WU RAM?

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Message 748 - Posted: 1 Nov 2020, 12:45:20 UTC

I'm getting this on a Win10 machine, which has previously downloaded and returned work successfully:

Machine Learning Dataset Generator (test) needs 390625.00 MB RAM but only 29252.34 MB is available for use.

390GB of RAM? I don't think so!
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Message 749 - Posted: 1 Nov 2020, 13:18:16 UTC - in response to Message 748.  

Machine Learning Dataset Generator (test) needs 390625.00 MB RAM but only 29252.34 MB is available for use.
It seems obvious to me that this is to prevent test tasks from being re-issued after they fail. At the time of writing this there's only 3 available and 11 in progress. Do you see the same requirement for regular tasks?
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Message 750 - Posted: 1 Nov 2020, 15:36:52 UTC - in response to Message 749.  

I also happened to receive this error and had to unselect the 2 options "run test application" as well as the corresponding test application in my computing settings in order to receive new work on my machine. Did acutally return the only test WU that I received successfully prior to receiving this message (CPU version)
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Message 751 - Posted: 1 Nov 2020, 16:41:43 UTC - in response to Message 750.  

I also happened to receive this error and had to unselect the 2 options "run test application" as well as the corresponding test application in my computing settings
I have all that selected and no problem getting work. Which makes me think the error only happens if the scheduler actually decides to send a test task and the outcome of the next try may be different.
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Message 753 - Posted: 1 Nov 2020, 18:54:19 UTC

Hmm.. those WUs with those insane memory requirements aren't supposed to be going out to other testers. That's a bug on my end.

I've been raising limits on some test WUs, but targeting the task to my specific test host (to troubleshoot the linux cuda client error). Looks like once it fails on my host, the WU is being re-issued into the general test pool by accident.

I'll work to make sure this doesn't happen again, and cancel the bad WUs. Sorry for the confusion!
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Message 755 - Posted: 1 Nov 2020, 19:02:43 UTC

Thanks for looking into it!
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Message 757 - Posted: 2 Nov 2020, 9:37:13 UTC

Thanks for responding.

It wasn't a major issue for me, but if we don't tell you, how can you fix it? ;-)
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