It sounds as though he is depending on a bug in the manager which would attempt 
to restart the CC in case it crashed.

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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicolás Alvarez
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC 6.10 release

El Lunes 26 Oct 2009 20:45:48 Charles Elliott escribió:
> The fact that Boinc no longer consistently restarts after receiving a quit
> RPC is literally a showstopper, although it is not insurmountable and it
> does require external intervention to produce.  If one has a Java program
> that scans all the computers on the network to make sure that all of them
> have all possible cores occupied, discovers one that does not have a core
> busy, issues it a quit RPC, Boinc does not restart the science clients, the
> time is 11:37 PM, one goes to bed at 11:00 PM, then Boinc on that computer
> is essentially down all night, still of course using electricity, though
> only about 1/2 as much as when the clients are all running.  These numbers
> are realistic.

*Why* would a quit RPC cause a restart?

If I tell it to quit, it better damn stay quit. If I want a restart, I'll send 
a quit and then start the daemon again myself. Or something like "net stop 
boinc && net start boinc" on Windows.

-- 
Nicolas
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