the MX130 GPU in your notebook PC is hit-or-miss at making the timeout even when it's running 24/7. Try folding only on the GPU (pause the CPU slot) and see if that helps. If, not pause the GPU and leave it paused.
In case the GPU gives bad results even alone, the good news is that your CPU has AVX support, so it might actually be more successful at making the timeouts than your GPU. If it struggles with 10 threads, you might try reducing it to folding on 8 CPU threads.
In case the GPU gives bad results even alone, the good news is that your CPU has AVX support, so it might actually be more successful at making the timeouts than your GPU. If it struggles with 10 threads, you might try reducing it to folding on 8 CPU threads.
Online: GTX 1660 Super + occasional CPU folding in the cold.
Offline: Radeon HD 7770, GTX 1050 Ti 4G OC, RX580
Re: How can the size of assigned tasks can be restricted.
Right, this looks like another of my heavy posts, sorry dear reader.
If you're going to fold with low power kit you'll need to take a critical look at your kit and consider if it's the right thing to do.
I would recommend, if you can, running your system for a solid week and then pick apart the logs. I would also monitor it with the likes cpu-z HWMonitor, MSI Afterburner (yes, I know it's an overclocking tool but it can underclock your system and produce logs of your component's speeds and temperatures).
Determine what you're system is actually capable of. Your system will be capable of meeting deadlines, it's just a question of under what circumstances.
You could look to a different part-time strategy like 2 days a week (48 continuous hours) instead of 8 hours a day (56 broken hours). FAH benefits most from actually letting your computer finish work and return the results.
FAH assign work units with the expectation that your hardware is capable enough to complete and return the work, before it times out, and is running 24/7.
The timeout is a trigger to reassign your work unit to another folder/donor to ensure science continues. If benefits nobody if you're continuously hitting timeout as you've wasted your computer resources on it, you're forcing your task to be carried out by someone else using resources that could've been to progress other science and you're overall slowing the pace of science.
FAH have already tried to alleviate a certain amount of this for gpus with their "gpu.txt" database. It basically pigeonholes your gpu into a capability/performance category (they call it species). Testing of the work units themselves identifies suitable and unsuitable gpus for running the work units which creates restrictions on who actually receives which work units. The FAH servers then play matchmaker to give you work units suitable for your gpu. Over time the new gpus are added and older gpus are black listed (they're still listed but have been identified as unsuitable to receive work).
Work for cpus is a little different. There is no "cpu.txt" file. FAH primarily check core count/thread for issues and place restrictions accordingly. It is the job of the donor to keep an eye on their system and "retire" cpus which can longer meet the timeout.
"max-packet-size" and set its value to "small" - I see this getting aired every so often. I don't advise or recommend it. As has been previously said by other it's a carryover from the dial-up era ad was used to limit the size of the payload sent to donors. The little experience I have has shown that it plays little to no part in the processing required for a work unit.
Check a WU status -> https://apps.foldingathome.org/wu
If you're going to fold with low power kit you'll need to take a critical look at your kit and consider if it's the right thing to do.
I would recommend, if you can, running your system for a solid week and then pick apart the logs. I would also monitor it with the likes cpu-z HWMonitor, MSI Afterburner (yes, I know it's an overclocking tool but it can underclock your system and produce logs of your component's speeds and temperatures).
Determine what you're system is actually capable of. Your system will be capable of meeting deadlines, it's just a question of under what circumstances.
You could look to a different part-time strategy like 2 days a week (48 continuous hours) instead of 8 hours a day (56 broken hours). FAH benefits most from actually letting your computer finish work and return the results.
FAH assign work units with the expectation that your hardware is capable enough to complete and return the work, before it times out, and is running 24/7.
The timeout is a trigger to reassign your work unit to another folder/donor to ensure science continues. If benefits nobody if you're continuously hitting timeout as you've wasted your computer resources on it, you're forcing your task to be carried out by someone else using resources that could've been to progress other science and you're overall slowing the pace of science.
FAH have already tried to alleviate a certain amount of this for gpus with their "gpu.txt" database. It basically pigeonholes your gpu into a capability/performance category (they call it species). Testing of the work units themselves identifies suitable and unsuitable gpus for running the work units which creates restrictions on who actually receives which work units. The FAH servers then play matchmaker to give you work units suitable for your gpu. Over time the new gpus are added and older gpus are black listed (they're still listed but have been identified as unsuitable to receive work).
Work for cpus is a little different. There is no "cpu.txt" file. FAH primarily check core count/thread for issues and place restrictions accordingly. It is the job of the donor to keep an eye on their system and "retire" cpus which can longer meet the timeout.
"max-packet-size" and set its value to "small" - I see this getting aired every so often. I don't advise or recommend it. As has been previously said by other it's a carryover from the dial-up era ad was used to limit the size of the payload sent to donors. The little experience I have has shown that it plays little to no part in the processing required for a work unit.
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THIS IS JUST AN EXTRACT FROM MY CURRENT LOG AND HAS BEEN HIGHLY EDITED TO MATCH DOWNLOADS WITH THEIR CORRESPONDING UPLOADS
MANY UNITS HAVE BEEN LEFT OUT BECAUSE THEY CAME FROM THE SAME PROJECTS AS THOSE LISTED AND HAD ROUGHLY THE SAME DOWNLOAD/UPLOAD PAYLOADS AND SIMILAR POINTS REWARD
*********************** Log Started 2021-05-31T04:52:19Z ***********************
07:59:42:WU02:FS00:Requesting new work unit for slot 00: cpu:20 from 129.32.209.205
07:59:43:WU02:FS00:Downloading 1.50MiB
07:59:44:WU02:FS00:Received Unit: id:02 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:16959 run:2 clone:1387 gen:7 core:0xa8 unit:0x0000056b000000070000423f00000002
11:34:25:WU02:FS00:Sending unit results: id:02 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:16959 run:2 clone:1387 gen:7 core:0xa8 unit:0x0000056b000000070000423f00000002
11:34:25:WU02:FS00:Uploading 5.14MiB to 129.32.209.205
11:34:35:WU02:FS00:Final credit estimate, 41950.00 points
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11:34:24:WU01:FS00:Requesting new work unit for slot 00: cpu:20 from 129.32.209.205
11:34:25:WU01:FS00:Downloading 1.47MiB
11:34:26:WU01:FS00:Received Unit: id:01 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:16959 run:44 clone:1193 gen:5 core:0xa8 unit:0x000004a9000000050000423f0000002c
15:41:05:WU01:FS00:Sending unit results: id:01 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:16959 run:44 clone:1193 gen:5 core:0xa8 unit:0x000004a9000000050000423f0000002c
15:41:05:WU01:FS00:Uploading 5.12MiB to 129.32.209.205
15:41:15:WU01:FS00:Final credit estimate, 39139.00 points
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15:41:04:WU02:FS00:Requesting new work unit for slot 00: cpu:20 from 129.32.209.205
15:41:05:WU02:FS00:Downloading 1.47MiB
15:41:06:WU02:FS00:Received Unit: id:02 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:16969 run:14 clone:1942 gen:0 core:0xa8 unit:0x0000079600000000000042490000000e
19:16:52:WU02:FS00:Sending unit results: id:02 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:16969 run:14 clone:1942 gen:0 core:0xa8 unit:0x0000079600000000000042490000000e
19:16:52:WU02:FS00:Uploading 5.12MiB to 129.32.209.205
19:17:01:WU02:FS00:Final credit estimate, 41844.00 points
******************************* Date: 2021-06-01 *******************************
09:39:14:WU01:FS00:Requesting new work unit for slot 00: cpu:20 from 129.32.209.203
09:39:14:WU01:FS00:Downloading 752.00KiB
09:39:15:WU01:FS00:Received Unit: id:01 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:16945 run:40 clone:1 gen:153 core:0xa8 unit:0x00000001000000990000423100000028
16:25:37:WU01:FS00:Sending unit results: id:01 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:16945 run:40 clone:1 gen:153 core:0xa8 unit:0x00000001000000990000423100000028
16:25:37:WU01:FS00:Uploading 21.75MiB to 129.32.209.203
16:26:21:WU01:FS00:Final credit estimate, 66469.00 points
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16:25:38:WU00:FS00:Requesting new work unit for slot 00: cpu:20 from 129.32.209.205
16:25:38:WU00:FS00:Downloading 1.47MiB
16:25:39:WU00:FS00:Received Unit: id:00 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:16959 run:28 clone:292 gen:36 core:0xa8 unit:0x00000124000000240000423f0000001c
20:03:20:WU00:FS00:Sending unit results: id:00 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:16959 run:28 clone:292 gen:36 core:0xa8 unit:0x00000124000000240000423f0000001c
20:03:20:WU00:FS00:Uploading 5.12MiB to 129.32.209.205
20:03:33:WU00:FS00:Final credit estimate, 41655.00 points
******************************* Date: 2021-06-02 *******************************
18:57:55:WU01:FS00:Requesting new work unit for slot 00: cpu:20 from 129.32.209.205
18:57:56:WU01:FS00:Downloading 1.47MiB
18:57:57:WU01:FS00:Received Unit: id:01 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:16959 run:28 clone:434 gen:59 core:0xa8 unit:0x000001b20000003b0000423f0000001c
23:29:35:WU01:FS00:Sending unit results: id:01 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:16959 run:28 clone:434 gen:59 core:0xa8 unit:0x000001b20000003b0000423f0000001c
23:29:35:WU01:FS00:Uploading 5.12MiB to 129.32.209.205
23:29:46:WU01:FS00:Final credit estimate, 37295.00 points
******************************* Date: 2021-06-03 *******************************
03:14:32:WU02:FS00:Requesting new work unit for slot 00: cpu:20 from 128.252.203.2
03:14:35:WU02:FS00:Downloading 1.13MiB
03:14:46:WU02:FS00:Received Unit: id:02 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:17236 run:83 clone:84 gen:10 core:0xa7 unit:0x0000002580fccb02609dcd520d5af79a
04:07:51:WU02:FS00:Sending unit results: id:02 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:17236 run:83 clone:84 gen:10 core:0xa7 unit:0x0000002580fccb02609dcd520d5af79a
04:07:51:WU02:FS00:Uploading 2.57MiB to 128.252.203.2
04:07:57:WU02:FS00:Final credit estimate, 7710.00 points
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19:13:10:WU01:FS00:Requesting new work unit for slot 00: cpu:20 from 129.32.209.203
19:13:11:WU01:FS00:Downloading 753.50KiB
19:13:12:WU01:FS00:Received Unit: id:01 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:16964 run:59 clone:9 gen:61 core:0xa8 unit:0x000000090000003d000042440000003b
... and into Date: 2021-06-04
02:37:09:WU01:FS00:Sending unit results: id:01 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:16964 run:59 clone:9 gen:61 core:0xa8 unit:0x000000090000003d000042440000003b
02:37:09:WU01:FS00:Uploading 21.71MiB to 129.32.209.203
02:37:47:WU01:FS00:Final credit estimate, 59307.00 points
******************************* Date: 2021-06-05 *******************************
20:02:19:WU02:FS00:Requesting new work unit for slot 00: cpu:20 from 129.32.209.205
20:02:19:WU02:FS00:Downloading 1.47MiB
20:02:20:WU02:FS00:Received Unit: id:02 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:16959 run:22 clone:130 gen:79 core:0xa8 unit:0x000000820000004f0000423f00000016
00:11:15:WU02:FS00:Sending unit results: id:02 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:16959 run:22 clone:130 gen:79 core:0xa8 unit:0x000000820000004f0000423f00000016
00:11:15:WU02:FS00:Uploading 5.12MiB to 129.32.209.205
00:11:28:WU02:FS00:Final credit estimate, 38957.00 points
******************************* Date: 2021-06-07 *******************************
08:49:07:WU00:FS00:Requesting new work unit for slot 00: cpu:20 from 129.32.209.203
08:49:08:WU00:FS00:Downloading 753.50KiB
08:49:08:WU00:FS00:Received Unit: id:00 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:16947 run:57 clone:2 gen:137 core:0xa8 unit:0x00000002000000890000423300000039
16:09:32:WU00:FS00:Sending unit results: id:00 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:16947 run:57 clone:2 gen:137 core:0xa8 unit:0x00000002000000890000423300000039
16:09:32:WU00:FS00:Uploading 21.72MiB to 129.32.209.203
16:10:12:WU00:FS00:Final credit estimate, 63377.00 points
******************************* Date: 2021-06-08 *******************************
22:37:53:WU01:FS00:Requesting new work unit for slot 00: cpu:20 from 129.32.209.203
22:37:53:WU01:FS00:Downloading 754.00KiB
22:37:54:WU01:FS00:Received Unit: id:01 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:16963 run:99 clone:0 gen:48 core:0xa8 unit:0x00000000000000300000424300000063
05:18:28:WU01:FS00:Sending unit results: id:01 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:16963 run:99 clone:0 gen:48 core:0xa8 unit:0x00000000000000300000424300000063
05:18:28:WU01:FS00:Uploading 21.68MiB to 129.32.209.203
05:19:04:WU01:FS00:Final credit estimate, 62707.00 points
******************************* Date: 2021-06-10 *******************************
03:20:19:WU02:FS00:Requesting new work unit for slot 00: cpu:20 from 129.32.209.203
03:20:19:WU02:FS00:Downloading 753.50KiB
03:20:20:WU02:FS00:Received Unit: id:02 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:16965 run:10 clone:1 gen:70 core:0xa8 unit:0x0000000100000046000042450000000a
10:32:35:WU02:FS00:Sending unit results: id:02 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:16965 run:10 clone:1 gen:70 core:0xa8 unit:0x0000000100000046000042450000000a
10:32:35:WU02:FS00:Uploading 21.78MiB to 129.32.209.203
10:33:18:WU02:FS00:Final credit estimate, 59468.00 points
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15:00:27:WU01:FS00:Requesting new work unit for slot 00: cpu:20 from 129.32.209.203
15:00:28:WU01:FS00:Downloading 759.00KiB
15:00:29:WU01:FS00:Received Unit: id:01 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:16953 run:96 clone:4 gen:151 core:0xa8 unit:0x00000004000000970000423900000060
21:51:58:WU01:FS00:Sending unit results: id:01 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:16953 run:96 clone:4 gen:151 core:0xa8 unit:0x00000004000000970000423900000060
21:51:58:WU01:FS00:Uploading 21.59MiB to 129.32.209.203
21:52:35:WU01:FS00:Final credit estimate, 64773.00 points
Folding Rigs - None (25-Jun-2022)
