[Cbc] setting setUseElapsedTime caused RINS to immediately time out
fpeng
fpeng at imap.srv.cs.cmu.edu
Wed Jan 28 11:30:51 EST 2015
Hello Cbc community,
I'm seeing an issue when using wall time instead of cputime in CBC:
after calling setUseElapsedTime(true) (which should make cbc use wall
time instead of the default cpu time), all RINS runs during cbc
branchandbound will time out almost immediately, something like:
Cbc0028I Starting sub-tree for CbcHeuristicRINS - maximum nodes 200
Cbc0020I Exiting on maximum time
Cbc0005I Partial search - best objective 1e+50 (best possible
-391348.59), took 0 iterations and 0 nodes (1422388648.51 seconds)
Cbc0035I Maximum depth 0, 0 variables fixed on reduced cost
Cbc0029I Ending sub-tree for CbcHeuristicRINS
Cbc0045I Heuristic RINS took 0.139259 seconds (no good)
although the rest of the cbc run seems normal and uses the correct wall
time to terminate without a problem. I used the default RINS and didn't
change any settings. I believe RINS smallbranchandbound is using the
main branchandbound routine, so it's perplexing to see the time handled
incorrectly here.
Some background: the reason I wanted to use wall time is that cpu time
doesn't translate to wall time very well in parallel: if I have multiple
cores, setting setMaximumSeconds(tLim*numCores) doesn't always terminate
cbc after tLim seconds, and sometimes I get vastly different termination
times. If anyone knows what's happening here please let me know.
Thanks!
Fei
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