Message boards : Number crunching : Save progress more often?
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Send message Joined: 25 Aug 04 Posts: 4 Credit: 214,944 RAC: 0 |
I noticed that CPDN saves its current progress about every 30 minutes. Is this somehow configurable to, say, 5 minutes? Since my computers don\'t run all day, this would give me a better feeling. |
Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 55 Credit: 87,392 RAC: 0 |
> I noticed that CPDN saves its current progress about every 30 minutes. Is this > somehow configurable to, say, 5 minutes? Since my computers don't run all day, > this would give me a better feeling. > One of the boinc settings sets it to write to the disk less often, but by default cpdn saves every 144 timesteps which at about 4s/ts would be about every 10 minutes <a href="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm/cpdn.html"><img src="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm/gfx/sig.jpg"></a> |
Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 426 Credit: 2,426,069 RAC: 0 |
> > I noticed that CPDN saves its current progress about every 30 minutes. Is > this > > somehow configurable to, say, 5 minutes? Since my computers don't run all > day, > > this would give me a better feeling. > > > > One of the boinc settings sets it to write to the disk less often, but by > default cpdn saves every 144 timesteps which at about 4s/ts would be about > every 10 minutes > The BOINC setting only affects the minimum time to write to disk. So if CPDN wants to write every 10 minutes any setting smaller than that has no effect, but if you set it to every 15 minutes it will skip a checkpoint and write every 20 minutes or so. <br>John Keck BOINCing since 2002/12/08 |
Send message Joined: 10 Aug 04 Posts: 94 Credit: 309,849 RAC: 0 |
The write to disk preference was disabled with the previous client. Have they now enabled it? <img src="http://boinc.mundayweb.com/cpdn/stats.php?userID=35&trans=off"><a href="http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/thefinalfrontear/index.html">Team Site Link</a> |
Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 39 Credit: 14,887 RAC: 0 |
> The write to disk preference was disabled with the previous client. Have they > now enabled it? I'm not sure they use the "atomic write" code yet... Need someone from the dev team at CPDN to confirm this though. |
Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 907 Credit: 299,864 RAC: 0 |
> > The write to disk preference was disabled with the previous client. Have > they > > now enabled it? > > I'm not sure they use the "atomic write" code yet... Need someone from the dev > team at CPDN to confirm this though. > Hi, I suppose write to disk would affect the BOINC core client, but due to the complexity of the model there was no way to implement this on CPDN. |
Send message Joined: 17 Aug 04 Posts: 56 Credit: 63,814 RAC: 0 |
So it is really not so much a 'rule' as a 'guideline' then, right? :) (for extra points name the movie!) <br> ---------------------------- A member of The Knights Who Say Ni! Yet another stats page: <a href="http://boinc-kwsn.no-ip.info">http://boinc-kwsn.no-ip.info</a> |
Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 907 Credit: 299,864 RAC: 0 |
> So it is really not so much a 'rule' as a 'guideline' then, right? :) > (for extra points name the movie!) > <br> damn where is that from, I just can't think of it! something with monsters in it? |
Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 55 Credit: 87,392 RAC: 0 |
> So it is really not so much a 'rule' as a 'guideline' then, right? :) > (for extra points name the movie!) "Actually, it's more of a guideline than a rule" - Dr Pete Venkman, GhostBusters(1984) Closest I could find in the imdb full quote: [Dana is possessed] Dr. Peter Venkman : I make it a rule never to get involved with possessed people. [Dana starts passionately making out with him] Dr. Peter Venkman : Actually, it's more of a guideline than a rule... <a href="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm/cpdn.html"><img src="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm/gfx/sig.jpg"></a> |
Send message Joined: 17 Aug 04 Posts: 56 Credit: 63,814 RAC: 0 |
I was thinking of Pirate of the Caribbean. Not a direct quote I guess and it looks like that isn't the first movie that used such a phrase. Game over. Thanks for playing. <br> ---------------------------- A member of The Knights Who Say Ni! Yet another stats page: <a href="http://boinc-kwsn.no-ip.info">http://boinc-kwsn.no-ip.info</a> |
Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 907 Credit: 299,864 RAC: 0 |
> "Actually, it's more of a guideline than a rule" > - Dr Pete Venkman, GhostBusters(1984) ah see I knew it was monster-related, the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man was the scariest creature to ever grace the silver screen! |
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