Actually the client doesn't make the decision to abort tasks; it's instructed to do so by the scheduler.
It's possible to discriminate most cases: see http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/JobStatus -- David On 18-Apr-2011 1:29 AM, Bernd Machenschalk wrote: > HI! > > I recently learned that newer clients automatically abort tasks that have not > been started and are already past the deadline. I like this better than the > previous "... consider aborting it" message. However this is something the > user has no control about. So the text "aborted by user" at various places > (at least in the web code) is outdated and somewhat misleading. > > Additionally I, as a project manager, would really like to know whether a > task was aborted by the client because it passed the deadline (which might > suggest an extension of the deadlines), or whether it was aborted manually > for other reasons. Is there a way to distinguish these two cases? If not, > could there be made one e.g. by using a different exit status? The way the > web code should be updated / fixed would clearly depends on whether these > cases can be distinguished. > > Best, Bernd > > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, > visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
