Re: [boinc_dev] ongoing problems with vboxwrapper

2013-11-07 Thread Rom Walton
Christian, 26032 is up on http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/. It includes: VBOX: Add logging in case of a trickle-up failure. VBOX: Adjust the VM process priority right before a suspend command to speed up how quickly the VM is suspended. - Rom From: Christian Beer [mailto:djangof.

[boinc_dev] BOINC Release Plans

2013-11-07 Thread Rom Walton
Just to avoid confusion. After 7.2.28 is released, we will follow up with another 7.2 release to handle the sub-second CPU throttling and app_config.xml changes. I believe there was a request for a manager change dealing with the suspend icon in the system tray. I expect this release to be able t

Re: [boinc_dev] throttle - future discussion item

2013-11-07 Thread Matthew Blumberg
Thanks. Our needs are not pressing. (*Btw -- my reason for asking wasn't related to energy, but rather usability: A certain number of volunteers freak when they see their activity monitor sawtooth between zero and 100. it looks broken; and it looks like it regularly "exceeds" the promised

Re: [boinc_dev] throttle - future discussion item

2013-11-07 Thread David Anderson
We implemented a variant of 1), which seems to work fine. It will be in the 7.4 client, which should be released next month (we could accelerate this if needed). -- David On 06-Nov-2013 8:08 AM, Matthew Blumberg wrote: Did anything come of the below? On Feb 28, 2013, at 12:53 PM, David Anderso

Re: [boinc_dev] ongoing problems with vboxwrapper

2013-11-07 Thread Richard Haselgrove
There seem to be some useful tools inĀ  http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AssignedWork @David: Is there an easy way for me to assign this results to specific >users? I want to focus on users that I can contact in our forum to check >on the stderr.txt during runtime. > >Regards >Christian > _

Re: [boinc_dev] ongoing problems with vboxwrapper

2013-11-07 Thread Christian Beer
Hi Rom, can you please move the new trickle status printf down after boinc_send_trickle_up() and check the return value of this? This is more helpful in case the trickle didn't get send and the reason is in the log. I will deploy this new version on RNAWorld and create some long running tasks then

[boinc_dev] What can be eating the AMD drivers on Windows?

2013-11-07 Thread Jord van der Elst
Hi Rom, and all, A bit of a conundrum in http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=8687 that I think needs a wider audience. I'm a bit stuck here. This person installs BOINC, not as a service. Doesn't matter which version of BOINC, then he installs his AMD videocard drivers, also doesn't m

Re: [boinc_dev] Valve's SteamOS and SteamMachines

2013-11-07 Thread Oliver Bock
On 06/11/13 20:32 , Jord van der Elst wrote: > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Oliver Bock wrote: >> In case of the hardware beta I'd expect Valve to be very selective >> because of the natural shortage of prototype machines. I'd expect that >> they focus on game developers first. So, did you drop