Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-10-16 Thread Richard Haselgrove
This change has had a couple of weeks to shake down, and in general seems to be working well. However, one unanticipated problem surfaced at AQUA last night, and could possibly use a refinement. AQUA had a CUDA app installed, but dormant. They applied the server update for this issue, and I was

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-30 Thread Paul D. Buck
On Sep 29, 2009, at 12:48 PM, David Anderson wrote: > Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > >> Current BOINC code has that too, *and* repeated downloading even if >> the file >> is not needed. > > I believe it does that only when BOINC is restarted. My reported case is only on restarts because I am not all

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-29 Thread David Anderson
Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > Current BOINC code has that too, *and* repeated downloading even if the file > is not needed. I believe it does that only when BOINC is restarted. ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-29 Thread John . McLeod
Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-29 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
How would that be worse to the current situation? His proposal would lead to infinite repeated downloading if there is work needing a file and the antivirus keeps deleting it. Current BOINC code has that too, *and* repeated downloading even if the file is not needed. El Martes 29 Sep 2009 15:2

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-29 Thread David Anderson
That proposal would lead to infinite downloading (see below) john.mcl...@sybase.com wrote: > The proposal is to download missing files only at startup or when new tasks > arrive needing the file, and ONLY do so if there is work that needs the > file. i.e. at startup, if there is a missing file, a

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-29 Thread John . McLeod
Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-28 Thread Paul D. Buck
On Sep 28, 2009, at 2:05 PM, David Anderson wrote: > I'm not sure this will solve the problem. > Seems to me the client will go into this loop: > > 1) get a job from the server > 2) download the executable > 3) anti-virus program deletes the executable > 4) job bombs out because executable missin

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-28 Thread Lynn W. Taylor
Raistmer wrote: > (Unless BOINC will retaliate by deleting fool MCAffe antivirus in its own > turn ;D ) This may be the best idea I've heard all day. ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/b

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-28 Thread Raistmer
> 1) get a job from the server > 2) download the executable > 3) anti-virus program deletes the executable > 4) job bombs out because executable missing > 5) go to 1 > > As of right now, as far as I've heard, > the client re-downloads the executable only on startup. > That's better than the above.

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-28 Thread David Anderson
I'm not sure this will solve the problem. Seems to me the client will go into this loop: 1) get a job from the server 2) download the executable 3) anti-virus program deletes the executable 4) job bombs out because executable missing 5) go to 1 As of right now, as far as I've heard, the client re

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-26 Thread Richard Haselgrove
r example, dedicate an ATI GPU to Milkyway and dedicate a nVidia GPU to Collatz. --- On Sat, 26/9/09, David Anderson wrote: From: David Anderson Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables To: "Richard Haselgrove" Cc: boinc_dev@ssl.b

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-26 Thread David Anderson
I agree. I'll do this soon (just the "no CPU" and "no GPU" prefs for now). -- David Richard Haselgrove wrote: > Following on from my previous thought, it seems that we aren't paying enough > attention to the scope of some of these settings. > > An XML entity has two different scopes: > > a sco

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-26 Thread Richard Haselgrove
Following on from my previous thought, it seems that we aren't paying enough attention to the scope of some of these settings. An XML entity has two different scopes: a scope for the DEFINITION a scope for the VALUE Many BOINC preferences are global for both definition and value. They tend to

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-26 Thread Richard Haselgrove
This conversation confused me, until I looked at the actual format of a sched_reply.xml file. 100 s...@home classic Pillars Rectangles 50 10 5 0.7 10 20 30 30 2000 40 Rainbow 0

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-26 Thread Paul D. Buck
On Sep 25, 2009, at 9:35 PM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: >> Oh, and if the BOINC client knows that I don't want MW CPU tasks, why >> does it keep asking for them ... I am on the third iteration already >> when oh when is it going to ask for GPU work like my preferences >> state? > > Because they are

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-25 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Sáb 26 Sep 2009 01:03:58 Paul D. Buck escribió: > Here is a log from the start-up of BOINC and for the life of me I > cannot understand this ... prime grid seems to have been contacted > even when NNT is selected and it looks like a whole set of executables > were downloaded. What makes this mo