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Abort 1hpv wu's

Started by Rob, May 02, 2009, 05:39:48 AM

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Rob

For those who don't check their email regularly, I received this last night.

QuoteDear Volunteers,

There is a problem with the workunits currently distributed. Please abort ALL 1hpv workunits you might have received. Those workunits were sent with a corrupted input file which is preventing the timely execution of them.

We are really sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you for your understanding.


The Docking@Home Team

veebee

hope you didn't have too many of them running for too long Rob...

Rob

Didn't have any running but had over 140 between my comps to abort. That was a lot of mouse clicking to confirm I wanted to abort each wu ::)

yoda

They could have just aborted them at the project end, then ask people to refresh (update) the project on all hosts...  I know other projects do that with redundant results etc.  But maybe that's too difficult.

Anyway, I'm not running Docking. 

Wang Solutions

In the current BOINC versions you can select them all as a group too instead of having to do it individually.

kashi

I don't know about the latest version of BOINC, but in 6.4.7 you can select them all at once but you still have to confirm the abort for each individual WU as stated by Rob. For every one a little box pops up asking: "Are you sure you want to abort this task xxxxx"(task details).

The group select is still a handy timesaver though.

Wang Solutions

Yes, but that is the enter key, not mouse clicking. Much quicker.  :wink

yoda

#7
And if it was something ongoing like happened at one stage on (I think) Milkyway, it could be done via script, at least if you have a controlling computer running Linux :) 

I haven't got the script any more but I recall using it in the past.  It connected to each machine on my network that ran BOINC, filtered for results with a certain prefix and aborted them.  I remember it took me a while to write though - by the time the script was ready it was hardly needed any more.  Should have kept it though!

kashi

Quote from: Wang Solutions on May 02, 2009, 05:53:18 PM
Yes, but that is the enter key, not mouse clicking. Much quicker.  :wink

Um, guess who has been clicking yes with the mouse for every one and hadn't thought of using the enter key instead.  :blush1:
Ah well, good to know for the future, thanks.

Rob

QuoteUm, guess who has been clicking yes with the mouse for every one and hadn't thought of using the enter key instead.  Blush

Your not the only one :blush1:

Wang Solutions