Re: [Xgrid] Snow Leopard upgrade Xgrid problem

Thanks for sharing, Ernie, I appreciate the effort to share :-)

In any case, interesting move. That means that if one has some  
software that can take advantage of 2 cores (these characteristics can  
be different from taking advantage of 2 separate processors), then he/ 
she should try to do some multithreading, or even spawn 2 processes  
from a wrapper script. In this sense, it's good, but on the other  
hand, it's kind of making the user take more of the decisions and  
having to do some extra work.

thanks,

charles




On Oct 8, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. wrote:

> Hi Charles,
>
> On Oct 7, 2009, at 11:31 PM, Charles Parnot wrote:
> > Hi Warner,
> >
> > that's an interesting piece of information. Could you elaborate on  
> > the reason for this difference, and if it is based on some empiric  
> > observation of getting the best performance for "typical" cases (in  
> > particular Podcaster, I suppose ;-).
>
> He can't, though I can.  :-)
>
> > I realize typical does not mean much, but I am just curious if  
> > performance considerations drove that change.
>
> I can confirm that performance considerations were at least part of  
> the reason for the change, but that's all I can say for now.
>
> -- Ernie P.
>
>
> > thanks,
> >
> > charles
> >
> >
> > On Oct 7, 2009, at 10:10 PM, Warner Yuen wrote:
> >
> > > The default behavior of Xgrid agents in 10.6 is to report the  
> > > value of physical cores divided by 2 (or 1, if you only have a  
> > > single core.)
> > >
> > > To change this behavior, the preferences must be added to the  
> > > agent preferences plist, which is here:
> > >
> > > /Library/Preferences/com.apple.xgrid.agent.plist
> > >
> > > The preferences for the ProcessorCount must be set on each agent  
> > > machine, and the agent restarted, you may also need to reconfigure  
> > > the controller to get it to pick up the new number of processors.  
> > > The ProcessorCount specifies the number of concurrent tasks the  
> > > agent will execute. You can create/edit a plist file and set the  
> > > number of processors.
> > >
> > > Here is an example:
> > >
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd 
> > > ">
> > > <plist version="1.0">
> > > <dict>
> > >         <key>ControllerName</key>
> > >         <string>wyuen.apple.com</string>
> > >         <key>Enabled</key>
> > >         <true/>
> > >         <key>ProcessorCount</key>
> > >         <integer>8</integer>
> > >         <key>ResolveNameAsNetService</key>
> > >         <false/>
> > > </dict>
> > > </plist>
> > >
> > >
> > > Warner Yuen
> > > Scientific Computing
> > > Consulting Engineer
> > > Apple, Inc.
> > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Tel: 408.718.2859
> > >
> > > > Message: 1
> > > > Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:29:13 -0400
> > > > From: Luis M Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Subject: [Xgrid] Snow Leopard upgrade Xgrid problem
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I recently upgraded a Mac OS X Server from 10.5.8 to 10.6.1. My
> > > > > Leopard Xgrid used to report 8 processors fine. Now with SL it  
> > > > > only
> > > > > reports 4 processors available to the grid. I have found similar
> > > > > reports on Apple's support pages but no solution.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any suggestion?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
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