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Client Monitoring Application for Folding@Home
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Some way to "restart" all waiting slots, manually or automatically #327

Closed TunaErtemalp closed 4 years ago

TunaErtemalp commented 4 years ago

Due to the aggressive backoff strategy FAH uses, I routinely find myself doing PAUSE/FOLD on slots that have been in a wait period of a few hours, sometimes for an entire night. I understand the reasoning, namely not creating an accidental friendly fire DOS attack, but restarting that slot usually immediately gets a WU, so I still think that the FAH implementation of the backoff is too aggressive. And usually I end up doing those resets on multiple slots in one sitting. My previous "grid row multiselection" suggestion would definitely help. But what would REALLY help is a button or menu item that will just start looping over all currently idle slots, pause them, wait 5 seconds, unpause them. And even more awesome would be if the HFM could allow a Max slot wait period being entered by the user into Preferences so that during each scheduled client refresh, if it detects a slot waiting for longer than that user-set Max wait, it automatically does a pause/fold on that slot; setting the default of that to something like 60-90 minutes would both prevent accidental DOS attacks on FAH servers AND slots being idle for an entire night.

braiam commented 4 years ago

@TunaErtemalp the 7.6.11 version of the client reduced the maximum waiting time of one hour. That may make this FR obsolete?

TunaErtemalp commented 4 years ago

Oh, it definitely would put it at the bottom of the priority list! That is great news!

TunaErtemalp commented 4 years ago

I'll let @harlam357 close this, or decide to use it as a launchpad for some "automated management infrastructure" in HFM. I have no further requests in this particular application of what I was talking about.

ipkh commented 4 years ago

The limit was 6 hours max before the change to 1 hour. So there was a limit, just a very long and dumb limit. I'd also consider this as fixed by beta client. Hasn't been released officially yet.

TunaErtemalp commented 4 years ago

7.6.13 is now released. I installed it on all my hosts. So far so good...