Development for LHC@home

The settings of the VM don't seem correctly applied.

I see my VM is set for 20 CPU's but the memory setting is still 630MB

The CPU load on my computer is about 25%

I have to add some extra configuration to make it add extra memory for each additional core. For now you can set it manually in the app_config.xml

Just FYI, with my MacBook Pro (i7, 4 CPUs, 8 threads) and:

- no app_config.xml file
- the new project preference options set to 1 task max, 3 CPUs max
- only the Theory app checked

and with the latest updated server code, I get (YES!):

1 task (Theory) and a 3 CPU VM

and it works correctly so far… I will check for progress today, including some suspends/resumes.

Ben

EDIT: So far all goes well:
4 jobs run to completion, all 3 Condor job threads active. Suspend for now (15:50 CET)

- the new project preference options set to 1 task max, 3 CPUs max

Is this setting only for (ex-)CERN-employees??

I only see a new "Limit the number of tasks per host?" with a tick-box

I got at least 3 tasks with this option set to yes.

- the new project preference options set to 1 task max, 3 CPUs max

Is this setting only for (ex-)CERN-employees??

I only see a new "Limit the number of tasks per host?" with a tick-box

I got at least 3 tasks with this option set to yes.

Aaaargh!!! Looks like Laurence is doing development under our feet. Those preferences were set by me yesterday, before today's testing. The page with them displayed was still on my screen but I'd not refreshed it today. Now, as you say, they aren't shown any more. But hopefully they are still active somewhere..

Laurence, what goes ???

At least without app_config and no tasks, an empty cache and asking 0 days of work, I got 8 tasks for my 8 threaded (4 core HT) machine.
1 task started, created a VM with 8 processors, running 8 jobs with far too low memory. At least the swap is now used ;)

At least without app_config and no tasks, an empty cache and asking 0 days of work, I got 8 tasks for my 8 threaded (4 core HT) machine.
1 task started, created a VM with 8 processors, running 8 jobs with far too low memory. At least the swap is now used ;)

Yes, looks like Work In Progress (:-))

I to cp's 2Gb limit in my app config for 2 tasks, I have 64gb of ram on that machine so no problem.

Laurence, what goes ???

Those options are just cosmetic, see this post. They will not do anything until the scheduler has been updated by David. See this post for the short term plan.

I changed the page while preparing this pull request. Feel free to add comments.