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Bug 1037466 - BOINC ignores CPU usage and runs all the time
Summary: BOINC ignores CPU usage and runs all the time
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: boinc-client
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Milos Jakubicek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 1039258
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-12-03 08:58 UTC by Vratislav Podzimek
Modified: 2015-06-30 00:45 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-06-30 00:45:33 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
screenshot of the running top utility (301.51 KB, image/png)
2014-01-08 16:07 UTC, Vratislav Podzimek 		no flags Details
computing preferences (1.13 MB, image/png)
2014-01-08 16:08 UTC, Vratislav Podzimek 		no flags Details
screenshot showing exclusive app (xchat) restriction doesn't work (571.68 KB, image/png)
2014-01-08 16:09 UTC, Vratislav Podzimek 		no flags Details
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Description Vratislav Podzimek 2013-12-03 08:58:09 UTC 
Description of problem:
No matter how I setup computing preferences, the boinc-client and its tasks run all the time even with high CPU usage.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
boinc-client-7.0.65-2.git79b00ef.fc20.x86_64

How reproducible:
100 %

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set computing preferences to stop computing at e.g. 15% CPU usage
2. put some heavy load on the CPU
3. run the top utility

Actual results:
BOINC tasks running in parallel with the heavy load taking a lot of CPU time

Expected results:
BOINC tasks suspended due to a heavy CPU usage

Additional info:
worked well on F19
Comment 1 Vratislav Podzimek 2013-12-03 09:02:09 UTC 
Additional info:
it seems that BOINC ignores exclusive applications settings as well
Comment 2 Mattia Verga 2013-12-20 09:43:20 UTC 
What projects are you running?
On my system the "suspend if CPU exceed %" works well. The only thing I found is that it doesn't suspend work on GPU apps.

Can you provide a screenshot of your boinc settings? You can also try to remove your local preferences and reset them (in the upper right corner of the preferences window you will find the button "Remove").

Also, in the Fedora updates-testing repository there's a new version of boinc, you can try if it fixes your problem.
Comment 3 Vratislav Podzimek 2014-01-08 16:07:00 UTC 
Created attachment 847231 [details]
screenshot of the running top utility
Comment 4 Vratislav Podzimek 2014-01-08 16:08:09 UTC 
Created attachment 847232 [details]
computing preferences

the 10 in CPU usage specification really is 10 not partially displayed 100
Comment 5 Vratislav Podzimek 2014-01-08 16:09:33 UTC 
Created attachment 847233 [details]
screenshot showing exclusive app (xchat) restriction doesn't work
Comment 6 Vratislav Podzimek 2014-01-08 16:15:36 UTC 
Using boinc-client-7.2.33-2.git1994cc8.fc20.x86_64 now with the same issues (screenshots were taken with that version).
Comment 7 Vratislav Podzimek 2014-01-08 16:18:13 UTC 
Clearing preferences and setting the values back doesn't make a change. One piece of additional information that may help is that I don't use password for authentication between the manager and client. Could that make a difference?
Comment 8 Mattia Verga 2014-01-09 16:34:47 UTC 
I will investigate this. My main machine is a F19 with KDE, I will try to install a virtual machine with F20 and GNOME to try this out.
Seems there are lot of problems between Boinc and F20 with GNOME. Probably bug #1047044 is somehow related...
Comment 9 Vratislav Podzimek 2014-01-10 09:50:06 UTC 
CPU constraints are respected on F19 BOINC even on my machines. It's the F20 version ignoring it.
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