We were creating the workunit, then updating its transitioner_flags field.
If the transitioner runs inbetween,
it would (incorrectly) create results for the workunit.
Solution: set transitioner_flags during insert.
A "remote input file" is located on a data server other than the project server.
Previously these could be specified only in the input template,
which was of limited utility.
Add new ways of specifying remote input files:
1) in the create_work program, a remote input file can be specified
with command-line args
--remote_file name URL nbytes MD5
or by the same syntax in stdin when creating multiple jobs
2) add a variant of create_work() called create_work2(),
which takes a vector of INFILE_DESC structures that can specify
either local or remote files
The job submission RPC handler (PHP) originally ran the
create_work program once per job.
This took about 1.5 minutes to create 1000 jobs.
Recently I changed this so that create_work only is run once;
it does one SQL insert per job.
Disappointingly, this was only slightly faster: 1 min per 1000 jobs.
This commit changes create_work to create multiple jobs per SQL insert
(as many as will fit in a 1 MB query, which is the default limit).
This speeds things up by a factor of 100: 1000 jobs in 0.5 sec.
See http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/MultiSize
The components of this include:
- DB changes:
add size_class to workunit and result
n_size_classes to app; >1 means multi-size
- size_regulator daemon program: change results states
from INACTIVE to UNSENT carefully
- size_census program; writes quantile info in flat files
- transitioner: when creating results for multi-size apps,
set server state to INACTIVE
- sched shmem (feeder): read quantile info from flat files,
store in shared memory
- scheduler (score-based scheduling): for multi-size apps,
add component to score function for size class.
- show_shmem: show result size class
- make_work (and other callers of count_unsent_results()):
count both INACTIVE and UNSENT
- create_work: add --size_class cmdline option
Also:
- if get MySQL errors in upgrade, don't rewrite db_version
to account for systematic errors in FLOP count
- adjust_user_priority: get total project RAC by summing RAC
of app versions where RAC has been updated in past week
- feeder: add --priority_asc option
(for when wu.priority is a logical time)
This now supports two main use cases:
1) there's a job that you want to run once on all hosts,
present and future
(or all hosts belonging to a user, or to a team).
The job is never transitioned, validated, or assimilated.
2) There's a normal job for which you want to use only
hosts belonging to a specific user (e.g. cluster or cloud hosts).
This restriction can be made either when the job is created,
or on the fly,
e.g. as part of a scheme for accelerating batch completion.
For the latter purposes we now provide a function
restrict_wu_to_user(DB_WORKUNIT&, int userid);
The job goes through the standard
transitioner/validator/assimilator path.
These cases are enabled by config flags
<enable_assignment_multi/>
<enable_assignment/>
respectively.
Assignment of type 2) are no longer stored in shared mem,
so there is no limit on their number.
There is no longer a rule that assigned job names must contain "asgn".
NOTE: this requires a database update.
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=25169
for canceling jobs
- added program cancel_jobs for canceling jobs
- DB interface: it's not an error if update_fields_noid()
affects != 1 rows
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Add parsed_tag and is_tag to the class,
so that parsing functions don't need to declare them
and pass them around.
- Complete the task of using XML_PARSER as the argument
to all parsing functions.
(Internally, many of these functions still use the old XML parser;
that's the next step.)
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=23978
are not processed correctly
- remote job submission: debug
- create_work: --rsc_fpops_est etc. should override the template file
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=23942
- don't create result records for uploads and downloads.
Just create a msg_to_client record.
- the scheduler handles file-transfer results specially;
it makes a vector of them, then calls a project-supplied function
handle_file_xfer_results()
- change the interface and implementation of put_file and get_file
- client write project sched priority in GUI RPC replies,
but not to the state file
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=23857
to mess up input templates containing
<copy_file/> or other attribute tags.
XML_PARSER now contains a member element() for when
you want to copy an element without knowing its structure.
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=23790
(so that they don't have to be 1 element/line)
and also allow optional <input_template> root element
- fix bug in WORKUNIT DB interface
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=23648
fix bug that corrupted WU command lines.
The problem: we were using strcpy(p, p+n) to delete the
first n characters of p.
This is incorrect - the behavior of strcpy() is undefined
if its args overlap.
On some systems (e.q. AQUA's server) it does wacky things.
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=23007
This allows a user to delete all traces of themselves from a project.
Namely:
- clear fields of user record: email_addr, authenticator,
name, country, postal_code
Note: record is not deleted
- clear the domain_name and last_ip_addr fields of hosts
Note: records are not deleted
- quit team
- delete private messages sent and received
- delete forum posts, subscriptions, and forum prefs
- delete profile and associated images
- server: compile fix
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=23006
URL, size, and MD5 of input files.
This supports "non-local" input files,
i.e. files not present on the project server.
NOTE: as implemented,
this requires a separate input template for each job.
It would be slightly better to let you specify the
URL/size/MD5 in the create_work() call.
From Zoltan Farkas (SZTAKI)
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=22320
- remove obsolete and buggy code from transitioner (create_result() in backend_lib)
- account for 'mixed' scheduling in explain_to_user() in sched_send.cpp
- finish transition to configurable patterns for distinguishing files reported by the client
in the Einstein@home-specific part of send_work_locality in sched_locality
(removed previous hardcoded strcmps)
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=20074
- client (Unix): if client crashes while benchmark processes are going,
make sure they detect this and exit.
- back-end programs: remove hardwired assumptions about
what directory they run in, and hence where config.xml is.
E.g., daemons look for it in "..", others expect it in current dir.
New approach: all the programs look for the project dir as follows:
1) the environment var BOINC_PROJECT_DIR, if defined
2) the current dir, if config.xml is there.
3) else ".."
This means you can run programs in either proj/bin/ or proj/,
or (using BOINC_PROJECT_DIR) you can keep executables
outside of the project dir.
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=18042
- Update to libtool 1.5.24
- build environment: Major automake changes that I've been warning about
for some time.
- Now uses libtool to build libraries.
- Builds separate boinc_fcgi and sched_fcgi libraries for use with
FCGI server components.
- New macro "BOINC_CHECK_LIB_WITH" that executes a "AC_CHECK_LIB" on
a library only if --with-libname[=DIR] is specified on the configure
command line. This is to allow inclusion of libraries when the
ssl, gtk, wxWidgets, or other configuration is incorrect for static
libraries.
- Added a lot of "--with-*" for some libraries that might be required for
static builds.
- The sea directory has been moved to packages/generic. Changes to sea
and the associated scripts might be required to better make use of the
staging mechanism and shared libraries.
- Fixed includes of boinc_fcgi.h in many files.
- Fixed places where FCGI_FILE needs to be used implicitly.
- Fixed missing define of _SC_PAGESIZE on hosts that define only
_SC_PAGE_SIZE.
- Moved build of boinc_cmd (and source file) from lib to client
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=16904
David Anderson