On Sep 26, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Der Meister wrote:

> Paul D. Buck wrote:
>> But I think the last point is still the most important one.  Why  
>> did  BOINC D/L a bunch of files when I am NNT and have no PG tasks  
>> on hand   and haven't for a couple months.
> As soon as BOINC detects that some files are missing it just re- 
> downloads them, usually at client start-up. There is no check if the  
> files are needed at all and that means you don't have much chances  
> to get rid of files that are not required any more. You either have  
> to wait for the project to send a delete-request which may not  
> happen at all. Or you completly detach from the project or you shut  
> down the client, remove the files and remove all references to these  
> files in client_state.xml *by hand*. None of these ways seems to be  
> sufficient to me.
>
> By the way, this design flaw is fixed in synecdoche ;)

which if it supported GPUs I might be tempted to try it ... last I  
checked it did not and this capabiiity was not scheduled to be included
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